Why Early Access?

“Simulator Survivors is replacing the survivors genre's stop-and-go playstyle with uninterrupted, fast-paced action, fully traversable 3d maps, enhanced by physics chaos and procedural IK animations.

The goal for early access is to utilize your feedback to explore the physics-fused 3D play space, to fine-tune the skill upgrades and variations, to explore and polish the meta-game, its modding capabilities and streaming enhancements to find the most impactful narrative humor and to define the world's thought-provoking, pun-intended lore.

I've got plenty of ideas, 30 years of game dev experience, but I'll need your data donations (feedback) to shape the game into something that's widely considered outstanding (one way or another). Expect 1-2 updates per month.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Approximately one to two years. Because Simulator Survivors explores unproven gameplay terrain and social components, I intend to take the time necessary to properly balance the 3D physical environment, diversify the playstyles, expand the 4th-wall breaking narrative.

I will transition out of Early Access as soon as the core experience feels complete and polished.”

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

“The full version of Simulator Survivors will expand from experimental state into a polished, highly replayable horde-survival game with social sharing.

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Your hard-earned lets you override the simulation's core parameters. Brutally deadly enemies? Or drop out and relax? A psychedelic day-night cycle? Your decision, your mod. Or someone else's sandbox.

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Skill upgrades will be more diverse. More maps with more navigational challenges and lures. More diverse enemies, obstacles, and behaviour patterns. The narration and humor is expanded to complement the game's lore. ”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The core gameplay loop with a single character class and a single play area with a limited set of chasing enemies and physics interactions is already excitingly fun.

Players die a slowmotion ragdoll death and the detached yet sarcastic AI narrator provides comic relief. The game is stable, well optimized, and transitions seamlessly without loading screens. The cloud corpse, modding and sharing infrastructure is in development.”

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

“Yes. I plan on raising the price between 50% to 100% after Early Access.

I think it's only fair to ask a higher price to reward Early Access players who purchased an early version of this genre-mocking simulation because they believe it will become something truly unique. This curiosity and trust absolutely warrants a minor monetary compensation! In fact, much more than that, but that's all I can offer at this point.”

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

“All feedback on the Simulator Survivors Discord server and Steam forums will be read and will have an influence on my state of mind (please be polite). All of it, directly or indirectly, will trickle back into the game for I am but another Simulator Survivor.

I expect the true gems will be the minor remarks that instigate a whole new idea how to utilize the physics, the IK, the rewards, the narration, the humor. For narrative and obituary texts I welcome all contributions and will integrate as many as possible.

The game will never be perfectly balanced like a "numbers game" strives to be but rather tuned and optimized to provide the non-repeatable, emerging situations only a small ruleset and physics / ragdolls can provide. I am curious about any potentially disastrous exploits, and then perhaps enabling some of these at scale as part of the "simulation gone rogue" lore aspect. Or just for fun.”