Captain Soda — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1.7 Patch Notes | 2026-07-23 | - Fixed final boss achievement not firing |
| Steam Achievements fix | 2026-07-06 | Some of you may have encountered steam achievements not firing properly, this should be fixed now and you should get any of your achievements you would have unlocked by opening the game and selecting a save file. If anyone is still experiencing issues with not getting their achievements after this update, please let me know! |
| 1.1.6 Patch Notes | 2026-07-06 | - Fixed a couple crash issues - Fixed italian tutorial level complete text overflow |
| Less than 40 hours left before the Captain Soda Kickstarter ends | 2025-04-18 | Greetings, captains! We are in the final stretch! The Captain Soda Kickstarter campaign is ending in less than 40 hours. This is your last chance to support the game before the campaign ends. We have a variety of backer-exclusive rewards up for grabs - please check out the full details here. And don't forget to check out our latest post on Kickstarter featuring color vision deficiency accessibility options. Captain Soda is scheduled to launch in 2025 for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Until then, Captain Soda team |
| Captain Soda Kickstarter Is 100% Funded!!! | 2025-04-07 | Greetings, captains! Thanks to your support, the Captain Soda Kickstarter campaign is over 100% funded! We have 2 weeks left before the campaign ends, and would really appreciate if you could share it with your family and friends. We've also shared a development update showing footage of the Nintendo Switch version of Captain Soda running in Handheld Mode. Please check out the full post on Kickstarter here. Captain Soda is scheduled to launch in 2025 for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Until then, Captain Soda team |
| Captain Soda Kickstarter Over 50% Funded! | 2025-03-28 | Greetings, captains! Thanks to your support, the Captain Soda Kickstarter campaign is over 50% funded! We have 3 weeks left before the campaign ends, and would really appreciate if you could share it with your family and friends. We've also shared a development update and sneak peek of a backer-exclusive reward. For the full details, please check out the full post on Kickstarter here. Captain Soda is scheduled to launch in 2025 for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Until then, Captain Soda team |
| Captain Soda Kickstarter NOW LIVE!!! | 2025-03-19 | Greetings, captains! The Captain Soda Kickstarter campaign is now live! From now till April 19, 2025, support Captain Soda on Kickstarter and receive a variety of physical and digital rewards (including a copy of the game, of course) exclusive to the campaign. We will appreciate your full support! Please share it with your friends, too. Check out the Kickstarter page for full details: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leoful/captain-soda Also, we've unveiled today a brand new piece of sparkling key art! Tell us what you think in the comments. Captain Soda is scheduled to launch in 2025 for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One |
| [Live Event] Captain Soda will be at Seattle Indies Expo on Sunday Sept 1st! | 2024-08-15 | Hey everyone! Super excited to announce that Captain Soda will be apart of the Seattle Indies Expo (SIX) happening on Sunday September 1st! Check out their website for more info SIX is a free event where lots of indie games will be showcased. If you're going to Pax West, this event happens alongside it and runs from 12-9pm. Once you're done at Pax, come check out SIX! The in-person event takes place in Seattle at the Hilton Motif Hotel in the Emerald Ballroom on the 3rd floor. I hope to see some of you there! I will be personally showcasing the game, you can ask me anything you'd like about it or it's development :) Captain Soda will also be |
| Announcing the Demo Contest Winners! | 2024-02-13 | Hello everyone! The winners of the demo contest are here! As of this morning the contest has concluded. If you're on the winners list below, please message me on the Discord to confirm! I will need to confirm your identity based on your steam account name in order to give you your key. Regarding the rules of the contest, for any players which are on multiple boards they will only receive one key, and any further positions on other leaderboards will have their key handed off to the next applicable player. Players who receive a key will be on the list below the top scores. So to start, the top scores! --- Global Top Scores --- Bee Boy - 11,836 |
| Reminder: The Captain Soda Demo Contest Is Ending Soon! | 2024-02-10 | Fellow captains! We would like to remind you that the Captain Soda demo competition is ending on February 12, 2024, Monday 10am Pacific time. The top 3 players in each Endless mode leaderboard (up to a total of 15 players) will win a free key for the full game that will be sent to you at launch! Click here to read the full contest rules. May the best captains win! Ray Flower Games and Leoful |
| Watch Captain Soda Developer Livestream #2 this Saturday, February 10 | 2024-02-08 | Fellow captains! Cole, developer of Ray Flower Games, will be showing you around the full version of Captain Soda in the second developer livestream this Saturday. You can watch the livestream* on the game's Steam page. Date and time are as follows: Livestream #2: February 10, 2024 11am Pacific Time / 2pm Eastern Time (Saturday) Ray Flower Games and Leoful * Please note the contents shown in both livestreams are exactly the same. |
| Captain Soda Developer Livestream #1 is now live! | 2024-02-08 | Captain Soda Developer Livestream #1 is now live! Watch Cole, developer of Captain Soda, introduce to you the gameplay, levels, modes, and options available in Captain Soda in his playthrough of the full version of the game. Please watch the livestream on the game's official Steam page. |
| Watch the Captain Soda developer livestream this Wednesday and Saturday! | 2024-02-07 | Fellow captains! As part of Steam Next Fest, Cole, developer of Ray Flower Games, will be showing you around the full version of Captain Soda in 1 hour livestreams on February 7 and February 10, 2024. You can watch the livestream* on the game's Steam page. Dates and times are as follows: Livestream #1: February 7, 2024 7pm Pacific Time / 10pm Eastern Time (Wednesday) Livestream #2: February 10, 2024 11am Pacific Time / 2pm Eastern Time (Saturday) Please look forward to it! Ray Flower Games and Leoful * Please note the contents shown in both livestreams are exactly the same. |
| Captain Soda is shooting its way to PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox this year! | 2024-02-05 | Fellow captains! We are pleased to announce Ray Flower Games is teaming up with indie game publisher Leoful to bring Captain Soda to PC, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One in 2024! To celebrate, we have a few pieces of news to share with you today! 1. Watch the new announcement trailer Have a taste of the carbonated action in the latest announcement trailer below! 2. Play the Captain Soda demo and tell us your thoughts The latest version of the Captain Soda demo is now available to play! It gives you access to three levels from the full version of the game and a small taste of Endless mode. Tell us your thoughts about the demo on |
| Captain Soda - Now broadcasting! | 2024-02-01 | Check out this gameplay from the solo developer live! Cole Shows you what you can expect for the full game and talks about the demo. |
| Big Update: New Endless Mode! | 2023-10-17 | Hey ( •̀ ω •́ )✧ I've been working away on a new game mode and wanted to share more on it today. A new endless rogue-lite mode has been added to the game. This will have limited availability in the demo, but you can still try it out! --- New feature: Endless mode - Clear endless randomly generated levels in an arcade rogue-like game mode! - Levels reuse existing campaign mode levels but with entirely generated waves - Choose a soda hero to play for the run - Swap weapons by picking up new weapons in the level - Acquire character upgrades for the run by leveling up through collecting money - Don't like an upgrade? reroll it! - Get score bonuse |
| New Demo for Steam Shmup Fest! | 2023-09-21 | Captain Soda will be participating in the Steam Shmup Fest, and along with it a new demo will be available! A new game mode will be showcased for this event only starting Monday -- endless mode! Try and last as long as possible to get the highest score! Look forward to it! Cole |
| Why do aliens want to invade earth? | 2023-09-02 | Heyo Aliens in Captain Soda really love shiny things. It's why they invaded! They wanted to steal the world's money... for what purpose? Who really knows. What we do know is that if they collect enough money they become shiny themselves and turn gold! Somehow, enemies will drop more money than they picked up when they become gold... Like some kind of oyster that creates more sand instead of pearls, except that sand is money. I thought this would be a fun little mechanic to add to the game that ties in with the lore, while also having a fun little nuance to money. Thanks for reading! Have a good day :) Cole |
| Death easter eggs | 2023-07-24 | Hello! Death messages were something I just added as a way to give hints and help struggling players, but I thought why not add in some easter eggs as well? Should make dying more fun. So I hope you have fun dying in the game when it releases! On another note, I'm going to be adding a couple new features to the game. If you want to know what those are, you'll just have to follow to find out! Cole |
| I added a really cool easter egg to the game! | 2023-07-04 | Yo I added a really cool easter egg to the game! If ever the game crashes, rather than a default error message you'll get a special message like this one! I added some fun text/ascii art to crash messages. This is just something that should make it a bit more fun to encounter a crash, and is a gift to those unlucky enough to crash. There's a few different ones it can pick, which it will do randomly, so if you want to see them, you gotta crash 'em all, I guess? If you have some fun ideas for more text art I can include, post it here! I may just add it :) Cole |
| All the flavors of the rainbow | 2023-06-13 | SUP! Check out this video of the game's soda flavors! One of the Captain's main abilities is that he can change his flavor of soda! By doing so, he gains different powers... And sometimes attracts unwanted attention. Soda flavors in Captain Soda change up the game to add new mechanics and gameplay. You can unlock more flavors through completing pursuits per level -- challenges that test your skill! There's also a super secret Pilk flavor.... Can you unlock it? Cole |
| Infinite Attack Canceling? | 2023-05-09 | I added a feature some time ago where you could cancel your attack if you used a different one, you know to make it more fun and have some tech to the gameplay? Well I was playing around with it, and.... Super crazy! A lot of fun too. I ended up putting a cap on it, but what do you think? Should I add it back? |
| Indie Cup Celebration Festival Demo for Captain Soda | 2023-02-09 | Captain Soda will appear in the February Indie Cup Celebration Festival here on Steam starting at 8 am PST (11 am EST / 4 pm GMT) on February 14 - 21. For this event, a demo will be available for everyone to play! The demo will include most levels and content of the first world. Follow or wishlist the game now so you know when the demo will go live. The demo will be available for the duration of the event, and will be removed once the event ends, so get hyped to play it! I'm very excited to show the game off to new players, you can join the Discord in the meantime to follow along with the game's development, share your ideas and feedback, and |
| The alpha playtest has finished. | 2022-03-08 | The alpha playtest has finally come to a close. Thank you to everyone who played in the event! If you haven't already, consider wishlisting the game! For those that played it I would love it if you left some feedback on what you liked and didn't like. (a big thank you to those that already did so! A lot of great feedback has been given that I will take into account). It's a short 5-minute survey. Feedback form: https://forms.gle/5VsdJj4ie6PGhM9v8 As for the future of Captain Soda, I plan to keep developing more weapons, levels, enemies, and surprises that I hope you will enjoy. The sound effects and music too, of course :P this was just a gam |
| The alpha playtest starts now! | 2022-03-01 | Hey everyone! Cole here. The closed alpha playtest for Captain Soda starts now! Everyone who has signed up for the playtest can play immediately. Each day I will continually give access to more players, so even if you're late to the party you will still get a chance to play. The closed alpha playtest event for Captain Soda will run one week, starting now until March 6 at 11:59 PM PST. The content that will be playable is the first area of the game consisting of 9 levels, 6 weapons, and 4 accessories. A short disclaimer: the game currently does not have sound or music. Eventually there will be but for the time being the art and gameplay is the |
| Closed Alpha Playtest - Event dates and details | 2022-02-14 | Hey everyone! Cole here. It's an exciting time because I am announcing the details for the closed alpha! The closed alpha playtest event for Captain Soda will last one week, running from 28 February at 4:00 PM PST and ends 6 March 2022 at 11:59 PM PST. The content that will be playable is the first area of the game consisting of 9 levels, 6 weapons, and 4 accessories. Sign ups for the event begin right now, up until the start of the event. Once the event starts, access will be granted to a bunch of those people who have signed up. The alpha playtest gives you a chance to play it and share your opinion on the game and the feedback received wil |
| Closed Alpha Test coming soon, don't miss out! | 2022-02-02 | I plan to host a week-long closed alpha test by the end of February, where you can get the chance to play the game yourself. The dates aren't settled yet, but they will be announced about a week before the event happens. Captain Soda is still in active development, and there is a lot more I will be working out with the game. The current trailer is more of a gameplay preview than a trailer (it currently doesn't even have sound!) but no worries, that is well within the plan for the game, so look forward to when I reveal the magic of sound to the game. That will certainly be exciting :) The purpose of this test will be to gather feedback from pl |