Following Enshrouded’s impressive early access launch back in January, developer Keen Games has shared the first iteration of its 2024 roadmap for the co-op survival action-RPG, featuring the likes of animal farming, weather, world events, and more.
Keen Games revealed its roadmap – heavily inspired by the community’s most-requested features – over on Steam, explaining, “On the one hand, we have big ambitions for the game, and loads of ideas! On the other hand, Enshrouded is a brand new game, and some of the things we want to do might turn out to be more difficult than we can anticipate! It’s a push-and-pull of wanting to keep you interested, without over-promising on our capacity to deliver.”
To that end, Keen’s initial 2024 roadmap includes a mix of smaller-scale and more ambitious features – spanning everything from new biomes to the ability to sit on chairs – with the following all planned to release as part of Enshrouded’s “next few updates”:
Mountains biomeHollow Halls dungeonsAnimal farmingMusical instrumentsWeather systemVanity systemNew enemies and bossesLocation improvementsNameable map locationsMultiple NPC instancesTownsfolk NPCsTownsfolk petsEnemy patrolsMore trees to growPotted plantsRound doors and windowsNew building materialsNamed tombstonesNameable basesEditable signsSitting on furnitureWorkshops craft from magic questsReplayable world questsBetter quest sortingImproved loot UIBetter stack splittingReassignable glider shortcutMultiplayer pingsPerformance improvementsSmoother high FPS gameplayImproved post processingFixes and polishingPortals to other serversServer gamerplay settingsServer user rightsSteam Deck support
It’s an exciting list (even if the vast majority of my time in Enshrouded has so far been spent obssessively prettifying an increasingly elaborate base) and Keen says the game’s next update will arrive later this month. But there’s even more to come, with the developer also outlining a number of more substantial features aiming to release “later this year”:
More biomesWorld eventsInstanced dungeonsWaterSharing and listing of basesCreate and share gameplay experiences
One caveat to all this, as Keen notes in its announcement, is the roadmap is a “living and breathing thing” and “will change as we develop the game and things turn out to be harder (or easier!) to implement than we originally thought”.