MOTORSLICE news & patch notes

Hello slicers!

I've been working on this update non-stop since last patch. Thanks everyone who tried the beta version and helped me with this update, you guys are the best!

The most obvious tweaks are the wall running/climbing angle detection, air control, the ability to hang on ledges and motorslice swap improvements. Besides that, tons of tweaks and bug fixes.

If you had trouble with something in the game, I invite you to give it a try once again, and see if it improves the game feel... and if it does feel better, please consider updating your review!

And remember, you can always opt to play the previous version:

Go to your Steam library > right click > Properties > Game versions & Betas > Select "previousbuild"

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Is important to note that the focus was not to change anything, just tweak the gameplay a bit based on feedback from release. Don't expect any drastic changes.

The game always had a strong vision, to evoke a certain feel from oldschool parkour games. You are supposed to commit to your jumps, and plan your movements.

About the so called "fan service": they were made to be a tonal shift, often goofy, and was a deliberate choice to be a contrast with the world in which P find herself. If you pay attention to the lore and storytelling, there's more than meets the eyes through these casual talks, so embrace the premise and enjoy the game's nature!

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Anyways, here's the full patch note:

• Removed the small force when walking off a ledge

• MotorSlice angle detections adjustment

• MotorSlice swap tweaks, and it is now faster

• Reduce the slow motion on motorslice swap

• Jump Arc tweak to make it feel less “floaty”

• Increased jump forward momentum, and it also affected by your movement input

• Jump has input dampening now

• Increased air control a bit and tweaked values to feel less “clunky”

• Tweaks on wall run angle detection

• Reduced the rotation drag movement, to feel sharper

• Reduced the magnetism strength and adjusted how magnetism works

• Reduced drag when walking off a wall run

• Tweaked wall run jump angle control

• Tweaked crack jump values to reduce missinput

• Added visual feedback on saw projectile

• Slightly increases control when rolling/sliding

• Removed holding jump (input buffering) while climbing

• Added ‘hold restart’ prompt when falling to your death

• Added missing tutorials on some specific spots

• Speedup crack walking change direciton animations

• Tons of tweaks across the game to feel better

Introducing:

• Wall Grab when sliding or rolling - press up/jump to climb / crouch to fall / down+jump to jump backwards

• Motorslice down when holding down while slicing vertical

Bugs fixed:

• Bug where Rollers would sometimes fall through the floor

• Walking on cracks in some rare situations got stuck

• Lock-on on bosses sometimes failed

• Enemies becoming “dead” and not pursuing P anymore

• Boss 5 parry window bug

• Softlocks and easy skips

• Tweaks on levels (no level design changes)

• Chapter 8 bugs, softlocks and skips

• Orb drones with a strong flashlight on some occasions blinding the player

• Fall damage on steep surface

• boss 6 fall damage problem

• Fall damage deactivated problem

• Typos

• Slicing bug where make you go inside wall

• Orb drone achievement in case of save corruption or save transfer

• Fixes on small issues across the game that is too specific to even mention

Now I can finally take a break! Phew! Edit (6/6/2026): Pushed a hotfix fixing some problems with wall grab, localization missing in some lines, and Retry only appearing once when falling to your death

Hello slicers! I've been working non-stop on tweaking the gameplay since the last patch.

I now have a version that's intended to deal with the main criticisms of the game in the negative feedback, and improve the game feel.

But before I turn this into the default version of the game, I want to know if I am on the right direction!

So I invite you, particularly those who had any trouble with something, and especially the ones who made a negative review, to try this beta version through this week (May 26 - June 1) and let me know what you think.

Do the changes improve your experience with the game? Does it feel better? I want to know all your thoughts, so please try and don't hold back.

To access this beta, do the following:

Go to your Steam library > right click > Properties > Game versions & Betas > Select "betatest"

The most obvious tweaks were wall running/climbing angle detection, air control, and motorslice swap improvements.

Please share your thoughts on this thread, or create a steam forum post, or join my Discord server!

You can check the pre-update patch notes with everything:

• Removed the small force when walking off a ledge. You fall almost instantly now

• MotorSlice angle adjust

• MotorSlice swap tweaks, and it is now faster

• Jump Arc tweak to make it feel less “floaty”

• Increased jump forward momentum, and you can control the Forward jump momentum by holding movement input

• Jump has input dampening now

• Increased air control and tweak values to feel less “clunky”

• Tweaks on wall run angle detection

• Reduced the rotation drag movement, to feel sharper

• Reduced the magnetism strength

• Adjusted how magnetism works

• Reduced drag when walking off a wall run

• Tweaked wall run jump angle control

• Tweaked crack jump values to reduce missinput

• Added visual feedback on saw projectile

• Jump distance is also determined by the movement input, not only holding jump and velocity

• Increase control when rolling/sliding

• Removed holding jump (input buffering) while climbing

• Added ‘hold restart’ prompt when falling to your death

• Added missing tutorials on some specific spots

• Speedup crack walking change direciton animations

• Overall tweaks to feel better

Introducing:

• Wall Grab when sliding or rolling - press up/jump to climb / crouch to fall / down+jump to jump backwards

• Motorslice down when holding down while slicing vertical

Hello everyone! First of all, thank you for 3k reviews! This is beyond amazing! Thanks to all of you, the game is a massive success! Anyway, this update was focused on bug fixes from the release. No changes was made on gameplay.

Next update it will be focused on tweaking gameplay from feedback! Stay with me, I am just a guy, but I'm doing my best!

Here's the full patch note:

• Screenshot being stored in a weird folder

• VR mode during IDLE animations

• Missing Drone on Chapter select in Chapter 8 (on the great slice area)

• Camera conflict on Operator G sequence and BootUp bug on Operator G sequence

• FPS limit resetting when changing resolution

• Some checkpoints makes you float briefly

• Disabled camera bump while on vr mode

• Disabled IDLE animations while holding the chainsaw

• A bug preventing you from touching P during selfie mode in some specific locations

• Collision problem in tutorial area on first motor dialogue

• Prevent hitting orbie when physics object or motorslice was nearby

• Slice getting stuck on framerates above 120fps

• Fix getting stuck on some actions

• Roller falling through the ground

• No fall damage after boss 4

• Avoid getting inside geometry on specific locations while platforming on a hack cube

• Bug getting stuck rotation on pillars

• Roller first appearance not respawning after dying

• Bug making an arena border not count enemies properly

• 'ooooooi' bug when stepping on camera

• Some occasions making you land, when you were supposed to die

• Tentacles not cutting sometimes

• Wall run getting stuck on small objects along the way, resulting in death

• Some typos

• Minor bugs while on chainsaw hold mode

• Some softlocks across the game

• Boss 08 not having the hack icon appear sometimes

• Reduced the chance of killing the wrong enemy whilst doing charged attack

• Bug making you teleport when charging attack

• Small tweaks on levels (no changes on level design)

• Sometimes landing on grinder doesn’t kill you

• Increased the boundaries of chapter 5

• Overall tweaks on boss parry

• Slicing sometimes nullify your death

• Blinking issue on parry tutorial

• Tweaked hit box on dialogue choice buttons

• An easy skip on boss 6

• A very easy skip on chapter 7 entrance - it might be surprising, but i overlooked this one lol

• Boss 4 event killing player (related to poor performance)

• A bug when landing making P double land and jumping feels weird

• Increased the parry window for the boss 3 drill

• Cursor on slacking scenes resetting position every time

• Getting stuck on some slice segments and checkpoint adjust on boss 7

• A bug making you parry boss 7 at the wrong moment

• Trash objects floating on potato mode

• Orbie broken lens while in P’s POV during final cutscene

• Adjusted condition for boss 8 getting back into the fight after a parry

• A very rare case of wall running into nothing

• 3 checkpoints making you respawn on title screen

• Orb drones not respawning after recovering from getting hit

• Overall minor adjustments across the game

If you would like to play the previous version of the game - there are no gameplay changes in this update, but we still want to provide the option for you to do so - go to the Steam properties for the game, game versions & betas tab, and select the option called "previousbuild"

Hopefully this fixes the issues that some of you have been reporting! If you find some bugs or that things still do not work as intended, please post about it here or join the Discord to make a bug report!

After this, I will also think about future updates for the game... stay tuned on that and I will be sure to let you know what's coming...

Hello, in the past few days I've been working to fix the two major problems of the release, they should be fixed now.

• A rare save corruption problem when force quitting during save or loading

• A teleportation bug when going out of bounds, making you respawn on a completely different checkpoint

I also addressed a small issue for streamers with the display name ingame.

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The next patch will be focused on overall bug fixes, and after that, some gameplay tweaks from feedback.

And thanks again for all support! Stay slicing!

edit: Uploaded a hotfix for this update. Fixing the menu getting stuck

HELLO SLICERS!!!

1000 reviews in just over 3 days. And within just a few hours of launch the game recouped its investment! As a tiny team of 2, it was a huge success, and this is only because of all of YOU. The true gamers!

I have been reading your comments, reviews, discussion, feedback... I will do my best to fix the issues you are having, with priority starting with the major bugs.

I see that in some rare cases, it was possible to corrupt your save data and then the game would load you into a weird room, and also that respawning would sometimes teleport you all over the place at checkpoints. I have been working on these for the past few days and a fix should go live really soon. If you were unfortunate enough to get a corrupted save, check this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2830030/discussions/0/844005195821201602/

After that, I will look at bugs and improve the gameplay from feedback... and then maybe plans beyond that 👀 Who knows?

Btw, if you liked the game and want to show your support, then please consider making a review on Steam! It's the best thing you can do to help the game!

WE. MOTOR. SLICE. IT.

ENJOY!

And if you enjoy, be sure to leave a review! It helps us a lot! - A few words from the main dev, Luqui, while you wait the download: I can't believe... The day has finally come. I would be lying if I say I am not nervous! I put a bit over 3 years to this project, across development, marketing and community management, it took a lot from me... The game got a bit delayed because of all of this and the great enthusiasm, but it is finally out. And I can't believe it!

I hope you enjoy the game. It was made with so much love. For Prince of Persia fans that got tired of waiting for a new entry. For Mirror's Edge fans who wants a world with a striking atmosphere. For Shadow of the Colossus fans who have been wanting to scratch that itch for 20 years. For Nier fans who wants a hot girl killing robots... I really hope you enjoy!!!

If you have any problems during your playthrough, please report here on Steam or on my server... But please be patient, since I am just a guy doing my best to fix everything and make it a nice experience for everyone interested on P's daily job!

Thank you, really.

That's it, go play IMMEDIATELY!

IN JUST 4 DAYS, ON MAY 5TH - WE WILL BE SLICING ALL THE MOTORS! MotorSlice will launch at around the equivalent of 7am PDT / 10am EDT / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST / 10pm CST / 11pm JST - find your timezone!

If you enjoy the game once it's out, please consider leaving a review - that's how you can help the game!

Thank you all who followed me on this journey. All the attention I've got was beyond my wildest dreams. We are all ORBIE, goofying around and chilling, with some of you even taking these videos too serious. I had fun, and I hope you too!

I wanted to express my appreciation for you all, with one final devlog looking at the game.

For those of you who missed, the game will be $20usd and have regional pricing

See you on May 5th! Failure is forbidden.

Hello, it's finally time.

Motorslice will release May 5, 2026!

It's been a long journey, but the release date is finally here! If you want to help the game, please share this with all your friends! And for everybody around the world, don't worry, the game will have regional pricing!

Also, a demo update is available. There's no difference content-wise, just with all the polish and optimization improvements made from the past few months of work on the game! If you had any problem with something before, I strongly recommend checking this!

See you in 2 weeks!

Sup bros! This post is about 2 things:

YO!

It's been a while but DON'T WORRY. I've been working on the game every day, improving existing mechanics, fixing bugs, and... finishing the content. Heh. We are still working SUPER HARD, doing playtests, optimisation, squashing bugs that appear so you guys can all get the best experience you deserve on release. Thanks for being patient. It'll be worth it, TRUST THE PROCESS.

So you might be wondering how far has the work come and how finished is the content - well, it's come along far enough that now we have an idea of a window for when the game can release!

Nothing better to celebrate coming this far, and to spread the word about the timeframe where you can expect to see MotorSlice launch than with a new peek at the game. Enjoy the new trailer!

See you this spring. Failure is forbidden.

MotorSlice is one of the top 50 most played demo at the October Steam Next Fest! As a tiny indie, this is WILD.

Unbelievable! Thank you so much for everyone who made made this possible! UNLIMITED POWER

But with so many people playing with P, some weird bugs also appear, so I'm releasing a small patch, mostly bug fixes:

• A bug making the CONTINUE button enabled when there’s no save created, making you start the game on a blank level. I was only aware of this 2 days ago, and I apologize anyone who got this problem. Really frustrating.

• A bug preventing the combat arena wall to deactivate

• Added lock-on on the boss

• Jump distance is now by how long you hold the jump and by speed

• You don't loose speed when motorslicing

• Reduced some camera movements when you disable camera bob

• Fix some minor bugs

• Tweaks on the the gameplay magnetism

The demo will stay here, so don't worry. Also I don't plan on keep updating the demo from now on, and just focus on finishing the game! While I don't have a release window yet, the game is almost done!

STAY WITH ME

I READ EVERY SINGLE FEEDBACK SPREAD ON THE INTERNET.

First of all, THANK YOU for playing! Look how happy she is to see how many people played the demo:

ANYWAY, most issues seems related with auto input and lack of control, so I focused on improving game feel in the last few days!

Basically:

• Balancing enemies and giving more options in combat

• Giving more control on parkour

• Speeding up gameplay

Here's the full patch note:

COMBAT

• Added Lock-on system

• Changed how Dash Roll works

• Press zoom while in combat and it will lock-on the closest enemy

• Use the camera axis while on lock-on mode to change target

• You will dash roll when close to an enemy or in lock-on mode

• Dash roll now works on the direction of the input, not right/left relative to the enemy position as before

• QoL tweaks around the dash roll

• Most frustration from combat seems related to the second encounter (After the ‘Easy Job’ Slacking Area) - So I made some adjustments on the level design in there. The experience should be smoother now and give more time for reaction.

• Removed magnetism in combat

• Changed the feedback for the parry window on the excavator enemy. The attack has a bigger window for reaction, and the icon appears at the beginning, not in the entirety of the attack as before. Also changed the icon color from white to black to be more noticeable

• Removed dash frames teleportation while attacking

• You can no longer spam slide attack

• Red eyes feedback for when an enemy detects you is bigger

• An indicator when an enemy is attacking you outside the camera view

• Attacking while running kill less momentum

• Enemies are a bit more aggressive and faster, but has more consistency on their attacks

• Tweaks on the camera auto adjustment during combat

PARKOUR

• Directional wall jump. You have more control on what angle you can wall jump now.

• You can side eject now, and can control the direction of the side eject jump

• Camera auto rotating while doing a vertical wall jumping only happens when there’s a platform close by

• P jump length is smaller depending on how long you’ve been holding input

• Made some tweaks on the jump speed and curvature

• Removed the animation of horizontal wall run and Increased the speed of vertical wall jump

• Reduced input denial on start of a wall jump

• Increased air control. It’s more noticeable now. You still have to be careful before jumping

• Increased the speed on the parkour animations

• You can always cancel a jump now

• Wall run doesn’t trigger anymore when falling without jumping

• Wall Run only start if you keep holding movement input

• Wall run auto cancel if not holding input or if you press backward

• Tweaks on the camera while wall running

• Made some tweaks on the wall run angle detection

MOTORSLICE

• Starting motorslice keeps more momentum

• Reduced the distance you can start motorslice

• Tweaks on the motorslice mechanic

• You can vertical motorslice down if you start the action holding input down. Requires precise input

CAMERA

• Removed camera auto adjusting while walking

• Reduced camera movement when parrying

• Reduced some camera shake effects while in combat

• Overall tweaks on gameplay camera movements

CROUCH/SLIDE

• Rolling does not automatic enters on slide anymore (you need to keep holding crouch button now)

• Removed auto jump when rolling/sliding when walking off a ledge

• You can now gain a boost when roll landing - useful for those who want to sprint

• Reduced the minimum amount of time P keeps sliding

• Both air crouch and land roll are now relative to the input, not camera

• Crouching while falling makes you fall faster instead of a small boost as before

WALKING/RUNNING

• Drastically reduced the time required to reach max speed (15s -> 5s) - and also improved the curve speed to be more noticeable

• P is faster now

• In detriment of the reduced time for running, I reduced the volume of her cute panting breaths.

• Zoom while running reduced

• Increased the fov while running a little bit 

• Removed black bars while running

• Overall tweaks on the movement system

OTHERS

• Changed the ‘retry’ button on the gamepad to the ‘view button’ (Special Left Button/Select) - Some people was accidentally pressing without realizing

• A few changes on the level design

• More checkpoints on some areas to make it less frustrating

• You can get out of a pillar by pressing crouch now

• Tweaked animation speed across the entire game

• Truck-kun a bit more difficulty

• Hint menu can go back and forth

• When P gets covered in oil or dirt, it will remove by walking, not over time

• End Demo video after quitting the game will only play once

• Added the amount of Orbs available on the demo on the end screen

• Added AA method: None

• Added new graphic option: Resolution Scale

• Completely removed motion blur

• You can give the retry command while following to your death, but it will count as a death regardless

NEW FEATURE

• Orb Drones can be used as a sacrifice in combat, and P can shield an attack and don’t die instantly. They will reset their position, so keep this in mind!

BUGS

• Collected orbs resetting when pressing continue button

• A condition where the camera would adjust for no reason while jumping

• A condition that makes Orb Drones reset position when hit

• Chainsaw keeping on the hands after doing a motorslice

• P getting stuck when holding jump or jumping while motorslicing

• Camera problems with low frame rate

• Key rebind not saving

• Glitching through wall while rolling

• Getting stuck after making a choice on slacking areas

• Getting stuck while walking on crack corners

• FPS limit resetting after changing graphic option

• Fell through the floor when parrying truck-kun

• Parkour spam jump

• Music getting out of sync

• Chainsaw moving in the main menu

• Start screen camera bug

• A bug preventing maps to load properly

• Dozens of bug fixes and several tweaks on the gameplay

EMBARRASSING

• I disabled attack variation on the small excavator enemy and forgot to enable :p

phew! That's a lot! You guys made me quite busy since the demo release. But enjoy!

Enjoy.

DEMO CONTENT

• Play through Chapter 01 'CITY' - (8 total in the full game)

• Fight against an epic colossal boss fight - (8 total in the full game)

• 4 fully voiced story segments aka slacking areas - (+30 in the full game)

• Full parkour movement system

• Not all systems are available, such as the selfie mode and other interactions with Orbie

• The beginning of the game (Chapter 0) is not available

• Only one enemy type available

• Estimated playtime: 30 minutes ~ 1 hour

Demo September 23

That's it. That's the news. See you next week.

Say hi to the Mecha Boss! A formidable foe you will face while playing MotorSlice!

Check the trailer premiered at the Mix Summer Game Showcase 2025, where I share a sneak peek of P climbing and slicing down this massive opponent!

If you haven't yet, check my Youtube Channel! I drop some peak game update from time to time in there! - Also, this sounds like a good opportunity to say that MotorSlice will not have a demo on the upcoming Steam Next Fest. I decided to hold back the demo to have a more polished game experience. Trust me, It will be worth it!

Until next game, hopefully with exciting news!