After months and months of development, beta testing and the demo release, we’ve been nothing short of thrilled by your enthusiastic response. However, we’ve also realized that if we were to stick to our original release date of Fall 2021, Common’hood would not be the game we envision, and most importantly, the one you deserve.
Due to the mixture between simulation and narrative, we are not aiming to do an early access release, as we don’t want to spoil the story of the game as we gradually iterate over it’s implementation. We want to release a finished product.
At the current rate of development, the version of Common’hood that would come out on this date wouldn’t have the level of polish we find acceptable. This would leave us with the choice of either narrowing the scope of the final version or releasing a less optimized version of the game to patch and fix at a later date.
Therefore we are officially announcing that we’re aiming to have Common’hood out and in your hands on March 2022. We know waiting isn’t the greatest feeling, but we hope that the wait will be very much worth it. Common’hood has ended up being a much larger project than originally intended (which we are very excited about) and that has required a lot more balancing and polishing time.
We appreciate the support from all of those who have wishlisted the game, those who have kept up with our progress and to the people in our Discord handing out valuable feedback and participating in our playtests. We hope you will stick with us til the end!
-The Common’hood Dev Team