Acclaimed boutique design studio Lost In Cult is proud to announce the upcoming release of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works, a premium art and design book created in close collaboration with Sukeban Games and their publisher Ysbryd, the teams behind beloved cyberpunk bartending sim VA-11 Hall-A. Set to ship in Q2 2026, this officially licensed release dives deep into the neon-lit world of Glitch City, chronicling the entire creative journey of VA-11 Hall-A through in-depth commentary, stunning concept art, and exclusive developer insights.
VA-11 Hall-As visual identity, storytelling, and emotional resonance make it a perfect fit for our Design Works series, said Ryan Brown from Lost In Cult. Almost a decade on from its debut, were treating this title with the respect and prestige it deserves, working closely with the original creators to craft something truly special for the fans. As with all entries in Lost In Cults acclaimed Design Works imprint, this is more than just an artbook - its a definitive celebration of the impact, artistry, and cultural legacy of a generation-defining indie title. VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works delves into the corrupt sprawl of Glitch City, exploring its culture, characters, and the iconic dive bar at the heart of the game. It offers fans a deeper understanding of the worlds creation and the cyberpunk influences that shaped it, whilst also providing a rare glimpse into the history of Venezuela - home of the development team - and the unique challenges they faced bringing their vision to life.
In short, VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works will serve as a celebration of this beautiful indie masterpiece and the people who made it all possible, featuring contemporary interviews with writer/programmer Fernando Damas, artist/designer Christopher Ortiz, and composer Michael Kelly. For the first 48 hours, fans who order the Deluxe Edition will receive an exclusive bar bill bookplate signed by Sukeban Games very own Fernando Damas and Christopher Ortiz. To secure this signed copy, orders must be placed by 6pm BST on Saturday, April 12th, 2025. The Deluxe Edition will only be available during the pre-order window and will not return, making it a definitive collectors item for true VA-11 Hall-A fans.
The Deluxe Edition, exclusive to the pre-order period, will include:

• A variant hardcover with exclusive artwork.
• A collectors slipcase and themed housing box.
• The downloadable short story, Sapphic Pussy Rhapsody, written by Fernando Damas and illustrated by Merengedoll, officially printed for the very first time!
• Ephemera such as posters, stickers, and art cards.
• Early bird signed bookplates for orders placed within the first 48 hours.

"VA-11 Hall-A was a labour of deepest love. For its medium, for its inspirations, for humanity itself," offers Fernando Damas, writer and programmer at Sukeban Games. "For such a work to be chronicled we expected nothing less than it being handled by those that love it as much as the game loves them back." Pre-orders for both the Standard and Deluxe Editions of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works are open now at www.lostincult.co.uk/va11halla and will be available for a limited 60-day window, closing on June 5th at 6pm BST.

[ 2025-04-10 17:02:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

We've been working again with our friends at Good Smile Company to serve you up a double measure, straight from behind the bar of VA-11 Hall-A.

Pre-orders are now open at Good Smile US and Good Smile Global, you'll be able to place pre-orders until 11:59 PM Japan Time on February 5, 2025 (6:59 AM PST and 2:59 PM GMT). Jill Stingray, VA-11 Hall-As iconic protagonist, strikes a pose in her favorite red coat as she takes a well-earned break from mixing drinks and changing lives. Nows your chance to bring home Glitch Citys hardest working bartender in full color and dazzling detail!

[ 2025-01-09 11:59:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

No, your eyes do not Fool you on this fine April day. Yes, this is something that actually exists and you can download! R Talsorian Games, of the seminal Cyberpunk RED fame, whose name you mightve learned about from a certain other award-winning Cyberpunk videogame, or its related anime that coincidentally also includes a small lady called Rebecca; has just released one of their many fun and interesting DLCs (free supplements of neat things you can add to your Tabletop RPG sessions) and the topic this time around is your favorite depressed woman in her late 20s and her friends. Mixing DrinksChanging Lives is a 20 pages long supplement that gives you a good idea on how to add VA-11 Hall-A characters to your Night City escapades. Is this canon? Only as canon as you want it to be with your gaming group. Which is to say not officially, no. But the R Talsorian peeps went so far above and beyond in translating the world and ideas of VA-11 Hall-A that it might as well be! Its not, though. We wouldnt have been able to release this sort of small and fun collab so easily or swiftly if it was. If this got you interested you should go to their website and download it! And maybe grab a copy of the Core Rulebook while youre there. I also have it in good authority that their supplement Black Chrome has a cheeky nod to VA-11 Hall-A for those observant enough. The supplement Click here. Their online store Click here. And if you want a bit more detail on how this all happened, we have a blog post about it! Click here.

[ 2024-04-01 04:02:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Kept you waiting, huh? We've been working with Good Smile Company to bring you a very good Jill Nendoroid (and Fore!) that we hope will grace your desk.




Pre-orders are now open at https://s.goodsmile.link/bAq and you'll be able to put in pre-orders until 10th November 2022 (Thu) at 12:00 JST. Per Good Smile, Jill comes with three interchangeable face plates including a standard face, a shy face and a "Sisterly Bonding ending" face. She also comes with her cocktail shaker, a martini glass and a mini figure of Fore as optional parts. Enjoy creating all kinds of poses and situations! Be sure to add her to your collection!

[ 2022-09-30 04:16:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Before starting, we want you to know that youve been heard! As such Fore has been honored with the Best Boy award to make up for the fact he wasnt present in the poll in spite of unprecedented support for everyones favorite cat. On March 21, 2017, we posted the results of an impromptu popularity poll that ran for a week. In that poll there were 1318 total entries among which we counted 3975 null votes and 11832 unassigned points. A bit short and messy. In December of 2019 we ran another popularity poll and this time it was allowed to run for almost a month. We received a total of 17941 entries across three different language polls. This time, between them there were merely 567 null votes and 998 unassigned points. As it turns out, properly explaining the rules in the poll itself goes a long way! But what are these rules? Simple! You pick your top five characters going down in order from first to fifth favorite. Each one gets between 5 and 1 points depending on how high their position is and their final position in the poll itself depends on the sum total of these points. Duplicate votes in each entry are removed and the options are pushed up in position, with the new empty space being counted as null in the final tally. In this way people can vote for more than just a single favorite and the results are still reflective of how prominent in votes that characters popularity was overall. Now, we could jump straight into the top 10 but theres more to tell! We were able to separate data through more means, not only through gender but also through region owing to having three separate polls: One in Chinese, one in Japanese, and one in English. It should be noted that the English poll was the only available option to participate in for a couple of hours and so a lot of people from other regions voted in it in their excitement; of note too is that the Japanese poll was actually shared by some Japanese video game media outlets, and the Chinese poll received an outpouring of support even though some of the entrants may have had to use a VPN to participate. Youre all awesome is what were trying to say. So, lets address some of the results common to all of the polls.

The Big Three

These are Jill, Dorothy, and Dana, in that order from first to third. Theyre the most recurrent first, second, and third places across all three polls and their subsetswith the specific exception of Non-Binary and Female in the English poll, where it switches to Jill, Dana, Dorothy instead. Theyre even the top three most recurrent top three placements! Across all three polls the most prevalent characters for first and second favorites are Jill, Dorothy or Dana. Everyones third favorite position is mixed up a bit however, with in order of most common to least, Dana, Dorothy, Jill in both EN and CN, and Dorothy, Jill, Dana in JP.

The Warring Triad

The next three spots are just as recurrent but not nearly as set. These three are Stella, Sei, and Alma. These three are recurrent in these three spots most cases with a few exceptions. In the JP Non-binary and CN Non-diclosed subsets Alma got displaced by Anna, while in the CN Non-binary subset Stella got displaced by Anna and tied with KiraMiki. The order of these three in the grand total switches per region. In EN its Alma, Sei, Stella, with JP being Stella, Alma, Sei, and CN ordered as Sei, Alma, Stella. In EN the Alma, Sei, Stella order is the same in all the subsets save for Non-Binary and Others where its Sei, Alma, Stella instead. In JP their Stella, Alma, Sei order is consistent across all subsets except Non-Binary where instead its Stella, Anna, Sei, with Others having no patterns save for Jill being in first place. In CN the Sei, Alma, Stella pattern is only kept for the Male and Others subset, whereas in all other subsets Anna displaces someone else, so we end up with Sei, Alma, Anna for Female, Sei, Anna, Alma for Non-Binary, and Stella, Anna, Sei for Secret.

The Battle Royale

After these 6 spots the results start varying wildly, growing ever more wild as they go down the list. However, where a Top 10 is concerned, some names recur: Anna, KiraMiki, Gillian, Streaming-chan, and Rad Shiba. With the first three of those being commonplace and the rest switching and shifting and barely not making it into the top 10. Those that just barely missed their shot at the Top 10 include Gil, KiraMiki, Anna, Rad Shiba, and Streaming-chan. Streaming-chan makes a comeback in JP, however, where she actually beats KiraMiki and leaves the dog out of the top 10. In CN, neither Streaming-chan nor Rad Shiba make it to the top 10 and its Betty instead who wraps up the recurrent names of Gillian, KiraMiki and Anna. Funnily enough, in the CN Female demographic the counter for null votes is so large it manages to displace Deal. Poor guy.

The Top 10

Finally! The moment youve been waiting for: Lets talk about the top 10 characters and what they have to say!

#10 - Rad Shiba (5828 points)

#9 - Anna (9119 points)

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#8 - KiraMiki (9559 points)

If I could I would clone myself and give each and every single one of you a hug! But they told me its not in the budget, and something about being confused for a military operation.

#7 - Gillian (11962 points)

Wait, I went up one spot? Why? How? When? What did I do?

#6 - Stella (19637 points)

Youre all COWARDS for not voting Sei higher The number one spot isnt good enough for her! She deserves the number Zero spot! The the the minus infinity plus one spot!

#5 - Sei (21244 points)

Heheheh just knowing theres people out there that like me that much is enough for me. Theyre COWARDS, Sei!

#4 - Alma (22448 points)

To everyone that told me that I wouldnt amount to anything: You were right at the time. I was a complete shithead, but Im still gonna rub this accomplishment in your faces.

#3 - Dana (35109 points)

Im justifiably in a position Id rather not be in, but the cream will rise to the top and you can be damn sure Ill rise because THESE GIRLS ARE ENOUGH TO BRING ME TO THE BOILING POINT

#2 - Dorothy (44276 points)

Thank you everyone~! Dorothy will keep doing her best to be like a cool pillow and a warm blanket when you need those the most!

#1 - Jill (64994 points)

If youd like to check all the results for yourself, heres a link to a breakdown of all the stats!

[ 2020-02-24 15:06:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Welcome to the 2019 VA-11 Hall-A popularity poll. With the release of the game in new languages and platforms since the last poll back in 2017 we've decided to run a new one. Please click in the following link to participate. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHCnC3XZ2xLjhSf7lMzn2IU25rtWmKQl683uK9DVz-4bJjyA/viewform?usp=sf_link

[ 2019-12-16 11:37:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

It is with great pleasure that we announce that a new game in the Cyberpunk Bartender Action series is in the works! featuring a whole new cast and new ways to play and see the story unfold. The story this time around is about Sam, a bartender living in Saint Alicia; an artificial island that, just like Glitch City, was developed as a playground for corporations that have been forming city states of their own around the globe in order to circumvent regulations. Sam is at odds with her romantic partner, Leon, who is the head of a small Yakuza family that operates at the redlight district. Their relationship is in the rocks, as they deal with the conflicts arising from their very different lives while taking care of their 8 year-old boy, Tony, who’s growing up in a increasingly harsher society. The game has been in development for about nine months and we decided it was in a good enough state to be shown. It will be a stand-alone game, meaning that you don’t have to play VA-11 Hall-A in order to enjoy it (but it will certainly give you insight into existing lore). It will also feature big improvements over VA-11 Hall-A in many aspects, but you’ll have to wait a bit more to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85KOAYfObc A lot of work has gone into this reveal so I want to thank to everyone involved in this project. It’s been a huge pleasure to go back to the world we started with Valhalla and it certainly won’t be the last title to do so! We have a Steam page up already so you can wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/914210/N1RV_AnnA_Cyberpunk_Bartender_Action/

[ 2018-09-19 06:38:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today's Deal: Save 33% on VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action!*

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

[ 2018-04-07 17:00:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

中文版是我们历时最久的翻译目标之一，如今终于大功告成。我们希望自己不成熟的作品能够成为各位期望的贺礼，更希望各位玩家从此可以理解游戏的全部内容。 感谢中文版翻译团队的成员让美梦成真！

[ 2017-12-25 14:36:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

[ 2017-12-25 14:36:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

[ 2017-11-18 00:14:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

VA-11 Hall-APLAYISM 1116VA-11 Hall-A PS Vita/Steam/PLAYISM Steam Steam 1116 PC Sukeban GamesYsbryd Games 1116 PLAYISM

[ 2017-10-16 11:05:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

カクテルとコーギー犬をこよなく愛する皆様へ。 インディーゲームのローカライズや販売などしており、 今回『VA-11 Hall-A』の日本語版販売を担当しておりますPLAYISMと申します。 改めまして、11月16日より『VA-11 Hall-A』の日本語版を PS Vita/Steam/PLAYISMにて発売することを告知させていただきます。 ちょうどあと一か月ですね。 Steam版はどうなるの、という声を多数拝見しましたが、 大丈夫です、Steam版も日本語版がアップデートで対応となります。 何事もなければ、11月16日にアップデートとなるかと思います。 たくさんの時間をかけてしまいましたが、 その分、非常に良いものになったのではないかと感じています。 どうかこの日本語版が皆様に愛されることを祈っています。 改めまして。今回のPC版の日本語版翻訳は 開発元であるSukeban Games、また販売元のYsbryd Games、 また、翻訳ご協力をいただいた武藤陽生氏の 多大なる協力の元、完成いたしました。深く御礼申し上げます。 では、あと一か月。11月16日、グリッチシティでお会いしましょう。 PLAYISM

[ 2017-10-16 11:05:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Master, we're in a loose spot. There is nothing special about this patch. -Minimal bug fixes -Repacked songs inside the game data due to licensing issues Some people have noticed the voice beeps changed. This is unintended, so we'll probably fix that later. Some have also reported creepy images inside the game folder, but I don't know about that. In the name of Sukeban... PS: 我们正在为支持中文字体而努力，请稍等！

[ 2017-04-26 12:07:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Master, we're in a loose spot. There is nothing special about this patch. -Minimal bug fixes -Repacked songs inside the game data due to licensing issues Some people have noticed the voice beeps changed. This is unintended, so we'll probably fix that later. Some have also reported creepy images inside the game folder, but I don't know about that. In the name of Sukeban... PS:

[ 2017-04-26 11:53:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

The day Corgis invaded Valhalla is now part of the full game. Originally starring the grumpy veterinarian Betty, her personal Slave Boy Deal, and an army of dogs that gave Jill a mild PTSD (she actually just cant stand dogs anymore, not really a PTSD), the Prologue episode was a small three-chapter release meant to be a test to gauge interest, get some money to fund development, and a bonus for pre-ordering all at the same time. We got tons of feedback that shaped the final product and it was key to our survival. This content is now available inside the main game! It sports the shiny new visuals from the current engine, new story bits, extra room skins and new music from Garoad, plus awesome remixed songs from SageW and SenzaFine.
Look for this Rare Gab! We hope you enjoy this piece of extra content, see you next time. -Kiririn51

[ 2017-02-14 18:30:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

The day Corgis invaded Valhalla is now part of the full game. Originally starring the grumpy veterinarian Betty, her personal Slave Boy™ Deal, and an army of dogs that gave Jill a mild PTSD (she actually just can’t stand dogs anymore, not really a PTSD), the Prologue episode was a small three-chapter release meant to be a test to gauge interest, get some money to fund development, and a bonus for pre-ordering all at the same time. We got tons of feedback that shaped the final product and it was key to our survival. This content is now available inside the main game! It sports the shiny new visuals from the current engine, new story bits, extra room skins and new music from Garoad, plus awesome remixed songs from Sage​W and Senza​Fine.
Look for this Rare Gab! We hope you enjoy this piece of extra content, see you next time. -Kiririn51

[ 2017-02-14 18:30:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today's Deal: Save 33% on VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action!*

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

*Offer ends Tuesday at 10AM Pacific Time

[ 2016-11-06 18:00:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

You can now """""""play"""""" the game again to get some digital swag, including a really cool foil badge I can't place in my profile even though I'm a developer. Please flood the Steam market with foils so I can get it, thanks.

[ 2016-08-01 19:24:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

OH CRAP! I forgot to write this. This patch addresses the following issues and bugs:

• An issue where full screen was disabled on OSX.
• An issue where saving during the break and loading would give less money at the end of the day (This change is only reflected on new saves made after the patch)
• [strike]An issue where Fore scratched the walls while Jill is out working.[/strike] we're still fixing this.
• Assorted typos across the game.

As always, remember there's the forums for any new reports!

[ 2016-07-04 19:03:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

This patch addresses the following bugs and errors:

• [strike]This game's existence.[/strike]
• Nacho's beeps properly sound when he talks.
• Save files now show a leading zero when needed (Only shown in newly saved data, old saves will not show it).
• Game can now be closed with Alt+F4.
• Game now remembers if it should launch in full screen or not.
• Skip button deactivates while pressing Shift first (So puush users can send screens).
• Mixing keyboard shortcuts are now stable and complete.
• Advancing text through a gamepad is no longer possible to avoid gamepad-related bugs (Proper gamepad support will be added in a future update).
• Added message to the post-credits save screen to clarify that you can save New Game Plus data (dubbed HEART Data) there.
• New Game Plus intro talk no longer triggers if you complete the game and press New Game (You need to load the HEART data to see it, as intended).
• The flag for completing the shooter minigame now remains after New Game Plus.
• PC-9X no longer appears over everything if you fail to pay the light bill.
• Boss' bullets no longer remain on screen during the shmup minigame's victory sequence.
• Fixed assorted typos across the game

Remember to report all bugs, typos and nitpicks at the forums!

[ 2016-06-27 23:21:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is Now Available on Steam!

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

[ 2016-06-21 07:11:05 CET ] [ Original post ]