Plush Rangers Play Test

Welcome! We are looking for people to try out Plush Rangers and provide us feedback on how to make the game better. If you are interested, please use one of the sign-up methods below.

Discord:

1. Join our discord server

2. Let us know in the #plush-rangers channel that you are interested in joining the play test.

Steam Page | Feedback Form

Plush Rangers is an action game where you assemble a team of Plushie Friends to battle quirky mutated minions.

This genre of game (survivors-like) focuses on the player making choices to level up their plushies and character in a way that allows them to overcome all the challenges on a level. Not every playthrough succeeds, but levels can be attempted multiple times. In fact, levels need to be played multiple times to unlock all the possible achievements.

There are many games in this genre, and we wanted to make sure we brought our own Short Leg Studio style to the game.

• We are creating a cute and cozy themes over traditional fantasy/sci-fi ones. There is a bit of a play on cartoon themes.

• Instead of collecting traditional weapons, your plushies all contain magical superpowers. Each of these powers is unique and different combinations can result in different synergies.

• We want to provide personal customization to your characters and bases.

• We will keep the general strategic choices that make the genre fun and replayable. There are waves of enemies, upgrades, plushies, relics, badges, boss fights and more that will keep the game challenging for all levels of players.

• Updated builds will likely come out during the play test and we will publish some notes on Steam about what has changed.

• NOTE: There will be times when we need to turn off access to the play test. We will notify ahead of time when that occurs.

Current State
Here is what you can expect in the current play test version.

• Core mechanics of game play: Several different characters, leveling up plushies, variety of waves of enemies, relics, and some customization options.

• A basic tutorial level

• A 10-minute level with a boss fight conclusion. A large variety of enemies to fight.

• ~16 Plushies to choose from

• 4 different characters

• Several badges to earn that boost stats

• Several upgrades to level up that upgrade stats

There is much more content and features that we want to add to the game. This should give a good sense of the core mechanics and we want to hear your ideas about what is working or what needs adjustment so we can make the game as fun as possible.

Play Test Instructions

We will be using Steam to run our play tests. Steam has some built in functionality that will make this easy for you as well as us to make sure the builds are available and up to date.

1. We will provide you an access code for the play test. You can enter this access using the “Activate a Product on Steam…” menu option. Help Link

2. When play testing is active, you will see “Plush Rangers Playtest” in your library. You will be able to download and play the game as you would any other Steam game.

3. The game is compatible with Steam Deck and should work fine on that platform. (And if not, we want to know!)

4. Play the game!

5. When you quit there will be a message to provide feedback. This feedback is vital to us and we appreciate the time you take to let us know your experiences. Feel free to fill out the feedback form as many times as you’d like.

6. You can also (and it’s encouraged to) provide feedback on our Discord server about ideas or experiences playing the game.

7. Mac will not be supported in our first playtest. We will make sure to support it in our next rounds.