Project Silverfish DEMO

If this is the "demo"... I eagerly await the full release.

Good gravy, this is some of the best gunplay, atmosphere and horror I've seen from an indie title in... forever.

Love the zones, love the scalies, the lore's very intriguing, love the ambience, love love love the guns (and that I can shovel some orange douche in the face).

Don't love some of the... things I've seen... in the dark. But you put in grenade and rocket launchers so that's fair.

Honestly, the only thing I'd love is a bit more RPG-ness - talking with my black/red boys, chilling by the cute little stove, getting juicy gossip I have to decipher to find an artifact, etc.

That and maybe some character customization apart from armor/patch (holy heck you went berserk on the number of patches!).

Great demo and I'm sure great game when it gets released. takemymoney.meme 100%.

Are the dungeon entrances that say "keep out" going to be available in the full version? Or in a later demo?

Absolute banger demo. I sinked 16 hours into it already. Cant wait for the full game. Keep it up!

why I was wanted by the whole city as soon as I opened a new save (except for that strange junk shop owner), whether it was because I had a problem with my character's skin, or because I wasn't supposed to kill anyone in the League, must have been due to my lack of full understanding of the game text. The game is great overall, the AI is great, the NPCs are great, and some of the monster characters are designed to remind me of《Pacific Drive》, the fights are cool, and at the same time exercise my indomitable spirit!

Really fun game for rainy days, tea, and a long video/ podcast. Just really fun. Felt a little stupid when I saw other characters like mine running around and acting with some solid AI, I thought they were actual people because of how some reacted poorly where others seemed REALLY smart. Super fun and cant wait to sink more hours into it. 

Keep it up Champ!!

Basically what if Metro Exodus + Stalker series + Scalies have a baby, still a solid game.

Played thru steam, Pretty cool.

So very excited for this !!!

This seems like fun :3 (i would play it but the game crashes under Proton :c)

Ah well, my laptop is slightly below spec anyways (8GB DDR3 RAM, Intel HD Graphics 5500, 2.7 GHz 4-Core CPU)

hello I am here to say that I fucking love this game. :)

This game is very promising. There's a few little annoyances (such as objects on the ground causing my camera to wobble very weirdly and make me move around unrealistically) but I'm really liking what's here so far.

I definitely feel that some sort of character progression is needed, though. Perks/Skills to build through or something would be nice - or maybe some way to unlock new kinds of attributes for future characters or something... I dunno. I like the gameplay loop for sure, but I don't really know if it just being a loot and shoot with the occasional fetch quest or kill-this quest is going to be a long-lived experience (still... this is a very early alpha so I have no idea what's planned in the future so I'm hopeful)

Will updating the game to the newest version delete previous progress? If so, is there a way to transfer it over? Thanks!

Im a filthy hoarder so i have a question , will storage chests in safe houses gonna be connected ? or as an option in custom settings only ? it would make this game easy which i dont think u wanna do it , but its just my question :V

Best game I've found on itch.io... by far. Is there a wiki, or a way to create a wiki to understand more of the game? I understand its only in Alpha, but it would be cool to have a little more info. Thanks!

Love it

Do you happen to have a roadmap for this project? ^^

Played as the Veteran and got jealous of everyone else's tail.

Shot everyone else in the tail with shotgun!

But they still keep full tail, and mine is still nub. :C

10/10, experienced tail-related emotion, will play again.

At first you don't understand, but then you're chiki briki v damki

greatly enjoyed the demo but im really REALLY struggling to differentiate between the faction soldiers, doesnt help they can see you in the dark a lot better than you can see them

im honestly loving this demo so far combat is fun and everything feels worth the adventure. i do hope we get to customize our character in the future tho!!

I love furry escape from stalkov!

Finally managed to put some hours into this and had a really good time! The map is great to explore and kept up my curiosity throughout. Between scrounging around for equipment (finding the Revenant Helm was actual hype) and getting in with the different factions so they'll sell me better stuff the progression feels natural. I loved stumbling into some rotting and forgotten place in zone patrol and that's totally present here already too.

My only tangible request so far would be to have separate sensitivities for aiming from the hip and down the sights. The former always felt too slow and the latter too fast for me.

Excited to see where this goes and 100% a buy from me!

Great game! I will definitely buy it as soon as it becomes available 

 I expected a maximum of 10 minutes of gameplay from the demo, but instead I got 10 hours. Moreover, I was able to get the emotions that I got during the very first playthrough of stalker, especially when going down to the first laboratory. 

At the same time, there is a really large variety of mechanics. When trying to set fire to hay in the barn with a lighter, I accidentally set myself on fire.

 The anomalies also seem more creative than those in stalker. I especially liked the anomaly  "glass strings". It is very pleasant to cut with a knife. And also the shadow wendigo in the laboratory (I thought he was a monster, but the detector showed strong anomalous activity near him). 

And with all this, I did not have a single critical bug. 

Yay!

This game is so f'ing good. Need help tho. I'm stuck in building rooftop because of some fire monster that won't die.

WE HAVE DONE IT

after a lot of attempts, we completed every available quest on Permadeath, specifically as artificer. we fuckin love Project Silverfish so much, the dungeon-crawling is great, the variety of items and gear makes exploring and trading and etc etc really interesting, it's cool how there's not a whole lot of just linear "this is better" and "this is worse" for stuff so there's tons of flexibility, the bones of im-sim interactive mechanics are really promising for what they might grow into, the world is fascinating, the fallout-esque sci-fi-cold-war vibe to the ruins is great, god just. it's already really, really good. we've never racked up almost three dozen hours in what is technically ostensibly a demo so enthusiastically before lol

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I gathered loot, broke a radio jammer for a quest, collected frogs, accidently go into a massive firefight. . . got more loot! Saw some strange traps and got exploded by a plasma grenade! 

Would recommend very fun to play! 

Gunplay is good, Good Variety of loot, and has a huge map with a lot of interesting environments!

STALKER but set in a weird alternative Europe with kobolds, freaky robomutants, and supernatural weirdness? Instantly my thing, without a doubt.

I know this is a very, very early demo, but this is a solid base for building on. The map is varied and interesting. There's several cool factions and a lot of fun worldbuilding already in play. A heavy amount of content for something so early too. Plenty of basic quests to get your feet wet with. Not to mention, a huge variety of weapons to toy with. I was expecting to barely have anything available, but you clearly wanted to have every base covered. The fact there's no only base weapons of each category, but also variants with unique components and capabilities is really cool. And lots of enemies to experience, especially on the mutant front! Mostly unique too, each with their own quirks.

I particularly like switching the STALKER style hunger system to being merely a boost to speed rather than being something you have to deal with or risk dying. Especially given this is a much harsher game on the loot front. I've only found a couple artifacts here and there, but I honestly think they seem neat at least. Interested to see how their gameplay grows as the game fleshes out.

The style of the game is also wonderful. I love the strange mixture of realistic mid-20th century industrial areas with the vaguely dieselpunk magitek and what appear to be cybernetic zombies and undead creatures born from experiments. There's a few love letters to your inspiration, I can see can see the Snork in a few of the designs, but they do things their own way...picking up the small gas mask for the first time and reading the description while examining the body made it clear that whatever caused this involved some seriously messed up stuff. I enjoyed being able to use the terminals to read more about the lore of the world as well. My hope is you eventually include a similar encyclopedia to how Shadow of Chernobyl did it, allowing the player to locate information on the various mutants and learn their possible origins and how the stalkers of this particular zone regard them.

I do distinctly feel that both the armor and weapon drop systems need a bit of a tweak though. It is incredibly difficult to find any armor with any level of bullet protection, whereas environmental armors are very common. Combat helmets, at the very least, feel reasonably easy to find. Weapons, meanwhile, are overly tuned to their base variants. I very rarely encounter higher quality variants in even the higher tier shops, and usually need to luck out with enemies or loot. This makes it a pain and a half to get any weapon with a taclight on it, let alone scopes or reflex sight. Just a slight bit more commonality to mid-tier weapons to allow for DMRs and sighted rifles would be appreciated, because you can at least supplement the lack of light with a suitable helmet.

The factions are interesting in their build up of lore, but at the moment it feels like there is very little difference in terms of tactics and equipment between the military, the revolutionaries, and the right-wing militia members. While they have vaguely different outfits, in terms of colors and styles, they lack the equipment diversity that STALKER's factions have. Seeming to use the same rifles, pistols, shotguns, and so on with the Army just having a slightly higher quality of weapons compared to the two rebel groups. Giving each one their own preferences would help both increase loot potential and require the player to adjust tactics for each group. Likewise, I barely see any Revolutionaries at all, even near their territories. I expected the Flood Plains to be a constant battleground between the three groups, but I only ever found mutants and militia members. Revolutionary patrols only seem to occasionally crop up in the Depot. I assume that'll be changed quickly, but it's something I noticed very quickly given the other factions spawn very, very frequently

Also, lockpicks are ridiculously rare. Practically no shops sell them, I had to find someone willing to trade gauze for them to even stock up. Speaking of trades, I've seen NPCs offer trades for what I assume are irreplaceable items, like keys. I assume this is just a randomization bug that doesn't consider whether or not the item is important, but I thought I should note it.

I've also had a couple quests bug out on me. The wrench in the warehouse, unless it's located in the cistern below, is seemingly missing. Likewise, the Missing Contact quest vanished from my quest log after digging up the package and I couldn't turn it in. A few of the other quests, like the train documents and the computer board, I have been unable to locate the objectives of due to the lack of hints on where to go. Finally, the keypads in some of the RG East lab don't seem to accept the codes you can find that go to them. This might, again, be the demo's alpha nature causing that though.

Do not mistake my critique for not liking anything though. I've not put this demo down since you released it. It's everything I love about these sorts of games, with the added bonus of a very unique world and some really interesting ideas on both combat and gameplay compared to the source. I really cannot wait to see how this slowly builds up, I bet it'll easily compare to the official STALKER sequel by the end! Keep up the great work!

I can see myself playing this. The combat is a little wonky. Having to crouch at the apex of the jump to mantle doesn't feel right. Enemies aggro from across the map. Some ambient noise or music would be great. It was fun though.