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Orsoniks’ Cave-Survival Sim Reaches Version 1.0
Casualties: Unknown is out now in full on Steam. Developer Orsoniks announced the release overnight, and the game was the top seller on Steam’s Australian store early on Tuesday morning.
The launch post sets out what changed since the demo. The full game has “twice as many layers, 40 achievements, multiple characters, endings and a ton of QoL, bugfixes and miscellaneous content.”
The Steam page calls it “an unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator”. Captors send the player to a foreign planet to retrieve lost cargo, as one of thousands of test subjects sent down its 11 layers.
Injuries are central to the design. The store page lists a simulated cardiovascular and limb damage system, and players bandage wounds, fight infection and stabilise blood loss before they black out.
The page also lists 300 items, three characters with their own playstyles, and loot and danger values that can be adjusted from the main menu.
The Release 1.0 Patchnotes add layers 6 to 11, the endings and two new playable characters. They also bring an endless mode, item customisation with colours and labels, prosthetics, new traps and more plushies.
Some changes soften the game, and some do not. The amputation minigame is now less punishing and can be done on limbs that are not infected, while a separate change means “You can now have both legs amputated.”
The notes describe the list as incomplete, with many smaller changes not documented.
The demo is staying up, but it will not be updated beyond a small text fix for typos and the new ePDAs. Bugs can be reported on the game’s Discord.
On the Australian Steam store, Casualties: Unknown is A$28.00 on Windows, 15% off its A$32.95 price. Bundles pair it with Rain World, Palworld, Barotrauma and Abiotic Factor, and the soundtrack is sold separately.
Orsoniks signs off the post by describing Casualties: Unknown as a project three years in the making. A mostly complete changelog running from beta 7.0.1 to release 1.0 is linked from the same post, for players coming over from the demo.
Source: Orsoniks – Casualties: Unknown full release announcement (Steam), Orsoniks – Release 1.0 Patchnotes (Steam), Steam – Casualties: Unknown