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Evaluation
Potentia launched on February 11, 2021 and received several patches in the weeks following release. In March 2021, the developer published an ambitious roadmap promising major overhauls including new game modes, reworked combat, expanded weapons, and character improvements.
However, on March 1, 2026, the developer (Wily Pumpkin) posted a candid update explaining that development on Potentia has effectively ended. The post reveals that the main developer and the rest of the team departed shortly after the game's release, leaving the codebase in an uncompilable, unshippable state — the team was in the middle of a large overhaul when they ran out of funding. The developer explicitly states they cannot push new updates for Potentia. The ambitious 2021 roadmap was never fulfilled.
The developer has since formed a new team and moved on to an entirely new game (Chaos Budz). While they express a personal hope to revisit the Potentia franchise someday, no concrete plans exist and the current state of the codebase makes further updates practically impossible by their own admission.
The last substantive patch shipped on February 28, 2021. That represents the final state of the game's content, making it the effective completion date.
Evidence
Developer confirms that new updates for Potentia are not possible: the original dev team left shortly after launch, the codebase is uncompilable, and the studio ran out of funding mid-overhaul. The studio has moved on to a new game (Chaos Budz).
Post-launch roadmap promised major overhauls: new game modes, reworked combat and levels, expanded weapons, character improvements, and more. None of these were subsequently delivered.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Wily Pumpkin
Achievements
18
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Gameplay
Approach your enemies silently and takedown them with your trusty crowbar. Get your hands dirty with close combat if you are caught. If you prefer to use a silent ranged weapon, use your bow to silently hunt your enemy down. When the things get really messy, switch to your reliable assault rifle. For the worst case, always keep your pistol somewhere nearby. Most importantly, manage your ammunition and medkit shots wisely. If you want to survive all these, you have to use your items carefully.
- Feel the action while witnessing Victor’s strange story on this new world.
- Choose your style! You can dive into full action or sneak through your enemies and silently takedown them one by one.
- Follow your instincts. Use the assistant view to find objects that you can interact with or your objective.
Narrative
Ongoing cold war was about to end. Both sides declared that they would no longer continue pursuing the war effort. That night, everyone was on the streets. People were celebrating the end of the war. The entire city was like a party zone. One of our friends was throwing a party at his home. My wife Anna and I were going to meet at the metro station to join our friends later that night. Eh, what can I say. We were all happy. As it turns out, our happiness wouldn’t last long. And our hopes for peace would vanish with the majority of the people around us.
Everything was lost in less than a second. An unknown energy weapon hit the city. No one knows the true extent of the damage caused by it, if it was contained to just one city, country, or the entire planet. Buildings and Infrastructure are left intact. Animals and plants are unharmed. However, people… Many of them just disappeared. Now, no one answers our radio transmissions. No one comes to our aid. Everyone just seems to be vanished. No one is around other than some hostile savages. After the attack so few of us survived and what little amount of people who were still alive and sane wasn’t enough to keep government and law enforcement agencies functioning. Now it is the survival of the fittest. People became little more than savages. Every new day brings new hardships but in the end we will endure, we will survive, whatever the cost.
Victor, Main Character
This is the story of Victor, Anna and Victor's new mysterious best friend.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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