What can you expect from the demo?

Here's the summary:

• Most (if not all) combat mechanics: the combat system will be there fully implemented and the way it works will remain the same throughout the game - though various balance changes will be implemented as development progresses.
• Presentable combat visual and sound effects: we don't expect to be able to achieve the quality that we want for the final release right away - this is a part that will be constantly improved during development.
• Progression system(leveling-up): using the experience acquired you will be able to unlock new perks that you can make unique builds with - and of course you'll be able to employ the new builds in action.
• 4 enemies: Each enemy will have an standing animation and different sprites used for it's skills. Each will also have a unique sex sprite (though it won't be animated yet, the animation will come in future updates).
• The beginning of the plot, representing about 1/3 of Chapter 1: the game will be divided into 3 chapters, each one being a bit bigger than the previous, in the demo you'll be able to play through the first main quest.
• One procedurally-generated dungeon crawling area with a unique background (that will be used on combats that happen in the area).
• All the menus (character panel, pause menu, main menu) will be complete and likely won't need more work after the demo.
• Save system with iron gauntlet "toggle" included.
• Presentable sound effects properly placed.
• 1 hour of expected playtime.

What are the first goals after the demo?

• Getting all the enemies's sex animations done.
• Adding two more enemies.
• Adding one extra dungeon crawling area.
• Adding the next main quest.
• Add various random events you might encounter while exploring.

How much is left until the demo releases?

• A few CGs (~5): we have almost all the CGs we need and Akaonimir is already working on the few remaining ones.
• Sound effects (we have about 25-30% of what we need): a lot of parts of the game are still in need of soundwork, we are a bit behind on this area because ZheroMusic (our sound engineer) was busy with college the last 2 months - however his semester just finished so he is now finally catching up with the accumulated work.
• In-combat "barks": if you played Darkest Dungeon barks are what they call the pop-up dialogues that characters say during combat, we still need to organize what kind of barks the game will contain, then have Kattlarv (writer) write those and finally I have to insert those into the combat code.
• Make 4 different animations of the mist in-combat: each variation will represent how dense the mist is (it will work in a similar manner as the torch system in DD), I also need to finish coding the effects of those variations into the characters (about 1/2 done).
• Code all the perks and their interactions: I already coded the base of the perk system but I still need to make all the individual perks themselves and present those to the player on the character panel.
• Find good royalty-free soundtracks to use as placeholders until ZheroMusic has time to make our custom ones: since he is quite busy with the sound effects we decided to use placeholders in order to avoid delaying the demo release.
• Finish the character-panel (about 1/2 done), the character panel is where you will be able to:
  ->Check your combat stats.
  ->Upgrade your combat stats using points you get by leveling-up.
  ->Check your corruption "progress".
  ->Chose new perks and select the ones you want to keep active.
• Code in-combat AI for the NPCs: I already know how I want to do it - just need to spend the time to get it done.
• Code in-combat AI for Nema (your sister): she will have a different, more complex AI than the other NPCs will - it will take a bit more time but It can be achieved in a reasonable time.
• Throughly test all of it: the project is currently in a stable state - new bugs we have been finding are mostly related to recently-made features and I have been able to quickly fix those. Despite that being a good sign I want to make sure the game is in a very stable state before I release it to the public - properly testing all the features consumes time but it is absolutely necessary.