70.040425 release. Fixed a couple of storylines not properly being internally associated with their respective Hubs (didn't affect progression but might have made it impossible to get back to them if you started a different storyline at the same time). Fixed an issue where players with TTS enabled would be unable to progress past the start of Chapter Five. Fixed a Cinemachine glitch in the last update that caused the camera to misbehave.

[ 2025-04-04 01:29:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

69.010425 release. (nice) Alcyone is out! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for supporting the game. Please leave a review if you enjoyed it! Fixed a few incorrect glossary entries and typos that were spotted by you lovely folks. Fixed a bug that would prevent progression in the "Tenuous Materiality" Encounter.

[ 2025-04-03 14:41:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Alcyone is a part of the Steam Visual Novel Fest 2025 running March 03 to March 10 (PDT).
Watch this playthrough of Alcyone: The Last City. We'll tackle character creation, the "Charm" internship pathway, and the Nihility breach from the latest beta version.

[ 2025-03-03 18:01:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch this playthrough of Alcyone: The Last City. We'll tackle character creation, the "Mind" internship, and the Nihility breach from the latest beta version.

[ 2025-02-17 18:00:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Join developer Joshua Meadows and awesome streamers cypheroftyr and PaintingPirate on this special livestream where we'll play through the latest demo of Alcyone including some brand new story content never before seen anywhere! talk about development and the background of Alcyone: The Last City, and generally hang out and chat about gaming! Livestream local times: Saturday, February 10 @ 11 AM to 1 PM EST (East Coast US) Saturday, February 10 @ 8 AM to 10 AM PST (West Coast US) Saturday, February 10 @ 4 PM to 6 PM GMT (UK) Sunday, February 11 @ 3 AM to 5 AM AEDT (Melbourne, Australia) About cypheroftyr: Chicagoan, Gamer, Geek, game dev, Director of I Need Diverse Games not-for-profit, variety caster. Cast & Producer on Rivals of Waterdeep, actual play D&D show on twitch.tv/rivalsofwaterdeep Creator & Creative Director, Into the Mother Lands RPG.
About PaintingPirate: Chris Cinneas (he/him) is a mini painter, variety streamer and VO artist. Performer on many a charity one-shot game, and regular cast member for Courts of Crystal.

[ 2024-01-30 16:15:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Join developer Joshua Meadows and awesome streamer spacevalkyries on this special livestream where we'll play through the latest demo of Alcyone including some exclusive story content never before seen anywhere! talk about development and the background of Alcyone: The Last City itself, discuss writing and narrative design, and generally chat about interactive fiction and indie games! Livestream local times: Tuesday, February 5 @ 12 PM to 2 PM EST (East Coast US) Tuesday, February 5 @ 9 AM to 11 AM PST (West Coast US) Tuesday, February 5 @ 5 PM to 7 PM GMT (UK) Wednesday, February 6 @ 4 AM to 6 AM AEDT (Melbourne, Australia) About spacevalkyries: spacevalkyries (she/they) is a disabled biracial queer writer and streamer in love with space, RPGs, and narrative focused indie games. Oh, and dragons. They write sci-fi/fantasy under the pen name V.M. Ayala, with short stories featured in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Escape Pod.

[ 2024-01-29 03:52:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Watch this playthrough of Alcyone: The Last City. We'll tackle character creation, the "Mind" internship, and the Nihility breach from the December 2023 beta version.

[ 2023-12-19 06:24:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

"I’m a sucker for games with detailed politics, houses with different agendas at odds with one another, and significant narrative agency — all of which Alcyone promises to deliver."
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"Alcyone sounds like the sort of idea for a game I can appreciate: one that luxuriates in its prose, and doesn't start from the assumption its audience isn't interested in reading."
- David Gaider (Dragon Age)

"This looks intelligent, grim and fun, and any two of those would do it for me. It's always exciting to see someone doing fresh things with the approach I hammered out for Fallen London."
- Alexis Kennedy (Sunless Sea, Cultist Simulator)

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After the fall of civilisation, the City is the only thing still standing.

Outpost Alcyone : the Nihility spread across the universe at close to the speed of light, unmaking & twisting everything it encountered. We had enough warning to protect ourselves as we saw the distant stars flicker out one by one. Alcyone's old name was forgotten and became simply the City.

Shielded and walled away from the decimation and destruction of the void outside, inhabitants have lived for centuries with the serenity provided by the City's protection. Governed under the benevolence of the Six Ruling Houses, humanity continues to demonstrate its tenacity in surviving and adapting to whatever fate befalls it. Normal life continues — after a fashion. We persist.

But the Six are lying to us.

And the Nihility is more than we've been told.

And there's a way out of the City.

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Alcyone: The Last City is a dynamic, evolving interactive fiction game set in the last city in the universe. Centuries from now, in a society left stagnant, you step into the shoes of a blank slate newly rebirthed.

It features a riveting plot full of political intrigue, betrayal, and survival. Alcyone's main themes are entropy and decay, and the player is a rogue element capable of breaking this cycle — or taking control over it.

Choice drives the game and influences the story: more than giving the player the simple appearance of control, your decisions will change the options available to you, dictate the path your experience takes, and heavily decide the end of the game. Will you be a force for destruction, or will your decisions help the existing powers that be? A diverse cast of characters populates the City, and you have the freedom to pick a persona that suits you.

In addition to hundreds of thousands of words, gorgeous high-resolution, hand-painted digital artwork by Peak Distapan accompanies the game text to bring its writing to life in vivid detail. Alcyone also has a full length soundtrack composed by Michał Korniewicz that thematically supports the story for maximum emotional impact.