{"rewrite":{"id":"r_07a3c24f9ae463806e40cb9f","clusterId":"c_634513e32f7c633422806540","slug":"under-canopies-enters-early-access-with-no-combat-and-a-roadmap-to-1-0","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Under Canopies Enters Early Access With No Combat and a Roadmap to 1.0","summary":"Novemtails has released Under Canopies in early access on Steam, a first-person survival crafting game set in a peaceful forest. Players build a cabin, grow crops, cook, and photograph wild animals to earn their trust. Hunger, thirst, stamina, and temperature are tracked, but there is no combat, no hunting, and the player never dies. A roadmap runs through a photo lab, canoe, underground biome, and version 1.0.","whyItMatters":"Solo developer Roberto spent about four years on a survival game that removes the danger the genre usually runs on, and the roadmap shows he intends to finish it rather than leave it in early access.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe early access build is 25% off until November, according to the store listing. Behind it is a roadmap that runs from a photo lab, companions, and a canoe, through a food preservation and cooking update, to an underground biome and the story\u0026#39;s conclusion, then version 1.0. Novemtails says the plans may change with development progress and feedback.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberto is a developer from Mexico who began learning game making about 12 years ago and worked on releases as part of a company before this. He calls Under Canopies his first commercial game made and released on his own, grown from a small personal project he started roughly four years ago. He shared his workspace during development with nine cats.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Under Canopies tracks hunger, thirst, stamina and temperature but removes death entirely, so the survival loop has to carry tension without a fail state. The roadmap bet is that photography and the photo lab can.","twitterPost":"Under Canopies keeps hunger and temperature meters but deletes death, so the pressure has to come from the roadmap's photo lab rather than a fail state.","threadsPost":"Under Canopies keeps the survival meters (hunger, thirst, stamina, temperature) but removes death, hunting and combat. Without a fail state, the systems have to create friction on their own, and Novemtails is leaning on animal trust and the planned photo lab to do it.","newsletterBlurb":"Novemtails has launched Under Canopies in early access on Steam, a first-person survival crafting game with hunger and temperature but no combat, hunting, or death. A roadmap covers a photo lab, canoe, underground biome, and version 1.0. Developer Roberto, working solo from Mexico, spent about four years on the project.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/24/174027.html\",\"title\":\"Cozy Survival Sim 'Under Canopies' Launches in Early Access! Live Relaxed in Nature With No Combat or Danger\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4610,"outputTokens":613,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792798646,"createdAt":"2026-10-23T23:33:41.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T23:36:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T23:36:09.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_634513e32f7c633422806540","canonicalTitle":"癒し系サバイバルシム『Under Canopies』早期アクセス開始！戦闘も危険もない大自然でのんびり暮らす","representativeArticleId":"a_7b1493d53ce7c50b829e69db","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Under Canopies\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-23T22:30:02.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-23T22:30:02.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T23:36:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/24/174027.html","title":"癒し系サバイバルシム『Under Canopies』早期アクセス開始！戦闘も危険もない大自然でのんびり暮らす"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Under Canopies"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}