Project Silverfish DEMO

This is absolutely amazing and it's very generous of you to release a 'demo' like this. but I have 1 problem with the game right now.

The factions are not visually distinct enough from each other, so it's hard to tell people apart unless they are showing their patch, which they might not, or it might be blending in with their uniform, like lonely wolves. 

Uniforms look good and distinctive under the bright light, like in the examples on their faction page, but you rarely see them so perfectly lit in the game. 

I'm not suggesting you should brighten up the colors, I have something else in mind. 

Look at the visual faction differences in the original Stalker games(stalker 2 sucks in this way, lol), every faction is different enough to have distinctly unique silhouettes - mercs have those huge vests with pockets, loners love their hoods, bandits always have someone wearing a long coat in their group, etc. And to top it off, they have unique walking animations - bandits are dragging their feet while slouched, duty keep their backs straight, loners always move holding their head low... 

Add more personality to factions and they will become easier to tell apart.

This demo is great, the gun play feels great, movement is smooth and enemies are lethal if you underestimate them.

But there is a few problem though: 

why does the deer thing take 9 shotgun shots to the face to kill

sometimes the environmental hazard spawn too much (like 5-6 on a street) making crossing the road a challenge

Finally, i have 1 question: what is 7934

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!