The Dark Forest and The Dark Cave are being officially ported to PC.
January 12, 2025
We're incredibly excited to announce that after nearly 3 years, the exciting world of The Dark Forest will finally make its way to PC with The Dark Forest Enhanced Edition.
The Dark Forest Enhanced Edition is the definitive version of the game, currently only on Windows.
This version of the game includes many new things, including:
- Two new difficulties
- Completely rebalanced gameplay
- New Game+
- Support for up to six save slots
- Achievements
- Pause menu
- Ability to replay chapters and boss fights after completing a save
- The Dark Cave built seamlessly into the game
- Modernized and clearer controls
- Countless bug fixes
And even more!
All of this is realized by a new in-house engine that the original games have been ported onto, which future Letopa games will utilize even further.
It's been a while since we've released a game.
The Dark Forest was originally released in April of 2022, and what we accomplished with it was amazing, to say the least.
We had always been disappointed that our game had never properly been ported to PC natively, let alone Windows, and decided that it was time to change that.
After months of work, we are finally confident that we have made it worth playing over the original in every way.
The power of a good engine is only matched by a good team
In pursuit of making similar games to The Dark Forest, we started making a new engine intended to accelerate and ease the development of our games.
We also started hiring again, having tripled the size of our team in under a year.
The LetopaCore engine has allowed us to work on many of the new features seen in this Enhanced Edition, and future games as well.
We believe that knowledge should be shared.
Later this year, we will be making the LetopaCore engine open-source and publicly available for anyone to use for their own games and more.
We hope that the open version, LCORE (Letopa Core Open-Source Runtime Engine), will help developers as much as it did us
Every one of our games will feature a new version of the engine, and the new versions will always be open-sourced some time following that.
We plan to release LCORE Generation 1 in Q3 or Q4 of 2025.
The release date you've all been waiting for.
The Dark Forest Enhanced Edition will be releasing on April 26 of this year.
If you can't wait that long, some of you will be lucky enough to be selected for the closed beta test.
Selected people should be contacted soon to participate in the closed beta, which will take place from March 22 to April 1 (no April Fools jokes here!).