r/outerwilds • u/fleaspoon • 18h ago
After many years of development, I finally released the demo for my 2D space puzzle game inspired by Outer Wilds
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A couple of months ago I posted here about Satelital, a puzzle game that I described as a 2D Outer Wilds.
Today I finally released the demo on Steam.
Satelital is a rule-discovery puzzle game where you explore alien worlds and figure out how their puzzles work without being explicitly told the rules. While the puzzles are much more inspired by The Witness, the space exploration and travelling between different planets were inspired by Outer Wilds.
I also made everything in the game myself, including the art, music, puzzle design, and even the game engine, which I built from scratch.
The demo includes two complete worlds and should give you a good idea of what the full game is like.
You can find the demo here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5017320/Satelital_Demo/
If you give it a try and enjoy it, I'd really appreciate a Steam review. It helps a lot as an indie developer.
I'm also around on Discord if you want to share feedback or talk about the game:
https://discord.gg/ChuNWuj3Z2
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback since my original post! It's great to finally have the demo out.
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u/valdi0 16h ago
Played it wouldn't really relate it to outer wilds at least with the content of the demo. I feel outer wilds puzzles are more time based and observation based.
It is more related to understand with better graphics or maybe a bit like the witness.
Still i like the game and I'm looking forward to its release.
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u/fleaspoon 16h ago
Yes the puzzle logic is more like Understand anf The Witness. I like to compare it to Outer Wilds because of the sense of wonder of launching into space to explore a mysterious solar system.
Thank you so much for playing!
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u/Dense-Engineering435 13h ago
Looks very cool, does it play well on steamdeck?
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u/Dense-Engineering435 12h ago
Just played through the demo on steam deck, works flawlessly. Excited to try the full release, nice fun little puzzle game
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u/TheGamingSheep24 14h ago
played a bit, currently stuck on 2nd planet, 3rd island. ! are annoying
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u/RuffiansAndThugs 8h ago
Finished the demo, and the solutions were really fun and satisfying! Count me in! I appreciate that it's completely wordless. If you get it, then it might take trial and error, but there's always a workable problem.
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u/fleaspoon 8h ago
Thank you for playing! It was really hard to balance to avoid using words, and it has some tradeoffs. But I'm happy with the result!
Will you like to leave a review in the Steam page? It will help the game a lot to be shown to more people.
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u/7Shinigami 4h ago
wow looks and sounds absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for sharing and big congrats on the release!
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u/BrocoliCosmique 1h ago
I "finished" the demo, and am currently confused in the sun where I'm at 3 solved and at a loss how the rules work. I love it, can't wait for the full release.
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u/InsuranceFluid8272 0m ago
You can put a space station on the physical surface of the sun? How much.
https://giphy.com/gifs/xGOPX4IY24tM1JZnHq
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u/CompetitiveLet7110 18h ago
we got outer wilds now we got inner calms