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Press release:
London, United Kingdom – October 9th, 2023.
The Oslo-based (Norway) independent games developer Snowcastle Games, are today very happy and thrilled to announce that they have just released the “Friends’ Pass” update for their adventure crafting game “Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure”, (the said update is available right now for PC via Steam Early Access).

Furthermore, Snowcastle Games have also just announced that the full version (v1.0) of “Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure” is coming to PC (via Steam and EGS), Xbox (Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One), and Playstation (PS5 and PS4) on November 9th, 2023 (the Nintendo Switch version of the game will be released at a later date).

The game can also be enjoyed for free with someone that owns the game via the Ikonei Island: Friends’ Pass, launched on Steam today!

Ikonei Island is a gorgeous, cosy adventure that you can play solo or with your friends. You explore the beautiful island, bond with magical creatures and harness their abilities, uncover hidden mysteries, collect items to craft a charming home, battle pirates and more. The game is reminiscent of cosy classics like Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing and My Time at Portia, but brings its own depth of narrative as it taps into the enchanting themes originally explored in Snowcastle’s Earthlock.

From today, Snowcastle have released Ikonei Island: Friends’ Pass, a free version of the game that allows anyone to hop onto the Island and explore the online multiplayer co-op experience with up to three of their friends. Anyone can play alone or together for the first two hours of play! BUT if at least one of you owns the full version, you can play indefinitely!

Gather resources, craft tools, and gear. Farm the land, build your base or a cozy home, and decorate it however you like. You just need to make a ‘Ribbit Request’ (well a ‘Join’ Code) to be able to join in the same game session together. Plus if your demo runs out, not to worry – after you purchase the base game you can continue where you left off.

Ikonei Island is currently available in Early Access on Steam and coming to the Epic Game Store, Playstation and Xbox on November 9th and, later, Nintendo Switch

About Snowcastle Games:
Snowcastle Games is an independent game developer founded in Oslo, Norway in 2009 with the aim of creating games we love and would want to play ourselves. Snowcastle Games is known for creating Earthlock, a passion project inspired by the developer’s childhood favorites that has sold over 2.5 million copies across PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch.

Currently, Snowcastle Games is putting all the experience of their growing team into developing their next titles: Earthlock 2 and Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure.

For more information on Snowcastle Games, visit https://www.snowcastlegames.com/

About Iterative Collective:
The Iterative Collective is an incubator, developer, and publisher for indie games. It was founded in 2019 by game developers who set out to tackle the problems faced by developers in the games industry.

The Iterative Collective offers a holistic and structured approach to the incubation and publishing of independent games, working collaboratively with developers to ensure that their visions are realised and successfully shared with the world.

For more information on the Iterative Collective, visit https://theiterative.co/

About Jetpack Collective:
We are the Jetpack Collective. We publish games that keep on giving, that you fall in love with over and over again.

We believe in games that ignite the imagination, sustains meaningful stories that we all want to share and that evolves with all its players. We aim to elevate game makers who care about what players think, say, feel and do. Power to the Players.

For more information on the Jetpack Collective, visit http://jetpackcollective.games

Jetpack Collective is the publishing label for Living Games Publisher Fundamentally Games http://fundamentally.games