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Development Roadmap for 2022

[h3]Greetings everyone! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas![/h3]

We are happy to announce that our new Roadmap is here! As we promised in the previous posts, we have created a new roadmap containing our development plans for Northern Lights!

[h3]Full roadmap and details available below.[/h3]

  • Improvements to character animations - Released in 0.5
  • General UI and UX Improvements based on current feedback - Released in 0.5
  • New quest based tutorials to get players through some of the basics of the game - Released in 0.5
  • New game languages - Released in 0.5
  • New and improved ambient sounds and soundtracks - Released in 0.6
  • New and improved character action sounds - Released in 0.6
  • Improvements to existing interaction sounds - Released in 0.6
  • Improvements to sound balancing and mastering - Released in 0.6
  • Controller support - Released in 0.7
  • Custom difficulty settings - Released in 0.7


  • Brand new Story Mode focused on exploration and lore, with re-written escape ending! - Released in 0.7
  • Improvements to Character Dialogues & Voice-Overs - Released in 0.8
  • Steam Achievements for both Story Mode and Survival Mode - Released in 0.8
  • Brand new Side Quests for the notes collectibles system


  • New drivable Snowmobile vehicle - Released in 0.8
  • Improvements fauna hunting - Released in 0.8
  • Improvements fauna AI
  • Improvements small and filler locations
  • Improvements to nature level design
  • Improvements to existing locations
  • Improvements to some graphics elements of the game
  • Improvements to overall game performance in open world locations


  • Everything else that's left for the game to be considered finished!
  • The long awaited CO-OP Survival mode

We will keep this Road-Map updated with any new additions or changes! Thanks to everybody for reading and for the ongoing support!

We Wish you all a Happy New Year and we hope to see you all Well and Safe Next Year!
- MadGoat Team