A bond, then the credits
From the Galespun artbook

Q93 · Chapter 12 · Saves & first release

A bond, then the credits

What is the first version's ending or satisfying completion milestone?

PartialNew in Edition 3

The direction

For the first vertical slice, the satisfying completion milestone is bonding the newly discovered companion after the town -> quest -> dungeon -> extraction -> second-town loop. For the broader game, a clean credits moment can be followed by an infinite/post-credits mode. The exact campaign event that triggers the credits remains open.

Recorded as: Partial / working direction

The original question’s prompt

A guardian, all three seasons, a trade route, a ship upgrade, a story resolution, or another achievement?

Examples in a prompt are not decisions unless the answer chooses them.

Still to decide in this chapter

Safe stopping points, save transfer, migration of old progress and three named postponed features remain open.

Read “The first journey” in the artbook

In this chapter