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    Loresoft is glad to announce that the alpha demo of the 2D Platform/RPG Katyusha is now available on Steam.

    Katyusha is the first video game about the famous Soviet World War II song and was a runner-up in Nordic Game Discovery contest – Season 3 in Athens. The new demo allows you to play two levels, drive the Katyusha Rocket Launcher, face enemies with advanced A.I., collect random loot and interact with Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most famous female sniper of all time, with 309 confirmed kills in World War II.

    It has been almost two years after we released our first early alpha demo and we are glad that after so much effort we are ready to present you the stable alpha version of Katyusha, including the Chapter 2. Keep in mind that this is the first version of the stable alpha version and that we will keep working on it for a large period of time, until we reach the status of “vertical slice”. Once Katyusha is funded, we will be announce it in public and start working on the final version.




    Meet real WWII heroes
    In Katyusha, players will be able to meet the most iconic Soviet World War 2 heroes, like Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Vasily Zaitsev, Roza Shanina and interact with them as NPCs. They will have the option to either help them by completing quests and take them to the next levels or leave them behind. Those heroes will fight alongside Katyusha in the battles that they actually fought and will die in front of your eyes in the battles that they actually fell. The game also includes specific dates for each battle, real dialogues that occurred during the war and real letters that the Soviet and German soldiers were sending to their families.



    Katyusha’s alpha demo on Steam includes two levels, with the battles of Smolensk and Odessa, a leveling system for the heroine, day/night cycle and dynamic weather conditions.


    In the next demo versions, Loresoft will add Crafting, Dismantling, Eagle pet skills, Quests and full interaction with Lyudmila Pavlichenko, while in the final version, Katyusha will include 14 levels with the most iconic battles between the Soviets and the Germans. It will also include alternate endings.





    Download Katyusha demo on Steam

    Patch notes
    So here are our patch notes for the stable alpha v.252:

    New features:
    – Chapter 2: Battle of Odessa
    – Chapter 2 song: Red army is the strongest
    – New NPC: Lyudmila Pavlichenko with her first dialogues (more dialogues and quests will follow).
    – Katyusha Rocket Launcher: Control the vehicle by solving a puzzle
    – The bullets are now limited. You can also kill your enemies with back and forth melee attacks.
    – Scaled difficulty, according to user’s level
    – Katyusha can now grab from ledges.
    – The addition of hanged bodies. Click the use button and you have a small percentage of getting a letter.
    – The loot on each enemy is random.
    – The A.I. and movement of enemies is now more realistic.
    – Bombardments by German Messerschmitt Me 262 airplanes which cause instant death and terrain change.
    – Dynamic weather conditions (rain and snow) are effective only on Chapter 2. There are currently no effects in battle.
    – Day/Night cycle occurs in both levels. There are currently no effects in battle.

    Things to keep in mind:
    – Chapter 2 is going to have new areas, buildings and missions and the size of it will expand.
    – Katyusha needs some adjustments in animations, with and without rifle.
    – Chapter 2 art is not final and will change in the future.
    – In Chapter 2, the insides of buildings are placeholders.
    – Soviet and German letters are going to be increased.

    Upcoming features:
    – Crafting: The crafting system is under development at the moment.
    – Lyudmila’s dialogues and quests are under development and we will need several months to complete them.
    – User will be able to dismantle items (ex. the car at the beginning of Chapter 2) and use the materials for crafting.
    – Gunfights when driving: We are going to include a surprise gunfight while driving.
    – When at sunset and night, the enemy’s sight range will be reduced.
    – New enemies are going to be added in Chapter 2.
    – Eagle skills
    – And more…

    Stay tuned as after the new demo release, the updates are going to be often and we are going to communicate together in a daily basis, so that we can improve our game.

    Katyusha will be released for PC and Mac, while console versions will follow. Loresoft is an indie development team from Greece which is talking to various publishers for funding, so at the moment there is no specified release date.

    Thank you for your support!

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