Tamer Release Update & Nextfest Summary!
Hello adult gaming community!
We wanted to thank everyone for trying out the demo and posting their feedback. The wave of positivity has been incredible for the studio to experience after all our hard work.
A bit of a background on us:
We are a small 6-person team that’s been working on Tamer: King of Dinosaurs for the last 3 years. We had a humble budget, and we are really proud of what we’ve made so far with the amount of pennies we’ve stretched.
We are dedicated to making adult games that focus on story and romance combined with fun game mechanics, and we hope to make games well into the future with your support.
At this point, we’ve had nearly 20,000 people play the demo. We worried there would be way more issues than what’s been posted in this forum (because we are a small team and could only do so much testing), so we are really happy that only a small amount of players had issues.
Even though your feedback has been largely positive, we know that we know we’ll have to update some mechanics, fix and some bugs and make some additional adjustments to make players happier. Most of all, we want to make sure we can deliver the game according to our own expectations and deliver the way we know we can with enough time.
Therefore, we want to announce that we are planning on Early Access at the end of April 2026 - though it might not be fair to call it "Early Access" as the game should be 100% done at that point in terms of content so you can experience the entire story.
We think full release will be in August 2026 and you can expect the fully polished product at that time.
Here is some feedback from the demo, all of which we are currently working to address:
- We need to work on the controls during the chase module. Players have noted issues with the camera as well. Some have expressed they don't like the QTEs.
- There are some sporadic issues with sounds and voices, especially with volume and EQ.
- Pathing issues during the walking sequence where players are getting caught on terrain or falling through the map.
- For the erotic scene UI: When we were first designing the game, we argued for quite a while about how much directorial power to give players. Some of us wanted to make the interface limited and easy to use, and some of us wanted to have all the tools to control every part of it. We eventually decided to give the gooners as many tools as possible. That being said, we need to install a tutorial to help everyone understand how to best use the module and improve the areas that people don't like.
- Steam Deck: Our lead art engineer is a rabid Steam Deck player, and he’s sworn on the blood of his ancestors to make the game run well on Steam Deck. The fix is in the works.
- For the combat: We had a combat system in place last year, but we were struggling to make it fun. We ended up implementing a new system that worked much better, but then we found ourselves pushed up against the Next Fest demo deadline. We simply ran out of time to polish it a point we'd consider it solid for public release and made the difficult decision to not include it in the demo as a result. The great news is this new system will be implemented by the start of Early Access.
If you guys have questions or comments, please leave them in this thread and we can address them. It means a lot to receive your feedback, good or bad, so our team can make good on our promise to deliver a fantastic adult title that everyone can enjoy for years to come.
Sincerely,
Ride the Lion Studios