Game update26 Jun 2026June 26th QoL updateTo celebrate the game being on discount, we have a small QOL update: · Various cutscenes fixes in the final level of the game · Various combat improvements and rebalancing · Various platforming adjustments: ledges detection improvement, trip obstacles improvement · Difficulty adjustment for the infamous crane chase · Uncle Ben combat difficulty and animation fluidity adjustment Xbox and WinPC w…
Hello players. A minor bug fixing update for you: · Addressed platforming-related progression blockers on a hardware below minimum recommended specs · Addressed level loading issues on a hardware below minimum recommended specs · Fixes for various achievements not being tracked properly · Fixes for some platforming elements in Phoenix City · Added ability to use both light/heavy attack buttons…
Hey everyone, If you haven’t stepped into our gritty, alternate 1980s America, your window of opportunity has arrived. REPLACED is 20% off from today until May 28. Uncover dark conspiracies, navigate the weight of human survival, and experience a world forever changed by nuclear catastrophe. Explore the neon-drenched streets of Phoenix-City at our best price yet. Grab REPLACED at 20% off: Join…
Hello players, Apologies: in our haste to deliver you the update in time for the weekend, we missed a bug in the chapter select. Several of you reported issues accessing later chapters after selecting a previous chapter. We have isolated the cause of this, and pushed this hotfix. Anyone affected should try to select latest available level via chapter select, exit to menu and check chapter selec…
Hello everyone. We continue to be overwhelmed by the positive response to REPLACED. We’ve been working around the clock since launch to address issues and feedback, and today we are adding some of the most-requested new features. Letterbox mode can now be disabled While we built REPLACED from the ground up as a 21:9 cinematic experience, we appreciate that it can feel like wasted screen space -…
Hey everyone, The official soundtrack by Igor Gritsay (Music Composer at Sad Cat Studios) & aygad (Music Producer) is officially out on all music streaming platforms. Now the world of REPLACED can be with you wherever you go. Immerse yourself in the gritty, retro-futuristic world of REPLACED. This 20-track album brings the neon-lit ruins and dark secrets of Phoenix-City to life, allowing you to…
Check out Welonz diving into the first chapter of REPLACED , giving you a taste of the gritty, cinematic action waiting for you. 🎬 Huge shoutout to Welonz for the incredible showcase. Don't miss out on the rest of their amazing content on their YouTube channel: About the game REPLACED is a 2.5D cinematic action platformer wrapped in an intense cyberpunk thriller narrative. Run, climb, and figh…
Hello players! We wanted to push one final update before the weekend in response to your valuable feedback. We are listening and working hard to resolve the final few issues. In this update: · Overhaul of checkpointing system, to give more granular restart points and hopefully reduce frustration. Too many to list out individually! · Lighting improvements in Chapter 10 · Some combat rebalancing…
1080 update Hello all. Thank you for your support up to now. It's been a bewildering 24 hours, and we're still hard at work. Today we have fixes for the main issues we saw in the community yesterday: · Wingman no longer breaks while using a fast scroll feature (horizontal movement) on a Brightness setting · Fixed rare cases with level transition during which Reach could get stuck in a deathloop…
Fixes in 1077 (Steam) · Fixed checkpoint in 3-1 (you could be stuck behind the door if you reload the checkpoint after the Matriarch fight). · Another checkpoint in 3-1 where you could reload the checkpoint after the first cutscene with Tempest and 2nd one won't happen. · Updated credits · Updated the first cutscene in 2-4-1 where the train had no rails under it (you could see out of bounds) ·…
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…
Hey everyone, We have some news that’s been humming in the wires for a while, and today, the signal is finally 100% clear: REPLACED is officially Steam Deck Verified! ✅ We have worked hard to ensure that the game is fully optimized for Steam Deck right out of the gate. This means the full experience runs natively on the hardware without any tinkering or compatibility workarounds. Pick it up and…
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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