Hi Community, Downward: Enhanced Edition is available NOW! Head over to the store and download the new version! https://store.steampowered.com/app/506900/Downward_Enhanced_Edition/ The enhanced edition is a free update for those who already have the game, feel free to play it again and maybe you'll find something interesting! [previewyoutube=SLQYkT4yqwc;full][/previewyoutube]

Message from the devs:

Story

• Redundancies have been cut, and the order of several lines of text has been reorganized to make the story more understandable and enjoyable.
• Introduction lore text has been added to introduce the story at the very beginning of the game.
• Additional content at the end of the story ('epilogue' DLC) enriches the ending and provides a new perspective on the story. You can still make different choices at the end of the story based on the completion of the Skull quest, activation of all the gears, and collection of the Dry Artifacts.
• New tutorial levels have been added to the main story for every unlocked power.

Gameplay

• Platforming is slightly more forgiving.
• The skill tree has been restructured and redundancies have been cut.
• New bosses have been added to fight during the story to obtain relics and artifacts.
• The savegames of the new version won't work with the old one.
• You will be able to play the old version in the beta.

Aesthetic

• Every key asset of the game has been re-imagined from scratch to give a coherent look to the game's technology, in particular: [olist]
• Save Bells
• Fast Travel Portals
• Level Entrances
• Planet Activators
• Challenge Activators
• Level-Up Statues
• Relics Altar
• Environmental Gears
• Turrets [/olist]
• 99.9% of the 3D models have been redone by hand, and every texture has been updated.
• Some areas have been aesthetically re-imagined, drastically in some cases.
• All enemies have an updated look.

Fixes

• Given that the code has been fundamentally restructured and this version is the result of a process that has taken place intermittently over the last six years, it is difficult to provide a precise list of fixed bugs. All the bugs that have been reported and that we were able to reproduce have been resolved.

Legibility

• Level design has been massively updated to be more intuitive at first glance.
• Anomalies have an updated look and are now easier to spot.
• Due to the vertical nature of the game, we replaced the old "Skyrim-like" compass with a system of screen icons, making every objective and point of interest easier to spot.

Performance

• Massive optimizations have been made (the game now runs at 60 FPS on the Steam Deck at full resolution without upscaling, whereas before it struggled to maintain 20 FPS).
• FSR and RSR have been added, but we are confident that they will not be needed for the vast majority of players.

Hi Community, Long time no see! Long story short, Downward is back with an Enhanced Edition! It hits Steam on June 4th! For those who don't know about this game, it's a first-person parkour platformer set in a post-apocalyptic world! Oh that's really a long description. Anyway, Apart from parkour, exploration, searching for artefacts or passing through the obstacles, the Enhanced Edition will give you a new insight of the game!

Major changes

• New graphics & new assets
• Optimisation
• New ending

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• Locate the biolab
• Take in vitro samples of the pathogen (codename: "Vorax")
• Liquidate surviving medical personnel (optionally) and any witnesses.

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Hi Everybody! Today we are very proud to announce a majore release patch for Die Young. 1.0.30.20 where many things were added, the most important are RUSSIAN and SPANISH languages! Since its release the 12 of September, thousands of you played Die Young and we are very happy. We are still finalizing Italian ( it's our native language so we want to make things right ;-) ) and it should be ready for next week when also official soundtrack will be released. We also add Trading cards in this patch, we hope you like it! Full changelog 1.0.30.20

• added Russian language
• added Spanish language
• The executioner now despawns after crossing Underworld Passage
• Now the Executioner keys (Blood-soaked Keys) also open the gates of the passage that directly connects Dry Riverbed and Stone Pillars.
• fix of some quests that were not completed correctly
• graphix fixes/ improvements on several textures
• graphix fixes/ improvements on several npc animations
• graphix fixes/ improvements on several first person animations
• further level and geometry optimization.

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Hi guys! In order to celebrate MilanGamesWeek 2017, coming next week, we are releasing a new update! MGW2017 is the third biggest gaming event in Europe and this year there will be more than 50 cool Italian indie games, it's great for us to be there for the second time!
Check here for more: http://www.milangamesweek.it/indie This update focuses on increasing the overall experience in Downward, many others will follow. Among other things, we are very interested in all kind of suggestion from new players, and we’d also like to thank everybody who has supported Downward since we went first time into Early Access on Steam last winter. So YES Downward final version is out and we are going to continue to improve it, since we love our game and our community<3 Log:

Hi guys! In order to celebrate MilanGamesWeek 2017, coming next week, we are releasing a new update! MGW2017 is the third biggest gaming event in Europe and this year there will be more than 50 cool Italian indie games, it's great for us to be there for the second time!
Check here for more: http://www.milangamesweek.it/indie This update focuses on increasing the overall experience in Downward, many others will follow. Among other things, we are very interested in all kind of suggestion from new players, and wed also like to thank everybody who has supported Downward since we went first time into Early Access on Steam last winter. So YES Downward final version is out and we are going to continue to improve it, since we love our game and our community<3 Log:

Hi guys, We are back!
Showing Downward at Gamescom among so many good games was an amazing experience, it has filled us with joy to see how many players came to visit us there from all europe, thanks to all of you guys! We have collected a lot of feedback, and now that we are back, we are more than ready to work hard to make the Downward Experience even better! With the new data obtained we are working on a new update that will focus mainly on increasing fps everywhere, especially in critical areas (Currently the linux version has better FPS performance), and in solving the very few graphic glitches left. We will also do our best to try to find the time to insert new playable content in the next update (as usual). Thanks to everyone for supporting downward, which is becoming more and more a great reality, especially to the guys who came to find us at Gamescom. Please continue to give us all the feedback you can, we are always listening and ready to consider any kind of tips! Do not forget to follow us on our social for more information and trivia about Downward! Cheers, Game Director

Hi guys, We are back!
Showing Downward at Gamescom among so many good games was an amazing experience, it has filled us with joy to see how many players came to visit us there from all europe, thanks to all of you guys! We have collected a lot of feedback, and now that we are back, we are more than ready to work hard to make the Downward Experience even better! With the new data obtained we are working on a new update that will focus mainly on increasing fps everywhere, especially in critical areas (Currently the linux version has better FPS performance), and in solving the very few graphic glitches left. We will also do our best to try to find the time to insert new playable content in the next update (as usual). Thanks to everyone for supporting downward, which is becoming more and more a great reality, especially to the guys who came to find us at Gamescom. Please continue to give us all the feedback you can, we are always listening and ready to consider any kind of tips! Do not forget to follow us on our social for more information and trivia about Downward! Cheers, Game Director

Hi guys, Gamescom is around the corner, and we will waiting for you there!
It's great to be part of the worlds second largest gaming event (behind the Asia Game Show), with more than 345,000 visitors, 6,000 journalists, 877 companies and 700 exhibitors from 88 countries attending. We look forward to meet again the DW european community in this gorgeous event, come to find us at Hall 10.1 Aisle B No. 028 inside the IndieGala area. We will be there for you! To talk, exchange tips and trivia or just have a chat together!

Hi guys, Gamescom is around the corner, and we will waiting for you there!
It's great to be part of the world’s second largest gaming event (behind the Asia Game Show), with more than 345,000 visitors, 6,000 journalists, 877 companies and 700 exhibitors from 88 countries attending. We look forward to meet again the DW european community in this gorgeous event, come to find us at Hall 10.1 Aisle B No. 028 inside the IndieGala area. We will be there for you! To talk, exchange tips and trivia or just have a chat together!

Hi guys, we are working hard for the next update, in the meantime we want to share with you the awesome feedback from the major game-press sites (of our country) that reviewed Downward. We are very happy with the result, being a small team at our first title! IGN 8.0 http://it.ign.com/downward-pc/128363/review/la-recensione-di-downward Eurogamer 8.0 http://www.eurogamer.it/articles/2017-07-20-downward-recensione GamesVillage 8.6 http://www.gamesvillage.it/videogiochi/in-evidenza/6752107/downward-recensione/ TheGamesMachine 8.2 https://www.thegamesmachine.it/downward-pc-2/downward-recensione-pc/ Everyeye 7.4 http://www.everyeye.it/articoli/recensione-downward-34291.html SpazioGames 7 https://www.spaziogames.it/recensioni_videogiochi/console_pc/21154/downward These has been two crazy years of development, and know that Downward is so appreciated it's great! We are working with you to make an even better experience, please continue to support us and to give us feedback!

Hi guys! It's been a long road, but we are proud of what we accomplished! We want to share with you this from Epic Games "Downward Raises Expectations for Small Teams" that goes a little into what has been the development of Downward, from concept to realization. We are happy that they recognized our efforts in this way, thanks Daniel Kayser for the great article! https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/showcase/downward-raises-expectations-for-small-teams

Hi all! A new update has been released and is available to download. We are glad to announce that the Linux/Steam OS full-release version is now live! Now both Windows and Linux builds are updated to v1.02! This update also comes with another challenge by Vigamus Academy students, cheers to Peter Bagaglia, Alessio Cefola and Franco Mari creators of the "Distant Light" challenge. Best, Caracal Team

Changelog v1.02

• Added a new challenge!
• Added a reward Skypieces at the end of Lava Lake path in Deep Crater area.
• Debug view mode (F5) has been disabled.
• Fixed a bug with the different Planets lighting setups in CrossRoads and Sanctuary areas.
• Fixed a bug with Key Binding system Mouse Buttons Detection.
• Fixed a bug with Slingshot anomaly, is no longer possible to grapple while swimming.
• Fixed a bug with Research Room enemies discovery saving system.
• Fixed the ziplines in Sanctuary area.
• Fixed the collectible counters for Deep Crater area.
• Fixed the collectible counters for Winter Sea area.
• Improvements to the Challenge timer:
  • Timer speed has been increased
  • Timer visibility has been improved by adding a black background.
• Improvements to Challenges-related Achievements system:
  • Fixed some challenges where Achievements were disabled.
  • Fixed a small bug with Medals Achievements unlocking if the challenge was accessed by the main menu.
• Dry Artifacts visibility on the navigation compass has been increased.
  
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Hi all! A new update has been released and is available to download! We are glad to inform all curious out there that the Demo has been updated to match the actual version of the game. We also introduced the Demo for Linux/Steam OS users! Linux version is on his way! Best, Caracal Team

Changelog v1.01

• Added new Challenge!
• Fixed the Passage of Submerged Lane in Sanctuary area.
• Fixed the Beta Planet damage for story dialogues.
• Fixed Fast Travel to Sanctuary area.
• Fixed collectibles counters for Sanctuary area.
• Fixed epic quest-skip in The Palace in Sanctuary area.
• Removed the custom widget cursor as it may cause input lag.
• Minor bug fixes

Hi Guys! Finally, here we are! The Downward 1.0 version has been released and we are out from Early Access! We are very proud of ourselves and, above all, we are proud of the Downward community that helped us so much in these six monts, allowing us to come out from EA (which not very common these days): thank you all!

Version 1.0

Support

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Today's challenge is another creation from Vigamus Academy students, a big round of applause for a great job to Matteo Franco, Alessia Giammarino and Gioele Casazza creators of the "Up & Down" challenge. We are focusing all our efforts on Downward’s full release, scheduled for next week July 13th. Just a few more days before you will be able to discover new awesome contents! Best, Caracal Team

Changelog v0.80c

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Added a sound effect for placing relics.
• Fixed a bug with ocean swimming system in Deep Crater area.
• Fixed a bug with planets activation and skylight intensity for CrossRoads area.
• Minor fixes to the Merchant's menu.
• Minor fixes to the Research Room's menu.

Hi guys, How’s everyone’s summer going? Did you find some good deals in the Summer Sales? :) Here we are working frantically towards the full release, now less than two weeks from us (July 13)! We thought this was a good moment for a big announcement: the Full Release will introduce the game Three Endings! Will you save the world? Or leave it to its own demise? Or… well, that’s a secret! Hints: 1. Look around [this was easy] 2. Don’t be shy, socialize with NPCs [easier said than done] 3. Drink milk: calcium is good for your BONES [what?] 4. Go around touching stuff you don’t know how it works, that will surely help you, right? [right…] Have a nice week!

Hi, all! After intensive investigations, and thanks to the advice of Epic Games, we have been able to address the driver-related issue that some Nvidia users were experiencing. A new build with this hotfix has been just released and is available to download! We tested the new build with latest Nvidia drivers 384.76 and no issue has been found. Now we look forward to the Full Release which is approaching! Best, Caracal Games

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Today's challenge is another creation from Vigamus Academy students, a big round of applause for a great job to Enrico Consiglio and Alessio Di Pietro creators of the "Illusion" challenge. About the Nvidia drivers issue: drivers 384.76 released yesterday, unfortunately, are still broken. We reached out to Epic Games which is currently helping us working on a workaround for this problem. Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.80b

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Added an in-game Tip explaining the feature of activable crystals once one is activated.
• Added Skypieces rewards for deactivating Laser Turrets.
• Improvements to the in-game Tips system:
  • Fixed a bug that caused Tips to overlap each other.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a wrong Tip duration on-screen.
  • "Game Saved" Tip will not be displayed if another Tip is already on-screen.
• Improvements to both Main Menu and Pause Menu navigation:
  • Added backward navigation by pressing the "Escape" button.
  • Improved backward navigation by pressing the "B" controller button.
  • Minor fixes to menu navigation sound effects.
• Fixed a bug with Slingshot anomaly hooking sound effect.

Hi guys, Caracal team is glad to announce that Downward will officially enter Full Release on the 13th of July!! It’s been a long road together, and thanks to everyone’s feedback we had the chance to improve the quality of the game many times over. [By all means, continue to send us feedback if you have any!] With the full release, we will deliver the final part of the story, together with unlocking the last planet and the new areas to explore. Even after the full release, we will continue to support Downward with hotfix and improvements! As that will mean the end of the Early Access, the current price of the game will be increased to match the level of contents present in the game at that point. As we are currently in the midst of the Summer sale, we advise all people curious to take advantage of the sales! For all Linux users: the Linux full version of the game will be delivered shortly after the 13th of July, thanks for your patience.

Hi guys, if someone is experiencing crashes at the beginning of the game: don't panic! Your PC is ok and the game too;) After hard working we found that the problem is drivers-related, you can fix this easily installing this drivers version: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/118514 Here is deep explanation of this: http://steamcommunity.com/app/506900/discussions/0/1368380934238964647/ Downward is not the only game victim of this, fortunately this is a relative fast workaround to enjoy Downward at best. For this and any other matters we are here, eager to help you! Have a nice week-end

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Today's challenge is another creation from Vigamus Academy students, a big round of applause for a great job to Antonio Giorgione, Mattia Bettini and Alberto Zorzetto creators of the "Stargate" challenge. One last thing! For all our long-time players, we strongly recommend to erase this folder: SteamsteamappscommonDownwardEngineSaved By doing this you will erase some engine-related save files that occasionally conflict with the newer versions of the game! Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.80a

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Added a new checkpoint Bell in Crossroads area, near The Shrine.
• Reduced the play percentage of Wanderer' dialogues when collecting items.
• Improvements to all Fast Travel button icons.
• Fixed the outline effect for the planet control machine which now is always visible.
• Fixed the target system for Drones in Beta Planet area of Winter Sea area.
• Fixed lasers visibility for Challenges and Meditation mode
• Fixed Deep Crater Fast Travel menu button icon.
• Fixed a bug in Winter Sea area related to checkpoint Bells interaction with nearby enemies.
• Fixed an invisible collision in CrossRoads area.

Check out this Downward Speedrun: this is the actual main quest's world record for this version, Psp4804 is a long time MEC speedrunner and an experienced player of Downward, he also kindly collaborated with us during these crazy months, giving us a lot of feedback from a professional speedrunner's point of view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQ0DjdlrSY This is an early access any% speedrun. In this version, v0.80, the game only includes gameplay up to the placing of the second relic. This is that any% run. In the final game, this run would be longer.

Hi, all! The new update has been released and is available to download! This week we have been totally focused on the recent feedback we received from the community. Among the other features, we added a new system which displays the current zone name, collectibles are easier to spot in the distance and we worked on the navigation compass and now the exploration and free roaming should be more satisfying and engaging than ever. With this update, we also moved to v0.80! Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.80

• Added a new notification system which shows the current zone name!
• Added a glowing particle effect to all collectibles, spotting an item in the distance should now be easier.
• Added a particle effect to the teleporting platforms.
• Added useful in-game Tips to help the player during his exploration.
• Double Jump anomalies should now be easier to see in the distance.
• Several adjustments and improvements to the parkour sections across all areas.
• Several adjustments and improvements to indoor and outdoor lighting across all areas.
• Revamped the Dry Artifacts amount needed indicator when interacting with Light Gates.
• Fixed a bug with fighting soundtrack not correctly fading in.
• Fixed a bug with Drones, is now possible to deactivate a drone during the self-destruction countdown, preventing it to explode.
• Fixed a bug with Drones' trail not deactivating correctly.
• Fixed a bug with endless fires and smokes particles in Deep Crater area.
• Fixed a bug with Lantern's light duration bar which permanently remained on the screen.
• Fixed a fast climb glitch in introduction dream level.
• Fixed Planets control machines' laser color, it will change based on the currently activated planet influence.
• Fixed shortcut Manholes in Deep Crater area.
• Fixed freeze damage amount in Winter Sea area.
• Fixed several incorrect wall materials in Winter Sea area.
• Fixed aiming issues for Golem's Cores
• Fixed aiming issues for Collectibles
• Fixed aiming issues for Bells
• Fixed aiming issues for Lanterns.
• Fixed the Skull's bones collectible icon color.
• Fixed the camera management to Merchant's Liar construction mode.
• Minor fixes to Merchant's Lair construction mode interface.
• Minor fixes to Upgrade Menu interface.
• Minor fixes to the Main Quest.
• Minor fixes to item inspection interface.
• Minor fixes to level streaming across all areas.
• Minor fixes to enemies in Deep Crater area.
• Minor fixes to dialogues' subtitles.
• Minor fixes to lava damage in Deep Crater area.
• Removed the small underground section in Winter Sea area.
• Merchant's Lair construction mode is now automatically open after closing the corresponding tutorial.
• Old Man's Chest is now automatically open after closing the corresponding tutorial.

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Today's challenge is another creation from Vigamus Academy students, a big round of applause for a great job to Daniele Alemanno and Luca Di Carlo, creators of this "Crystal Tower" challenge. Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.79a

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Dash skill is now unlocked just after the Wanderer's awakening.
• Fixed a bug with Manholes' loading system in Winter Sea area.
• Fixed a savegame related issue with Winter Sea loading system.
• Fixed a bug with the wall-run maneuver, multiple wall-runs on the same side is now possible.
• Fixed and improved sliding slopes system.
• Fixed objects' interaction system, now aiming for objects should be easier with both mouse and keyboard.
• Fixed Fast Climb support for the jumping pillars in the challenges.

Hi all, during the last week, we received reports about crashing issues so, after focusing our effort investigating, we found that the origin of the issue is related to the latest NVIDIA drivers (382.33) which go in conflicts with the engine. Here the link to download the second-last and not-broken NVIDIA drivers (382.05) which don't have compatibility issues with the engine. http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/118514 We will continue to keep an eye on this issue which seems to be very common among Unreal Engine 4 games. Best, Caracal Games

Hi all! The new update has been released and is available to download, explore the new area which unlocks the Beta planet in Winter Sea area! With this update we also moved to v0.79

Changelog v0.79

• Added Beta Planet area in Winter Sea area!
• Several adjustments and improvements to the tutorial section:
  • Improvements to various parkour sections.
  • Adjustments to various in-game Tips.
  • Anomalies-related dialogues in dream level have been removed as they could confuse the player.
  • Fountain-related cinematic has been removed as it could confuse the player.
  • Video tutorial for Crouch has been removed and replaced with an in-game Tip.
  • Removed the "looking around" animation during the Skypiece-related dialogue.
  • Dash cannot be used until the fight with the first golem.
• Fixed a bug affecting the Main Quest when placing Relics on their corresponding pedestals.
• Fixed a bug affecting Main Menu "Challenges" button, which didn't appear under certain conditions.
• Fixed items' collection system, now aiming for collectibles should be easier with both mouse and keyboard.
• Fixed automatic checkpoints system inside dream introduction level.
• Fixed save system for big-reward Skypieces.
• Fixed the materials for ManHoles.

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Today's challenge is another creation from Vigamus Academy students, a big round of applause for a great job to Stefano Martinelli and Salvatore Guida, creators of this "Glideshot" challenge. Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.78

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Default FOV value has been changed from 90 to 100.
• Added a game option to enable/disable tutorials. Tutorials selection at the beginning of the game has been removed.
• Added healing Fountains in Crossroads's labyrinth.
• Fixed some Light Gates that shouldn't be unlockable.
• Fixed Shrine basement Manhole's location in Crossroads area.
• Fixed upgrade starting skills Skypieces cost.
• Fixed the Tortoise hips collisions which caused camera clipping.
• Fixed the Skull Bone attachment to Tortoise's shell.
• Minor fixing to parkour related collisions in CrossRoads area.
• Minor fixing to parkour related collisions in Winter Sea area.

That's how high skill play in Downward looks like, great stuff from Sebucragus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXceZRaBztY

Hi, all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Today's challenge is special, as it is the first created by the awesome students of Vigamus Academy in Rome! A big thank you to all Vigamus organization, to their students and to Walter Vitaletti, the creator of the "Sliding Vortex" challenge! Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.77

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Added a sound effect when interacting with the Mark Switch crystal.
• Fixed the outline indicator for the Mark Switch crystal.
• Fixed a savegame related bug that made the new Lore Items unsaleable to the Old Man.
• Fixed a savegame related bug that allowed to collect more bones than are available in the game.
• Fixed Main Quest waypoint visibility when inspecting Artifacts and Relics.
• Fixed Collectibles counters for CrossRoads area.
• Fixed Collectibles counters for Merchant's Lair area.
• Fixed Collectibles counters for DeepCrater area.
• Fixed cliff walls' collisions in CrossRoads area.
• Fixed climbable wooden planks in CrossRoads area.
• Fixed the unpickable Dry Artifact in CrossRoads labyrinth.
• Fixed a bug that caused forced crouch state in CrossRoads labyrinth.
• Fixed the Bone Golem in CrossRoads' labyrinth which dropped multiple artifacts.
• Fixed the dust particle of Bone Golems.
• Fixed the bugged Manhole exit of Winter Sea area.
• Fixed a bug with skill tree-related Achievements when inside Merchant's Lair.
• Fixed a bug with swimmable water in Merchant's Lair area.
• Fixed Wanderer's hair shadow.

Hi all! The new update has been released and is available to download, explore the new area which unlocks the Beta planet in Crossroads area! With this update we also moved to v0.76

Changelog v0.76

Hi all! These months together have been really awesome, thank you all for your support! Having such a great community is really important to us, and it was crucial to get to the point where we are now: as a very small team, it means a lot for us to be able to shape such a well-received and acclaimed product. We are excited and we look forward to the upcoming full release: we can't wait to see your reactions to the story epilogue and to the final lore elements! Just so you know, our commitment to give players the best experience possible will continue even after the full release. Anyway, tomorrow we are going to release a new (modest) playable area which unlocks the Beta planet in Crossroads area. So, no Challenge for this time around, but don't worry! We have a little surprise in the works for next week! Best, Caracal Team

https://youtu.be/cA7FhkGrark Hi all, Thanks to all of you following the update and to all the new players, your feedback and support is what allows Downward to grow stronger and stronger! With yesterday’s update our Italian community had a big surprise: not only we introduced full Italian support, but we asked to the youtuber "ThePruld" - very famous also out of Italy - to collaborate with us, achieving fantastic results! As Italians ourselves, we wanted to make something special for this occasion and what came out is incredibly satisfying. In a few hours we will upload a new build with the first hotfix. Best, Caracal Games

Hi! A new, big update for Downward is now available! With this update the adventure continues bringing you to the Deep Crater, a whole new area to explore where you will find a:

• New anomaly to master, able to bend reality itself;
• New planet to control, giving you the power to control heat;
• New NPC;
• New enemy to face;

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Also, look forward to next week: we are going to release the new big update with a whole new area, enemies, anomalies and more!

Changelog v0.53a

• Added Weekly Challenge!
• Fixed a small bug with the slingshot anomaly's activation and sound effect.
• Fixed the character's movement glitch happening in a small section of CrossRoads tutorial area.
• Fixed the activation area of various golems.
• Reduced the play percentage chance of various wanderer actions' sound effects.
• Reduced pitch and volume of the skypieces' sound effect.
  
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Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! This week's update is a bit different from usual as we spent some time improving all the current 20 challenges, also now they have different visual impacts based on their category! With this update, we also moved to v0.53. Best, Caracal Games

Changelog v0.53

• New visual improvements to all Challenges!
• Added the proper sound effect when trying to interact with:
  • Locked manholes.
  • Upgrade statues and meditation monoliths when enemies are nearby.
• Revision and corrections of several game texts.
• Fixed a bug with the continue button some players were experiencing.
• Fixed a bug that caused the character to remain in crouch state.
• Fixed a bug with loading screen videos not looping.
• Fixed a bug with a game TIP of Crossroads area that remained stuck onscreen.
• Fixed a bug with Winter Sea planets’ control machines.
• Fixed a small bug with Relic pedestals' materials.
• New loading screen for Crossroads area.
• New loading screen for Winter Sea area.
• New loading screen when playing challenges.
• Minor optimization to several interfaces and menus.
  
  [ 2017-04-21 16:21:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all! We are currently focusing our efforts on making whole new content, here's the weekly challenge update released and available to download!

Changelog 0.52b

• Added Weekly Challenge.
• Added video option to adjust velocity Radial Blur post-processing effect.
• Fixed a bug with subtitles when talking to the Old Man.
• Fixed the description of Fast Travel tutorial.
• Fixed several cliff walls' behavior which is now set to un-walkable.
• Improved activable Crystals collisions which are now easier to interact with.
• Improved Planets' control machines collisions which are now easier to interact with.
• Minor optimization to several interfaces and menus.
  
  [ 2017-04-14 14:12:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download!

v0.52a Changelog

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! With this update, we also moved to v0.52!

v0.52 Changelog

Hi! We are happy to release the new Linux build which has been updated to version 0.51a! The build has been tested on Ubuntu 16.10 and Mint 18.1, no critical issue was found. To all Linux users, please report any problem you experience with the game! Thanks, Caracal Team

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download. We are currently working on the new Linux/Steam OS build. There are a lot of new contents to test for this Linux version, but we will release it as soon as it will be ready! Best, Caracal Team

Hi! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download. It required us some hard work, but as previously mentioned we also switched to the newest Unreal Engine version! Now the majority of known game crashes should be solved. We put all our effort to obtain a more stable version. Nevertheless, there may still be bugs and issues caused by this transition. If you encounter any such issues, please report it in the community hub or send an email to support@caracalgames.com.

v0.51 Changelog

Hi! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! We are currently focusing on switching Unreal Engine version, which should solve the majority of known game crashes some players are experiencing. Switching engine version is a tricky operation and must be done cautiously. As soon as we reach a stable version we will release it and we will start again with the constant fixes and adjustments (probably next week!). As always, thanks for your support! Best, Caracal Team

Hi! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download!

v0.50a Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Slightly improved level menu appearance.
• Fixed the Skypieces infinite glitch possible by interacting with the Merchant's Menu and by opening the Merchant's Chest briefly after.
• Fixed the Merchant's Lair rooms loading bug when exiting from meditation mode.
• Fixed Winter Sea manholes that didn't work correctly.
• Fixed a small bug with skills icons in the upgrade menu.
• Fixed a bug with dialogues interruption due to player's death.
• Several adjustments and corrections to texts and subtitles.

Hi! With this update to v. 0.5 we introduce a lot of new features! First, as we received many requests for it, we made a free demo available to anyone! To all of you who were just a bit curious, come give it a try! Then we added a new, customizable area to the game! You will now be able to access the Merchant’s Lair, an underground secret cove where you can study your enemies, prepare to explore, train and also… lay around! The place can be customized to satisfy your needs using Skypieces to furnish rooms or buy upgrades and gadgets. Next, a big innovation for challenge-seeking players! With this update, we introduce a global leaderboard system for time challenges! We already know that some among you achieve very good times in the challenges… but are you ready to challenge the entire community? Additionally, this update introduces the new voice acting. We gathered a lot of feedback to make the whole story feel more natural and interesting. We tried to let the main character’s personality come out more. We hope you’ll like it! Lastly, we introduced Trading Cards and Steam Achievements. Try to collect them all! Best, Caracal Team

Hi! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! Update v0.49a introduces some minor adjustments to the main quest in preparation for the big update scheduled for next week. For this reason, in some rare situations when loading the game you could have troubles with the current objective of the main quest, which could make it necessary to re-complete the last goal or in some cases to start a new game.

v0.49a Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Improved performances across all areas and based on our tests FPS should increase around 5 units on the average pc configuration.
• New alternative path added in the tutorial area, now planets’ control machines can be used to progress.
• New floating islands added in the tutorial area to give room for more creativity in the initial parkour steps.
• Night's global illumination has been improved.
• Introduced secondary objectives in the main quest which allow you to skip some not story-related parts.
• First dialogue in Winter Sea now takes place the first time you enter the area, independently from the main quest's progress.
• In anticipation of the big update of next week, the game’s economy has been partially redefined which affects, in particular, some rewards obtained from Enemies and Lore items.
• Fast Climb maneuver's camera rotation has been improved.
• Added some physics-enabled objects which respond to player interaction (new mechanic - to be expanded in the future).
• Fixed a bug with anomalies’ colors not changing when tutorials were disabled.
• The condition necessary to switch planets’ control machines on and off is now easier to grasp.
• Revised some of the texts and descriptions in some tutorials and in the main quest.

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! With this update we also moved to v0.49!

v0.49 Changelog

Parkour

• Slightly increased the speed of the wall-climb maneuver’s animation.
• Slightly improved the fast-climb maneuver’s animation.
• Parkour mosaics’ colors are now more vivid and visible.

Areas

• Lighting optimization focused on increasing fps in certain areas.
• Level Streaming optimization designed to slightly increase overall performances.
• Increased activatable Mechanisms in Crossroads’ area.
• Added flags and drapes across all areas.
• Reorganized the location of certain enemies in Winter Sea area to make exploration more satisfying.

Anomalies

• Fixed a bug that activated the Slingshot’s “pulling effect” out of place when interacting with other objects.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Focus to automatically stop when pressing the anomaly button when no anomaly was aimed at.

Enemies

• Fixed the golem's water footsteps sound effect.
• Now, only the first golem fight triggers the voice's fight dialogue.
• Golem's fight soundtrack system has been improved with a more complex pattern. Now the soundtrack is composed of: intro, central part and outro.

Tutorials

• All tutorials are now hidden if the relative option is disabled.
• Added tutorial for Navigation Compass and Main Objective.

Collectibles

• Anomaly Artifacts can now be inspected.
• Fixed a bug with the Skypieces’ reward count obtained by killing drones or completing sub-quests.

Challenges

• Added weekly challenge!

Other

• Fixed the death bug occurring when taking deadly damage during a dash maneuver.
• Slightly reduced the high-speed motion blur effect.

Hi! With this week's update climbing has been extended to all ledges in the game! As requested by the community, this new approach gives even more room to creativity in the parkour, making also the whole system more forgiving. Like every week we are releasing a new challenge, and we also moved to version 0.48!

v0.48 Changelog

Parkour

• Extended parkour climb to all ledges.
• Fixed a bug with "vertical wall run" maneuver animation.
• Minor parkour bug fixes.

Areas

• Reorganized specific areas in all maps to make gameplay experience more intuitive and fun.
• Improved DOF effect in specific areas.
• Improved post-processing effects in closed areas.
• Improved lighting in several areas of the world.
• Revised all vegetation materials, which now react better to light sources and have a more realistic feeling to them.
• Streaming level system has been polished in Winter Sea and Crossroads areas.
• Cactus have been re-texturized.

Anomalies

• Double Jump:
  • Active color has been changed from light blue to a more noticeable one.
  • Added a sound effect when using a Double Jump anomaly.
• Slingshot:
  • Anomaly color activation is now based on distance. When near enough, the color of the slingshot anomaly will change from red to blue, indicating that it is in range for being targeted and hooked.
  • Now there are only two color states: red for not active/not in range and blue for active/in range.
  • Pressing the Focus button is no longer necessary in order to target and hook a slingshot anomaly.
  • As soon as a slingshot anomaly is aimed at, a projectile trail will be spawned.
  • Added a sound effect when a slingshot anomaly is hooked.
  • Added a cable component effect when a slingshot anomaly is hooked.
  • Fixed a bug with anomaly pulling stoppage due to solid objects, now any kind of movement will stop immediately.

Enemies

• Golems:
  • New fight soundtrack from our awesome Composer!
  • Added three new fight patterns in golem's behaviour, all of which include the new attack type "spikes blast". This new attack comes in two variants:
    • Version one: faster attack with smaller AoE.
    • Version two: slower attack with larger AoE.
  • Now certain golems have multiple cores that power them.
• Drones:
  • Fixed drones' draw distance.

Collectibles

• Mechanisms' levers have been visually overhauled with a new kind of interaction and animation.
• Mechanisms' gears have been enlarged and accurately placed to better fit with the environment.

Interactables

• Most interactables (doors, buttons, levers, anomalies, collectibles) have now a bluish shade/color and are easier to spot.
• Added a new particle on fountains and upgrade statues to make them more visible.

Main Quest

• Planets' control machines are now unlocked when reaching "The Shrine".

Challenges

• Added weekly challenge!
• Minor parkour bug fixes in the other challenges.

Other

• Fixed gears physics-simulation glitches that appeared when walking on them.

Hi! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download!

v0.47b Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Wall-climb maneuver improved: [olist]
• Better "idle" to "vertical wall-run" transition.
• Better "falling" to "vertical wall-run" transition.
• Better "vertical wall-run" to "hanging" transition.
• Better "left/right running jump" to "hanging" transition. [/olist]
• Added a new automatic fast-climb maneuver for low obstacles.
• Fixed backward left and right running animations.
• Fixed backward left and right walking animations.
• Fixed a bug that caused a blind spot in the golem's attack behavior.
• Fixed a bug with the challenges’ save system.
• Slightly modified the item inspection system. Inspection mode has been removed and now the item can be rotated and inspected directly.
• Winter Sea's bushes of thorns will no longer cause any damage on touch.

Hi all! New content and features are in the making, such as new areas, online leaderboards and achievements! In the meantime, we'll keep releasing constant updates: here comes the weekly challenge!

v0.47a Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Fixed wall-climb teleporting glitch which started to occur with v0.47.
• Fixed random inputs losses when interacting with the planets' control machine.
• Fixed a bug with the challenge restart loading screen.
• Fixed a bug with the gliding slopes sound effect.
• Fixed a bug with consecutive wall-run maneuvers.
• Fixed a bug with the slingshot. Now, while being pulled by a slingshot anomaly, hitting any solid object will stop the pulling effect.
• During Mark's teleporting state is no longer possible to take any damage.

Hi all! The weekly challenge update has been released and is available to download! With this update we also moved to v0.47!

v0.47 Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Added a new experimental video option to disable "Dynamic Indirect Lighting". Within areas that uses it, disabling this option should highly increase performances on most pc configurations.
• Added challenges' titles and descriptions.
• Added a 180° Quick Turn movement. Default Button for keyboard is X, default button for gamepad is RB.
• Modified navigation in the options menu, now it is necessary to click on the corresponding button to open the desired option tab.
• Modified challenges skypieces rewards.
• Character's air control has been increased.
• Wallrun left and right camera movement has been increased to 60° in each direction.
• Fixed a bug with "jump in place" animations that caused player camera clipping with roofs.
• Fixed footsteps sound for metal surfaces.
• Fixed a bug with Merchant confirm menu button.
• Fixed a bug with Fast Travel confirm menu button.
• Fixed a bug with Fast Travel loading screen.
• Now anomalies have a new "inactive" color state, this to make more understandable when anomalies cannot be used because the corresponding artifact has not yet been taken.
• For speedrunning purposes, now the Golem within tutorial area can be defeated even while it is assembling if done with a sufficiently fast movement.

Hi all! Following our schedule we are currently focusing on creating new content, but here's the weekly challenge update released and available to download!

v0.46b Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Fixed camera clipping with Protagonist's scarf.
• Fixed the collectibles' counters inside Fast Travel Menu.
• Wall Jumps' camera shaking has been increased to give a better feeling of the momentum gained.
• Removed Double Jump anomalies inside tutorial turrets area as they may confuse the player.
• Removed the "falling in water" dubbing.
• Minor general bug fixes.

Hi! As previously announced during the last two weeks we worked on Linux + SteamOS support. Today we are excited to expand the game to this platform. The build has been tested on Ubuntu 16.10 and no critical issue was found. To all Linux users, please report any problem you experience with the game! Thanks, Caracal Games

Hello! We've just released the weekly challenge update which is available to download.

v0.46a Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Various fixes to key bindings and gamepad remapping: [olist]
• Added the keyboard action key for "Show Objective/Skip Dialogue".
• Fixed a bug when using analog sticks during gamepad remapping.
• Fixed a bug with the keyboard action key for "Jump/Parkour".
• Fixed a bug with the gamepad action key for "Jump/Parkour/UseAnomaly".
• Fixed a bug with the gamepad action key for "Dash".
• .Fixed both gamepad and keyboard action key for "Restart Challenge" which wasn't rebindable even from config file. [/olist]
• Now all Challenges' rewards are reset when a New Game is started. The leaderboard of best personal times instead is never reset.
• Fixed a bug with health bar which didn't appear on screen when taking freeze damage.
• Fixed the teleporting glitch that occured when dropping off ziplines using the slingshot anomaly.

Hello! We've just released the weekly challenge update which is available to download. Starting from now you can expect a new challenge every friday!

v0.45a Changelog

• Added weekly challenge!
• Fixed some "Bells" that caused a looped loading screen
• Fixed the "Fountain" bug that granted infinite "Focus"
• Fixed the "Fast Climb" teleport glitch
• Fixed some walls’ collisions
• The "Focus" camera effect is now scaled based on the user’s selected FOV value
• Minor adjustments and fixes to the main quest
• It is no longer possible to interact with "Passage" doors while in air

Hello! We've just released a new update.

v0.46 Changelog

• Added gamepad remapping support.
• Added camera rotation while wall running to make it more understandable.
• Added a new game option to enable/disable camera retargeting during wall jumps.
• Fixed a bug inside the main menu where the "Continue" button remains on screen even if no savegame is available.
• Fixed a bug with the "Healing Charge" that refilled health above the current max value.
• Fixed "Fountain" refill: [olist]
• All "Focus" refill bugs should now be fixed.
• Both health and "Focus" Fountain refill are no longer stopped by interacting with "Passage" doors.
• Both health and "Focus" Fountain refill are no longer stopped by using the "Mark". [/olist]
• Fixed the exit spawn location of "Passage" door near the first statue in tutorial area.
• Fixed the main quest objective right after jumping off the cliff.
• Removed the "Passage" door on top of the pit area of "Winter Sea" level which may confuse the player.
• Now the game should not activate any VR headset when launched.
• Moving left and right during arms' animation is now possible.
• It is no longer possible to interact with "Passage" doors while dying.
• Land in shallow water no longer prevents the player from taking falling damage.
• Minor adjustments to various subtitles and texts.
• Minor adjustments to challenges' gold rank times as some were too easy.

Hi all, Thanks for your support and all the feedback sent up to now! We spent the last hours working on some small fixes:

• Increased Mouse Sensitivity range to allow lower values
• Reduction of cactus damage
• Various camera clipping fixes

We are LIVE! It's been a long time building up to the moment where we felt we were comfortable to release an Early Access version of Downward. That day is today! While we welcome you into this new world, we'd like to call on you to remember that this is only an early access version of Downward. There is a lot more in store and we're counting on your feedback to help us deliver an amazing experience. You'll catch frequent updates from us here so stay tuned. Also don't hesitate to get in touch with us at @downwardgame and @IndieGala for quick chats on any- and everything! We'll be setting up private chat servers soon to connect with those of you who want to go the extra mile in terms of interaction with the team! Enjoy! We can't wait for you to join us in this experience!