Preparing to leave Early Access

Crew 167: The Grand Block Odyssey

Crew 167 finds himself alone on a spaceship hurtling towards a destination that may be the salvation that his home is seeking. Isolated, his mind begins to create hallucinations to keep him entertained. Dive into the mind of the character as he tries to make sense of the world around him.

Crew 167 will be leaving Early access sometime in April. We will be announcing the official release date on March 25th. This post will go on our experience so far and an upcoming pricing update. [h2]Success of Early Access[/h2] When we develop games as indie, we don't usually have enough feedback on what we work on. The amount of eyes on the project is limited and our point of view is biased towards what we're working on. Early access has really opened up the gates and let more people play the game, share their feedback and allow us to fix issues. In the biggest of issues we've seen was corrupted save games, or save games that allowed the player to go to places that shouldn't be accessible. We hope to have fixed all these issues by launch date. We also tweaked some puzzles to adjust the difficulty curve: when we see how people try to solve a specific puzzle, we can read how people approach them. Our philosophy on Crew 167 has always been to design satisfying puzzles. When we're as closely as possible to the way the mind works, these puzzles tend to be more satisfying. Another reason to go on Early Access was to make sure our game was a great experience. The feedback we've received kept us motivated and confirmed that we were on the right track to delivering something true and unique. A special thanks goes to all our Early Access supporters. A special thanks to Athelas81, which has played countless hours of the game during this period. [h2]Leaving Early Access and Pricing Update[/h2] We've always been transparent in the Early Access before any price changes. The price of the Early Access always reflected the amount of content that was available to play. The Final Release will include the third and final chapter of the game. For this reason, we will be increasing the price one last time to 18 USD (or its equivalent in your currency) on Friday, March 21st 2020. Note that you can still buy the game in Early Access today and get the Full Release update automatically when it's out. Buying the game now is essentially getting a 33% discount.