Sign up for closed beta!

Hey everyone,

Closed beta signups for Derail Valley have begun!

As announced in our previous post, we will be providing beta access to selected core community members on September 30, and slowly expand it to more testers over the following weeks and months.

Apply for the beta here: CLOSED BETA SIGNUP FORM

Note that we don’t guarantee access to every tester who signed up. Amount of approved testers will be limited and we will prioritize those who have actively participated in discussions on forums or Discord, as well as those who have logged in significant amount of playtime with the demo.

Note: Steam lets us see playtime of demos only if you played them recently. If you haven't played Derail Valley demo in the past two weeks please start and close the game so it becomes visible on your Steam profile under “All Recently Played”.

We’ll start with a small group of selected testers and during beta include more testers with each update. Updates are aimed to be made on a weekly basis. If you’ve been given access, you will receive an email from us.

Why beta?

In case you missed it, give our previous post a read. Our goal with the beta rollout is primarily to provide something new to those of you who have been eagerly waiting for the now postponed release, but also to receive feedback, performance and bug reports regarding new features.

Tester community:

In the next days we’ll establish dedicated channels where beta testers will be able to provide feedback, discuss updates between each other and receive information about beta updates. We’ll include those in the beta access confirmation email.

Game status:

We are calling it closed beta as it gives beta access for the Early Access release. However the game itself is in pre-alpha state, and will only be in alpha when it is released in Early Access.

As expected the game is incomplete and heavily in progress. Initial “beta” release will showcase some additions, but expect a lot of missing features, content and polish (especially due to transition to the large world). From the initial beta release we will be updating the game regularly, adding missing features and content.

Until we get the game to a more satisfactory state, please note that we ask testers not to reveal any information about beta content publicly, including descriptions, reviews, screenshots or videos. You will be able to share this information with other testers however, and later publicly once we’re happy with the game’s state and have explicitly permitted sharing.

Beta duration:

We’re yet to determine how long the beta signups and beta access will last. This will probably be as long as it takes us to get the game to the intended level of completeness for Early Access release.