Under Canopies Enters Early Access With No Combat and a Roadmap to 1.0
Solo developer Roberto spent about four years on a survival game that removes the danger the genre usually runs on, and the roadmap shows he intends to finish it rather than leave it in early access.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Novemtails has released Under Canopies in early access on Steam, a first-person survival crafting game set in a peaceful forest. Players build a cabin, grow crops, cook, and photograph wild animals to earn their trust. Hunger, thirst, stamina, and temperature are tracked, but there is no combat, no hunting, and the player never dies. A roadmap runs through a photo lab, canoe, underground biome, and version 1.0.
The early access build is 25% off until November, according to the store listing. Behind it is a roadmap that runs from a photo lab, companions, and a canoe, through a food preservation and cooking update, to an underground biome and the story's conclusion, then version 1.0. Novemtails says the plans may change with development progress and feedback.
Roberto is a developer from Mexico who began learning game making about 12 years ago and worked on releases as part of a company before this. He calls Under Canopies his first commercial game made and released on his own, grown from a small personal project he started roughly four years ago. He shared his workspace during development with nine cats.
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