Latest Playtest available

I’m excited to announce that the first Steam playtest for Outwith is now live.

The playtest is available from the Outwith Steam store page or if you prefer you can download it from the link at the bottom of this page.

Store.steampowered.com

Here’s a few points regarding the playtest:

• Outwith has been in development for 3 years (2.5 years part time, 6 months full time) and is under continuing development. Things are likely to change and there will be bugs.
• The playtest includes core functionality in the starting area of the world - routes out to the rest of the world are temporarily blocked.
• Playtime should be around 30-40 minutes - longer if you choose to explore the map.
• The playtest includes a single starter quest, some conversations with characters, some combat with a few different types of enemies, some exploration and some crafting.
• The playtest starts with a single spell available and the ability to unlock another spell category (Ember/fire) and there’s basically just a fireball spell to unlock.
• In the finished game you can unlock spell categories using artifacts that are found/discovered in the world. You can then use ability points, gained through levelling up to unlock individual spells.
• Not all the skills are wired up - blade damage works.
• I’m looking for any kind of feedback and I’ve set up a sub forum specifically for feedback. The main design pillars are Exploration, with combat and story/dialogue to support the exploration.
• The playtest will remain available until I have sufficient feedback. At the moment I don’t know exactly how long that will be.

Updated road map for 2025

Here’s my planned tasks for 2025 in rough timeline order:

• Working through playtest feedback.
• Character equipment - needs setting up with equipment slots and visible equipment on the player.
• Character creation and in-game menu screen - dependent on the character equipment task.
• More spells - teleportation, telekinesis, summon and more.
• More weapons - the existing sword is basically a POC
• The main quest implemented along with the associated world areas.

Finally a massive THANK YOU to everyone that has already provided feedback. Here a link to the store page - the playtest can be accessed from there or downloaded from this page.

Store.steampowered.com

Until next time Jeff