Hey gamers,
As the event title, subtitle, and summary all probably told you: both Highway Blossoms: Next Exit and the Official Artbook will be releasing as DLC on September 25th.
If you don't know what those are then cool, because I'll explain. If you do then skip to the bottom of this or something.
Next Exit is a brand new story DLC set just a little while after the base game. Amber and Marina return to Las Vegas and to meet up with Tess for her birthday. Coincidentally, Tess' birthday is September 25. See what we did there? As you might expect, not everything goes as planned. There's laughter, there's tears, there's Cassi the candy shop girl. All that good stuff you want from a Highway Blossoms game. Or at least, so we hope.
It's a little over half the length of the original game. It's got brand new CG's and backgrounds, and even some new/improved sprites. It's got a brand new GUI that will also be replacing the GUI in the main game. It's got new item cut-ins, including some for the base game too. It's fully voice acted by the original cast. It's got new music* from all the original composers. It's pretty cool.
Highway Blossoms: Next Exit will cost $7.99 and will require the base game to play. Add it to your wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/490270/Highway_Blossoms_Next_Exit
You can check out the official trailer right here:
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*The new tracks from Next Exit will be added to the existing soundtrack DLC, so you won't need to purchase them separately. We <3 you.
At the same time as Next Exit, we're also releasing the Highway Blossoms Official Artbook. It's in .pdf format and includes all the art from the game, concept art, merch designs and bonus illustrations, plus commentary from a bunch of us developers. It's like reading a whole book of patch notes! But more exciting and with more pretty pictures. One thing: the artbook does NOT contain the images from the 18+ DLC.
Normally in this kind of book we'd also include a walkthrough on how to get every ending in the game but uh... Guess that's not really needed here.
The artbook will cost $4.99. You can go ahead and add it to your wishlist already, and be notified as soon as it goes up for sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1412300/Highway_Blossoms__Official_Artbook/
That's everything for now! I've said it before, but thanks for sticking around. It's cool that we can release this stuff 4 years after the original game and people are still excited for it. These last two weeks of waiting until release already feel like playing on Extreme Mode. Hopefully it'll all be worth the sense of achievement at the end.
Josh
Highway Blossoms
AlienWorks
Sekai Project
2016-06-17
Indie Singleplayer
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Highway Blossoms: Next Exit
Highway Blossoms - 18+ Adult Only Content
Highway Blossoms - Official Artbook
Highway Blossoms is a short yuri story set in the American Southwest. After an old gold rush miner's journal is discovered, supposedly detailing where he hid parts of his stash, a nationwide craze begins as would-be prospectors try to solve its clues and strike it rich.
Amber couldn't care less. Wandering the desert in a recently-inherited motorhome, she mourns the loss of her grandfather - indifferent and unaware of the hunt happening around her. It's not until she meets Marina, a young hitchhiker lost in New Mexico that the girls get swept up in the rush.
- At least tens of words, maybe even hundreds. Although the last word count puts it around 90,000, so expect 6 or so hours of reading.
- Grand, hand-painted vistas of actual landmarks in the western United States, all in glorious 1080p detail.
- A huge soundtrack featuring the works of Anna Logue, Jake Abernathie, Able Kirby, and other friends of AlienWorks. Sounds right at home on your in-dash cassette tape player.
- Accessibility options for days, including the ability to skip through everything in less than five minutes. But who would wanna do that?
- Achievements, although to be honest, they might be stretching the definition of "achievement."
- Alternate silly content for second readthroughs that AlienWorks let the programmer write. This may or may not have been a good idea.
- OS: Any reasonably modern Linux distribution ( Roughly equivalent to Ubuntu 16.04 or above.)
- Processor: Any 64-bit Intel. AMD. or ARM / Apple Silicon CPU ( Earning Steam achievements / trophies on ARM Linux requires x86_64 translation.)Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Any GPU that supports at least OpenGL 2.0 or OpenGL ES 2.0
- Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Tested on Ubuntu 22.10 (x86_64) and Asahi Linux (arm64e. Apple Silicon).
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