The wait is over—Early Access is officially live!
Start sneaking, sabotaging, and slinking your way out of the office… without getting caught.

🛠️ What's in Early Access:

• Full campaign mission to escape the office

• Build Mode: Create your own office layouts

• Steam Workshop support: Play and share custom maps

• Leaderboards for top escape artists

• Tons of sneaky tools and ridiculous office hazards

This is just the beginning. Early Access gives you the foundation—and we’re building the rest with you. Feedback, ideas, and bug reports are all welcome. Got a ridiculous office prank idea? Tell us. Found a new route no one else saw? Show it off.

💬 Join the community & give feedback:
👉 Discord Server

🔔 Don’t forget to leave a review—it helps more than you know.

Thanks for supporting Exit Strategy!
Now… get out of here. Before your boss sees you.

I accidentally uploaded the last update with the internal server testing ip

Today, my dear friends Ksu, Taras, and Ivan released their new game, a short retro first-person platformer about the last priest of desolate earth on his descent to the depths of hell - it's called Blessed Burden. It's inspired by Quake, Prince of Persia, and Skyrim dungeon design (I know that's an unexpected one, stay with me). This is a very unusual platformer game.

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I could call it casual? Maybe. If you are not in a hurry, you can almost play it as a walking simulator, avoiding dozens of deadly traps while listening to the amazing soundtrack by Ivan Turmenko. If you're hungry for the dreadful ambiences and soundscapes of No One Lives Under The Lighthouse - Blessed Burden can fulfill your hunger if you care to listen (but for the real sound of dread you should most definitely wait for Zero Losses).

If you do hurry, you can try to complete the game in 8 minutes, like one speedrunner has already done. But probably you'll spend more time on your first go - as the game is full of huge swinging axes, saws, spikes, ingrained into the beautiful brutalist architecture which you won't be able to simply run by without dying taking a cool screenshot like you're a tourist or something ːsmileː

If you decide to check out the game, don't be scared of the character moving a bit slow - you'll need to complete a few levels, maybe collect some sacred relics from the temple to be able to level up bless your protagonist. Once you get some of them Bless Points, you'll be able to run and slide faster. If you're saint enough, maybe you'll even be able to afford a pair of wings... And after you've unlocked all the abilities, I would recommend replaying all of the levels and seeing how they feel now.

They have plans for updating the game with some extra modes later. I personally hope for a level editor, as 10 levels weren't enough for me. They were very aesthetically pleasing, though.

Blessed Burden is a short, simple, beautiful, and carefully crafted artistic game made by a few people in very hard times. Please support your local indies! It's only $6.99

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Thank you,

Vitalii

CEO of Life and Marevo Collective

P.S. Expect some ZL news soon and sorry for disturbing

• Fixed not being able to start a combat with a spell in the tutorial.

• The Plague and Lightning Fang spells now correctly no longer highlight corpses in positions with connected targets.

• The "reset story progress" button now correctly deletes your saved run as well.

• Fixed not automatically opening the zone selection menu when returning to the title screen after a run win or lose, and after abandoning a run that's not saved yet.

New packet interpolation and extrapolation system
New network time synchronization system
Compressed packet size even further
New 24bit time system with -1e5 second precision (up from -1e3)
New subframe adjustment to remedy packet read time delay
Fixed a bug where only the lobby owner could gain experience
Switched the churches to be separate instances to save on performance in Eden while also increasing the fidelity budget for the churches
Rebalanced end game enemies to be a lower level
Can no longer re-forge tier 1 and 2 items
Changed dagger indicator rendering system to be more reliable, performant, and modifiable
Added new "Sword of Damocles" indicator to show when a player is being targeted
Fixed a bug with line of sight system
Made line of sight and player distance matrices more performant by avoiding branches
When you fall out of a map you now fall one level lower rather than all the way to the void
Fixed dungeon path-following and improved general path-following
Improved shotgun netcode and increased the knockback
Improved server code performance
Fixed a bug with velocity compression
Improved the performance of player physics
New skin shader that gets less washed out in bright zones
Enemies now only spawn at night in the void to make it less annoying to do things like fishing
Increased the spawn rate of monuments in the void
Fixed a bug with the house monument's hitbox getting gimbal locked when rotated resulting in a sideways hitbox that doesn't match the mesh
Moved slam effect upwards to prevent it clipping into the ground
Fixed a bug with summon and totem targeting
Fixed a bug with trap not detonating properly
Added a parameter to data packet to transmit the status effect giver to prevent desync and other issues like kill credit
Added geese to boat lava
Crows coming soon
New status rendering system
Changed a number of indicators to better follow the player's model rather than the player's position
Fixed a bug with the stats screen showing the wrong numbers
New, more performant, rotate / day-night timing system
Added bars to Eden sewers

All in-game text and descriptions are available in your language!

Red Panda: The Quiet Path is now fully localized in the following languages:

• 🇬🇧 English

• 🇯🇵 Japanese

• 🇨🇳 Chinese (Simplified)

• 🇨🇳 Chinese (Traditional)

• 🇩🇪 German

• 🇫🇷 French

• 🇷🇺 Russian

• 🇪🇸 Spanish

• 🇰🇷 Korean

  We hope this makes your journey through the forest even more relaxing and immersive 🦊🌲

Fixes to the Collection Screen

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

Accessibility

• Added an accessibility settings page with a Screen Reader, Color Filters, UI Scaling, High Contrast Mode, and Reduced Motion options. Learn more in the announcement and provide feedback here.

Fixed some issues with Chording and Resolution settings, as well as the tutorial screen. Chording is now done just by left clicking, as it is in OG Minesweeper.

I've changed the activation zones slightly for hotbars to try to stop them getting in the way in some situations.

I'm still working on diagnosing some saving/loading issues as I'm having trouble replicating it myself. Will push a patch as soon as I identify and fix it.

Hello, dear players!

After 2 years of hard work, I am very happy to announce that PRISON BOY - THE ADVENTURE is ready, and with an exclusive 15% discount during its launch.

I hope you enjoy it.

A special thanks to player DEVON VELASQUEZ, who helped a lot with pre-launch feedback.

MRJ GAMES STUDIO - BRAZIL