Developer Kyle Lindsey announced on Monday of this week that Gemlands will be leaving Steam “in 1 week” on April 24th. The game launched just over a year ago but due to continued development and performance issues Lindsey has decided to remove it from sale, offering a peculiar warning to anyone who picks up the $0.99 title before next week.
As some of you may know, Gemlands was a passion project of mine and I was very happy to share it with the world, but there has always been extremely high CPU usage ever since it was released.
After a very long time, tinkering, and trying different changes, I am unable to solve this issue. I have also royally screwed up my unreal engine project trying to fix it, and it’s extremely buggy as-is and won’t launch anymore
So I have made the decision to take Gemlands off of the store page. Maybe one day I wlil return and try yet again to fix it, but I feel that right now, Its time to move on to working on my next game project (which is already well underway).
For those who own Gemlands, you should still be able to launch and play it, but no new purchases will be permitted atarting Monday the 24th, April 2023
Thanks everyone who supported the game!
And please note that playing the current live build DOES use an unusually high amount of CPU (some users report 100% usage) so extended playtime could potentially harm your computer (although the game itself is extremely short), it’s still something to keep in mind
Steam Announcement – April 17, 2023
I’ve added the date to the Watch List calendar and we’ll have a page up on the site later. Thanks to Serrated-banner9 for submitting the news.