Equinox: Homecoming comes to Early Access on May 8th
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Surprise: our game is coming a lot sooner than you may have expected! 🎉 Equinox: Homecoming is releasing to Early Access on Steam May 8th.
We've been running play tests for months, slowly growing our testing over time. We really enjoy this close relationship with the community! We're excited for Early Access because it lets us work directly with the community early, often, and transparently.
We'll share more detailed plans regarding our updates for Early Access soon, but in general the direction of our updates will depend on the feedback and reception from you all as players! We're committing to a set of regular updates during our EA and already have some exciting content for the first of these well underway. Things change quickly and often in game development, so we prefer to be specific about our process and set expectations as opposed to issuing a specific set of promises.
[h2]Early Access FAQs[/h2]
How much will the game cost?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3258290/Equinox_Homecoming/
Surprise: our game is coming a lot sooner than you may have expected! 🎉 Equinox: Homecoming is releasing to Early Access on Steam May 8th.
We've been running play tests for months, slowly growing our testing over time. We really enjoy this close relationship with the community! We're excited for Early Access because it lets us work directly with the community early, often, and transparently.
“We want to follow a very community-centric philosophy during our Early Access period. We are fully aware that we are making a more unique and unusual game, particularly in today’s gaming space. It’s a risk, so we want to ensure we are engaging directly with those who believe in what we are trying to achieve throughout our development.”
-Craig Morrison, Studio Creative Director
We'll share more detailed plans regarding our updates for Early Access soon, but in general the direction of our updates will depend on the feedback and reception from you all as players! We're committing to a set of regular updates during our EA and already have some exciting content for the first of these well underway. Things change quickly and often in game development, so we prefer to be specific about our process and set expectations as opposed to issuing a specific set of promises.
[h2]Early Access FAQs[/h2]
How much will the game cost?
- During the Early Access period, the game will cost approximately $24.99 USD.
- The first act of our first story arc as well as multiplayer content like races, riding clubs, and more. This is somewhere in the ballpark of 8-12 hours of gameplay.
- We want to continue to deliver great story content, and as a small studio with no major publisher backing us, we'll be using a monthly subscription system to do so. Players who join us during the Early Access period will get a lifetime subscription.
- We don't want to use the types of monetisation practises common in free to play games - we don't think they're the right way to build a healthy and engaged community.
- Yes! We want to reward our early adopters. Anyone who purchases the game during Early Access will get a lifetime subscription with no additional, future subscription costs. We believe early adopters deserve recognition since y'all will be the ones helping us fund and guide later stages of the game's development.
- Finally, subscribers get access to exclusive cosmetic content and new story "episodes" on an ongoing basis.
- We plan to add two additional Acts to our first story Arc across the first year of the game's live services.
- Over time, our goal is to add new Horse breeds and horses as additional DLC.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3258290/Equinox_Homecoming/