Overwhelmed Steam Multiplayer Playtest - 2026-07-22

Windows x86-64 Steam relay playtest build.

• Arctic Expanse is now a wide rectangular arena with a broken elliptical ridge ring, four gates, aurora landmarks, and connected enemy navigation.
• Multiplayer lobby is a mission briefing with original procedural previews for every selected map.
• Teammates appear on the minimap in class colors; downed allies remain visible as red X markers.
• Slow relay handshakes get a 45-second registration window with automatic retries.
• Shared level-ups pause the world until every connected player selects a card.
• Players can switch classes inside the lobby; changing class clears READY.
• Start Steam first. Every tester needs a different Steam account and this same ZIP.
• Uses Steam test App ID 480 (Spacewar) for this closed test only.
• Extract the ZIP before running Overwhelmed.exe.
• SHA-256: 67753BC6BA5B0DAF2783D5B12385AA57C26D0BA5D40413F69222B9B764C5A0E1