Alex Kane | AETHUS IS OUT NOW!👩‍🚀⛏

After three years of work, AETHUS is out... NOW! 👩‍🚀⛏️ This is my love letter to survival-crafting games, and it's a full 1.0 package - no EA! $15.99 at launch for 30+ hours of proper story-driven gameplay. Can you help me spread the word about my little indie game? #AETHUS

AETHUS is in the Spring Sale! For one more day until the launch discount runs out and then it's full price again because I am a 100% gamedev professional OK?... store.steampowered.com/app/2541530

@Super_Scoopy Ah that is so so lovely to hear! <3 Thank you so much my friend!

@Beacon_Dev Everything is so well thought out, the setting is cool, the story is good, your ai companion isn't annoying, I love the building system. An actual masterclass in solo development. I can promise you now that nothing will come out and bring me the same satisfaction this year.

We're one week on from the launch of AETHUS... It's been a wild one. 15,000+ players. Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam. Fifteen hotfixes. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. 💖 Check out the latest news post, one week on from launch!👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/25415…

@SpaceEngy It’s just next to Move, Dismantle, Duplicate in the build menu :)

@Beacon_Dev Well, I still don't see any button to enable themes, and I use habs yes

@Beacon_Dev Could it be that when you unlock Theme Mode (with the color chip things), that there is no such button/option in Build Mode? I don't see a button for it

@SpexyNZ <3

@Beacon_Dev Well deserved bud

@ZeroGravitasX @chrisbodegard Very very kind and much appreciated <3

@Beacon_Dev @chrisbodegard Chap, devs like you are the true creative heartbeat of the industry these days and I hope show the way for others where risk taking with design is concerned. The pleasure is entirely mine getting to enjoy and support projects like yours.

As I’ll more than likely be buying Crimson Desert next week I like to balance off a big game with some Indie purchases come pay day. Sooo that’s @Beacon_Dev ‘s ‘Aethus’, @chrisbodegard ‘s Esoteric Ebb and Magnum Scriptum’s Quasimorph all bought!

@SpaceEngy Sounds really weird, doesn't happen with other games? Sounds like some sort of power management thing on your system, like it's minimized so it's deprioritising it and that causes issues? It's not something I'm doing in the game 🤔

@Beacon_Dev Like, I usually have Discord open in the background and when I prss the Windows key to then click open Discord from the taskbar, if I leave it running for too long and come back, it freezes. Had it happen 3 times already

@Beacon_Dev The game is great so far! Although one thing that bugs me: the game freezes if it gets backgrounded for 2+ minutes.

@3DJFletcher legend! thanks so much! <3

@Beacon_Dev can't wait to try it out!

AETHUS is in the top 100 selling games on Steam right now. I'm stunned. Thank you so much.

@SurvivalGN Thanks for the support :)

Aethus reached 1.6k concurrent players on Steam 🙀 This is a great achievement for a solo developer.

@mathAparicio Next Fest is actually harder than ever, you have to break through to get this kind of result, there's just so many games. Thanks so much! <3

@Beacon_Dev fair enough! it’s amazing how much weight the Next Fest carries now. congrats again on the top 100, seeing an indie title there is always inspiring!

@DigitalFrost76 Amazing!

@Beacon_Dev It was more than a pleasure. This is going to be my main stream game for a good while to come for sure :)

Going live with my first playthrough of AETHUS! Time to dig into this sci-fi survival crafter and see what chaos I can cause underground. If you’re curious about the game or just want to watch me figure it out the hard way, come hang out 👀 twitch.tv/digitalfrost @Beacon_Dev

@blinkblinkgames I’m so so glad you’re enjoying the game! ❤️

GUYS. ... I can't even express how good/satisfying AETHUS is!! Played it on stream last night and CHECK THIS OUT: ... survival/crafting, can craft from chests, can build from chests, able to quick-stack like-mats in chests, intuitive building, able to move build pieces, mats refunded on destruction, workbenches/crafting has a search bar (!!!), no radial menus (huzzah! lol), able to move one/all from one inventory to another, mining/movement feels great. ... THIS GAME GOT SO MANY THINGS RIGHT (ie. UI & QoL stuff) THAT BIGGER STUDIOS DROP THE BALL ON. Go buy it right now if. 100% recommend. Come watch me play more on Twitch. #AETHUS @PawsmonautGames @Beacon_Dev

@rohan_rogue @FitgirlRepacks How do I call the pirates? 😂

@Beacon_Dev @FitgirlRepacks Celebrate it with a giveaway bro ... Both win win case . Call all pirates

@FitgirlRepacks is working on my game! Never imagined it'd be successful enough that people would want to pirate it 😅 If you really can't afford a Steam key, please DM me and I'll try to sort you out.

@SurvivalGN Thank you! The launch has been astonishing. I look forward to your score :)

@Beacon_Dev Wow, congrats! Getting into the top 100 best selling games is a great achievement.