The King's Surveyor Passes 2,500 Steam Wishlists Three Days After Page Launch
Analog Dream Dev reported on October 31 that its first-person action game The King's Surveyor passed 2,500 Steam wishlists three days after the store page went live on October 28.
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Why it matters
The wishlist count is a small number for a Steam page, but it puts attention on a project whose selling point is a year of solo engine work and a CRT display simulation rather than content scale, and the developer plans a demo after expanding the valley and adding surveyor's tools.
Key Facts
- Analog Dream Dev reported on October 31 that The King's Surveyor passed 2,500 Steam wishlists three days after its store page launched on October 28.
- The King's Surveyor is being made by a single developer who wrote its engine from scratch over a year.
- The engine includes a display simulation that assembles images the way a real CRT does, leaving afterimages from bright moving objects.
- The release date is undecided and the game supports English only.
- The developer plans to expand the valley, add surveyor's tools, and release a demo once preparations are complete.
One developer built the game and its engine from scratch over a year. The engine simulates how a CRT assembles an image, leaving afterimages from bright moving objects. The release date is undecided and the game supports English only.
The developer wrote the display simulation to reproduce, on current monitors, how the televisions he watched as a child showed images. Bright objects leave afterimages and light lingers on the screen. The game itself has no experience points and no skill tree: the player becomes Sebastian, a surveyor in service to the king, and improves by observation. He climbs, jumps, and slides through an old valley, strikes old stones to find hidden passages, and fills in a map of where he has walked. His left hand handles the sword or staff, climbing, and stone strikes; the right holds a torch. Enemies dislike light and wait in places the light does not reach.
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