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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ONLINE 2-PLAYER CO-OP now part of the demo ahead of Steam Next Fest. Get trapped on Demigod Islands with your friend and achieve one goal... to die together. However, you don't see each other so you have to communicate to coordinate your deaths perfectly.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brown enemies eat heroes and slugs. Purple creatures eat enemies. Understanding this circle of life will help you make your sacrifice.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes you only have fragile boxes available so you have to be really careful to move them around.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who shared feedback and helped me improve my game - based on the experience of the players I added visual cues like signs for transformations and color-coded lasers, I made the deaths more prominent and much more.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Shooters can be a fun way to die, but they can also help you to get rid of enemies or even warm up eggs so you can hatch them into creatures that can help you.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Portals in co-op allow you to send objects and enemies between you and your friend. Figure out together how to use them to sacrifice all the heroes.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You have to learn to use creatures living on Demigod islands differently. Slugs will stay on buttons, while purple friends can push stones and clear paths of enemies.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sometimes you have to flip phases to go through stones and closed doors. But enemies also can't touch you, so you have to flip back to complete your sacrifice.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Using transformations is crucial to achieve your sacrifices. Turning yourself into enemy will help you kill other characters, while turning into stone will kill you but will also give you options to use the stone for other purposes.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Die alone or die together. Story mode lets you uncover the story of demigod islands in 50+ puzzle levels. Co-op mode offers 20 more levels that you can beat with a friend.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Transformations are a big part of Demigod Islands. Become creatures with different abilities to reach your goal and sacrifice all of your characters.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You have to learn to use different mechanics to your advantage. The ultimate goal is to sacrifice all your characters, but sometimes you need to first save a character to kill it later...

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Killing several characters once or one character several times? The puzzle is always about timing.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In Demigod Islands, dying is the goal and there are 77 unique comic-style shots which reward your efforts.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Advanced levels in co-op mode have each player controlling 2 characters. And the goal is to sacrifice all of them.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Shooters can be a way to make your sacrifice, get rid of enemies in your way, hatch eggs or activate bombs. Everything can be used in different ways.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Not everything is about death in Demigod Islands. There are many secrets including special levels where you need to think outside the box to solve them.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Each player in co-op gets their own reviver so you have to work together to block both of them. Play together, die together.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Turning into slug can be beneficial but be careful about buttons - you will just like them too much and can't move from them

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Some heroes are more resilient than others and can get to places where noone else can. Use that to your advantage and sacrifice your characters at the right time.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In online co-op mode, one way to help your partner is to send them objects through portals. Sometimes that is the only way to ensure you both die and complete the puzzle.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Explosion is always a great option for sacrifice and flipping the gravity can help you achieve the goal.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Breeders spit out different types of eggs you can use to your advantage. Sometimes you need to make enemies, sometimes you need to push buttons you can't reach...

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Healing items are another thing that can help you in other games, but rememer, your goal is to die in Demigod Islands.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Are you afraid of dying alone? Online co-op mode will bring entirely new levels where both you and your friend need to sacrifice yourselves...together.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Some puzzles require using phasing technology which allows heroes to overcome obstacles but it can also make the goal (sacrificing yourself) more tricky. It was always fun to play with new mechanics while designing new levels.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Prototyping online co-op mode for Demigod Islands. The idea is that two players solve connected rooms where one player’s actions affect the other. The goal is of course that both players have to die. Still a lot to figure out, but exciting to see it working.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I just uploaded an updated demo build before Steam Next Fest. The biggest changes are making each death feel more prominent with comic-style windows and adding progress tracking to the pause menu. Also added clearer hints, skippable dialogue and bug fixes.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm trying to make each puzzle unique so different objects and creatures can be used in different ways and the goal (your death) is never exactly the same.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Some creatures are more resilient than others. In other games, it is advantageous to have multiple lives. Of course it can be a problem when you are trying to sacrifice yourself to the demigods...

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

All the feedback I got for the demo has been very helpful. One of the key points was to make deaths, the core mechanic of the game, more prominent and rewarding. So I am adding unique comic style windows after each hero death.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Transformations make parts of many puzzles. Turn into slugs, enemies that kill slugs or purple friends that kill enemies. It's a circle of death.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Two kinds of eggs that can help you solve puzzles. They can hatch into enemies that kill you or they can hatch into slugs that can hold buttons for you.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For the updated Steam Next Fest demo, I’m adding unique comic windows after each death. Since dying is the goal, I want each death to feel like part of the reward. Still tuning them, but they already give the demo more personality.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

You can easily sacrifice yourself by turning to stone. But again, timing is everything and you have to keep in mind you have to kill all of your characters...

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I aim for minimalistic HUD, but I watched some people struggle with the controls so I added some helpers to the first levels that 1) tell you how to switch characters 2) how to restart the room - that only shows up when it's not solvable anymore.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In most games, you avoid dying. Here you have to die to complete puzzles. But timing is everything - plan carefully to be able to kill all of your characters.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

More advanced levels include flipping gravity of other objects - that can be used in several different ways.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In the full game, you need to work not only with stones but with fragile boxes too. Position pillows carefully to achieve your goals.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Based on the player feedback, I added signs for different types of transformation platforms to make the puzzles a little bit clearer. Check it out in the demo!

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Another type of creatures you can meet in the full game are breeders. Their eggs can be used to push buttons or they can hatch into enemies.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

And you thought sacrificing yourself once was hard? Duplicator makes a copy of your character so your task just gets twice as difficult.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Purple friends can push stones but also help to get rid of enemies in your way.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

As you progress in the full game, sacrificing yourself gets even more difficult, thanks to revivers. In any other game you wish for those checkpoints but not here.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Lasers are one of the ways how to die in the demo. Which way is your favorite?

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

First version of Demigod Islands was actually released 16 years ago using Game Maker engine.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If you enjoy transformations in the demo, there will be more in the full game - stone, enemy and now a slug!

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Not all the creatures you meet in the demo are enemies but all of them can be helpful for solving puzzles.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

You can transform your characters into stones but also into enemies! You can discover how it works in the demo.

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Lugremond 💀 Demigod Islands @lugremond.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

During demo playtesting, I realized I color-coded button-controlled objects but forgot one detail: inactive lasers. So I added color to their bases too. Subtle change, but it makes the puzzles read much more clearly.

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