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 announcement in 2021 and its follow-up trailer in 2022 we had this incredibly high bar of community's expectations. And at this point we knew that we can't afford to release a sub-par game. We truly want REPLACED to be something special and memorable for everybody. This is our first game, and we want to make every aspect of it the best it can be.
We want to stress the fact that we do understand the game's scope, and we're very aware of traps of over promising and under delivering. As of today, development is progressing at a steady pace. The majority of systems are functional now and we are in a super-intense asset production phase, which is currently our main bottleneck. Our quality bar is incredibly high. To give an example of this, the main character in REPLACED has more than 500 meticulously hand-painted animations made just for platforming (luckily, these are all finished now). We want to deliver every aspect of the game to the same high standard and that requires additional time and effort. Unfortunately this also means we have to delay the game’s release.
Once again, we would like to thank everybody who supports us (honestly: we could not stop reading your awesome comments after initial trailer release)! If you are interested in some of the behind the scenes of REPLACED and learning more about the development process — feel free to join our Discord server, where we share our developer blogs, thoughts, cats and just have a nice chat with our community.
Sad Cat Studios Team