Unhappy Cat Studios has celebrated the discharge of its cyberpunk-infused platformer Changed, lauding it a „robust debut success“ for the event staff regardless of the few „tough edges“.
Changed is the reasonably great wanting 2.5D „retro-futuristic“ sci-fi recreation, which is about in an alternate Eighties America that has been scarred by a nuclear disaster. It locations gamers into the footwear of Attain, an AI who turns into unexpectedly trapped inside a human’s physique.
Quickly after it was introduced, Changed grew to become one of the crucial anticipated video games on Steam. Nevertheless, again in 2022, the studio was pressured to delay Changed as a result of influence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Then, in 2023, it was delayed into 2024, then delayed once more into 2025, and as soon as extra into 2026. The sport lastly launched on Tuesday, and to this point has been usually nicely obtained by gamers. Writing on Changed’s official Discord server this afternoon, Unhappy Cat Studios mentioned:
„On behalf of everybody at Unhappy Cat Studios I wish to thank every one among you for taking part in the sport! Changed has turn out to be a robust debut success for us and it wouldn’t have been such with no devoted group just like the one we’ve got proper right here. You’re the actual GOATs.“
The studio took time to acknowledge that whereas it believes Changed’s launch to achieve success, there are nonetheless a number of „tough edges“ that have to be ironed out. For instance, some gamers have observed the digicam glitching „to the purpose of requiring handbook restarts in some elements“, together with different points like overlapping character animations and „the sequence for some interactions being triggered incorrectly, which glitches out cutscenes“. Unhappy Cat has mentioned will probably be posting a top quality of life patch roadmap to handle some considerations „later“, together with the promise of „some a lot anticipated options coming“.
I acquired to go hands-on with Changed earlier this 12 months, and loved my time in Attain’s world. „I actually assume Changed has the potential to be one thing particular. I totally anticipate I’ll want tissues by the tip of it, although, as a result of I’ve concept about the place issues are going and nicely, yeah, feelings. And whereas feelings alone do not all the time rely for a lot, it is the brutality and relevance of its dystopian setting that makes such a human coronary heart matter,“ I wrote in Eurogamer’s Changed preview.
