Big New Features: · Introducing Mission 2: First Contact ! · The Glorbonians are in town! You’ve only ever seen pictures of these goopy aliens, so what better opportunity to go join the celebrations? I just hope nothing goes wrong on the way…? · Featuring new mechanics, fights, events, and... goo? · Unlock Alien Species to play as! · Each species replaces the Astronaut’s throw action with a new…
Hey there Sol Mateys! Thank you to everyone who’s joined us on our journey so far! With all your feedback and love, you’ve fueled our brand new demo update for Steam Next Fest (on June 15th!) Here’s what you can expect: A Whole New Mission: The Glorbonians are in town! You’ve only ever seen pictures of these goopy aliens, so what better opportunity to go join the celebrations? I just hope nothi…
Ahoy Mates! We’re beyond excited to announce that Sol Mates has officially hit 10,000 wishlists ! Thank you all so much for the incredible support. Here are 10,000 companion balls raining down on our ship to celebrate! Well.. at least as many as our PC could handle before it started heating up and we had to reboot. To keep the hype thrusters fully charged, we’re launching something fun as a tok…
Exciting New Stuff: · New controls customization options! · We overhauled how custom controls work in the game, with the goal of making the controls more consistent across player actions, stations, and our various game menus. · Customizing a button now affects all actions which use that button. Actions which share a button have been combined to a single entry on the settings screen. · This incl…
Ahoy Mates! We just announced in the Game Devs of Color Expo that the demo for Sol Mates is now live for you and your friends to play! In the demo you and up to 4 players (online or local co-op) can get a taste of the chaotic adventures we’ve been building. You just launched your own scrappy space agency with your mates, and there’s a whole galaxy out there waiting for you to make a name for yo…
Small But Mighty! 🚀🌚 We’re over the moon to share that Sol Mates is featured in the Tiny Teams Festival going on right now, hosted by Yogscast Games! Be sure to check us out and all the other incredible indies too! Dev Vlog 2! To mark the TINY occasion, we’ve just released a brand-new dev vlog where we (we as in me, Loren, one of the devs!) chat about what the team has been working on lately,…
Be Among the First to Play Sol Mates! Ahoy Mates! We’ve been heads-down working on a ton of exciting updates and prepping our demo and we’re finally ready to share them with you… sorta. We can’t reveal the public demo launch date just yet, but we promise it’s coming soon (for real this time!). Before that happens, we’re kicking off a round of private playtests to gather feedback and fine-tune e…
Ahoy there Sol Mates~ Loren here, writing this dev update a few miles from LA, where we just attended the MIX to cap off a month of convention madness. To recap: We've been all over the US this month, showing off Sol Mates first at PAX East, then Dreamhack Dallas, debuting a new trailer with the Shacknews Showcase and finally the MIX in LA. A huge thank you to everyone that's dropped by our boo…
Ahoy Mates! We know it’s been a little quiet here, but that’s only because we’ve been hard at work getting our demo ready! We can’t reveal too much yet but we promise it’s coming soon...ish 😅🚀 Since our last dev vlog we’ve been busy showing off Sol Mates to the world! Or well part of it anyways. In March we attended GDC in San Francisco which was nice because we are located there. We met so m…
Hi! This is Loren and Simon, the developers. First off, we just wanted to thank you for wishlisting the game! The launch of the Steam page, and premiering in the PC Gaming Show has been super exciting, and we've both been loving the reception we're getting from everyone. Seriously - wishlisting helps us so much and motivates us to make the best game we can for you all. Loren always skips Steam…
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