[h3]The annual Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale is now on - and to celebrate, The Invisible Hand is 70% off! [/h3]

There's also a brand new update to the game, which includes a full French localization! You can find out more about that here.

Take me to the Publisher Sale

There are plenty more Fellow Traveller titles on sale to choose from - so whether you're looking for something new, a bargain, some cool soundtracks and bundles, or even something to play on Steam Deck, we're sure to have something just for you.

[h3]We're also thrilled to announce that three new games are joining the Fellow Traveller family; Scrabdackle, Wander Stars and Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo - read up on each of them below![/h3]

• Wander Stars: Follow the story of Ringo and Wolfe as they join forces to collect the pieces of the Wanderstar Map in this turn-based RPG with roguelite elements! Use words to create your own fighting techniques, befriend your rivals, and explore the universe in an adventure inspired by 90s anime.
  
• Scrabdackle: As a novice wizard, discover the intricate world of Scrabdackle and experience the impact wizardkind has unknowingly had upon it. Scrabdackle is a hand-drawn, non-linear adventure with a vast, intricate overworld, tight and responsive combat, cheeky banter, and pages of lore to discover.
  
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: A 3D adventure where you play as Kulebra, a dead snake with a heart of gold that wakes up in Limbo. Use your wits and keen eye to gather clues from the residents and find items that will help uncover the mystery of Limbo and its curse that traps souls into repeating the same day on loop.

Hello Ferios investors!

Today we are happy to share with you that The Invisible Hand now has French language support.

[h3]A message from the developer[/h3]
Bonjour!

If economical viability was the sole reason to do things, life would be boring. We just had to see Will's awesome jokes translated to our own mother tongue.

So we took it upon ourselves and did it! We're glad to finally be able to give you the French version of The Invisible Hand!

Setting aside the grind that is transforming close to 50k words to even more than that (French is so verbose..), being able to infuse our own frog-eater cultural references in it was a lot of fun.

On espre que vous aimerez!

Ben (Power Struggle Games)

[h3]Update Now Live[/h3]

The Invisible Hand's French localisation update is now live, along with the addition of a new language, we have also implemented a number of gameplay tweaks and enhancements, accessibility options and bug fixes.

[h3]Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale[/h3]


Can we make it even more enticing?

The game is also 70% off in the Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale from now until October 1.

Trs bien.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

The Invisible Hand is 70% off as part of the Steam Summer Sale, starting today until the 13th of July!

In The Invisible Hand, become an efficient stockbroker by buying low and selling high (with a little market manipulation for good measure). And what better way to practice your stockbroking skills than to pick up a copy of the game when it's on sale?

Hey, what do you know? It's on sale right now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

The Invisible Hand is participating in this years LudoNarraCon sale which kicks off today and lasts until May 11th! It's the perfect time to grab a copy of The Invisible Hand for 70% off! You can also browse hundreds of other great narrative game bargains HERE.

While you're there, be sure to check out LudoNarraCon, the fifth annual digital festival held exclusively on Steam to celebrate narrative video games and the developers that make them.

Behind the scenes content and live Q&As from over 40 exhibiting developers, all making story-rich games
Over 35 narrative game demos to download and play, including some first-time demos just for the event!
Get great discounts on more than 140 story-rich games in the LudoNarraCon sale
Watch over 12 hours of original panels and fireside chats about narrative games and game development
Get yourself a wallpaper pack to celebrate the event, featuring tons of cool art from your favourite narrative games

Come celebrate awesome narrative games with us, and find your next favourite story. Sale ends 11th May, so don't delay!

[h3]Want to get rich, quick?[/h3]

Join Power Struggle Games on Friday, May 6th at 7am PDT on the LudoNarraCon event page as they stream The Invisible Hand's new 'Endless Mode' and answer questions. The stream will then loop on the main page after the livestream for the rest of the event.

You'll also be able to pick up the game at 60% off as a part of the LudoNarraCon Sale, until May 11th.

Follow Power Struggle Games and Fellow Traveller on Twitter to keep up to date with game announcements and more during LudoNarraCon 2022.

To learn more about LudoNarraCon, visit the LudoNarraCon website.

Thanks to all players for the wonderful reception of the Family Office Update!

We are pushing version 1.1.9 that has a fix for some issues with the settings menu.
It might reset the graphics preferences to defaults for some of you, sorry about that.

May the rich get richer!

[h3]NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS.[/h3]

As a trader, youve amassed enough wealth for FERIOS that somebody in the Miller Family Office has decided to retain you as their personal financial advisor. Will you fail miserably, or will you be so successful that even more powerful and shadowy members of the family make you their golden goose instead?

In this update to The Invisible Hand, explore a new and improved Endless Mode that will allow you to gradually control entire percentages of the global economy on behalf of the wealthiest people nobody has ever heard of.

[h3]MAY YOU COME TO THE ATTENTION OF THOSE IN POWER.[/h3]
With the Succession System, youll gradually earn the trust of wealthier and wealthier members of the Miller clan, progressively restarting the game with an increasingly prestigious group of sociopaths to impress - and unscrupulous new advantages to help you do it.



[h3]MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES.[/h3]
Explore the opportunity to see a less hazy and more human side of your fellow professionals. Pursue up-close and personal friendships with Ward, Corbin and the rest of the gang in thrilling relationship cutscenes such as drinking until you pass out' and glimpses of an unhappy home life.



[h3]MAY YOU FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.[/h3]
As your responsibilities and assets under management grow, your terminal will ignite with numbers of dizzying proportions - all of which serve the purpose of enabling your access to yet another set of even larger numbers. This then takes place again. And again. And again.



As an Endless Mode player, your options are immeasurable. Do you have what it takes to make the numbers so big that it forces us to patch the game to allow for even bigger numbers? Can you delay our future projects and ruin our lives for the sake of a pointless abstraction? Can you test the implied warranty of the word endless for some indecipherable purpose? The choice is yours.

Of course, Endless Mode will be accessible to all players who purchase The Invisible Hand whether they begin by playing through the original campaign or not - just dont say we didnt warn you.

[h2]The Invisible Hand is 20% off in the Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale![/h2]

Until 10am on Monday June 21st, Fellow Traveller is having their biggest sale yet! Featuring the deepest discounts they'll be offering for the next couple of months on their games, as well as demos available for their upcoming games, and watch developer and gameplay streams!



Fellow Traveller commissioned the comic book artist Guillaume Singelin to create an illustration inspired by the Fellow Traveller logo as well as three pieces inspired by their games.

Join the Fellow Traveller Discord during the event to get your hands on desktop and mobile wallpapers of his art and become part of the Fellow Traveller community.

Hi there traders!
This is a quick hotfix build, the first issue below was introduced in the performance patch from last week but now it is fixed and we added in some slight layout polish!
Enjoy :)

• Fixed issue with positions not appearing in company list if acquired when company list is not displayed
  
• Fixed issue with "Not enough cash" warning appearing instead of "Volume is low"
  
• Fixed some layout issues
  

This is a performance patch!
We spent some quality time looking at the Unity profiler and we managed to gain a fair bit in general and a lot in extreme case with multiple concurrent orders.
Enjoy!

There's always room for some UI polish and hotfixes! Thanks for the reports!

• Fixed issue with starting on wrong day when staying for too long in the interview
  
• Fixed potential issue with INN stories resetting
  
• Increased max FOV to 110
  
• Fixed the following UI issues : shaking interview, wrong item category for certificates, wrongly highlighted objects in inventory
  
• Added "Loading..." text to loading screen
  

It's a new hotfix patch! Thanks for all the feedback and the reports :)

• Added a post-ending dialogue from Miller to explicitely say that the game is in endless mode now
  
• Fixed some other issues with big numbers
  
• Fixed issue with hacked names staying forever in some places after loading a save during the hack (saves having the bug are not fixed with this patch and players having it should reload a save from before the hack)
  
• Fixed lifestyle view refresh delay
  
• Fixed an exploit with real estate sales
  

Hey there!
Thanks to all players for that intense launch weekend and the helpful bug reports!
We have a few fixes mostly for our new (or soon to be) billionaires, live on Windows and Linux beta.

• Fixed issue with INN stories (day 37 issue)
  
• Fixed issues that occured around the billion
  
  
• Fixed dividends not being unlocked if related call didn't play
  
• Ending phone call sound now properly mixed together with NPC voices
  
• Save are now properly sorted by save date even when downloaded from cloud
  
• Fixed black screen if the day timeouts just before trial
  

Get those diamond hands ready to go to the moon - without the fear of risking your own money

The Invisible Hand is out today for $12.99 USD on Steam - with a 20% launch discount until May 14!

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BUY! SELL! SHORT!

Congrats on your new job, and welcome to FERIOS. It's time to make some money.

Buy the stocks going up, sell before they go down. Short the ones that are going to fall (or the ones youre going to make fall). The more money you make, the bigger your commission. And you want that commission, don't you? Well dont worry, the rewards are limitless, if youre hungry enough.



Were one big happy team here at Ferios and nothing brings the team together like competition.

So in the spirit of togetherness you better meet your daily profit targets and beat your coworkers results if you want to keep your job. We wont hesitate to fire anyone who cant or wont do what it takes to succeed...

[h3]The Deep Pockets Edition Bundle[/h3]

Show off your wealth and throw your money around by purchasing the Deep Pockets Edition of The Invisible Hand.

This includes the game and the soundtrack in one sweet and easy bundle for your convenience.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

LudoNarraCon is taking place April 23 - 26, and The Invisible Hand is exhibiting!

You can tune into the Developer Interview stream right here on the Steam page, at 4am PT Saturday April 24 / 1pm CET Saturday April 24

About the stream:
The Invisible Hand developer, Benjamin Martin, answers pre-submitted questions about The Invisible Hand and his time working on it.

To learn more about LudoNarraCon, visit the LudoNarraCon website

LudoNarraCon is taking place April 23 - 26, and The Invisible Hand is exhibiting!

Join in the Invisible Hand Discord Q&A in the Fellow Traveller Discord at 8am PT Monday April 26 / 5pm CET Monday April 26

About the event:
The Invisible Hand developer, Benjamin Martin, will be hanging out in the Fellow Traveller Discord, answering fan questions about The Invisible Hand in the #attendee-ama Discord chat!

Join the Fellow Traveller Discord

To learn more about LudoNarraCon, visit the LudoNarraCon website

LudoNarraCon is taking place April 23 - 26, and The Invisible Hand is exhibiting!

You can tune into the gameplay stream right here on the Steam page, at 4am PT Sunday April 25 / 1pm CET Sunday April 25

About the stream:
The Invisible Hand developer, Benjamin Martin, plays through The Invisible Hand, taking you through his experience developing the game, ad what it was like to make a game about the stock market.

To learn more about LudoNarraCon, visit the LudoNarraCon website

LudoNarraCon is taking place April 23 - 26, and The Invisible Hand is exhibiting!

You can tune into the Narrative Discussion stream right here on the Steam page, at 12pm PT Friday April 23 / 9pm CET Friday April 23

About the stream:
The Invisible Hand developer, Benjamin Martin, alongside The Invisible Hand narrative designers Will and Felix, sit down to discuss the narrative of the game, and how they came to write it

To learn more about LudoNarraCon, visit the LudoNarraCon website

Get those diamond hands ready to go to the moon - without the fear of risking your own money

The Invisible Hand is coming out May 7, for PC on Steam, and will be for $12.99 USD for the base game.

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[h3]Youre A Winner! Who Cares About Losers?[/h3]

Welcome to FERIOS! Get ready for your first day in a new job, crunching numbers and making money

Just remember: profit is all that matters, the rules dont apply if youre a winner. Only losers feel guilty for the pain, loss and poverty that are the unavoidable by-product of the critical and important work we do here.



Your job is to make money for FERIOS. Buy the stocks going up, sell before they go down. Short the ones that are going to fall (or the ones youre going to make fall).

If youre really smart, youll find ways to influence the market to your advantage. Think you can lobby an influential group to affect the market? Do it. Drive down the currency of a foreign country to improve the margins of the companies that import their products? Why not? The only consequences that matter are the ones that impact our bottom line.



[h3]The Deep Pockets Edition Bundle[/h3]

If you have cash to throw around, you can show off your wealth by purchasing the Deep Pockets Edition of The Invisible Hand.

This includes the game and the soundtrack in one sweet and easy bundle for your convenience.

The Deep Pockets Edition is coming May 7.

Hi there traders!

The past month has been hectic and weve been cooking up a ton of things that we cant yet talk about but you can expect extremely cool announcements in April. As much as I want to purchase an island on credit to go live off-the-grid for a few years, we live in a society and THERE IS STILL WORK TO DO.

Balancing

This one is quite hard to do - theres as many ways to play as there are players and they all want to feel challenged yet satisfied with their performance. How dare they. Our patented trademarked exclusive in-house Trading Software can be quite complex for beginners, and striking the balance between delivering enough features to provide a satisfying gameplay experience at each moment of the competition while not overwhelming probationary analysts is delicate.

Weve added a Glossary to the interface so you can get a refresher on complex terms and features, worked on the overall difficulty and rhythm of competitions, and if thats still not enough you can switch to Story Mode for a blissful and carefree experience if you lose.


Is this the Dark Souls of trading games?

Environment

Weve been using the same flat skybox for years but we decided we needed something a little more 3D. Who wouldnt want huge piles of concrete and glass as a view? Its also a great way to contextualize what can happen if you fiddle with the economy a little too hard.


This is fine.

Hi there traders!

After a busy January with the Steam Game Festival, where we didnt find the time to update you all on development, here we are again. After all, the past is in your head, the future is in your hands.

Story Mode
Have you heard that some people arent actually interested in making as much money as possible? They want to live a good life doing things they enjoy, helping their neighbours and cuddling puppies. This is a perfectly valid philosophy but maybe they should ask their banker what they think about it.

FERIOS has a strong commitment to inclusivity and accessibility (our PR specialist told us to write this). Youll be able to enjoy the game in Story Mode, where the company will offset your losses, and competition will be actively biased in your favor, so you can lay back and enjoy the show with zero worries about actually working.


In Story Mode you can spend more time neatly organizing your desk

Achievements
But theres also another kind of people. People that want to make the most out of the cards theyre dealt. People who are ready to sacrifice everything to get their games to 100% completion so their Steam friends can see how committed they are. Those people are welcome too and were cooking up some challenges so they can show-off their skills and brag to their fellow gamer friends.


Thats a nice thing to have on your profile isnt it

Thanks for tuning in, see you next month!

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Great news. All of your stock market questions can now be answered by The Invisible Hand developers!

After all, we are making a game about the stock market!

Come hang out in the Fellow Traveller Discord, as we answer your questions about our game and what on earth it means to short a stock.

After all, now is the time to be googling words about the stockmarket, but it doesn't mean that a short squeeze makes any more sense the more times you read it.

You can play the demo of The Invisible Hand during the Steam Game Festival until Feb 9, and decide for yourself if the cost of making money is worth what it costs.

Especially if you've been following The News this week, there's a good chance you'll be interested in The Invisible Hand. No, you can't buy Gamespot stock with it. But you do get to the play the stockmarket and deal with the consequences of it, but you know, not IRL.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

GAMESPOT STOCK. SHORT SQUEEZE.

If you've had to google any of these words in the last week, there's a good chance you'll be interested in The Invisible Hand. No, you can't buy Gamespot stock with it. But you do get to the play the stockmarket and deal with the consequences of it, but you know, not IRL.

We'll be playing through The Invisible Hand, and showing off just what it looks like to be a mid-level stockbroker, pursuing wealth and success at the cost of everything else.... possibly even your freedom.

Don't miss the gameplay livestream!

You can play the demo of The Invisible Hand during the Steam Game Festival until Feb 9, and decide for yourself if the cost of making money is worth what it costs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

Hello and happy new year to our beloved shareholders. With the coming year, our primary goal is to reach new heights, for a successful 2021. And as we all know, a pillar of success is buying yachts and doing frivolous things on them, another key goal for 2021.

Ignorance is blissful but information is power
Far removed from the physical and mental concerns of the lower class, our moneyed friends occasionally gather in swell environments to network and discuss the matters of the masters, while consuming recreational substances. We wanted to integrate a representation of this fascinating ritual of sociological interest. But dont think its all fun and games. Important information is shared and secret deals are made in those places.


When nothing goes right, go left.

Funneling whats trickling down
Capitalism has a tendency to favor those who are already established. Once you are rich enough, well let you access a *re-distributive* feature of modern finance: dividends. You give money to a company, and they regularly give you a little less money in return. If you maintain your positions well, after some time, youll be out of work but youll still get paid just because you own those pieces of privatized power we call shares. This is trickle-down economics. You just have to make sure it stops trickling down at your level.


If you made a cent for every manufactured bullet, well thatd just be bad cause war is not cool.

See you next month!

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Howdy! Were back here this month to humbly share our advancement with you, our precious shareholders.

Heres a detailed infographic of how things are going:


As you can see, things are going great. Someone with big influence said one day, Network Marketing is the wave of the future.

Last month we went hard on implementing content to make the game playable from start to finish. Were almost there, and right now the balancing is so off its actually funny to watch the market behave in a way we, the actual developers of the game, didnt anticipate. Fortunately our advanced computer experience will make it easy for us to refine this into a well-paced and satisfying experience, up to industry standards, by orienting the odds in your favour. We value our shared interests.


You will experience relatively normal things in the game

Were having fun implementing physically impossible character spawning to keep you on edge. Have you ever been scared by a coworker tapping on your shoulder while youre focused on some important work stuff? Were working on including it. Life in the office has its ups and downs, but were working on narrative beats and systems so its more ups than downs!


Is going out of the office really going to be a good time?

See you next month!

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Our publisher, Fellow Traveller is an indie games label publishing innovative story-driven games. Their newest game, Suzerain is out today!

Suzerain is a text based, political strategy game, where you play as the newly elected President of Sordland, following 20 year dictatorship. Its 1954 and its your job to lead the country into an uncertain future.

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Navigate your first term through conversations with your cabinet members, colleagues and family. Its up to you to decide who you will trust, what you will sacrifice and where your priorities lie.

Will you reform the constitution, transforming the Republic into a brutal dictatorship or true democracy? Align yourself with the capitalist of communist superpowers? Prepare for potential military threats on the horizon? Address racial minorities, womens rights, the ongoing recession, immigration and all the other challenges and opportunities presented to a world leader.



If you love narrative games as much as we do, check out Suzerain on Steam!

Hi there! Welcome to our first monthly developer update, known as the Board Update, to let you know how things are progressing on The Invisible Hand.

For the past few months we've been working on content production, blending market mechanics and narration with the help of our masterfully crafted master script by Will O'Neill and music composed by Felix Watson.

This is complex work as we're giving players a lot of freedom to act in opposition to the narrative, and want them to feel seen, while not going down too many narrative branches before our endings. We're achieving this by creating small branches that are quickly resolved and put back on track of the main branch, storing information about players' choices that affect the ending.

People can get angry if you don't do what you're told

In October, we worked on polish and bug fixes as development was slowed down due to health issues of our main developer, Ben. A round of playtest organized by one of our producers, Louis, brought a ton of good ideas. We decided to slow down the rhythm of the game a bit by making in-game days a bit longer. This is more work than it sounds like, as we had to rework timing for events in a lot of places. Weve been reluctant to do this in the past because we liked having players feel pressured by time, but it was getting in the way of understanding and enjoying mechanics for a lot of players, so we caved to the lobbying.

Thanks for tuning into this Board Report, we appreciate the ongoing confidence and support of our cherished shareholders, and we assure you that together, well make more money than you can imagine. See you next month!

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A little story beat we are working on...