Derail Valley News

Hi everyone,

We know you’re super eager to learn more about Derail Valley: Overhauled, our major free update coming on May 21 at 10am PST.

To that end we’ve created episodic video content, which will explain all the ins and outs of the update, one video per day, until the release!

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Today’s video is an intro to the series, and the remaining 5 will showcase very specific new features and content of the update. Stay tuned! To not miss the other videos, consider subscribing to our YouTube channel and hit the notification bell.



At the same time, we’re launching our Dev Support OST - a collection of music we’ve made for Derail Valley’s trailers, as well as some extras. If you would like to further financially support our work on Derail Valley, this is the place! All revenue from the OST will go directly to development.

For those of you interested in backstory about each of the tracks, check out “view the quick reference” button at the store page’s sidebar.

And last but not least - influencers, please contact us for preview keys! We will contact many of you with preview keys in the following days, but if you never contacted us before, give it a go! Our email address can be found on our sites. We will be sending the keys next week to all influencers with relevant audiences (simulators or VR).

That’s it for now - stay tuned for a new video every day until release! See you on the 21st!

Hi everyone,

We’re excited to reveal the brand new trailer for Derail Valley: Overhauled - a major free update coming to Derail Valley, for PC and VR, on May 21, 2020.

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The update will fix most of the game's current issues, on both platforms, revamp many of its existing systems, and add new content and features. We will have more in-depth videos about the update as we get closer to the release date.



Due to a few remaining bugs, but mostly in order to catch some breath, we've pushed the release 3 weeks into May. Given the coronavirus situation and the very long development period behind us, this delay is relatively minor and we hope understandable. Don't worry though, we're not rebranding to Delay Very just yet.



During the past two months our closed beta testing has been going very well and our awesome testers have helped us pinpoint and resolve a whole lot of issues. Apart from further testing, we'll use the available time to polish the update as much as possible by release.



Finally, we'd like to thank you all for your patience while waiting on this enormous update. Going forward we expect to be able to go back to our regular weekly game updates after Overhauled.

That's all for today. Stay tuned for the in-depth videos about Overhauled coming closer to the release!

-Your DV Team

Hello everyone,

As we’ve been working on our Overhauled update over the past year, we found that the former name “Derail Valley” did no longer match the true nature of this project. Having revamped the derailment system, trains now fall off the tracks less frequently. At the same time we’ve also established the habit of successfully delaying and postponing updates, and have become exceptionally good at this.

To better accommodate these changes, we decided to overhaul not only the game, but its name too. We proudly present you the new branding, “Delay Very”:



We feel the new name will add a whole new dimension of transparency to our project, while maintaining the same old rhythm to it. You can look forward to its use along with the next update later this month.

That’s all for today – stay tuned while we’re preparing the all new trailer “Delay Very: Overhauled” for launch in the first weeks of April.

Hello engineers!

We know you’ve been eager for news about the next update! We’re happy to announce that Overhauled, the major update that we’ve been working on for nearly a year, will launch in late April 2020. The specific date will be announced early that month, along with the launch of a new trailer.



For anyone unfamiliar, the update overhauls a lot of systems and features under the hood and will improve most core issues, from unexpected derailments, janky controls and low performance, to things such as more engaging gameplay, adding new cargo types, and the eye-catching HAZMAT cargo.

Work on Overhauled started in April 2019, and since July, the entire team has been working exclusively on it, every working day. With roughly 6 years of man-hours done on it by the time of release, the update will be the biggest accomplishment of our team to date.

[h2]Closed beta starts early March[/h2]
While doing the final touches, we will share the game to a closed group of testers in early March. The testers will be chosen among the most trust-worthy/active members on our Discord, where we’re active daily. We'll form a small team of testers with diverse hardware and controller types for both VR and NonVR.



[h2]Community Unlocks v3[/h2]
With many changes coming to the game, we will also be revamping our online and social presence. The first to go live is our new Community Unlocks page.



Many new rewards were added to it, making it the new official public roadmap for Derail Valley. Here you can see what our plans are for the game, and the order it will be done in.

As we stated in the past, after Overhauled we aim to go back to regular weekly updates. Many of the “in progress” tasks will be done with Overhauled or soon after, and we aim for the future rewards to be released with the same frequency as the new ones getting unlocked.

Please let us know what you think and keep in mind that, until the new points economy settles, it may be further adjusted.

[h2]Going to Train Jam & GDC[/h2]
In March, Slobodan and Nenad will be attending the Train Jam, a yearly event in which indie developers gather in a rented Amtrak train to jam games while travelling from Chicago to San Francisco. After that we’ll attend GDC. We’d like to thank the Train Jam organizers and their sponsors for the generous help they provided for us to visit these events! If you’re in the SF area (or LA) in that period and would like to meet up, let us know!

That's all for today, see you soon with more news!

-Slobodan

Hi everyone,

We're incredibly flattered to see the 98% positive rating on Steam from 50+ recent reviews, and will continue to do our best to make Derail Valley better and bigger, going into 2020!

Given our story of how we went from a few flatmates dreaming about a next-gen train sim to now having our own train simulator be the highest-rated one in the world, it seemed that going for "The VR Game of the Year" Steam Award might be worth a shot.

Vote for Derail Valley in the embedded widget above, or here:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/nominations

Thank you so much for the superb positive feedback over the past few months, we can't wait to share the huge new update with you in Q1 next year!