Some fun announcements below, but first -
If you like BOOK OF HOURS, vote for us in this year's Steam Awards! We're a husband and wife team making extremely niche, weird indie games, so we're very much an underdog here. But if you like weird, warped indie gems, please cast your vote for us. Thank you!

Trading cards and Steam Points Shop

We released Steam trading cards for BOOK OF HOURS along with badges, backgrounds and emoticons! Check 'em out in the Points Shop, and a gigantic pitcher of eigengrau to the first person who crafts the 'Librarian of Hush House' foil badge.

Soundtrack coming soon

I'm listening to it now! Mickymar Production's haunting soundtrack will be coming to Steam, GOG, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and... probably some other places before the end of the year. It's a rich, lustrous OST and the perfect accompaniment to cold winter days, studying ancient grimoires and/or trying to get your pet snake to stop gnawing up the furniture. Good luck with that.

Next up: DAYMARE

BOOK OF HOURS' next update will be DAYMARE. It's already on the beta branch and will be coming to main next week. Here are the confirmed headline features so far - there may be more but these are definite!

Mail ordering some items (from Cater & Hero, and from TRN Ltd). Ordering from a catalogue will be a baroque and leisurely process. It'll reinforce Brancrug's remoteness, and it won't be trivial to top up supplies. But it'll fill some gaps and it'll add some flavour.
In-game shelf labels! The Skolekosophy section? The Possibly Contaminated section? Unconfirmed Crafting Recipes? Useful Memories (though the book/Memory system may be coming up for a change)? Notes to yourself about who Janus is and who Hendrick was?
Some UI refresh stuff - e.g. what Lottie refers to as 'spiffing timers' to make workstations a bit prettier
Some more zoom tuning (restoring simultaneous arrow key movement and zoom-to, and I'll look at the zoom levels again)

(WIP! Please do not take as the Final Thing.) Once DAYMARE is live, we'll focus on BOOK OF HOURS' first content expansion. (To confirm, this will be paid DLC, but free to anyone with Perpetual Edition.) You may still see some updates while we're working on that, and before the year is out we should have more details on what exactly will be included in this first new content update. And finally - did we mention we love Christmas? Look out for something festive, starting 1st December. More from us then!

[ 2023-11-21 18:01:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

BOOK OF HOURS
Weather Factory

Developer

Weather Factory

Publisher

June 2023

Release

RPG Simulation Singleplayer

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For fifteen centuries, Hush House was a fortress of knowledge. Until the fire. The collection is ruined, and the last Librarian is gone. Only one with your unique talents can rebuild the library.

BOOK OF HOURS is an elegant, melancholy, combat-free RPG set in an occult library, from the creator Fallen London, Sunless Sea and the double BAFTA-nominated Cultist Simulator.

Enjoy the sweet peace of organising books and customising your new home, all while unpeeling centuries of history from the occult stones about you.

The Librarian's influence extends far beyond the walls of Hush House. It's up to you to determine how history is written.

In this 20 - 40 hour game, you'll:

◆ ACQUIRE, RESTORE and CATALOGUE occult books, scrolls and curiosities.

◆ STUDY the nine Wisdoms, and conquer the nine Elements of the Soul.

◆ GUIDE visitors who come seeking your assistance, choosing their paths and stories.

◆ EXPLORE the Secret Histories and the pantheon of Hours that rules them.

◆ RESTORE a vast crumbling edifice built on the foundations of an ancient abbey.

◆ WREST your past from obscurity. Choose from nine different Legacies which determine who you are. You might be a Magnate, abandoning wealth to seek peace. Or an Archaeologist, fleeing the curse you awoke. Or perhaps your origins are more esoteric, like the Symurgist, or Twiceborn? Each playthrough offers different opportunities.

Weather Factory is a two-person dev team supported by many brilliant freelancers. BOOK OF HOURS was partially funded by the European Union's Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA. Thank you, Europe! We love you. ♥

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: 2GHz or betterMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x768 minimum resolution. OpenGL Core. post-2012 integrated graphics
Storage: 500 MB available space

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