Steam News12 August 202510mo ago

iZolated Update - August 12, 2025

A year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock! This was the first project for LT-Games and the developer Crooked Road, which unfortunately had an unsuccessful launch and instead of Early Access

In this update1

Full notes

Full iZolated update

Read the full published notes in a cleaner layout. The original post stays linked below.

What changed

4 fixes3 additions6 changes0 removals

Maps
Gameplay
Performance
UI and audio
Fixes
Balance

changedA year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!From a financial model perspective, the project has only recouped 1/9 of its costs, and we honestly acknowledge that we know the main issue - technical problems with GameMaker Studio 1.4, which we initially failed to identify during the game's development stage.

addedA year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!We also lacked the time and finances to release the final patch 1.0.0 by today, and after discussing the situation with colleagues, despite the project's unprofitability, we decided to continue support, but in a somewhat less active manner, to bring the project to the release patch, and then, once we have sufficient funds, to try to port the game to the GameMaker Studio 2.0 engine to resolve the main issues of the game and possibly finally add a cooperative gameplay mode.

addedA year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!As part of the testing on the new game engine GameMaker Studio 2.0, we are launching a demo version of the new project Brew or Die – an RPG game with TBS elements, which will be released on 08/12/2025 at 10:45 AM PDT. We invite everyone to test the new game and provide feedback, as it is crucial for the preparation of iZolated transition to the new game engine!

changedA year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!Project optimization work has been carried out.

fixedA year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!Errors in Portuguese and English localization have been fixed.

fixedA year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!Errors in camp quests have been corrected.

iZolated changes

Cachemap

changedFrom a financial model perspective, the project has only recouped 1/9 of its costs, and we honestly acknowledge that we know the main issue - technical problems with GameMaker Studio 1.4, which we initially failed to identify during the game's development stage.

addedWe also lacked the time and finances to release the final patch 1.0.0 by today, and after discussing the situation with colleagues, despite the project's unprofitability, we decided to continue support, but in a somewhat less active manner, to bring the project to the release patch, and then, once we have sufficient funds, to try to port the game to the GameMaker Studio 2.0 engine to resolve the main issues of the game and possibly finally add a cooperative gameplay mode.

addedAs part of the testing on the new game engine GameMaker Studio 2.0, we are launching a demo version of the new project Brew or Die – an RPG game with TBS elements, which will be released on 08/12/2025 at 10:45 AM PDT. We invite everyone to test the new game and provide feedback, as it is crucial for the preparation of iZolated transition to the new game engine!

changedProject optimization work has been carried out.

fixedErrors in Portuguese and English localization have been fixed.

A year has passed since the game's release, and it's time to take stock!

This was the first project for LT-Games and the developer Crooked Road, which unfortunately had an unsuccessful launch and instead of Early Access, the project was released in a technical release. However, the developer Crooked Road put in a lot of effort and released 22 patches for the game over the course of this year thanks to your feedback.

From a financial model perspective, the project has only recouped 1/9 of its costs, and we honestly acknowledge that we know the main issue - technical problems with GameMaker Studio 1.4, which we initially failed to identify during the game's development stage.

As it turned out, the main problems (Out of Memory) were related to the core level of the GameMaker Studio 1.4 game engine due to cache and buffer limitations of only 1 Gb RAM, as well as very poor integration with integrated graphics cards in laptops and personal computers.

We also lacked the time and finances to release the final patch 1.0.0 by today, and after discussing the situation with colleagues, despite the project's unprofitability, we decided to continue support, but in a somewhat less active manner, to bring the project to the release patch, and then, once we have sufficient funds, to try to port the game to the GameMaker Studio 2.0 engine to resolve the main issues of the game and possibly finally add a cooperative gameplay mode.

As part of the testing on the new game engine GameMaker Studio 2.0, we are launching a demo version of the new project Brew or Die – an RPG game with TBS elements, which will be released on 08/12/2025 at 10:45 AM PDT. We invite everyone to test the new game and provide feedback, as it is crucial for the preparation of iZolated transition to the new game engine!

There is also currently a Isometric RPG Sale 2025 with a 30% discount on the game until August 18, 2025!

Our teams would be grateful for the support of future game updates.

PATCH CHANGELOG:

Project optimization work has been carried out.
Errors in Portuguese and English localization have been fixed.
Errors in camp quests have been corrected.
Errors in object interactions have been fixed.
The nightmare "Faceless Hunt" has been refined, and errors have also been found and corrected.
Game balance has been adjusted.
Some elements of the main menu and pause menu have been improved.
The inventory system has been refined.
The crafting system has been improved.

Please check the relevance of all previously found errors.

If you discover any new critical errors, please report them to us on the game's Discord server: https://discord.gg/fRJ26z9Q8b

Source

Steam News / 12 August 2025

Open original post

Changelog.gg summarizes and formats this update. How we read updates.