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Len’s Island Releases Major Gamemodes Update Introducing Countless New Customizable Features and Fortifying Gameplay!
Test your survival skills with new hardcore and perma-death gamemodes, defeat dangerous night raids, and uncover mysterious new underground biomes.
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July 17, 2024
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Flow Studio :
[Brisbane, Australia - July 17th, 2024] - There are more ways than one to play Len’s Island with the release of the major Gamemodes update, out now on Steam. This update introduces an endless amount of customizable game settings alongside a list of unexpected new features that spark a fresh and engaging experience for all players.
Official Developer Preview: Len’s Island - Gamemodes Update Developer Preview
Players can now create their perfect playthrough by choosing from a variety of preset gamemodes and tweaking game settings at any time during gameplay to suit their playstyle. The Gamemodes update includes new hardcore and perma-death gamemodes that are made to challenge any skilled player with intense combat, brutal harvest moons and harsh survival mechanics. Players that are looking for a specific gameplay experience can curate their own playthrough with the new custom mode where they can choose from multiple game settings, making Len’s Island as easy or as difficult as they please. The addition of these new preset modes along with customisable game settings allow players to have complete freedom over the game's direction and adds a layer of personalisation never before seen in Len’s Island.
The Gamemodes update also brings a highly requested yet extremely controversial change to the nighttime of Len’s Island. During nightfall, players must defend their farms and homesteads from intense enemy raids as voidlings spawn in hoards on every island each night. Players who enjoy fortifying combat can defend their homes in exciting and creative ways by using an array of new defence weapons such as tesla towers, ballista bows, palisade walls, lightstone wards and landmines. However, this feature can be skipped completely by sleeping each night, or can be altered to become easier or more challenging in the new gamemodes settings.
The underground cave system has also been updated to include a variety of engaging new areas to discover. Explore enchanted mushroom forests and formidable underground strongholds that are full of rewards and mystery. These new areas contain challenging enemies guarding high-tier loot, and once cleared, are the perfect place for building outposts and farming mushrooms.
The Len’s Island Gamemodes update is available on Steam in Early Access now, and the game is set to launch in 1.0 later this year. For more updates on the game, check out Len’s Island on YouTube, Twitter, and their official website.
Gamemodes Features:
New Major Preset Gamemodes: Test your survival skills and experience the ultimate challenge with the intense new Hardcore and Perma-death gamemodes. Fight hordes of enemies, endure brutal harvest moons and survive until the end to reap the official achievements and glory.
Create Your Own Custom Gamemode: Curate your perfect playthrough from the very beginning by tweaking a variety of game settings. Choose how you experience Len’s Island by making the game easier or harder than ever before.
New Defence Weapons: Defend your base in creative ways using new defence weapons including tesla towers, ballista bows, palisade walls, lightstone wards, and landmines. Turn your small farm into an impenetrable fortress to protect from harvest moons and nighttime enemies!
Discover New Cave Biomes: Roam the cave network and discover a plethora of new mushroom forests and underground enemy strongholds spread across the map. Destroy powerful voidlings, pillage their high-tier loot and build a home among the trees underground.
Defend Against Night Raids: Fight dangerous enemies through the night and protect your homestead against their powerful armies. Engage in exhilarating combat to keep you on your toes in the aboveground world or skip it all by sleeping before the sun goes down.
New Custom Game Settings: Modify your game at any time using the new custom game settings menu. Take advantage of having complete freedom over your game’s direction with one click of a button.
Improvements to Peaceful Mode: Changes to peaceful mode include enemies not spawning at night or during harvest moons, and the player's backpack does not drop during death. The new custom game settings also provide peaceful players with further options to tweak including the resource gathering multiplayer that makes foraging easier.
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About Flow Studio
Starting as a solo weekend project around 6 years ago, Julian Ball created Len’s Island to make his vision for the perfect game come to life. As the development of Len’s Island progressed, Julian created an independent game development studio called Flow Studio, which is currently headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. The team is a small group of creatives with a common passion: to create gaming experiences they are truly proud of. Flow Studio has steadily grown from two developers since launching Len’s Island into Early Access in 2021 to the now five-developer team from Australia and Europe. For more information, please visit the official website.
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