Wormwood Studios
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Developed Primordia and Strangeland. Wrote for Torment: Tides of Numenera, Dragon Age: Origins, Infinity and many other games. Next up: Fallen Gods.
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Big news!
Five years ago, Marauder Film reached out to us about adapting Primordia into cinematic form.
James and Vic got me over my uncertainties, and the three of us sold Marauder an option.
Earlier today, Marauder exercised the option and bought the rights!
Read more
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Strangeland, our second adventure game, now has a Steam page! At long last, a followup to Primordia!
Learn more about the nightmarish carnival and its strange denizens, as well as the game's features, themes, and design principles:
#indiegame
#pixelart
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Primordia is 11 years old today. So proud of what we created. These characters are like old friends and family.
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Ten years since we released Primordia.
@modredcastleton
,
@Dualnames
,
@Bubblepipemedia
,
@glancingonhuman
,
@AbeGoldfarb
,
@selmaleh
,
@WadjetEyeGames
, and everyone else who was part of making that dream come true: thank you! Most of all, thank you to the players who made it matter.
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Victor Pflug's attempt to smear Dave is horrible.
My working relationship with Dave has spanned two games and 13 years, and in recent years it's grown into a friendship. I think that's true for most everyone Dave works with. To be sure, there were stretches when I viewed him as
Apologies in advance for the drama.
Yesterday Victor Pflug (the artist of Primordia) accused me of refusing an audit request and not paying royalties. These accusations are his latest step in a long-running harassment campaign against me and Primordia's other co-creators. It's
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We're delighted to announce that Primordia—our cult classic indie adventure game—will be released on the Nintendo Switch next month. My first video game system was an NES, so this feels like coming home. Grateful to the fans whose support over the years made this dream come true.
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Very pleased to say that Strangeland is now out! A long road but one I’m glad we took!
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There is a lot of pain in game development even under the best of circumstances. But, in the best of circumstances, you get reminders like this of why you put up with the rest of it.
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In 2016, dementia took my granny; then my grandfather laid his burden down. Strangeland is their story. And mine. And everyone's. Love and loss, shame and redemption are the *human* story: the eternal struggle not to lose sight of light in the darkness.
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Happy to announce
@WadjetEyeGames
is publishing our upcoming adventure. Many years in the making, Strangeland is a "cabinet of curiosities" built by
@dualnames
to hold the bizarre memories and visions
@modredcastleton
and I have gathered over our lives.
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Our third update about our upcoming RPG, Fallen Gods, discusses the game's setting (and some of the setting's inspirations), and includes some of my favorite art from the game, as well as more music and VO.
#indiegamedev
#indiegames
#RPG
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“Strangeland is a short adventure, but one of the finest entries in the genre.”
“Wormwood Studios has developed nothing short of a horror classic.”
“The story alone is deeply engaging, but the world design and puzzles make for something truly unforgettable.”
😳
Review: Strangeland (PC)
'Moody, thought provoking, and chillingly beautiful at times'
#PC
#Strangeland
#StrangerThings
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The Adventure Game of the Year award from
@AgotyAwards
is an honor, and the letter about Strangeland is touching.
The trophy is awesome for another reason: my daughters’ third adventure (after Primordia and Loom) was DoTT; no better symbol of the genre’s enduring vibrancy.
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Launching a very personal game is terrifying, stressful and rewarding in equal parts. Reading your kind reviews, heartfelt reactions and thoughtful criticism has been wonderful. Love to you all for the light you’ve shone on our dark, hopeful horror game.
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We are very pleased and proud to announce a new build of Primordia. Among other things, it completely updates the engine to improve comparability with modern systems and adds integrated French, German, and Spanish translations.
#indiedev
#indiegames
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For
#screenshotsaturday
, here's Dan Miller's beautiful animation of the death of Amarok from our upcoming RPG, Fallen Gods. For those who missed it, here's the first post about it: (There are two others on the blog.)
Dan's gallery:
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I've spent the day reading kind Steam and GOG reviews left by players, watching great LPs, working my way through the many words of encouragement shared on Twitter, Discord, and elsewhere -- just want to say thank you to everyone for all of this.
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Three years since we launched Strangeland, our follow-up to Primordia. In some ways, it feels like yesterday; in others, a different time entirely.
Creating these games, exploring the theme of what it means to be human, envisioning their worlds and characters, and sharing those
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@horrorvisuals
Strangeland, 30% off ($10.49). A psychological, allegorical adventure into a soul without hope, looking for the light at the bottom of the pit.
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2D or not 2D?
HAMLET (1993)
Developed by Panther Software.
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Hit 3,000 reviews for Primordia today! Tried to respond to them all, but no doubt a few fell through the cracks. Each means a lot. Gamedev is all about relationships, and each review is a small connection with a player. Those connections carry you through the rough patches!
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This is why it’s worth it. There are works that have sustained me, and it means the world to think we’ve made that for others.
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In 10 days, we release Strangeland, our follow-up to Primordia. It's a psychological horror weaving classic adventure gameplay (exploration, puzzles, riddles, etc.) with personal themes of grief, self-doubt and redemption. We appreciate wishlists/retweets.
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Here's Strangeland, an adventure game that
@modredcastleton
,
@Dualnames
and I have been chipping away at for the past year. Not quite a "spiritual successor" to Primordia, but it has Vic's stunning art and a similarly layered story.
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My top PC RPGs are:
Planescape: Torment
Fallout 1
Mask of the Betrayer
The Age of Decadence
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
VTM: Bloodlines
Deus Ex
KOTOR 2
Quest for Glory (if it counts!)
Star Control II (another edge case)
I’m terms of impact on me as a developer it would be a
Personal Top 10 RPGs (in no order):
Fallout 1
Morrowind
Tales of Maj'Eyal
Disco Elysium
Baldur's Gate II
Arcanum
Dark Souls
Dragon's Dogma
Wizards & Warriors
The Age of Decadence
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Strangeland releases in ~12 hours. From then on, I'll see it as much through players' eyes as my own. While it's still a "project" (not a "release"), my focus is on admiration for
@modredcastleton
,
@Dualnames
,
@WadjetEyeGames
,
@AbeGoldfarb
,
@tempesttossed
,
@Sarifus
,
@itsamike
...
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Oh, cool! Primordia broke 200,000 copies sold on Steam! (Total copies sold is around 303,000 -- the rest spread across GOG, a couple bundles back in the day, iOS, Switch, some direct sales, etc.)
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I’m going to share some of my favorite things fans have done for Primordia over the years, starting with plush Horatio and Crispin (made by separate fans!), which were immediately beloved by my daughters.
Ten years since we released Primordia.
@modredcastleton
,
@Dualnames
,
@Bubblepipemedia
,
@glancingonhuman
,
@AbeGoldfarb
,
@selmaleh
,
@WadjetEyeGames
, and everyone else who was part of making that dream come true: thank you! Most of all, thank you to the players who made it matter.
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Strangeland, our second adventure, is at its lowest price yet ($4.49). I'll let this most recent review do the selling: "Honestly, I balled my eyes out..."
Whenever I read about how the stories, characters, and themes of our games connect with and help players deal with their
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Games from the 80s. Not all flowers and coins!
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Primordia hit 2500 reviews today, just shy of its 10th birthday! We are so grateful for the decade of support we’ve gotten from players, and we will look forward to years to come of sharing our love of old games, new worlds, and lasting connections.
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With immense gratitude to our generous players and the supportive
#indiegame
community, I'm pleased to announce that Primordia hit 2,000 reviews on Steam today! When we released the game years ago, I never thought it would find such wonderful fans. Two thousandfold thanks back!
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Proud that Strangeland just took home best programming, character art, voice over, and puzzles in the AGS Awards. Well done friends, and congrats to the other winners, especially If On a Winter’s Night!
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Primordia is 50% off on Steam:
Sad robots, small robots, divine robots, and basic robot endoskeletons await!
#indiedev
#indiegames
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Two years ago we released Strangeland! Time flies... Still grateful for all the love it's received, and the deep connections it has made with many.
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The amazing Hob's Barrow by
@cloakanddaggerg
has hit 300 reviews on Steam, 95%, still going strong. Amazing!
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Ha! Strangeland made this otherwise very credible list of “10 Best Adventure Games—Old and New,” alongside many of my favorites like DOTT, Monkey Island 2, Broken Sword, and Machinarium, not to mention other classics like Sanitarium and Fate of Atlantis!
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Three days to release. It hardly feels like the same world as when we began in 2017. I started this to process a personal loss; everyone's losses since have been bottomless. I just hope the light we found making the game will be found by those who play it.
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A nice winning run in
#FallenGods
with my daughter (Primordia's "strange robot, go away, go back to spooky place") to celebrate her birthday and
#screenshotsaturday
! Bad wolf, go away, go back to spooky place!
(I mean, we haven't won yet, but surely...)
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Just finished Strangeland, listening to all the commentary tracks and reading all the annotations. Somehow, despite my predilections, I find myself satisfied. Normally, the gap between the game as imagined and as executed is wide and cruel. Here, I love what we ended up with.
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It's strange that "Lovecraftian" horror, which began with an author's effort to vaguely articulate something ineffable and beyond the experience of the reader, is now completely commonplace. It's like how "vanilla" went from an incredibly exotic spice to a byword for blandness.
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"Primordia is a game that I will never forget. The environment is bleak but beautiful, the story is well-developed and thought inspiring, and the puzzles are genuinely well thought out and well put together. Overall, this is one of my favorite games."
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I think it is at least equally probable that on a game's "release date," the thing being released is the developer, not the game.
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Primordia is currently 70% off in the
#steamlunarsale
.
Our love letter to the post-apocalyptic genre, robots, the adventure games of the 90s, and RPGs like Planescape: Torment and Fallout.
#gamedev
#indiegames
#retrogames
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"What happened the humans?" Primordia, a cult-classic, 97% positive, quarter-million-copy selling adventure game about robots and humanism in a post-organic world, is 70% off ($2.99) for the holidays!
#indiegames
#pixelart
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Very exciting -- in October, Strangeland had its best-selling month ever, and we've broken 35,000 copies sold!
We stick with our games and, thank goodness, players do too!
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Honored that Strangeland won Adventure Game of the Year and Beat Screenplay from the
@AgotyAwards
! Congrats to Darkside Detectives, Conway, Ultreia, and Cyanide & Happiness for their wins as well!
Adventures and
#indiegames
forever!
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Last few hours to get Primordia for $1.99 (80% off!) on
@GOGcom
:
Explore a world that humans have left behind in a point-and-click adventure game inspired by the classics of the 1990s, Fallout, and Planescape: Torment.
#indiegames
#pixelart
#gamedev
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I assume by this point anyone who follows me has already seen
@Dualnames
' post and
@WadjetEyeGames
' thread regarding Vic. Given my many years of viewing Vic as a friend and creative partner, the current circumstances leave me heartsick.
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Saw a huge stack of Apple II gamedev books in a box on the curb. Kind of wish I could meet the person throwing them out!
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Whew -- just finished testing the release candidate for Strangeland. I think it's ready.
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All life has been obliterated. In the waste, a robot faces his foes with decency and dignity, while fighting against his own hardwiring as a tool of destruction. This, he believes, will make him a worthy heir to Man, a mythical being he barely understands.
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I saw this TV set being thrown away and wanted to rescue it. It’s like the ghost of a memory from my childhood. My grandparents had a cabinet like this one. Even if TV tech is much better, it’s not more beautiful.
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Watching my girls play Primordia on a Nintendo on a TV is pretty amazing. Feels like closing a circle on my own childhood.
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Primordia is 70% off on Steam! If you enjoyed Strangeland and haven't played Primordia, give it a look! If you *didn't* enjoy Strangeland because it lacked robots and wasn't an epic post-apocalyptic journey, give it a look, too! 97% of players like it!
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In six days, we release STRANGELAND, our follow-up to Primordia. It's a classic point-and-click adventure set in a nightmare carnival filled with eccentric denizens, fiendish puzzles, and dark secrets. Journey to redemption, through the depths of despair.
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Primordia's 50% off:
Life has ceased. Man is a myth. And now, even machines have begun to fail. Horatio and Crispin must cross a crumbling world, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
#SteamDeals
#indiegame
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ICYMI, Primordia is back on sale on
@GOGcom
for a mere $2.99 (70%) off. Rather than tout it myself, here are the last four reviews left on GOG, which make me happy and self-conscious at the same time. We're lucky to have such fans!
#indiegames
#gamedev
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Strangeland reached 600 reviews today! It's amazing to read what an impact the game had on players from around the world -- many able to play the game in their native languages thanks to our generous volunteer translators. Here are 10 of the last 100 reviews!
At long last, we made it! 500 reviews. We're grateful to everyone who helped us get to "Overwhelmingly Positive." Here are five of our favorites from the recent batch! Love and thanks to all our players, whether outspoken or silent, positive or critical.
#indiegame
#gamedev
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Introducing two great illustrators who more recently joined the
#FallenGods
team, helping us wrap the project up: Jan Pospíšil (Six Ages, etc.) and Marcelo Orsi
@CcrawlerArt
(Inscryption, There Is No Light, etc.). They're amazing!
#indiegame
#gamedev
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My friends at
@IronTowerStudio
released Colony Ship (early access) today. First, it's great. Second, it's an astonishing achievement for such a tiny team. Third, as the follow-on to The Age of Decadence, I'm confident it will be even better when done.
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Mankind has vanished; life has ceased; and earth's mechanical inheritors are failing. Power alone assures survival, and Horatio's has just been stolen. So begins Primordia, 70% off ($2.99) & 97% positive:
#SteamSummerSale
#indiegames
#pixelart
#gamedev
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@PushinUpRoses
So sorry to read that. Your generosity to our little game helped a lot with the stress and worry of game dev; wish you didn’t have to bear such a load yourself.
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Mankind has vanished; life has ceased; and earth's mechanical inheritors are failing. Power alone assures survival, and Horatio's has just been stolen. So begins Primordia, for sale for $2.00 on
@GOGcom
Extras include
@Bubblepipemedia
's lovely soundtrack!
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Next
#FallenGods
team member introduction is Cleopatra Motzel, the brilliant artist responsible for small but foundational pieces of the game: the runestone that establishes its lore; the logo; and the main menu.
#gamedev
#indiegames
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"The world Man built *was* perfect, Crispin. A perfect machine made up of a million imperfect parts. Us."
Primordia, a tale of humanity as revealed by the imprint left upon our inheritors, is 70% off ($2.99) in
#steamsummersale2021
:
#gamedev
#indiegames
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Just saw a teenager on my flight playing Fallout 1. There’s hope for old school RPGs yet!
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I can’t see this scene without being transported back to childhood. The trees’ silhouettes filled me with wonder l, and still do.
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Well, in theory the Strangeland review embargo is about to end and my own surreal psychological horror is about to commence.
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@plantypal
As always, Gary Larson's prescience shines through! O, Far Side, how I've missed thee!
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Tomorrow, Strangeland will be a year old... unless you count the many years it spent growing in our heads and harddrives! It's 30% off (lowest yet) to celebrate. Available in Deutsch, Türkçe, and Magyar. Soon: Français, Español, 日本語, 한국어 (hopefully)!
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It's really beautiful to see
@InfinityGBC
nearing completion. This was my first paid game writing work--almost a quarter century ago!--and somehow it's going to be completed. The game was the project of a bunch of passionate kids (basically), yet
@Incube8Games
has treated it with
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Some great work from
@modredcastleton
for an interesting Primordia-related opportunity that we just stumbled into! Will be fun to share more information when we can!
(Fortunately, the derailing of Strangeland and Fallen Gods is really minimal.)
#gamedev
#indiegames
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Oh, Primordia's 70% off! Full of tricks and treats, yet zero calories! What better way to celebrate Halloween! "Strange robot, go back to spoooky place!"
#indiegames
#gamedev
#SteamHalloweenSale
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Honestly, every review left for Primordia or Strangeland touches me, even the negative ones -- the idea of people playing these games that we poured ourselves into, and knowing they elicited an emotional reaction is a very profound experience.
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Primordia's $2.99 (70% off) in the
#SteamSummerSale
!
An adventure about humanism (in a world without humans), hopefulness (in a world without hope), and self-creation (in a world where identity is defined by one's builder). >97% >positive, 2000 reviews.
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Our contribution to the delightful
@AdventureGamers
's holiday greeting!
Always a joy to be a part of the adventure gaming community! If somehow you haven't had a chance to play our games, they deeply discounted on
@GOGcom
and Steam right now! Check 'em out and leave a review!
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Congrats to
@LeanneCTaylor
,
@ColinMcComb
, and all our friends at
@DropBearBytes
on the release of Broken Roads! As I know well from Fallen Gods and from my time working with them at
@inXile
, completing an RPG is a monumental achievement!
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Please consider nominating Strangeland and Primordia for Steam awards. Small indie games may have no real chance, but the spirit of both games is to never give up and always reach out to those around you, so let’s give it a shot!
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Primordia just had its second-best month in the last 2.5 years—every time I think the flame’s gone out, fans blow on the embers and it bursts back up. Many thanks to you all! Hope Strangeland and Fallen Gods are worthy of the support you’ve given for the past decade!
#indiedev
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What a beautiful game. Looks may not be everything, but true pixel art of this beauty can cover a lot of sins. :)
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Iron Tower makes games with soul. If you like RPGs with moral and systemic complexity, multiple paths, unforgettable twists, hard tactical combat, or just a unique voice, do yourself a favor and try this demo.
Here are my thoughts from playing an early build, and if it has only
Colony Ship demo (the first chapter of the game) is now available.
If you ever wanted to know what life is like aboard a derelict generation ship, hop right in and see for yourself.
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Three weeks from Strangeland's launch, and we can come up for air. We are deeply grateful for the support we've gotten, and excited about things to come. More here:
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SteamDB reports there are 15,000+ players in Return to Monkey Island right now. Broken Age peaked at 3,000. The Walking Dead peaked at 12,000. Thimbleweed Park peaked at 2,700. Deponia at 1,200. Fair to say this is a victory for the ages. Hats off to
@grumpygamer
et al.
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