Community14 Apr 2026Phoenix-City Awaits: REPLACED is Out Now!Uncover the sinister secrets of Phoenix Corporation. Today is finally the day! We’re so happy to share that REPLACED is officially out and available to play now! It’s been a long journey to get here, but we’re immensely proud to say that we stuck to our vision throughout and never compromised on delivering on our high standards. We hope that commitment and hard work are evident as you step into…
850,000 WISHLISTS. 185,000 DEMO PLAYERS. ARE YOU SERIOUS?! 🤯 We’re honestly blown away. The response from this community means everything to us. Your support is the fuel that’s carrying us through the final stretch, and we’re counting down the days until REPLACED launches on April 14, 2026. Thank you for being part of this journey. We can’t wait to see you in Phoenix-City! 😻 Play the REPLACED…
Hey everyone, we are super excited to be part of this year's February Steam Next Fest with our first-ever public demo - which you can play right now, right here on Steam! Crafting this world has been a long journey for us, and seeing you finally step into the shoes of R.E.A.C.H. feels both surreal and exhilarating. Of course, this demo is only a small slice of the atmosphere, story, and 'cinema…
An update on REPLACED We have an important update to share regarding the launch of REPLACED. After a lot of back and forth, we have decided to shift our release date to 14 April 2026. As a small team working on our very first title, we’ve poured everything we have into this project. While the game is technically finished, reaching this final stretch has shown us that we need just a few more wee…
Hey everyone! We are beyond excited to share that the REPLACED demo is now officially out. It's been a long journey to get here, and we're so incredibly grateful for the support you've shown us - it means the world to us. This is the first time we're putting the game into your hands, and we are so excited to hear what you think (although a little nervous, of course!) Thanks for sticking with us…
Hello everyone! We’re beyond thrilled to finally share some long-awaited news: REPLACED now has a final release date and is arriving March 12th, 2026. It’s been a long journey, and your support has meant the world to us. Many of you have been with us since the beginning, waiting patiently as we worked to bring our vision to life. We are grateful to still have you on this journey. Soon, you’ll u…
Hey everyone, First things first: the game is alive, we’re kicking, and more excited than ever! On a serious note, we’re here, and we are ready to share more updates on REPLACED again. Looking back at what we showed previously during 2021-2022, it’s clear that everything then was just the starting point for us. The graphics, the mechanics, the overall narrative… Everything has evolved drastical…
We know that our community is incredibly excited to play REPLACED and it’s no secret that it’s taken longer than we initially thought to deliver that to you all - we apologise for that,” said Game Director Yura Zhdanovich. “We’ve always been trying to do what’s right for the project, which in turn, means delivering to you a truly special experience. The good news is that we now are very close t…
"I thought you guys already had clouds..." Our game has been present in development using planes and jpegs for skies for almost entirety of it's existence. I have used this approach in both of the trailers to achieve some pretty decent results. However, we wanted to use a more modern and sophisticated tool suitable for a fixed perspective project like this, featuring authoring with the benefits…
State of Animation — State of the Art A long time has passed since the second trailer and the last behind-the-scenes look at REPLACED. And today I want to touch on a new topic — the animation of the game. The game has come a tremendously long way since our first simple asset store-purchased animation pack, the first in-house animated sprite of an idly standing unnamed hero (who later will becom…
One of the make or break features of such heavily stylized games is lighting. As you have seen in the trailer we are utilising a lot of volumetric lights to create rich, dense, and high quality atmosphere. That said, we had to rely on a lot of plugins last year to get to a level of quality we were after. That approach was at the very least… inefficient. In the real world it just runs badly. It…
REPLACED delayed until 2024 Here at Sad Cat we would like to address the release date shift of REPLACED. First of all we have to admit: game development is hard. It's also rewarding in its own right, but mostly it's just hard. We would like to pay our respects to every team who delivers their project – no matter how small or big it is. It's a tremendous achievement. After REPLACED initial annou…
Creating the right environment The world of REPLACED consists of hundreds and thousands of meticulously detailed props. Trash on the streets, old dumpsters, phone booths, lamps, post boxes, cars, retro computers — you name it... I think we got it… somewhere. With this level of detail and amount of stuff to create we had to come up with a consistent workflow for creating environment assets that…
As revealed during Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live Show to kick off Gamescom, we’re delighted to share with you the full track from the E3 Trailer of REPLACED. Sad Cat Studios and Coatsink treated fans to another brief look at the game before launching the backing track Void across various digital platforms. Visit PlayReplaced.com/Void to get all the details on where to stream and listen to…
As we continue to celebrate the first ten years of Coatsink, we also promised to look at what’s coming over the next decade. Announcing REPLACED, a retro-futuristic cinematic platformer with free-flow combat, coming to Steam. Set in an alternative 1980s America, you play as R.E.A.C.H, an AI trapped in a human body against its will. Together, you will define a shared future as you discover the d…
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