Why Early Access?

“Welcome, participants. Exogen Labs invites you to a soft opening of our latest facility. We look forward to working with you and your team during Early Access. We want to ensure that Killing Things With Your Friends is ready for a full launch in the near future. Every part of the lab needs to be inspected, cleaned and balanced before we expand our trials to a wider audience. Our researchers eagerly await reports of everything that goes right, wrong or catastrophically wrong, so we can continue to craft and improve the experience based on your feedback and collaboration.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We expect Killing Things With Your Friends to be in Early Access for six months. During this time we will be adding new features, more content, gathering feedback and working hard to make the facility the very best it can be.”

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

“We are planning to increase the number of trial challenges in the facility. We will continue to build variations of existing challenges along with a crafting a wide range of new challenges to keep teams thinking hard and moving fast. We also plan to create new mutant enemies with different arms, legs and heads to enhance your biology and expand problem solving with new abilities. These new mutants will also have a range of different buffs to unlock. We are also thinking of ways to bring teams and different facilities closer together with more communication and shared world events.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The current state of the Exogen Labs facility is excellent. Participants can undertake trials solo, via local network or online through Steam, with an expanding selection of challenges. There are five types of mutant, each with different limbs, abilities and buffs to experiment with. Humans can also be customised with different limbs, buffs and cosmetics. Teams can communicate with in-game proximity voice chat. There are difficulty levels to suit a range of different players and the trials are currently well balanced for skill, time and rewards. Technically the game scales very well across different hardware and platforms with various quality, graphics and sound settings to fine tune performance. The game supports playing using keyboard and mouse or game controllers and we are continuing to improve input support. Crossplay is also supported between Windows and macOS. Further challenges, enhancements and questionable scientific advances remain in active development.”

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

“Exogen Labs plans to offer access to the facility at an appealing price for all participants. We don't plan on changing the price after Early Access.”

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

“Killing Things With Your Friends is a co-op multiplayer game with a tight core gameplay loop that is intended for short sessions and fun times with friends, always encouraging "just one more go" after every trial. To help us build the best experience possible we have already built a community of KTWYF players on Discord, run a public Playtest on Steam and released a public demo during Steam Next Fest. We are continuing to engage with players and streamers to play and test the game, receive feedback on the features and content everyone enjoys, and listen to suggestions for features everyone would love to see added to the game. Our experts are ready and waiting to craft and improve the experience based on your feedback and collaboration.”