We are sorry to announce this and I have to say it isn't an easy decision, but we will stop working on The Woods, because of multiple reasons I want to get into detail here.

First of all, we want to thank everyone who supported us to this day and whenever we will release another game with a fresh start we will thank each one with a coupon or even a copy, we will see, but right now there is a long way ahead of us.

As many might have followed from the latest news, time got a real problem for us to get our updates cooked and published and we definitely know that we messed this up since the start. We are a 2 man developer team, both working fulltime and The Woods was always planned as a side project, never aimed to be big, but we dreamed our dream bigger and failed because of that.

We knew we won't have the time nor the resources to full fill what we wanted to realize and many might see this as a scam, but it wasn't intended to be like that. We thought we could get the game there where we wanted it to be, but as said we dreamed too big for our possibilities.
At this moment a bunch of people, their meaning we valued, started to talk us into decisions we regret and pushed us to publish the game as fast as possible no matter what. Afterward, we really regret this but well mistakes are made to learn from, and we are not here to blame anyone for that.

After the really bad start, I wanted to put all possible resources into this game to get it the way I dreamed of and started to redo the whole game from scratch again, put over 1000hrs into the development for 1 year. I might need to say, that I work as a game developer full time and have multiple projects running, so time became a really rare resource and I had to push back the updates over and over again.

In October this year, I realized that after all that time I spent on this project, the passion for this project gave way just for my personal ego to complete the project no matter what, just to show the potential we saw in our game instead of just canceling it and learn from made mistakes.
After serious consideration, the decision was made, that a 2 man dev team with little time won't be able to get this game done in the next year so we decided to retire The Woods from the Steam Store.

At this moment we don't know if we will publish the update we prepared, but we might keep this option open if we find our way back to this project.

Anyway, we still want to create games for you, since it is our passion, but at this moment we are not sure when we still start again since we need some time to talk about a new project, plan it more through and learn from all made mistakes.

Again we want to thank everyone for the support you gave and mention again that this is not an easy decision for us since we are giving up a dream.

Have a nice week

Cheers

Kevin from Moonware Games