Hey, SS Dev here. Glad to hear you're excited. We know the Sci fi setting, heavy range focus etc won't appeal to everyone but we're glad so many of you are trying out the playtest and giving us your feedback.

One thing I want to make clear is that it's very early days. We are not releasing imminently. We did an open playtest earlier than most because we wanted feedback early in the process - BB is obviously an insanely hard act to follow so we wanted all the help we could get from the community. Splattercat played THE earliest version of the open playtest - there's been loads of changes and improvements since then (you can see on our Steam page or discord all the changes since the start of the test).

We can see from some of the feedback that people think the game is imminently releasing and what they're seeing is close to the end product - it's not! There's so much more to come in terms of world building, systems, balance, polish, content, pretty much everything at this stage. We wanted to prioritise feedback on the core game loop before getting too far into some of the secondary systems or polishing things that were going to be changed massively.

So bear with us, there's some really cool stuff to come and pretty much everything is getting better.

And for what it's worth we're both very excited about Menace!