Happy to announce that Misgiven is part of this year's AdventureX digital showcase, featuring 35 shortlisted titles and 10 honorable mentions from the hundreds of submissions this year, as well as the past years' exhibitors! To celebrate this recognition, we'll be doing a livestream here on Steam on Tue 5 November at 2PM CET. Come hang out with the devs, watch us play the latest demo and ask us anything! Check out all narrative games participating in the AdventureX Steam event page (available from Monday): https://store.steampowered.com/sale/AdventureX2024 AdventureX will also be livestreaming talks, panels and interviews on Thu 7 November starting at 6 PM GMT on the Steam Event page, as well as their Youtube and Twitch channels! During the rest of the week, their Steam Event page will broadcast some of the best talks in AdventureX history. Celebrate a whole week dedicated to adventure games and the creativity of their developers!

[ 2024-11-02 18:20:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Misgiven is competing in the DevGAMM Awards this year! If you want to help, use this form to vote for Misgiven's submission in the Community Award category, for our chance to win $2000 to cover further development costs! Thank you <3 Voting deadline: October 27

[ 2024-10-14 07:22:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting Misgiven at Polaris Con this week! Polaris is a unique mix of gaming, anime, manga, cosplay and Asian pop culture. This will be its third edition at the Hamburg Congress Center on 11. - 13. October 2024. Come visit our booth in SANDBOX Hall B7 at the Gamecity Hamburg delegation to play Misgiven's latest demo and chat with us!

[ 2024-10-09 11:40:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're extending the availability of Misgiven's early demo for a special Steam feature: Games Baked in Germany!
Check out a plethora of tasty games, sales and showcases for the next 7 days: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/games-made-in-germany-2024

[ 2024-06-20 19:44:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear friends, We're feverishly excited to share that the MISGIVEN DEMO is OUT NOW on Steam - available for a limited time for the duration of Summer Game Fest! We thought this would be the right time to celebrate together how far we've come and to get more public feedback on a game that is continuously growing and changing! We're also thrilled to be part of the Women-Led Games lineup! Check it out at the Women-Led Games Event and the WLG Showcase Stream! We really hope you enjoy checking out this early demo of Misgiven. Please send us any demo feedback via this form, share it around and wishlist the upcoming release. Catch you in the next update!

[ 2024-06-07 13:58:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're excited to be attending Indie Game Fest between 31.05 and 01.06 - come play the demo and hang out with us! You can still grab yourself a ticket to the event with the following discount link: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/854790771207/?discount=Game20 Check out the Steam event page here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43793299/sale/indiegamefest2024 Hope to see you at Hotel Wasserturm! - Anca and Julian

[ 2024-05-30 17:03:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

If you missed it on our social media, we wanted you - our followers rooting for Misgiven's journey - to get the update on our previous announcement: our game won the Young Talent Award: Best Prototype last week in Munich! The prize includes 50,000 EUR in funding and national recognition, and is a huge opportunity to continue expanding our prototype!
The DCP (German Computer Game Award) has been awarded since 2009 and is organized by the German Federal Republic and the Game Association, with 15 categories and a total of 800,000 EUR in prize money this year! You can watch the award show stream here: [previewyoutube=R3_20SHreNg;full][/previewyoutube] For more info and lots more pics, head over to our website: https://symmetrybreak.com/2024/04/22/misgiven-wins-dcp-award-for-best-prototype/.

[ 2024-04-25 17:05:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today we at Symmetry Break Studio are incredibly happy to be able to share with you that Misgiven has been nominated as one of 5 Germany-wide titles for the Young Talent Award: Best Prototype at the German Computer Game Awards (DCP) 2024, securing at least the 25K EUR nomination prize We quote here the touching review from the DCP jury for Misgiven, translated from the German version: "Multiple-choice conversations appear in countless computer games. But very often the innovations end with the layout of the ready-made answers; instead of having a conversation, we traverse a tree diagram. In this way, we do not do justice to the feeling of really talking to other people. Misgiven captures the insecurities and inhibitions in a conversation situation with an uncertain outcome with a brilliant idea: The protagonist of the graphic adventure sees more and less courageous answer options. Which of these she chooses depends on how relaxed and open she is feeling at the time. Unfortunately, she quickly stumbles into a tense negotiation situation under a false identity. Every sentence becomes a challenge. The innovation lies in a familiar genre - a graphic adventure game. The mix of new ideas and tried and tested controls is convincing. The game captivates us with its gripping atmosphere and all-round professional presentation. The story elegantly transports current topics such as empathy, freedom, inequality, oppression and environmental destruction into a science fiction setting. Never have we looked forward to a toxic particulate matter tsunami as much as we do here." Many thanks to the jury for this honor! We're hoping you'll keep your fingers crossed for us on 18th April at the award ceremony in Munich for the chance to win 1st prize and 50.000 EUR! And, of course, keep an eye out for the next steps in Misgiven's unyielding journey.

[ 2024-03-19 17:55:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all an update if you've been wondering what we at Symmetry Break Studio have been up to. Many of you may not have seen anything new about Misgiven ever since we showed the game at gamescom 2023. We want to let you know we're still hard at work, albeit a bit slower, as we hunt for a publisher and further funding for the game. Even though this introduces some delays in our development schedule, we're gearing up to come back in full force in 2024. 2023 was a very exciting year for Misgiven, all caused by your interest and support, whether you spoke or wrote about the game, hosted it at events, came up to us to talk about it, playtested it, offered feedback or wishlisted it. All these things were incredibly helpful and tremendously encouraging! If you're keen on revisiting the excitement of gamescom in August 2023, here's a couple ways to do it:

• Read the thoughts of BBC journalist Laura Cress about Misgiven, listed among many other amazing adventure games she played at gamescom.
• Watch the playthrough of Misgiven's demo on the Indie Arena Booth livestream
• Those of you who speak German can listen to the Behind the Screens Mental Health-Spiele auf der Gamescom Podcast E076, hosted by psychologists Dr. Benjamin Strobel, Nicolas Hoberg and Jessica Kathmann, in which they look at video games from the perspective of psychology.

November saw Misgiven in the spotlight at the PLAY! Festival in Hamburg. If you missed it, you can catch a glimpse of the event through this Twitch livestream snippet, where our producer, Anca, talks about the game and answers a few questions. In December, Misgiven was one of the 3 nominees for the Ubisoft Newcomer Award at the German Developer Award in Cologne. While we didn't win, we are so proud of having made it this far! For the time being, we will be sporadic with posts here bar major updates, but in the meantime there is an active Discord community that we regularly engage with. You are more than welcome to join us on Discord to discuss the game and talk to the team in a more personal setting. Thank you so much for your support in 2023 and stay tuned for what's coming. We wish you wonderful winter holidays and a fabulous new year!

[ 2023-12-24 12:05:12 CET ] [ Original post ]