It's out. An honest note from the solo dev.

major update

Textorio · published

Hello.

Textorio is in Early Access now. I honestly still can't quite believe i am writing this.

I am one person. I built this whole thing alone over the last years. Every belt, every letter on the screen, and the whole simulation running underneath it. At some point i even cloned my own voice into an llm just so i had "someone" to talk to about the design at 3am. So if the game feels a little strange and a little personal, thats bucause it genuinely is.

I want to be honest with you about what Early Access means here, bucause i hate when it is used as an excuse.

The core is real and it works. Factories made entirely of text, real electricity, fluid pressure, steam, logic gates, a dead planet and 50,000 colonists waiting below you. But it is NOT finished. There will be rough edges, missing things, and bugs i havent found yet. I did not want to pretend otherwise just to sell a few more copies.

So what you are really buying is a promise. That i will keep working on this, WITH you and not just at you. I read everything. Your feedback is going to shape where this goes, what gets built next, and what gets fixed first. That is the whole reason to do Early Access instead of hiding in my room for another two years.

And i am not disappearing after launch day. I want Textorio to become the best version of itself. And honestly, i want to keep getting better as a developer and make more games after this too. This is a start, not an ending.

If you are not sure, there is a free demo. Please try it first, really, no pressure. And if you do jump in, thank you. Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart. If you end up enjoying it, a short review or even just telling me where you got stuck helps a tiny solo project more than you could know.

Lets build something good together.

- Donaldas