Yep, you read that right. Keepsake County's Next Fest demo is going to be on Steam for one more week before it vanishes! We love that everyone got a chance to play the latest. If you'd like to get regular updates on development and continue playing demos before it arrives on Steam, you can grab the early, discounted version on Itch.io. (we will try to be dutiful in posting patch notes here too). Links:

• Keepsake County Alpha on itch
• Keepsake County Devlog
• Official Discord Server (feedback, bugs, etc)
• Our Steam page, with reviews and links
• Forward Instinct on Twitter

Thanks y'all!

[ 2022-06-20 15:46:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

[previewyoutube=fphxnhetHBM;full][/previewyoutube] Weve kept it under wraps (unless you were on the Patreon), but were putting out the Alpha for our latest title on itch.io. The Neighbors is a randomly-generated immersive sim about burglarizing hideous midwestern farmhouses in the middle of nowhere, as fast as you can, and then getting the heck out of dodge. Join the free Public Alpha now! The catch? You have 4 minutes to scout and rob a house you've never been inside of before. If you're caught, AI will call the police on you. Every round, the house takes on a new configuration, with different entrances, hallways, and loot. The Neighbors is currently in Public Alpha, with one playable area and one basic tutorial. So what's on the horizon? For now, the Alpha is free for the first group of players. As the game gets more popular, we'll start charging for access to the game. We'll be updating the game every 1-2 weeks with new fixes, features, artpass, and more. The best way to report bugs and give feedback on the game is through our Discord, at https://discord.gg/forwardinstinct. Happy house robbing!

[ 2022-03-22 15:26:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ever wanted to know more about the Making of Midnight Ultra? While you can find all of the concept art from the project by backing us, we've put together a 33-page artbook pdf for subscribers to our Email Newsletter! Here are a few preview pages, for those of you curious. This was a labor of love to put together, so we hope you enjoy it. You can quickly subscribe here, or on our website. Thanks! Here are some previews.

[ 2019-05-13 19:24:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Forward Instinct is proud to announce four new games coming in the next year or two! And to go along with that, we've joined Patreon to help fund our vision. If you're interested, there are a lot of great perks to go with it!

Upcoming Titles:

• BLOODLESS: Continuing the lineage of Midnight Ultra, remotely orbital drop and pilot your soldier drone into the gentrification wars. Explore the information landfills of the future of wealth inequality through the critical lens of your ironsights, raze cities in the name of the total GDP, and fix America's Junk Credit Rating one bullet at a time.
• THE NEIGHBORS: A thief has been burgling and terrorizing the town, but nobody knows who - work together with your fellow players to defend your homes by night and fortify them by day, while rooting out the thief.
• HIRAETH: A neon pseudo-cyberpunk game where you move to a new town on a space station as a curatorial intern. Meet people and document their lives by day, and paint the town with street art by night. A kaleidoscopic game about growing up, being a creative person and making art, and companionship - in a city that's nostalgic, soothing, relaxing, but full of mystery.
• THE WITCHING TIDE: Join up with your friends in the Florida Coastal Survey: Forgotten Coast Division, as you travel across the Florida Gulf coast trying to provide disaster relief and get to the bottom of the mystery behind the off-coast oil spill while surviving hurricanes, ghouls, witches, and cryptids. The true sequel to Midnight Ultra.

Tiers

Patron

$2 or more per month Opt in and get a special thanks in the credits of any of our new titles, as well as access to patron-only posts and a shiny title on our verified Discord server! You also get voting access and access to the Avatar Creator.

Knight

$5 or more per month Besides all the previous rewards, you'll also get access to our prototypes to help us with playtesting. You get a copy of Midnight Ultra with the Midnight Ultra Soundtrack, and to top it off, you also get keys to our smaller games like Bloodless and The Neighbors as they release.

Viscount

$10 or more per month You have flexed your financial muscles and for that, you are now a Viscount. Besides all previous rewards, you now also preorder all upcoming major titles like Hireath and The Witching Tide, and receive access to our Salt Mines archive of old prototypes and ideas.

Duke

$15 or more per month You have risen beyond a mere Viscount and have gained our undivided attention. You will have live support access to us, as well as access to handy tips and tricks on our games, and a merch store discount of 20%.

Creator

$30 or more per month Your hunger for knowledge has ascended beyond mere behind-the-scenes, so you now have access to all of our secrets. You gain access to hundreds of pieces of our exclusive sketchbook scans and concept art and design, and access to boatloads of asset files for models and sprites. You also gain access to design doc and pitch drafts!

Associate Producer

$50 or more per month Your loyalty has given you all the previous rewards tiers, and now we will sneak an NPC based on your design into our future games - lurking, somewhere in the background, watching, waiting to wander into walls and be pushed out of the way of the player. We'll also ask you to name stuff.

[ 2019-05-13 18:45:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all, The Forward Instinct web presence has been getting something of an overhaul, and we're now offering shirts! There'll be more cool merch soon, but for starters we've got a classic eye-searing magenta logo T. You can check out the store here: Forward Instinct Store

[ 2019-05-13 15:42:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

A hotfix for Midnight Ultra is out - should fix the lost saves users were reporting from last week's update. Email support@forwardinstinct.com or join us on Discord at: to report bugs, especially for Linux and Mac.

[ 2019-04-15 04:06:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updates to Midnight Ultra have been released:

• Added High Resolution mode, accessible from the Options>Themes menu
• Added No Filter mode, rendering the entire game in true colors
• Fixed healthpacks and ammoboxes rotating wildly
• Fixed certain melee enemies not dealing damage properly
• Fixed level transitions in The Devil's Path DLC sometimes not saving progress properly.
• Upgraded Midnight Ultra to use Unity 2018.3.2f1

While this has been requested for a while, we felt it was fitting to add upon request from players in our Discord. You can join the discussions and follow our updates here: Forward Instinct Verified Discord Server

[ 2019-04-07 22:21:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings all, The team here is gearing up to release a new project in the coming months, and we figure that we could be a lot better at being transparent with and updating the community. One of the first steps to doing that is creating a community discord where we can keep in close contact with players, get feedback, and post updates! So come join us: Forward Instinct Discord

[ 2018-10-30 00:43:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're very pleased today to inform you that Midnight Ultra's Soundtrack is out! We'll be adding it to Steam very soon, but in the meantime you can grab Red/Blue cassettes and digital copies on Lost Angles! Midnight Ultra on Lost Angles Get it now!

[ 2018-08-03 16:42:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Devil's Path Update is now live! Full patch notes included below: View the Trailer here! Journey to the Catskill mountains, home to a meteor impact crater and the Devil's Path. After the events of Midnight Ultra's main story, you've biked your way across the country to unravel the last secrets guarded here... This FREE update adds several sorely needed improvements, and a helping of new content!

• Mac and Linux support - since we are relatively new to this, please let us know ASAP if you encounter any problems here, via the forums or by emailing us directly at support@forwardinstinct.com
• Added New Ranged Weapon: Bolt Action Rifle - right click to zoom, this rifle does twice the damage of the Revolver!
• Added New Melee Weapon: Occult Spell - this familiar spell will allow you to lob occult magic at enemies from a distance, even when you're out of ammo! It doesn't hurt much though...
• Added New Campaign: Devil's Path - fight your way through three new levels, and a two-part boss battle.

• Added 6 new enemies and variants:
• Sniper: Fires a large, fast moving projectile from long distances, but doesn't fire often.
• Yeti: Charges at the player at high speed out of the haze!
• Shotgunner: A large, bulky man with a shotgun that fires 5 slow-moving, hazardous projectiles in a spread.
• Thunderbird: A large bird that patrols the map through the skies, harassing you as you jump between crevices and mountain peaks.
• ???: A weird, tentacled growth that spews energy balls at you - make some strange chirping noises...
• Eyeball: An enormous, very angry and very evil eye with a hazardous gaze.

• Added 10 New Themes - these are unlocked at start, so you can get to using them right away!
• Reworked audio and animation for all weapons, as well as new hit audio.
• Updated ammo consumption to accurately reflect ammo consumed by the player in the HUD - each shot consumes one ammo.
• Added gore effects to all enemies
• Added bullet tracer effects
• Added bullet holes and bullet impacts
• Updated player footstep audio
• Reworked melee attacks - all melee attacks are now longer and wider range, better timed with attack animations, incur slight knockback on enemies, and can even knock them off the map to their deaths. All melee attacks are now also higher damage.
• Fixed weapons firing a shot when unpausing the game
• Added mouse sensitivity options
• Added mouse X and Y axis inversion options
• Added custom crosshair size options
• Added audio mixing options for changing the volume of music, environment, player effects, and external sound effects.
• Updated the credits to include the option to watch either set of credits - for the main game, or the DLC.

[ 2018-04-25 09:46:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

New update coming Wednesday, April 25th, for you all! Details below: View the Trailer here! Journey to the Catskill mountains, home to a meteor impact crater and the Devil's Path. After the events of Midnight Ultra's main story, you've biked your way across the country to unravel the last secrets guarded here... This FREE update adds several sorely needed improvements, and a helping of new content!

• 2 new weapons
• 6 new enemies
• 3 new maps
• A brand-new, two-part boss battle
• 6 new songs
• 10+ new themes
• Reworked audio for all weapons
• Reworked melee attacks
• Mac and Linux support
• Mouse inversion, sensitivity, and audio options

[ 2018-04-24 10:30:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

For those of you that follow us closely (extremely closely, because we have a very tiny following), you'll know that we moved over to Medium to use as our dev blog. Since it's been relatively quiet here for the past few months, I thought it would be courteous to give a tiny update on how we're doing, and tease some new content. Here, we show off some of the new themes we'll be releasing. Enjoy! Themes to Come...

[ 2018-01-20 04:55:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

For those of you that follow us closely (extremely closely, because we have a very tiny following), you'll know that we moved over to Medium to use as our dev blog. Since it's been relatively quiet here for the past few months, I thought it would be courteous to give a tiny update on how we're doing, and tease some new content. Here, we show off some of the new themes we'll be releasing. Enjoy! Themes to Come...

[ 2018-01-20 04:55:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all, we wrote up a brief post detailing what's going on with the Midnight Ultra updates. You can check it out over at our blog: Forward Instinct Blog: The Year In Review, and Looking Forward

[ 2017-12-21 10:14:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey all, we wrote up a brief post detailing what's going on with the Midnight Ultra updates. You can check it out over at our blog: Forward Instinct Blog: The Year In Review, and Looking Forward

[ 2017-12-21 10:14:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

A new patch for Midnight Ultra has been released:

• Improved audible hitsounds for all guns
• Added flash effect when enemies are damaged - extra visual confirmation when an enemy is hit by any weapon
• Fixed some missing textures in 3-2

For any bugs, please email us at support@forwardinstinct.com

[ 2017-11-11 09:40:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

A new patch for Midnight Ultra has been released:

• Improved audible hitsounds for all guns
• Added flash effect when enemies are damaged - extra visual confirmation when an enemy is hit by any weapon
• Fixed some missing textures in 3-2

For any bugs, please email us at support@forwardinstinct.com

[ 2017-11-11 09:40:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

"Here’s an FPS with an interesting, albeit garish, retro sensibility. Set in the American Southwest, you play as a witch hunter tasked with decimating cultists. As you’ll see in the trailer, the game has a (switchable) colour palette which will either make or break your experience, but I think we can all agree that using a pentagram and crucifix as a reticule is insanely good and worth the price alone. This will take you around three hours to complete but it’s only three bucks so… the price is right?" (More here...)

[ 2017-11-08 03:08:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

"Heres an FPS with an interesting, albeit garish, retro sensibility. Set in the American Southwest, you play as a witch hunter tasked with decimating cultists. As youll see in the trailer, the game has a (switchable) colour palette which will either make or break your experience, but I think we can all agree that using a pentagram and crucifix as a reticule is insanely good and worth the price alone. This will take you around three hours to complete but its only three bucks so the price is right?" (More here...)

[ 2017-11-08 03:08:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

A new patch for Midnight Ultra has been released:

• Added colored outlines to all enemies to improve readability
• Added new ammo spawn to Level 2-1
• Fixed instance where gates would overlap with Witches
• Removed outdated texturing on geometry in Level 2-1
• Improved platforming section in Level 3-2
• Fixed instances where enemies used the incorrect character model in 2-2
• Added new health and ammo spawns to levels 3-1 and 3-2

For any bugs, please email us at support@forwardinstinct.com

[ 2017-11-07 09:30:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

A new patch for Midnight Ultra has been released:

• Added colored outlines to all enemies to improve readability
• Added new ammo spawn to Level 2-1
• Fixed instance where gates would overlap with Witches
• Removed outdated texturing on geometry in Level 2-1
• Improved platforming section in Level 3-2
• Fixed instances where enemies used the incorrect character model in 2-2
• Added new health and ammo spawns to levels 3-1 and 3-2

For any bugs, please email us at support@forwardinstinct.com

[ 2017-11-07 09:30:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey, Thanks for picking up and playing Midnight Ultra! We hope you've been enjoying it. That said, we've been getting some bug fix suggestions, and other suggestions for improvements from players. In the spirit of honesty and transparency, we've shared this list of fixes and coming features to the Steam Discussions for everyone to view, and we hope you take a look! http://steamcommunity.com/app/731590/discussions/0/1479857071266881915/ -The Forward Instinct Team

[ 2017-11-06 03:11:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/731590/Midnight_Ultra/ Long day of work, but we still squeaked in with some time to spare for the 31st! Grab Midnight Ultra and give it a spin, we're doing a 10% discount for the first week, bringing it down to $2.99 from $3.33! And Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeen! In other news, we will be continuing to support the game post release, so feel free to send us your bugs to support@forwardinstinct.com. And Linux and Mac are planned for release as well, no worries there. More to come in the next month or so! And thanks for checking us out, we hope you enjoy the game.

[ 2017-11-01 02:42:28 CET ] [ Original post ]