Tower mode
- Tower modeAn endless climb of fights, taken on with your own party and the spells you have built.
Roadmap
Where Larithea is headed. The nearest months are firm; the further down the page you go, the looser the timing gets.
- November
- December
Larithea on phones, for testing
The game itself, in your pocket — not a cut-down version of it.
- iOS and Android testingLarithea goes to testers on iPhone and Android ahead of the Chapter 1 release on phones. Larithea was built for phones as much as for desktop.
- Early 2027
Milestone Chapter 1 on iPhone and Android
Chapter 1 comes out free on iPhone and Android: the whole chapter, start to finish.
- English, Russian and Simplified ChineseThe three languages the game already speaks.
- Q1 2027
Milestone Chapter 1 on Steam · Early Access
Early Access opens on Steam with the whole of Chapter 1, free.
- Chapter 1, start to finishThe whole of Chapter 1, free.
- English, Russian and Simplified ChineseThe three languages the game already speaks.
- Translated with AI, corrected in the openEach language starts from a machine draft. Some get a native-speaker pass; all of them keep getting fixed as players report lines that read wrong.
- Beyond
Further out
Directions rather than dates. Ordering and timing will shift; firm dates come when there is something firm to announce.
- More story, more placesThe campaign keeps growing chapter by chapter — new regions and arcs rolled out in stages.
- More languagesSpanish and Brazilian Portuguese are next in line.
- More ways to playA two-player dungeon co-op is on the internal roadmap; other formats stay open.
- Combat depthSpell chains, cast-order combos, in-fight party banter, and ongoing class/talent passes.
- Look, motion, soundContinuing art, animation, cutscene, and audio production scaled with milestone and budget.
Shipped · May–September 20268 drops
- May 17
First weekly drop
First of four weekly builds — TestFlight + Play Internal on mobile, Electron on Windows + Mac.
- Nell joins the animated lineupFull sprite animation in the fight field and idles, matching Maya.
- Walking between scenes — first artThe walking-scene system gets its first real backgrounds.
- Demo entry on the start screenA separate Demo panel on the chapter hub.
- In-game bug reportingPlayers file bugs directly from inside the game with context attached.
- Base activity polish — first passReal art and sound for the shared base-activity panel.
- May 24
Heroes and content keep landing
A second week of art, animation and writing landing on top of the first.
- Tara joins the animated lineupFull fight + idle animation.
- Second walking sceneMore of the route between battles gets dressed.
- Maya and Nell base activitiesHero-specific panels get real art and sound.
- Opening cutscene art finalizedOrmron Gates panels go from placeholder to final.
- Side quest writtenContent for the optional 10-scene side quest gets drafted.
- Steam page copy + tagsDescriptions, tags, and system requirements locked.
- Jun 15
Milestone Closed alpha
The closed alpha opens to invited testers — on TestFlight for iOS, a closed beta on Google Play for Android, and on the web by invite. It runs for at least two weeks, longer if we need more data. The point is to learn where attention drops and what feels off, before Steam.
- Play by inviteTesters get in through TestFlight, the Google Play closed beta, or a web invite — the same build that heads to Steam next.
- Feedback built into the alphaA floating feedback button, a short survey, and behind-the-scenes analytics so we can see where people get stuck.
- Invite across social and the alpha listTikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and the alpha-list email — "help shape the demo."
- Launch reelA reel that pulls together the hero reels from the prior weeks into a single "come try it" invite.
- Jun 29
Polish from what we learn
Two weeks to turn early-player data into a hardened build. Whatever the web demo surfaces — friction, balance, pacing, bugs — drives the pass.
- Fix what surfacedDrop-off points, balance complaints, confusion moments, telemetry anomalies — triaged from the demo data and worked through in priority order.
- Survey + analytics synthesisWrite up what the demo actually showed us, so the polish pass is driven by player behavior, not assumption.
- Jul 13
More chapters · second playable hero
Two weeks to extend the demo past the cliffhanger. The party splits, and a second hero becomes playable on the other side of the story.
- Story continues past the cliffhangerNew scenes pick up after the team splits — fresh locations, new fights, more of the arc.
- Second playable heroA second hero gets the full playable treatment, so the new chapters carry their own perspective.
- Aug 3
Milestone Steam demo · wishlisting opens
The polished, expanded demo lands on Steam. Wishlisting opens — the public moment ahead of October's Next Fest.
- Demo live on SteamWindows + Mac, free to play, available straight from the Steam page.
- Steam page live · wishlist buttonCapsule art, trailer, screenshots, and the wishlist button — the home for curious players ahead of October.
- Steam-launch beat across channelsTikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and the alpha-list email — the public moment that points everyone at Steam.
- September
Milestone The demo lands on Steam
The first time anyone can play Larithea without an invite.
- Playable demo on SteamThe opening of Chapter 1 — spell crafting, the fight grid, and the first battles. Free, on Windows and Mac.
- Simplified Chinese store pageThe Steam store page in Simplified Chinese — the game's own text follows shortly.
- Simplified Chinese in the gameThe game's text ships in Simplified Chinese too, alongside English and Russian.
- October
Milestone Next Fest, and the first phones
The biggest week of Larithea's year, and the first phones in players' hands.
- Steam Next Fest · Oct 19–26A week inside Steam's demo showcase. A game gets one Next Fest, ever — this is Larithea's.
- iPhone betaLarithea goes out to TestFlight testers ahead of the public release on phones.
Day-to-day progress lands in News, and the longer write-ups in the dev diary.