StarCrawlers Chimera Progress Update – Skill Trees, Chemical Labs & Alpha Progress

Earlier this year, Juggernaut Games successfully Kickstarted StarCrawlers Chimera, their upcoming single-character sci-fi dungeon crawler. And now, we get this here update highlighting the game’s progress since then. Beyond just that, the update tells us about a couple of still upcoming alpha and beta updates the game will be receiving prior to its eventual early access release.

Have a look:

Backers, we’ve been busy and have lots to share with progress on skill trees, the Chemical Labs floor, and general Alpha progress – let’s go!

Skill Trees

Based on Alpha backer feedback, we’ve focused early development on expansion of the skill trees which Alpha backers have been experimenting with in the latest builds. At this point, there are 36 skill trees ready for play when we enter Early Access! We recently released the new Space Pirate, Bio Mods, Chaotic Mutant and Cursed! skill trees and Alpha backers have been playing with them and sharing their experiences with us on Discord. With this 1st round of skill trees complete, our next few updates will see improvements to the skill selection screen (previews!) and refinement and expansion of the abilities in each tree.

The Chemical Labs

With the skill trees coming together, it’s time to forge deeper into the Chimera building into the Chemical Labs. We previewed this floor in a previous Kickstarter update and we’re gearing up to make it accessible in a future Alpha build. Our super-talented artist Tony has been working in his own laboratory to put together weapons and equipment for the Chemlab enemies to make sure your run ends in failure.

Alpha Progress Overview

So far, with support from the Alpha backers, Alpha has been rolling along smoothly! Each update has been successively fixing bugs, refining features, and adding content. With the majority of our base systems in place, we’re almost ready to start digging into additional flavor systems (ChimeraLinq, TFTs, etc), focusing on content production (Chemical Labs, new enemies, new loot!), and getting those Quality of Life feature requests in for testing.

Alpha Backer Alert

If you backed at a tier that offers Alpha access and haven’t yet responded to your survey to receive access through Steam or GOG – we need to hear from you! Please message us through Kickstarter or come shout at us on Discord to get set up.

What’s Next? & when is the next Kickstarter update?

The next big Alpha update will feature the Chemical Labs. On the horizon is Beta and Early Access release for Steam and In Dev release for GOG. The next Kickstarter update will come with the launch of Beta and the sending of keys to all the Beta backers. When there’s Beta news to share, we’ll be sharing it here first.

In Closing

As always, a huge thank you to all of our backers and special shout-out to everyone who has been playing in Alpha and guiding development with your feedback, bug reports, character builds and gameplay stories!

– Juggernaut Games