ASKA Roadmap for 2024 and August Major Update Condensed

For all of you Vikings out there, Sand Sailor Studios, the developers of ASKA, revealed not only their roadmap but they also released a major update to the game by August 30, 2024. If you had the time to read our Early Access review, you know we loved the game during our time playing it around June 2024. While it then still had some weaknesses, there was more to love than to criticize: the atmosphere, the sounds and music, and how well it performed.

But back to the updates! Firstly, we condense the content of the August update for you:

• Custom World Settings
• Players can now create custom game worlds that better suit their playstyle and interests. You can increase or decrease the difficulty to either have a more challenging or more relaxed time while playing. For example, you can now control (or even fully disable) monster invasions, increase or decrease the amount of animals living in the world, or decrease the decay rate of buildings (yay!).
• New Buildings
• Outhouse: Villagers will now passively ‘produce’ the new resource ‘compost’ for your farms - huh!
• Beauty Pit: give your character a visual makeover.
• Metal Part Collector: lets you collect broken metal parts to re-forge into something new.
• Spiked walls and barricade improvements.
• AI improvements for animals, enemies, and villagers that mainly fix undesired behavior, like getting stuck in constructions (still looking at you, Hedda!).
• Many fixes and quality-of-life improvements, including (but not only):
• increased search range for villagers, better cart interactions, stronger and sturdier Wulfars (tamed dog companions), villagers assigned to cooking can now skin animals, better scaling for invasions, and more!

As shown on the ASKA Roadmap, Sand Sailor Studio plans three more major updates for 2024: in September, November, and December.
While the content of these updates is not yet known, the planned implementations sound incredibly exciting and fun. Our highlights are... all of them. But especially: Seafaring and Raids, a Road Planner, a cooking house upgrade, a cave makeover (please, please no more spider-guys), a Ragnar bear form (whaaaaat, for our characters?!), upgraded combat, and terraforming for slopes.

Here is the Roadmap that Sand Sailor Studio revealed on Steam (which is subject to change, so if in doubt, consult the Steam link we provided down below):

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