Funcom cozy sandbox Aloft drops a new roadmap, trailer, and puzzle-crafting content

Bree Royce 2025-06-27 00:00:00

As promised, multiplayer cozy sandbox Aloft has officially launched its Puzzles & Pyrologics update this week. “With this update, the cozy co-op sandbox survival game expands the diversity of its sky islands through the new puzzle system and elevates the potential of player’s own creations,” developer Astrolabe and publisher Funcom say.

“The Puzzles & Pyrologics update fills the sky with puzzles to solve and puts the power to design their own puzzles into the hands of players. Puzzles can also be found as one-off challenges across any islands or on the new puzzle-focused Wonder Islands, larger hand-crafted islands with a story to tell and Pyrologic pieces to sketch. With the new Emberstone resource, players can craft their own puzzles using trapdoors, rotating walls, pressure plates, levers, timed triggers, and various other clever contraptions. The interaction between these can easily be designed on the Pyrologic board.”

The patch further promises tweaks to things like enemy scaling, animations, building pieces, and windmills; there are new player-designed islands and difficulty settings, too.

Finally, a round of applause for Funcom and Astrolabe, which launched not just one roadmap for this game but 12 – each one localized for all 12 languages available for the game. Holy crap, way to make everyone feel included, seriously. The roadmap for the rest of the year features gliding upgrades, combat upgrades, diverse locales, UI buffs, the compass, a new biome, emotes, and animal husbrandy, plus new tiers for tools, monsters, crafting, and materials. Steam Workshop functionality is en route, too.

Aloft is currently on sale for 20 bucks during Steam’s summer sale.

Source: Steam, press release
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