What's in the KUTO Demo: One Era, Two Bosses, Free
The KUTO: The Lock of Time demo is free on Steam. Here is exactly what is in it: one era, a dozen locations, the core mechanics, two bosses, and what your PC needs.
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Dmytro Senchenko
Product Owner of KUTO: The Lock of Time
Dmytro Senchenko is the Product Owner of KUTO: The Lock of Time — he sets what the game becomes and the order it gets built in. He's also the creator of Digital Legacy. He writes here from the product side: why a system earned its place, what a feature is really for, and how the parts of a time-bending action-platformer fit together.
Articles by Dmytro Senchenko
KUTO Free Demo Is Out, and We're in Steam Next Fest
The KUTO: The Lock of Time demo is out. It's free, anyone with a Steam account can play it today, and on October 19 the game joins Steam Next Fest.
KUTO Playtest Week One: 153 Deaths, 30 Hours
285 people got access, 52 launched the game, and four of them told us the same thing about the combat. Here is the first week of the playtest in numbers.
KUTO Closed Playtest — Request Access on Steam
We're looking for people to play an early build and tell us what's wrong with it. Requesting access is one button on the Steam page, and we let people in in waves.
KUTO Playtest — Sign Up for the September Build
The first playable slice — one level, the Minotaur, Athena, and time rewind — goes to testers in early September. Here's what you'd be playing, what isn't in yet, and how to sign up.
KUTO on the GameDev DOU Podcast
An hour with GameDev DOU on the studio's first game, why KUTO came next, and what development looks like from a front-line city. Ukrainian, with a translated chapter list.
Is Ascend to ZERO Worth It? An Honest Verdict
Ascend to ZERO turns time into a resource you spend, freeze, and steal back mid-run. It reviews Very Positive on Steam — here's the honest case for and against.
Game Manuals Had Better Lore Than Most Cutscenes
A stapled booklet, a hand-drawn map, three pages of history the game never mentions again. A love letter to the instruction manual — and what happened to all that lore when the booklet died.
Why KUTO Only Lets You Carry Two Time Keys
Five Time Keys exist in KUTO. You will never hold more than two. Here's the design argument behind the limit — the versions we tried, and the ones we threw away.