Spirit Of The Island News

We are very excited to launch the New Story Update! To celebrate the occasion, Spirit of the Island will have a 65% discount for the base game and 20% discount for the Adventureland DLC until February 20th! The discount will launch in 1 hour!



New Story mode brings completely reworked quests, dialogues and main story line for both single player and co-op modes. And yes, the story is now the same in both modes. That’s about 25 hours of brand new gameplay completely for free! It’s a great way to experience the game anew. We had a lot of feedback from our dear community and we did our absolute best to rework everything from scratch. We don’t want to spoil too much here, but we hope that you and your friends are excited to visit our tropical paradise again in both single player and co-op! Oh, and don’t worry about the old story: it will be available as well! If you want to try it, select “Children of the Ocean” when you start the game. But we highly recommend playing the new one first, as it will be the most complete experience you could get!

We are also releasing steam trading cards! Everyone who already played the game will get their drops very quickly after some gameplay. We made emojis, backgrounds and other cool goodies for you to decorate your steam profile!

And for our achievement hunters: we’ve fixed all achievements! You should be able to get 100% without a problem now — sorry for the long wait!

And to add ever more spice to the news: sometime in April, the mobile version of Spirit of the Island will be released for iOS and Android — and it will support crossplay with PC and Consoles! You will be able to play SOTI anywhere you’d like, at home or on the go. And in early summer, we will release a new story and all updated stuff for consoles, finally merging the two versions together. Please wait for the news about both releases!

We’d like to say a huge thanks to our community for supporting us for such a long time. We are preparing a lot of exciting things and new games, so we hope you stick with us for the new releases!

Yours dearly,

1M Bits Horde and Meta Publishing.

Hello friends! It’s Christmas and we think it’s a good time to make a summary of what we did in 2023. But first and foremost: Merry Christmas! Spend this lovely festive season in the company of your friends and family, eat nice food, play good games, and enjoy the Holidays!



Now, where shall we start? The beginning of the year was all focused on patches and fixes, such as new controller support, vehicle controls and other things that made the whole experience more refined. In February, we conducted a very important player survey (.... !) which helped shape our release strategy for 2023.. Now, not everything went exactly as planned: we had some pushbacks, but all of them were done because we wanted to increase the quality of our releases and provide the best experience possible. We are very grateful for all the feedback that you provided to us: which made Spirit of the Island the game it is today.



Let’s fast forward a bit: it’s June 1st, Summer is starting and with that, the beach season. A great time to visit a tropical resort, right? We thought so as well and launched Beach Resort: the first DLC for the Spirit of the Island for free! It added a whole new starting island with plenty of free space to build the resort of your dreams. The reception for the DLC was amazing, as everyone wanted a bigger island for a long time. We are very happy with the reception!



Let’s go to July, as then we had a very important announcement: Cross-Platform features for consoles and mobile game versions. Spirit of the Island is the very first game in the genre, that you can play together with your friends, no matter the platform: PC or Console and in the future, mobile. And just a bit later, in August, SOTI got a permanent price reduction on the PC. All in all, Summer was a very fruitful season for the game!



And the fun didn’t stop in September too: we revealed our plans for the end of the year, console release date, and new storyline update release date. The first one in line was Adventureland, the second DLC for the Spirit of the Island. It was released in October and got great feedback from our community. Combined with the beach resort, the possibilities to expand and create your resort were never as big as they are now. And a few weeks later, on October 19th, we launched console versions of the game with the crossplay feature. Oh! We forgot to mention, that SOTI became fully compatible with Steam Deck as well, meaning that you can play on the go with your friends, who own a Switch or another Steam Deck — how cool is that?



This year is not over yet though! There’s one more thing ahead of us to launch: The New Storyline update. It’s a major revamp of all quest and story systems, so it took us more time to develop and now we are in the process of testing. It’s taking some more time, but we think that it will be ready at the start of next year. Playtest is coming soon too!

Huge thanks to EVERYONE in our community! We are truly blessed to have you with us.

Merry Christmas!

Hey everyone,

We have a very important announcement to make today: the New Story Update will be delayed. We don’t have a date yet, but we are hoping to release it this month.

The reason for the delay is the complexity of the update. To make sure everything works smoothly, we created a completely new quest system from scratch. The one that we’ve used before didn’t allow us to make big changes to quest generation, rewards, and quest complexity. That’s why a decision to make a totally new system was made. We were positive that it would be ready in November, but testing showed us that there are still quite a few things to polish before we can release it to you, our players.

We are going to launch a public test update as soon as we have a build. You will be able to try the new update before release and help us hunt bugs in public testing because we can’t catch everything with our internal QA, it’s simply not possible for a game of this calibre. We will put out an announcement a few days prior to the release of the public test. The test will be completely optional, so if you want to only play the full experience, you can skip it and wait for the full release, which will come after we fix everything that will be reported to us.

We know that the delay is not ideal, but we don’t want to release a buggy update with the potential to break everyone’s old and new save games. No one wants that. We hope you understand our concerns and reasons for this drastic measure. In return, we can promise that the wait is worth it and the game will see major improvements to its story and questing parts — in both single-player and coop modes.

If you have any questions, you can ask us in the comments for the news, or in our Discord server.

Thank you for always supporting us,

The teams at Meta Publishing and 1M Bits Horde.

Hello!

We have a small update with some bug fixes today.

- Fixed scaling issues with ultrawide monitors;
- Captain won’t get stuck and bug out if you talked to him before starting Pier quest;
- Vehicle controls with a gamepad were also adjusted.

Hi!

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Have a nice day!