With our public Steam playtest now underway, we wanted to give everyone a look at where we're planning to take OVERHATCHED in the coming months.
Our vision has always been bigger than what you see today. Early Access is just the beginning, and we're excited to continue expanding the world with new locations, new ways to explore, additional customization, and plenty of prehistoric chaos.
Like any Early Access roadmap, these are our current development goals. As we continue gathering community feedback, priorities and timing may evolve to ensure we're building the best possible experience for everyone.
Our first major updates will focus on making the overworld feel larger, more connected, and more rewarding to explore.
Clearable roadblocks throughout the overworld
New suburb and city facilities
Stationary transportation, including ferries
Access to nearby islands
Unlockable boats for exploring new regions
Oceanic facilities and remote island destinations
With new transportation options comes the opportunity to reach entirely new environments and destinations.
Unlockable aircraft
Volcanic facilities
Icy mountain facilities
Once you've explored the world, it will be time to add more personality to your adventures.
Character selection
Character customization
Unlockable character vanity items
Unlockable transportation vanity items
The world of OVERHATCHED has plenty of secrets waiting to be uncovered.
New cutscenes
Expanded lore and world-building
What's a dinosaur game without more dinosaurs?
Throughout Early Access, we'll be introducing new dinosaur species to discover, hatch, and raise as OVERHATCHED continues to grow. Some will arrive alongside new facilities and environments, while others may surprise you in future updates.
Each new arrival will receive its own Dino Spotlight, where we'll introduce the species, share a little behind-the-scenes development, and give everyone a first look as it joins the game.
We already have several dinosaurs waiting behind the scenes, and we can't wait to reveal them to you!
As we continue expanding OVERHATCHED, we're also exploring additional progression systems that could provide players with even more long-term goals throughout their adventure.
One feature we're actively prototyping is unlockable gameplay upgrades. While we're excited by the possibilities, we want to make sure any progression system feels fun, balanced, and true to the cooperative spirit of OVERHATCHED before committing to its inclusion.
As always, your feedback during playtesting and Early Access will help shape these decisions.
Not every day in OVERHATCHED revolves around hatching and raising dinosaurs.
Throughout Early Access, we'll be introducing a variety of optional Side Jobs that shake up the gameplay with fresh objectives, unique challenges, and a healthy dose of the same frantic teamwork and chaos you've come to expect.
We're keeping the details under wraps for now, but expect these special jobs to offer a fun change of pace while expanding the world in new and unexpected ways.
Whether you're looking for a quick challenge or just a different kind of prehistoric mayhem, there will always be something new waiting around the next corner.
After these major roadmap milestones, our focus will shift toward final polish, bug fixing, balance adjustments, performance improvements, and refining the overall experience as OVERHATCHED moves toward its full release.
We aren't ready to announce a date for version 1.0 just yet, but we'll share more as development progresses and our plans become more concrete.
OVERHATCHED is our first Steam title, and we're incredibly excited to continue building it alongside our community.
We'll be sharing development updates, roadmap progress, and sneak peeks as each milestone approaches, so be sure to follow along and let us know what you're most excited to see.
Thank you for being part of this journey—we can't wait to continue forging the future of OVERHATCHED together!