As you may have already seen, Steam's Visual Novel Fest has just begun!
For an entire week, the spotlight shines on our personal favorite medium of interactive storytelling, which is why we thought that it's a good time to post a little update again, especially given that the anniversary of SHINRAI's release is also coming up later this month! First of all, in case you haven't seen it yet (the cross promo post seems to have gotten lost in the Steam ether of oblivion), the store page for our next murder mystery GENBA no Kizuna is up, featuring a trailer, some screenshots, a description and a feature list, which will hopefully give you a good idea as to what you can expect from it! And if you think it's something you'd enjoy delving into once it's out, be sure to add it to your wishlists! It'll only take one click, but provide us with tons of joy! Speaking of GENBA coming out, though, we sadly still can't give you an exact release date yet, but as you can see from the store page, it's scheduled to finally be finished this year! Currently, we're about to move on to tackling its grand finale and, by the end of the month, will have around 85% of it fully playable! So yes, at long last, the finish line is visible on the horizon! We will share more info and some new glimpses at the later parts of the game very soon, so keep an eye on our website and social medias if you're curious! We've said this a couple of times before, but want to once again take the opportunity to apologize for the delays and also to thank you all for your support and patience. It's been quite the development journey and it's so hard to believe that it has seriously been this long since SHINRAI's release... BUT! That makes us all the more excited to finally share our next project! Although it's technically neither prequel nor sequel, it still has strong ties to SHINRAI and will finally shed light on some of its unanswered questions! And who knows? Maybe you'll get to see some familiar faces again as well... Anyway, there is one other thing we would like to direct your attention to before we come to a close! For the past two months, we have been building something together with a number of other fellow mystery developers, namely... a little community!
Its aim is for both mystery developers and mystery players to come together and help each other in their endeavors of creating their own mystery games or simply finding new ones to enjoy! So if that sounds like a fun idea to you, feel free to join the dedicated Discord server and hang out with us! You can also find more information here! Now, with all of that said, if you do decide to spend this week playing some visual novels, we hope that you'll have a fun time doing so! And if it's a mystery one that strikes your fancy in particular, maybe leave a recommendation for others over on the Mystery Gamedev Discord ;3