State of the Game

The big question in the room is what’s happening with Winter Survival? Let’s have a closer look.

Finishing Winter Survival and bringing it to full release took a lot more manpower than we initially anticipated. These additional developers have been drawn from other projects at our studio, which has caused delays on these projects.

What we had to do now is draw resources from Winter Survival to at least soften the delays of our simulator projects. Considering the sales of the game are rather lackluster, it was the only responsible decision we could have made at this point. That does, however, not mean we have given up on Winter Survival, but rather putting any further plans on hold for the time being.

That does not mean nothing will happen. Mercus, the lead programmer of the game, took it upon himself to continue part-time and especially in his spare time to work on the game to fix some of the issues and implement a quality-of-life change here and there. So there will be occasional updates to the game, but please do not expect anything regular or frequent.

There will also be no content updates this year. We simply do not have resources for that at this moment. What we are continuing to do, though, is look at your feedback. There are already some nice ideas that could be accomplished within reasonable resources, so we are saving those for the future.

And that’s something we want to have another look at towards the end of the year when our simulator projects are released and we might find ourselves in the situation, where some of the developers could return to Winter Survival. We would also really, really like to get Winter Survival fully certified for Steam Deck, so we are still planning working on it, just now right now.

Also, the next update will drop within a week, but will let you know the exact date when internal testing has been completed.