Fun Dog Studios revealed today that The Forever Winter will get an Early Access release on September 24, 2024.
The announcement video highlights how the development team is going to handle the game’s future, and in a very refreshing and authentic manner, promises to not nickle and dime players with pay to win “enhancements” as many other similar titles do, as well as to never charge for new characters, maps, guns, bosses or anything of the sort. The only extra purchases players can expect are skin packs to further support the devs, which is pretty nice if you ask me. Speaking of money, the game will cost US$27 at the launch of the Early Access version.
Fun Dog Studios is also doing another very good thing that almost no one else does in the extraction shooter genre, by providing the option to play with friends locally or via peer to peer hosting, which allows playing even if servers are overloaded (and solo play as well, of course).
You’re A Small Fish In A Big Apocalypse.
Scavenge and fight for your next day alive under the shadow of gargantuan war machines. Enemies in the game can literally tower over the battlefield.
War. War Always Changes.
The battlefield is unpredictable thanks to The Forever Winter’s Dynamic Encounter system: enemies have their own goals and agendas, operating in coordinated groups, undertaking full-scale battles — and they’ll intelligently react to your actions. The battlefield you leave won’t be the same one you return to.
Only The Smart Survive – But Guns Help.
Use your wits, stealth, and skilled gunplay to make it out alive. Choose your path in the shadow of the two great superpowers, loot the dead, and make it out alive. While the warring factions may ignore you at first, the more disruptive you become to their goals, the more they’ll seek to remove you from the equation.
A Grim Vision Of The Future.
Ecological collapse compounded by runaway technological advancement brought us here: a world choked by 40 years of industrial-scale violence between two military superpowers, unmerciful mass killing by AI automata, human-machine hybrids, and the bleak truth of human nature. There’s two sides to this war, and you’re not on either.