Why Early Access?

“The nature of a game like Lost Isle lends itself perfectly to community collaboration, and there's not a better way of doing that in today's day and age than Early Access. The EA version of Lost Isle isn't without its flaws, but it is a strong foundation with immense potential, and working with our community by pooling together our hopes and ideas, we believe it will truly become great.

We talk often internally about how liberating it is to have created specifically a fantasy open-world survival game, because we can run with just about anything we can conceive. We're a small development team with a limited number of minds... imagine what we can come up with together with all of you! Whether it's as small and simple as a new cooking ingredient or as grandiose and complex as a new world boss, we want to hear your ideas and help bring them to life within the world of Lost Isle.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Our current estimation is that Lost Isle will be ready to leave Early Access in about 2 years, but the most transparent answer is that it will remain in EA for as long as it takes. We want to spend enough time in continued development to meet - and hopefully exceed - expectations, ensuring that our players get a complete, satisfying experience.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Almost everything we have planned for development during Early Access is an improvement to and/or expansion upon existing systems. For example, our world map will include one biome - jungle - at the time of EA release, but we have several additional biomes like desert and tundra in the works with accompanying points of interest, wildlife, and enemies that we plan to release as free updates incrementally as they're completed. We also plan to vastly expand on world events to bring players together from across the server to overcome group challenges.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Lost Isle in its current state is technically feature complete with an expansive game loop, including plenty of early, mid, and end game content. During beta playtest access, some individual players of our demo logged from 80 to 200+ hours on a smaller map with fewer features than will be included in the Early Access version.

Features available at the time of Early Access launch include but are not limited to:
-Multiplayer servers supporting 100+ players, with both PvP and PvE public options
-Resource gathering, base building, research trees, and tiered crafting
-Many points of interest of varying size and content to explore across the map, including 6 high-risk high-reward areas called monuments where the rarest loot can be found
-Magic combat with wands, staves, and potions
-Physical combat with melee weapons and bows
-Weapons and armor of different types with rollable bonus stats
-Base raiding using corrupt magic books called grimoires
-Advanced AI wildlife and enemies that range from harmless rabbits, to a wide array of wicked skeleton units, to massive elemental golems
-Many types of raw foods with an expansive cooking system
-Day/night cycle
-In-game server-wide text chat and proximity voice chat
-Persistent player leveling and research progress
-Emote and voiceline wheels with default options
-Steam achievements and in-game achievements that reward players with additional emotes, voicelines, item skins and titles”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The Early Access purchase price will be lower than the 1.0 purchase price due to the addition of planned features, gameplay, and quality of life improvements. Of course, anyone who purchases Lost Isle in EA will get the 1.0 updates for free and will not be required to make a second purchase.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We're very active in our Discord server where we regularly communicate with the community. We collect feedback there and take it seriously, as we've already implemented much of the feedback we've received. We also plan to host monthly developer AMA's, as well as releasing polls to get the community's input on upcoming feature development plans.”