Last year we announced Long Gone Days would be released this coming April, but even though we have been working hard all this time to achieve that, we feel that more time is needed to reach our desired level of polish.
When we started working on Chapter 2, we thought it would be ready in just a couple of months. Because the script wasn’t nearly as long as our first chapter, we decided to work on it together with Chapter 3 (there are 4 chapters in total), so we could release both at the same time. On top of that, there were still fixes to be made to Chapter 1, and down the road, we realized that the amount of work required for this update would be even larger than we expected. Still, we made the mistake of believing we'd be able to deliver the full release in April.
At the moment, we don’t have a definitive date on the full release, because we don’t really want to make the same mistake again, but we can say with certainty that the next big story update of Long Gone Days is almost finished and will be released really soon.
We also would like to take this opportunity to share with you a lot of progress and changes that are included in this upcoming update. The first big change is that Ivan is finally usable in battle:
This chapter wouldn’t be complete without some new characters and party members:
One of the things people asked for was to include more instances to get to know your party members, which is why we added some optional scenes, alongside some more interesting side quests:
And several new places to visit, dungeons, and more:
We also took the time to improve some existing graphical assets, like some portraits (they were posted on a previous announcement here) and the title screen:
We also rebalanced the whole game, fixed several bugs that were reported on our Official Bug Report thread, amongst other changes. All in all, with this update, players will now have 4 more hours of gameplay!
We want to thank everyone for your tremendous support, we know you have all been extremely patient and it has been a long wait. Remember that you can contact us through the official Steam forums, Tumblr and Twitter. We’re also finishing setting up an official Discord server, so stay tuned for more information!
Cheers,
LGD Team