Originally posted by Sakee:

IMO it's by far the best game of this festival in terms of sheer fun. The gameplay, the art style, the clinking sounds of the beetle, it's just so immensely satisfying. It reminds me of Exo One with its smooth movement system, or Crumble, but less chaotic and with much tighter controls. I hardly ever buy games on release, but I'll be happy to make an exception here. So good!

One thing I couldn't figure out, though, were the artifacts. Are they simply located in very remote spots, or are some extra steps required to reveal them?

Wow, thank you so much for the high praise Sakee! :D
It means the world to us!

As for artifacts. If you are referring to the golden scarabs, they require you to find all the coins in the level. In the demo, they should not be super well hidden. I think they are next to the exit portals. :)

Oh, ok, that makes sense. I was always a coin or two short of gathering the full set. I have noticed the hologram next to the portal but I thought it was just an information that the scarab is still out there somewhere on the level.

However, I watched your latest stream for a bit and I was surprised to see that there's a tutorial message explaining how artifacts work at the very end of level 2. How come I have never seen it in my playthrough? So I went back to the demo to check if it would show up this time and figured out how I managed to miss it earlier: At the end of this level, I have landed on the button that reveals the third key and used the momentum to immediately bounce to one of the key pillars. Then I proceeded to collect remaining keys by jumping from pillar to pillar and then jumped straight into the portal. The thing is - I haven't touched the floor of this level's hub even once after revealing the final key, and that seems to be the reason why this message didn't show up. So it's actually quite easy to miss, unless you notice that Anobi has something new to say. Maybe it would be a good idea to place the last key on the floor, to make sure the player triggers that message?