• Fixed a bug where Cordelias Max HP was lower than expected while at level 46.

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• On Casual difficulty, some bosses have been made easier.

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• Updated one of the battle backgrounds for clarity/quality.

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• Added a Quest Log entry for Bobby (Feorlan Mines).

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• Fixed a bug where some scripted status effects were incorrectly healable.

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• Fixed a bug where some weapon abilities would target incorrectly with Archimedes equipped.

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• Fixed a bug where some special weapon abilities might incorrectly proc when the player misses, or not proc when the enemy is immune.

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• Minor adjustments to the prompts in sheep stacking.

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• You can now buy Remedy from a shop in Leornia.

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• Resolved a few minor map presentation and collision issues.

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• Various typos have been fixed.

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• Adjusted the descriptions of some items.

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• Improved load times for Quest Log, some SFX/BGMs, and certain cutscenes.

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• Fixed a bug if the first launch is directly from the filesystem.

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• Re-binding keyboard controls now properly affects the airship flight controls as expected.

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• Fixed an issue where you could not target a summoned enemy during specific boss-fights under certain conditions.

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• Fixed some interaction and performance issues during airship takeoff/land.

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• Fixed a small graphical issue on the world map

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• Slight improvements to performance on a few maps

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• Corrected a typo

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We\'d like to thank everyone for the continued support of Quartet. We are happy to announce the launch of our new update, V 1.2. Let\'s go over what you can expect!

New Content

Sheep Stacking

In Chapter 11, visit the swamp east of Akos to initiate this minigame for Ben. There are 8 levels of increasing difficulty, each with their own unique rewards.

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Cave of the Mighty Javelin

After completing Agatas side quest, you can access this optional dungeon, west of Merdoyo. Complete the dungeon in the time limit, but be on the look out for rare loot along the way! Upon completion you will be rewarded with some great new gear for Agata and Juna. There will be a one time choice afterwards.

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New Features

Battle Cursor Memory

Enabling this new setting causes the battle cursor to automatically select the last action and spell/item used per-character.

Battle Party Memory

Enabling this new setting allows the players party formation to be restored to its initial state after each battle.

Auto Save

An auto save feature has been added. The game will automatically save when using a heal point or when going to most new maps

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Quality of Life

Explorers Guild:

• Arcana Master - There is an additional reward when completing all card games. Revisit the Arcana Master to claim the additional reward.

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• Archivist - The archivist\'s dialogue now updates as you find the endgame legendary weapons

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Zikarons Side Quest - A small visual has been added to help detect the location at the end of the quest.

Card Game Difficulty - Opponents can now play more intelligently, based on the current gameplay difficulty setting.

Missed Midas Glove - The other Midas Glove (from Jeromes side quest) can now be accessed if you missed it by revisiting the location of his side quest.

Save Clear Data - After completing the game and watching the credits, you will be prompted to save your game. Any items you used during the final battle are recovered.

Performance Improvements

• Improved responsiveness of inputs during combat menus and victory sequence.

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• Improved the responsiveness when opening the Save/Load menu.

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• Improved load times when changing maps for the first time.

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• CPU performance has been improved for maps with large numbers of NPCs

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• Improved CPU performance while using the airship.

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Improved Detection of System Save / Load Issues

We now detect and communicate various Save / Load system issues to the player, such as the drive being full, not having write permissions, or other complications from Windows ransomware protection.

Unity Vulnerability Patched

The Windows build has been patched to fix CVE-2025-59489.

Bugfixes, and other Improvements

• Duck Dog Reward bugfix - In some cases, Duck Dog would retreat after being defeated, preventing you from receiving your reward for completing the quest. If you hit this bug, return to the Duck Dog Shrine to receive your reward.

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• Seconds + Item now only consumes 1 item instead of 2

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• Bleed and Poison now do Non-Elemental damage instead of Quintessence damage.

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• Javelin Rain now hits 4-6 times as per the skill description.

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• Jubilee Rose no longer incorrectly confers earth elemental immunity

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• Fixed a bug where some chests could be opened twice in the Archives and in Chapter 9

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• Turbo mode is temporarily disabled during Clairvoyance to give the player more time to read (messages can be advanced by pressing confirm)

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• Monsters in the menagerie, zoo now make a sound if you interact with them.

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• Fixed a bug where movement inputs would sometimes become unresponsive when switching between applications during some cutscenes or other transitions until the menu is opened.

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• Fixed a bug where some weapon effects would incorrectly retarget other enemies when defeated.

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• Some UI Audio volume issues for some shop and menu actions have been fixed.

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• Fixed an issue where the player would sometimes not animate smoothly when moving through certain areas in certain maps.

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• Some backers have been updated in the credits.

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• Some settings have been moved to other tabs.

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• Various typos, and map layering, tile, and collision fixes.

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• Fixed an issue with insufficient horizontal padding on one UI element

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OST Bundle

You can now purchase Quartet + the OST for a 30% discount.

[dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/60901/Quartet__OST/\"][/dynamiclink]And that\'s it! Thanks again for your continued support! And as always, if you are enjoying the game, or appreciate how we\'re supporting it, post in the forums or shoot us a review on Steam. Our next, and last big free update - 1.3, will be really special. Please look forward to it!

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• Fixes an issue with unity particle effects causing crashes on some systems.\n
• Lowered the cost of Magic Mist from 50 AP to 40 AP.\n
• Fixed a particular save point on Chapter 8 not activating the \"Save Menu\" when pressing Interact.\n

• Swipe and X-Swipe now behave as expected when using Force of Nature.\n

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• Turbo now persists across battle <-> level changes.\n

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• Fixed an out of bounds when climbing a certain rope a certain way in Chapter 7.\n

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• Fixed an occasional crash when Force of Nature was used with X-Fight.

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• Minor dialogue adjustments in Chapter 11 after completing certain side quests.\n

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• Fixed visual bug where turn order list would not update correctly after swapping.

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• Fixed bug where certain weapons for zikaron and agata would silently and unexpectedly deal additional damage.

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• Fixed a bug where certain weapons for zikaron and agata would not proc ailments as often as expected.

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• Force of Nature no longer bypasses stun or sleep ailments.

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• Force of Nature CAN now be affected by \"seconds\".

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• Fix audio volume blip when quitting the game in certain ways.

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• Fixed various issues affecting battle actor positioning involving \"seconds\".

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• Increased drop rates for certain rare items on certain rare encounters.

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• Improved various NPC dialogue, Story screen triggers for improved clarity around endgame sidequests

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• Fixed a rare crash during a cutscene in ch.10 (and possibly in other rare scenarios).

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• Fixed a rare crash when changing scenes while a \"camera hint\" is present on-screen.

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• Adjustments to enemy balancing in the final dungeon, Jerome\'s side quest, and on hard mode.

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• Fixed logging errors when loading saves and on Windows/MacOS when accessing certain navigation functions in ch.11 (may fix some rare crashes).

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• Fixed typo for a specific location name on the ch.11 minimap.

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• Fixed some other minor dialogue/typos.

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• Fixed/improved some minor map issues.

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• Fixed shop bug where selling items could cause the cursor to render incorrectly

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• Revised Trip Mine description for accuracy

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• Fixed a chapter 11 softlock when navigating a certain way south of Stral

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• Fixed an out of bounds in an endgame dungeon that allowed you to bypass the boss

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• Minor performance improvements when using the airship, certain UI operations, ending combat

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• Fixed a location appearing on the minimap before it had been discovered

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• Fixed a minor tiling issue in Cordelia\'s Chapter, Chapter 8

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• Make turbo work outside of battle\n
• Buffs conferred by accessories can no longer be dispelled\n
• (Prologue) Le Dernier\'s moves now correctly scale off of magic\n
• (Prologue) Le Dernier\'s Mighty Guard now functions as expected\n
• Fixed a softlock in chapter 8 when triggering a certain pushback event from a certain direction\n
• Don\'t show \"Chapter Select\" or \"Chapter 7\" in a popup when choosing to save at the end of a chapter\n
• Fixed some missing visuals in the environment in chapter 8 \n
• Fixed a typo on a certain location name on the minimap\n

Once again, we\'d like to thank everyone who\'s played and supported Quartet so far! As always, if you\'re struggling or have feedback, post in the community forums- we are keeping an eye on them (as you can hopefully see from this update)!

New Features

While we\'ve been hard at work over the past week, pushing fixes for bugs, crashes and softlocks, we\'ve also been cooking up these new features:

Hard Mode

For players who enjoy the challenge, all enemies hit harder and faster; many enemies have enhanced movesets and more aggressive attack patterns. Don\'t die!

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Airship Improvements

• Location Names have been added when pressing \"select\" on controller (or \"1\" on the keyboard) to show the zoomed in version of the world map,

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• Faster Movement - Turn and strafe faster. The airship also takes off at a higher altitude

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• Clearer Landing Hints - When unable to land in areas for story areas, a bit of info is provided as to why or how to go around

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Battle Turbo

A new config option speeds up battle animations and grinding with the rear right shoulder button on your controller, configurable as either holding for turbo, or tapping to toggle on/off.

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Enemy Data

When targeting enemies with an attack, you will be reminded of whether an enemy is immune, weak, or resists the elements involved IF you\'ve previously used an attack with that element (or used Zikaron\'s Clairvoyance skill)

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Streamer Mode

Enabling this config option exports your party\'s front line as image sources for OBS (or your other preferred streaming software) to include in your overlay or background. Can be configured to export their turn order icons, standing sprites or for the 8 main heroes, their concept art.

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• On Windows, Documents\\\\Something Classic\\\\Quartet\\\\

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• On Mac OS, ~/Library/Application Support/Something Classic/Quartet/

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• On Linux, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Something Classic/Quartet/ or $HOME/.config/unity3d/Something Classic/Quartet/

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If you need to customize the assets, or want to use the source assets in your overlay in some other way, they can be accessed from your Steam Library > Properties > Installed Files > Browse ... > Quartet_Data > StreamingAssets > Portraits.

Oxford Comma Improvements

• The description of the Oxford comma in the config menu now includes an Oxford comma.

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• We\'ve identified 8 additional locations in the script where Oxford commas were (or weren\'t!) being used correctly (or not!)

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Other Changes

• Fixed some typos, collision issues, and airship softlocks.

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• Improved support for non-Xbox gamepads and touchpads.

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• Healing animations in the menus play a bit faster.

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• HD Font support is no longer \"Experimental\",

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• Various improvements to player animation speed and quality,

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• The special move Onslaught now does \\[Slash] damage instead of \\[Pierce]

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• Alexandra\'s Weapons all bestow 1 more point of MAG

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• Other miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements,

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Thanks again for your continued support! And as always, if you are enjoying the game, or appreciate how we\'re supporting it, post in the forums or shoot us a review on Steam.

• Fixes two more softlocks when traversing the world map in certain ways in the final chapter.

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• Added a world map \"recovery mode\" accessible from the debug menu to help people get out of any similar softlocks in case we\'ve missed any (please continue to report these!); tap on the version number on the config menu from the title screen to access the debug menu

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While we\'re still hard at work on the 1.1 feature update, this patch includes a few bugfixes we wanted to get to customers in 1.0, sooner. This includes:

• Fixes a softlock when performing certain world map traversal actions

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• Fixes a hang when fighting a certain enemy in Cordelia\'s chapter

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• Fixes a hang when providing unexpected input during a minigame in chapter 9

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Hello, y\'all!

We\'re thrilled to announce that Quartet has officially launched and the response has been absolutely incredible! We\'re currently holding strong with a Metacritic score of 87, and we couldn\'t be more grateful for the amazing reception from players and critics alike.\n

Watch our Release Trailer:

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In a delightful turn of events, we even hit the front page of Reddit today for our most obscure configuration option: the Oxford Comma toggle!

Check out the viral thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1n1vswb/in_my_42_years_i_have_never_seen_such_an_obscure

And give it some more love!

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Zero-day Patch:

We have also shipped a new patch that is LIVE NOW:

• Bug: Save Files were not transferring from Demo to Full Game when playing on the Steam Deck

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Coming soon in Patch 1.1:

We were listening to the discourse on the Steam forums as well as the features folks are expecting. We\'re already hard at work on our first update, which will include:

• Hard Difficulty Mode: For those seeking an even greater challenge (Part of version 1.1!)

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• Turbo Button for Battles: Speed through encounters at your own pace (Part of version 1.1!)

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• Streamer Mode: A mode for Streamers, point your streaming software \"Image Sources\" overlay to your save file and automatically update your front-row party display overlay for your stream (1.1 update!)

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Support Ongoing Development

Your support directly fuels future updates and content! By purchasing Quartet now, you\'re helping us continue to enhance and expand the game with new features, quality-of-life improvements, and additional content down the road.

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Thank you for being part of this incredible launch. The journey through the world of Quartet has only just begun!

Team Something Classic

We've pushed a new build with lots of bugfixes thanks to everyone playing the demo and providing feedback during Next Fest. Improvements include:

• Fixed a bug where using the "Narrow font" caused the party order to reset after every battle.

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• Using potions in the menu has been made much faster. Other items are also faster.

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• Fixed some collisions that allowed the player to leave the map.

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• Fixed a bug where loading during a puzzle caused the puzzle to break.

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• Improved clarity on one of the puzzles in Stral.

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• Fixed a bug on the Chapter Select screen where the volume would reset after one loop.

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• Tomes now correctly show the sale price as 0 (they cannot be sold).

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• Right shoulder button no longer causes the player to run.

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• Add a small amount of "coyote time" to dialogue to help stop players from accidentally skipping short dialogue messages.

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• Removed battle summary screen during the prologue combat scenes.

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• Various tileset clipping and layering issues have been fixed.

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• Fixed a bug where the player could get stuck in a wall during certain cutscenes.

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• Revised some dialogue, skill descriptions for clarity.

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We hope you enjoy the demo, and look forward to the release in August!

-The Quartet Team

We've pushed an update to the demo containing some important bug fixes and other improvements.

• Fixed a combat crash for French players. This also fixes laggy sound effect issues for other EU countries.

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• Fixed an issue causing temporarily unresponsive inputs on the title screen.

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• Made some improvements to the opening sequence in Nikolai's chapter.

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• Fixed some issues with enemy attack animation placement.

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• Fixed application of defensive buffs during the prologue chapter.

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In celebration of Steam Next Fest, we have released an all new demo! This demo contains between 1 to 2 hours of gameplay.

In this demo, play through the character chapter of Nikolai Proch. The son of a baker from a small village, Nikolai joined the Auslen Army to see more of the world. After serving as a firefighter and rising to the rank of sergeant, he was surprised by being selected to lead a squad tracking rogue mages on the frontier. His superiors give him a strange new device made for the task, and send him deep into the woods searching for the base of the raider Apingorix.

And if you haven't heard, we are launching Quartet on August 26, 2025! So smash that wishlist to be alerted when the game goes live!

Thank you,

• Something Classic Games, Quartet Team

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We are pleased to announce that Quartet will be launching August 26, 2025 for Windows, macOS and Linux!

Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 versions will release later in 2025.

Hi all,

Just wanted to send all of you a quick update. We have no specific topic we wanted to talk about, or area I'd like to show, so we think it'd be a good opportunity to do a bit of grab bag of screenshots. (The new stuff we are working on is heavy spoiler-filled and we want to save that for you when you play the game!) Speaking of which, we have just started work on Chapter 10 of 11. That means after this chapter is completed all we have left is the final dungeon and all the side and backer content. We are getting very, very close to releasing the game!

So without further ado, let's look at a collection of shots ranging from the very beginning of the game up through and including Chapter 9. I'll present them without any commentary, so you can let your imagination fill in the blanks!












Ok! That's it. Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed this style of update. As always, we sincerely appreciate all your support. Making JRPGs is the dream of this team and because of your support, we are making the best one we possibly can. We cannot wait for you to try it!

If you want to stay in touch, please join us on our discord and follow us on twitter . Have a great day!

Team Something Classic

You may have noticed that we missed our monthly update in October. We were hoping to have our next update be a big one, and unfortunately we were not ready to announce. But we've made it in just the nick of time. So here goes: The first four chapters of Quartet are now available in an alpha build. If you are a backer, you can play them right now!

For instructions on how to play the first four character chapters, please view our Backer-only post over on Kickstarter
(If you are not a Kickstarter backer, you can still play the public Quartet demo on Steam )

Each chapter is an introduction to two characters. In Cordelias chapter, she is wrongfully implicated by a political scandal, and loses her position in the government. She decides to go out westwell, technically eastand lay down the law. Taking the mantle of sheriff, she tries to make a name for herself so that she can return to the capital in undeniable triumph. She happens upon Jerome, and then things take a very unexpected turn for the worse.


In Bens chapter, he suddenly acquires magical powers, relatively late in life. Cool, right? Well, not if you accidentally blow up the restaurant you work at. Then youre gonna be hard to employ, and rent is still due on the first of the month. A few people are willing to pay for his magical services. One of them is Agata, a Phylaka, whose job it is to monitor mages in Bens hometown. Slowly, we learn more about Agata and Ben, and what his powers might mean for his future.


In Nikolais chapter, he has just been promoted to staff sergeant, and placed in command of a squad of the glorious Seventh Border Guards. After roaming the wilds in pursuit of a barbarian raider, he watches as war breaks out between his country and their powerful neighbor. This shakes up his life, as wars often do. Soon, he and his squad find themselves ordered to perform highly questionable tasks in the subjugated city of Stral.


In Alexandras chapter, a personal tragedy leaves her family hurtingand her family business hurting even worse. Struggling to pay her bills, she turns to her brother Alvin, a small-time gangster. This decision plunges her into far more trouble than she imagined, when suddenly she is being pursued by other criminals, the police, and even a mysterious ghost. Is she simply destined for sorrow and stress? Or does the mysterious deck of magical cards she found hold the key to her future?


That should about cover it - I hope you all enjoy playing the demo! As always, wishlisting the game is the best way to support us now. Because of your support, our Steam wishlists are approaching 14k!! So please, continue to spread the word to friends about our game! Our game can only succeed with the help of all of you.

Also, we will be presenting a booth at MagFest again in Jan 2024. Please come by and say hi!

If you want to stay in touch, please join us on our discord , follow us on twitter . Have a great day!

QUARTET ARRIVES TO KICKSTARTER

Classic turn-based indie RPG with tag-team mechanics

• Eight heroes with a unique roster of spells and abilities
• Tactically deep tag-team combat
• A sprawling, character-driven story
• Tons of epic and imaginative loot