Drova - Forsaken Kin News

Dear travelers: DROVA's release is getting closer and closer!
We’re hard at work wrapping things up and making those final tweaks.

With launch right around the corner, we’re focusing on getting everything ready, which means some changes won’t be in the demo, and we can’t guarantee save game compatibility for now.
So, we’ve decided to take down the demo (for now). We're giving you a few more hours before we pull the plug, so you can finish your quests before 8pm CEST tonight!

In the meantime, we definitely don’t want you to miss out on any DROVA content while we gear up for launch! So, we’ve come up with something exciting and (a little bit) crazy…

[h3]We are live. On Twitch. Until DROVA is out.[/h3]
(Probably right now, if you're reading this before October 15th!) (And only if we feel well enough to continue this wild ride of a livestream, of course.)

So feel free to come over and say hi to us in our Twitch Live Stream (GER)! 💜

Greetings Travelers!

The druids whispered about a promised land called DROVA, a new horizon they claim to be paradise. But you will learn the truth in October: This world is anything but a Utopia. Drova is a grim world where every man is for himself.

After more than six years of development, DROVA finally has a release date carved in stone: October 15th. During Gamescom countless people played the game on PC and Nintendo Switch (No worries, the game is also coming to Xbox und PlayStation) and the feedback was amazing. Even developers from the original Gothic stepped by and gave us some praise - and that was quite impressive for us.

We will have a last Closed Beta Test going on before release to fix minor issues which might be left but besides that, we're good to go!

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Dear travelers from the otherworlds, it's this time of the year again!

Gamescom has arrived. And we're, once again, at the Indie Arena Booth, showcasing Drova. One. More. Time. Feel free to visit us in Hall 10.2 and say hello, we'll be there till Sunday. With bleeding feet and joy in our bones. And the best thing: We're not showcasing a demo. We brought the full experience with us. Playable on PC and Nintendo Switch. And we'll open up a savegame just for Gamescom. And if you want to continue what other players achieved, feel free to do so...

And if you can't make it, we've got something new for you as well. We have finally updated our Demo for the game, introducing tons of improvements, visual upgrades, fixes and finetuned features. The demo contains roughly the first two hours of the game and shows the vision we're aiming for. And even if you played the last one, you might still want to take a look - we hope that we were able to polish the experience even more.

Also we're making now use of the new Steam feature for the Demo pages. Which means you can now actually leave a Review for the Demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585800/Drova__Forsaken_Kin_Demo/

Hello folks, another month has passed and there is a new update video (German audio but there are English subtitles available):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZXQoxwpv1M
We have two exciting news:

• We are at Gamescom 2024. If you want to meet us in person or play Drova with us, visit us there! :)
  
• We will having a Closed Beta. Read more about that in the text below
  

Closed Beta
We are currently on the final stretch and because of porting we had to break some foundations of our code again so that Drova runs on all target platforms smoothly. This had some unfortunate side effects and we have tried to minimize them as much as possible. In order to get a clean release, we need you! We would like to do a Closed Beta here on Steam where ~15 people get access to Drova and can test the whole game for 2 weeks. We hope to get a lot of bugs and balancing feedback so that we can get a clean release soon.

Time frame for Closed Beta: 09.09.2024 to 22.09.2024
Estimated playtime as a tester: 40h+

Please note that we are looking for testers for a Closed Beta. This means that the game needs to be tested thoroughly. Therefore, please only apply if you really have time to test the game extensively. If you are interested, please write Chris a message on our Discord (https://discord.gg/FVz8Z4PRkC) before 02.09.2024. We will notify you on 04.09.2024 who will get access to the closed beta.

Greetings, Just2D

The playtest gave us a lot of Feedback. We've also had some internal Closed Betas going on. And we can now confirm that Drova will release 2024. And we can even tell you a bit more...

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