Hey! Stay a while and listen. One of the most important online #IndieDev events has started - Steam Next Fest is here! Lets do as we promised in the last issue of our Steam News. Theres a new demo of Scorchlands available to download! Go venture through Helia and help Giwis establish multiple colonies on the moons surface. Its an online festival, so theres much more to unveil. During the whole seven days of Next Fest, there will be multiple live streams from Scorchlands for you to watch. Whats more, Jakub from Ringlab will host a Q&A on Discord, so make sure you prepare a question for him. You can DM him on the game's Discord server or via Twitter (hes there as @ringglan). We hope you'll love the new demo as much as we do! Dont forget to share your feedback on Discord - become a part of our fantastic community. Dont make us beg, its fun. Of course we have some changelog for newest build! :

## [Steam Next Fest Demo Update] -- 2022-10-03

Changes: - Add an option to control the hero just like regular units while in combat. - Combat tutorial has been reworked. - Laser beams without connection now visually flash when player is about to place a laser and connect them. - Added an additional hint when player is constructing lasers. It shows which direction the laser is facing. - Colony upgrade sound volume has been slightly reduced. - Cursor graphics have been slightly improved. - Added 20 more random colony names. - Various minor UI tweaks - Game text has been tweaked in several places. Bugs: - Audio settings are now updating as they are changed. - Fix a rare bug where a player sometimes wouldn't be able to open pause menu by pressing escape button. Wishlist Scorchlands on Steam , follow Ringlan on Twitter and Star Drifters on Facebook and Twitter . https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090100/Scorchlands/ Now go check the demo!