- Sol Mates Demo now available for Steam Next Fest! - 15 June 2026
Steam Next Fest is now live!As the Sol Mates odd jobs agency, up to 4 players will crew their spaceship through the perils of space to fulfill the desires of their kooky clients. Blast, steer and shield your way through waves of enemies, buy upgrades for your ship, and vote together on decisions both life-defining and super trivial. The update brings a second mission, more playable characters, each with their own unique abilities, and a whole host of new enemies, events and challenges for players to face. If you run into any problems, suggestions or want to play with us, be sure to join our Discord server! Watch our new trailer here: Play the demo:
- Demo 2.0 - 14 June 2026
Big New Features:Introducing Mission 2: First Contact!The Glorbonians are in town! You’ve only ever seen pictures of these goopy aliens, so what better opportunity to go join the celebrations? I just hope nothing goes wrong on the way…?Featuring new mechanics, fights, events, and... goo?Unlock Alien Species to play as!Each species replaces the Astronaut’s throw action with a new special ability:Glorbonians - with the ability to eat anything, storing extra items inside them.Unlock them by beating the new missionGodents - who can hop around the ship faster than anyone (until they accidentally fall into the trash chute).Unlock them by beating mission 1 on Juice level 1 with the default ship (the Plank)Dynamos - whose internal battery can be used to power everything around them.Unlock them by beating mission 1 on Juice level 1 with the 2nd ship (the Rampage)Language Selection!Full game text…
- Creators play Sol Mates! - 13 June 2026
In advance of Steam Next Fest, this broadcast features some content creators that have tried out Sol Mates.
- NEW MISSION: FIRST CONTACT LANDING ON NEXT FEST! - 4 June 2026
Hey there Sol Mateys! Thank you to everyone who’s joined us on our journey so far! With all your feedback and love, you’ve fueled our brand new demo update for Steam Next Fest (on June 15th!) Here’s what you can expect: A Whole New Mission: The Glorbonians are in town! You’ve only ever seen pictures of these goopy aliens, so what better opportunity to go join the celebrations? I just hope nothing goes wrong on the way…? New Friends: We’ve added brand new playable races to the game! There’s the Godents, who can hop around the ship faster than anyone (until they accidentally fall into the trash chute), the Dynamos, whose internal battery can be used to power everything around it, and the Glorbonians, whose ability to eat anything allows them to store extra items in their backpacks. You’ll have to unlock them by playing more of the demo, but I’m sure that’ll be no sweat to seasoned crew me…
- Sol Mates Hits 10,000 Wishlists! - 19 November 2025
Ahoy Mates!We’re beyond excited to announce that Sol Mates has officially hit 10,000 wishlists! Thank you all so much for the incredible support.Here are 10,000 companion balls raining down on our ship to celebrate! Well.. at least as many as our PC could handle before it started heating up and we had to reboot.To keep the hype thrusters fully charged, we’re launching something fun as a token of our appreciation: WISHLIST HAT DRIVE! We’ve been wracking our brains on something we can do to give back to YOU for supporting us. So we’ve come up with MORE HATS!! How does it work? Well, it’s simple really. The more wishlists we get the more hats YOU get.Every time we hit a new wishlist milestone, we’ll reveal a brand-new cosmetic hat that will:Appear in our public demoCarry over into the full game at launchAbsolutely not help you survive a mission, but you’ll be stylin’ amidst the chaosNext G…
- Demo Patch Notes! - 3 October 2025
Exciting New Stuff: New controls customization options! We overhauled how custom controls work in the game, with the goal of making the controls more consistent across player actions, stations, and our various game menus.Customizing a button now affects all actions which use that button. Actions which share a button have been combined to a single entry on the settings screen.This includes UI and Menu functions! So the buttons for activate and grab will always also be the menu confirm buttons, and the buttons for special (throw) and pause will always be the menu back buttons.,The Pause button is now customizable!Tab Left and Right are now customizable, so you can use those buttons for other actions without messing up the settings menu.Because of these changes, all custom control have been reset. If you have previously set up custom controls, you'll need to stop by the settings menu to up…
- 🚀 We have liftoff! Our demo is officially LIVE - 16 September 2025
Ahoy Mates!We just announced in the Game Devs of Color Expo that the demo for Sol Mates is now live for you and your friends to play!In the demo you and up to 4 players (online or local co-op) can get a taste of the chaotic adventures we’ve been building. You just launched your own scrappy space agency with your mates, and there’s a whole galaxy out there waiting for you to make a name for yourselves.Here’s what you can expect:🚀 Manage your ship together: steer your ship to position enemies, manipulate shields to protect yourselves, load your weapons, and pew pew pew to victory! 🔥 Play our game's first mission, then try it again with different choices and spicy difficulty modifiers 🎩 Unlocks to discover include a beach ball, a ship upgrade, EXCLUSIVE DEMO Top Hat and Monocle for the most distinguished spacefarers, and more!Hop into our Discord to squad up with new friends, chat with…
- Dev Vlog 2 - Electric Boogaloo! - 8 August 2025
Small But Mighty!🚀🌚 We’re over the moon to share that Sol Mates is featured in the Tiny Teams Festival going on right now, hosted by Yogscast Games! Be sure to check us out and all the other incredible indies too!Dev Vlog 2!To mark the TINY occasion, we’ve just released a brand-new dev vlog where we (we as in me, Loren, one of the devs!) chat about what the team has been working on lately, and a peek at some shiny new features, and share a few details about our upcoming demo. The release date is still on the downlow but trust us, it’s coming in for landing VERY soon. Thank You Playtesters!We also want to take this time to give a massive thank you to all our amazing playtesters! Your feedback has been stellar, and we’ve already started weaving your suggestions into the game. Your feedback is invaluable to us and we want to make sure we bring you the best version of Sol Mates that we ca…
- 🚀SIGN-UP FOR THE SOL MATES PLAYTEST🧑🚀 - 25 July 2025
Be Among the First to Play Sol Mates! Ahoy Mates! We’ve been heads-down working on a ton of exciting updates and prepping our demo and we’re finally ready to share them with you… sorta. We can’t reveal the public demo launch date just yet, but we promise it’s coming soon (for real this time!). Before that happens, we’re kicking off a round of private playtests to gather feedback and fine-tune everything. This is your chance to get a first look at Sol Mates before anyone else and help shape its future! Join the Playtest Crew To join our playtest list sign up here: https://solmates.firstlook.gg/signup/playtesterSpots are limited so sign up soon. Our game is best played with friends so feel free to share the sign up link with them too so you can all play together.If selected, you’ll get keys for you and your friends to play together! When you're done playing, fill out our survey linked in…
- We Hit 5k Wishlists!!! - 11 June 2025
Ahoy there Sol Mates~ Loren here, writing this dev update a few miles from LA, where we just attended the MIX to cap off a month of convention madness. To recap: We've been all over the US this month, showing off Sol Mates first at PAX East, then Dreamhack Dallas, debuting a new trailer with the Shacknews Showcase and finally the MIX in LA. A huge thank you to everyone that's dropped by our booths and tried out the game! The raison d'etre behind Sol Mates has always been to bring people together, so getting to see the game in the hands of friends and families has been nothing short of amazing. There's no correct way to play Sol Mates, and everyone brought their own strategies to bear against our giant enemy crab. I witnessed the IGN crew blast their way through our boss, a group of maids abandoning their own on a space station, and strangers strategize on the fly around a particularly t…
- We’re headed to PAX East + More Updates! - 5 May 2025
Ahoy Mates! We know it’s been a little quiet here, but that’s only because we’ve been hard at work getting our demo ready! We can’t reveal too much yet but we promise it’s coming soon...ish 😅🚀 Since our last dev vlog we’ve been busy showing off Sol Mates to the world! Or well part of it anyways. In March we attended GDC in San Francisco which was nice because we are located there. We met so many wonderful people working on great things and also people who were able to give us advice on our own game! We even got to feature an early version of our demo at the Courage XL event and BYOG. Seeing people play our game in person and getting real time feedback was so valuable to us. Since then, we’ve been running regular playtests and we’re tremendously thankful to everyone who’s playtested and shared their thoughts to help make Sol Mates the best game it can be. It’s been a dream to build thi…
- Devlog #1: What Is Sol Mates? - 19 December 2024
Hi! This is Loren and Simon, the developers. First off, we just wanted to thank you for wishlisting the game! The launch of the Steam page, and premiering in the PC Gaming Show has been super exciting, and we've both been loving the reception we're getting from everyone. Seriously - wishlisting helps us so much and motivates us to make the best game we can for you all. Loren always skips Steam announcement videos and reads the text notes instead, so we summarized the video for those readers among you. But if you would rather watch/listen you can check out our first Devlog here: Now - lets begin! WHO ARE WE? We're Daruma Games which is based in San Francisco. We have been long time friends and colleagues where we worked at WB Games together. After years in the industry and working on AAA titles we've decided to make our own game - and so Daruma Games was born! Simon is the main engineer…
- Sol Mates brings its own spacefaring flavor to the Overcooked formula in early access next year - 5 December 2024
s announced during today's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted , developer Daruma Games is taking the "cooperative" and chaotic four-player party game format to space with new adventure hijinx in Sol Mates. I use the term "cooperative" here loosely, as any crisis scenario easily becomes spiraling PvP carnage amongst friends... Read more.
