FAR: Lone Sails news & patch notes

In case you missed our announcement before the holidays: PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite where you use your flippers and a hand of cards to defend your kneblin keep against attacking knights. 

Part of our team has been fleshing out this project for over a year now, in parallel to Herdling. Now, we want player feedback: a free Demo is now available to play on Steam! 

👉 Play the PinKeep Demo 👈

We want to hear your thoughts and feedback on the Demo! Consider joining our brand new community Discord server to talk about PinKeep as well as our other games. 

👉 Join Our Discord 👈

Apart from PinKeep, our team is also working on new concepts and prototypes that are a bit more in line with what you've come to know and love for our studio. While it's still too soon to reveal any specifics, the community discord will sure be a good way to hear of any news once we're ready to share!  

But for now, get your flippers ready and join the fray! 

the Okomotive Team 

Okomotive is doing something new! 😱

PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite where you use your flippers and a deck of cards to defend your Kneblin keep against attacking Knights. 

Part of our team has been fleshing out this project for well over a year now, in parallel to Herdling. As of today, you can find the game on Steam and add it to your wishlist! 

👉 Wishlist PinKeep on Steam 👈

We’re gearing up to release a free Demo for the game shortly after the Winter holidays, so stay tuned for a playable version really soon! 

We realize that PinKeep is something quite different from what our fans and players have grown to expect from us. This change of pace is the result of valuing our team members’ creativity and trusting the process, even if that process is something novel. 

PinKeep is not indicative of a complete shift in studio direction though! Rest assured that after the recent release of Herdling, the rest of our team is working hard on new concepts, prototypes and drafts for our next emotional journey. 

With that, we wish you all Happy Holidays and soon a very happy New Year! 

With greetings from Zurich, Switzerland, 

the Okomotive Team

Fixed a security vulnerability identified by Unity, affecting games built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later.

To celebrate the release of our newest game Herdling, we’re launching a bundle with all Okomotive games! It’s a great time to complete your collection, if you haven’t already!

Herdling is a brand new atmospheric adventure game from the studio that brought you FAR: Lone Sails and FAR: Changing Tides. In Herdling, you head out on a grand alpine expedition with a herd of loveable beasts. Ascend a mountain path, encounter eerie dangers and surprising obstacles, and forge your way to the mystery at the summit.

Though Herdling is narratively unrelated to the FAR titles, we believe that FAR fans will find the same creative essence in our newest game. If you’ve enjoyed the previous two journeys we took you on, let us take you on this latest adventure 💕

Get the Bundle!

• Guide, protect, and fall in love with a motley herd of Calicorns
• Traverse stunning mountainscapes, fog-wreathed forests, snowy plateaus, and forgotten valleys
• Hone your herding skills as you navigate a wide range of challenges, threats, and light environmental puzzles
• Feel the rush of the mountain air alongside your herd in exhilarating stampede sequences
• An emotional, wordless tale of trust, survival, and companionship during a great crossing through a fallen world

Dear Players,

FAR: Lone Sails is currently available for the highest discount ever, with incredible 80% off!

Get FAR: Lone Sails now, and enjoy a Zombie-free post-Apocalypse, where it’s just you and your machine vs. the big nothing. Let the sky full of clouds pass by and heed the wind that drives your sails towards the horizon.

Key Features:

• Master your vessel: Maintain and upgrade your vehicle to overcome numerous obstacles and natural hazards.
• Discover a unique world: Explore a desolate dried-out seabed, follow the trails of your people and find relics and buildings, that tell the story of a civilization on the run.
• Experience an atmospheric journey: Let the sky full of clouds pass by and heed the wind that drives your sails towards the horizon.
• A Zombie-free Post-Apocalypse: It’s just you and your machine vs. the big nothing.

FAR: Lone Sails

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We hope our offers help to keep you all joyful during Holiday Season!

• Psychologically manipulate suspects to prevent the Liberation Front’s next attack
• Manage a team, resources and uphold the police force’s reputation
• Gritty, visually striking noir art-style based on thousands of photos from real actors
• Play your own style with branching paths leading to multiple endings
• Atmospheric music to increase the growing tension

• macOS: code-signed and notarized app for macOS Catalina.
• Fixed several issues where the character could get stuck or fall through geometry within obstacles or in the vehicle.
• Fixed issue where the ground / terrain of the next chapter won’t load.
• Fixed several localization issues.
• Fixed a bug where the background started to flicker once the player opened the menu during the gameplay.
• Fixed bugs with the save game selection in the menu.
• Fixed clunky behavior of the vehicle hooks.
• Fixed interpolation of the visuals with enabled vsync options.
• Performance optimization: this version includes all the improvements we made for PS4, XB1 and Switch. Since the consoles use multi-core GPUs this still doesn’t mean that the game will run much better on an integrated low-end GPU. For mid-range GPUs we should have an increase of 20-30% of the framerate. The game should also have less hiccups since we could move some operations to the background thread and to the GPU.