Steam Next Fest + Biggest Demo Overhaul!

major update

Separated · published

We’re joining the October 2025 Steam Next Fest, starting October 13th!

  • To celebrate, we’ve released an overhauled demo with a new environment unique to Separated, new animations, an updated engine, and medal achievements.

  • This is our biggest event before release, so if you can try the demo, share it with friends, or post about it, it would mean a lot and help more players discover the game.

  • We’ve read all your feedback forms and are working on refining gameplay and fixing bugs.

  • Thanks to your support, we’ve reached 93,000+ demo players — a huge milestone!

v0.3.0 Demo Changes

Big Changes:

- The entire environment has been remade with a fresh, distinctive design unique to Separated.

- Refined AI animation behavior to fit the redesigned environment.

- Upgraded the game’s Unreal Engine version, voice chat plugin, and network plugin to the more stable Unreal Engine 5.6.

- Added three achievements: Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals — challenge yourself now!

- Added Walkie-Talkie and held item display on screen.

Small Changes:

- Improved the Ghost Girl’s head rotation so she faces her target point before moving.

- Added logs in shipping builds to help with debugging issues.

- Deleted the Global Illumination save file if found, reset it to default, and removed it from the settings menu.

- Removed the “25 Rescues” achievement.

- Added a hint that triggers once per session after 30 seconds if a player doesn’t save their friend.

- Enhanced the Ghost Girl’s blind animations.

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed a microphone crash that occurred in certain cases.

- Fixed the “I hear you” audio playing after opening the main doors.