New Blood Interactive announced plans to bring Dusk to Steam Early Access.
The Early Access release of Dusk will include the first two episodes (the second part was recently completed), two Endless Arenas, and access to the Duskworld multiplayer. If you’ve already preordered you won’t need to do anything else, and if you haven’t there’s no particular need to rush because the price won’t be changing once the game is in full release.
New Blood also said that, with the benefit of hindsight, it should have gone with an Early Access release right from the start. “But back in August we naively thought we would have the game finished a few months after pre-orders went live and also that we didn’t need Early Access to test the game,” it wrote. “We also didn’t anticipate just how many people would want and love the game.”
“There are currently about 7,500 people who have Duskand 30,000 more wishing for it. And while we’ve been doing a good job of testing the game internally and with our community (sup), if even 1/3 of those people jump into Dusk & DuskWorld on Day 1 and we’re not prepared? It could be catastrophic.”
Dusk will be available for purchase through Steam Early Access on January 11.
