Katyusha early beta under development

Loresoft is proud to announce the early beta of Katyusha, which is going to include massive features.

In this upcoming version, which is at the final development stage, you will be able to play the first 2 levels of the game, with all the features that are going to be included in the final version of the game.

The early beta version will consist of the following features:
– New NPC: Konstantin (Chapter 1: Smolensk).
– Memories feature: Every Chapter of the game will allow you to play a story level of the soviet heroes’ past. Both Konstantin and Lyudmila will tell Katyusha about a significant moment in their lives. In those stories, you will be able to control the soviet heroes.
– Crafting: Katyusha will be able to craft armor, weapons and other items in the corresponding crafting stations.
– Economy: In-game economy will allow Katyusha to buy and sell items.
– User interface: A vast upgrade in the existing user interface.
– Boss fights are going to be added at the end of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
– New quests: Both Konstantin and Lyudmila will have new quests to give you and award you with soviet rubles and items.
– New loot: More items are going to be added when killing your enemies.
– Fast Travel: You will be able to do fast travel between mailboxes.
– Manual Save: Apart from Quicksave, now you will be able to do Manual save in mailboxes and Load any of the previous statements, whenever you want.
– New quotes: More than 100 quotes for both NPCs, Konstantin and Lyudmila, will keep the storytelling ongoing.
– At least 10 Steam Achievements in total.

Follow feature
Last but not least, we are adding a major feature in the game, which is going to be the Follow feature. NPCs are going to follow Katyusha and fight alongside her. Each NPC will have a different speciality. The Follow feature will only be activated, once you complete the starting quests that the NPCs will give you, ie 2 quests for every level.

As this is probably the most difficult feature to add (ie. NPC companions being controlled by AI), this feature will probably be activated as a placeholder during the early beta. So for instance, you will be able to ask Konstantin to Follow you in Level 2, but not actually Follow you and fight alongside you. In the next beta version, we are going to add the full follow Feature, to ensure that this is bug tested and working.

NPCs are Soviet heroes. Since Katyusha is based on real facts, note that the final version of the game will include Soviet heroes that died in certain battles, which in this game means that they will actually die in your hands. Honestly, we have done a lot of World War 2 research in this game, which we believe that it can be played even in schools, so that it can entertain and educate students at the same time.

Release period
The early beta is expected to be released during Q4 2026. Hopefully…before GTA 6!

A message from the Game Designer
After 3 years of silence more than 20.000 downloads on Steam and dozens of meetings with potential investors and publishers, we have finally understood that our small development team has to complete the game alone (unless a magic moment will happen).

We apologize for this delay but the development team has been currently downsized to very few people. If you want the game to be completed, you can help us with the following ways:
– Wishlist the game
– Play the demo (if you haven’t already, but definitely play the early beta).
– Share the news.
– Ask from your favorite gaming news websites and influencers to speak about Katyusha.

Again we would like to thank you for your support!
Regards,
Manos Gryparis
(Game Designer).