Why Early Access?

“Cyber Dive is a competitive multiplayer game, and that makes it very hard to tune on our own. How a race actually feels , how tight the gaps should be, how much a near miss is worth, how punishing a trap should be. These only becomes clear once real players are racing each other. We would rather work that out with the community than guess in isolation and ship something we have to apologise for later.

Early Access also lets the game grow around how people actually play it. We have our own ideas about what to add next, but we would like to see which parts players enjoy most before we commit to them.

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Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We are aiming to leave Early Access before the end of 2026, which would put the Early Access period at roughly six months.

We would rather be honest than precise about this. The date depends on what player feedback turns up. If the game needs more time to be worth its full release, we will take that time and keep everyone updated rather than rush it out to hit a deadline.

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

“We plan to grow the game in three directions, guided by what players tell us:

More variety : additional hazards, environments and stage variety, so runs keep surprising you the longer you play.

Balance and feel : tuning the scoring, the difficulty curve and the movement based on how the community actually plays, not how we imagined they would.

Modes and features : we would like to build on the current race and Endless modes, but we want to see what players ask for most before committing to anything specific.

We are deliberately not publishing a fixed feature list. Our plans will change as we learn from Early Access, and we would rather under-promise and deliver than announce features we may later cut.

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What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Cyber Dive is playable and complete as a game today. Early Access is about refining it, not finishing it.

The current version includes:

Online multiplayer races for up to 8 players through Steam
Procedurally generated stages, so no two runs are the same
A solo Endless Mode: one continuous descent that never ends, with a high score to chase
A scoring system built around speed and risk , the faster you fall and the closer you pass to hazards, the more you score
Character customisation with a full colour picker
Steam achievements, stats and a global leaderboard
Full controller support
31 languages

Expect rough edges. Early Access is where we find the problems we cannot find on our own.

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

“No. We do not plan to change the price when the game leaves Early Access. It will cost the same during Early Access as it does afterwards.

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

“The Steam Community Hub is where we will be. We read the discussion boards, and bug reports, balance complaints and "this trap is unfair" posts are exactly what we are after , that kind of feedback is the whole reason we are doing Early Access.

The global leaderboard also tells us a great deal by itself. Watching where players actually plateau shows us where the difficulty is wrong more clearly than any bug report can.

When we change something, we will post about it and explain why.

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