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Stray Gods, a brand new game announcement and an upcoming Kickstarter!Apr 2, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHappy April folks! We hope you survived April Fools okay. We come bearing news! Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical First of all, as we mentioned in our 2024 sign off, Stray Gods will always be adored by us, but won't be receiving any further updates at this time. However, this doesn't mean we don't have more potential Stray Gods surprises in the pipeline... but no news just yet! We'll always be in touch here to let you know about anything new and exciting and Stray Gods related, but for the next little while, our focus is on what's next - and with that... Today we're unbelievably thrilled to announce Malys, coming this year and coming soon to Kickstarter! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/f5ba148e950dc7d9313568a7bf2dd94c57b8c327.jpg If you've been paying attention on our socials, you might've noticed we've been teasing something for a little while. As Noah, former priest turned exorcist and demon hunter, you ride the streets of a festering city in the dead of night. The city teems with demons, and among them lies your prey: Malys, a demon of extraordinary cunning and power. Use your deck to expose the rot within. Find unique combinations and strategies to withstand the horrors. Help the hopeless and free the possessed, or die in the attempt… over and over again. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/08a550287c417acda3ac18d2bdf705e50ef93436.png FAQS If you're signed up to our newsletter you might've seen us address some questions from players, but just in case you missed it... Is Malys set in the Stray Gods universe? Malys is a brand new adventure in a brand new world. We're leaving Stray Gods on the shelf for now, but not necessarily forever. Will there be romance in Malys? There aren't any planned romance mechanics for Malys at this time. There is absolutely yearning. There will always be yearning. Is Malys a musical? Malys is not a musical, but music and sound will always be core to the games we make. We aren't saying we'll never go back to the musical format, but we're excited to explore new genres as a team. Why a roguelite deckbuilder? Honestly? If you've played or read anything by our creative director David Gaider, you probably know he loves demons. What you might not know is that he also loves deckbuilders. It’s a game genre that David is a real fan of. Malys is a concept that's been burning away in Dave for a long time - just like Stray Gods existed conceptually way back when he worked at Bioware. We wanted to take our love for characters and genre-twisting stories to tackle a brand new adventure, and that adventure is Malys. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/b6f4459ec417d43f0e1d528aa15d3a3b36a25059.png Just like we brought Stray Gods to Fig, we're now bringing Malys to Kickstarter in a few weeks. We know that working with all of you to get feedback and collaborate on the final phase of development is going to give Malys the best chance of success. With your help, we can work with you through the Kickstarter to allow us to get a full 1.0 in your hands within...Stray Gods and Orpheus in the Myths and Legends Sale!Jan 29, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsWe're part of the Myths and Legends sale, and we thought we'd dig back into our own journey of taking well known characters (like the Greek Gods) and putting a new spin on them. In this article by Screenrant, David Gaider our lead writer and co-founder went into some more detail. You're taking existing characters that everyone's familiar with, but we're supporting them. We're thinking, "Okay, what if they had continued to live? How would they have changed?" They have all these stories, so it was great for me to pick and choose which ones to use. "Oh, that story was kind of fake, but there's a kernel of truth to this one," and it grows from there. That was a fun process. Persephone, for example, who's played by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. Everybody knows her story, and that she was kidnapped by Hades and brought down to the Underworld and made its queen. But she is sort of annoyed that's where everyone thinks her story ended. In this, Persephone grew very angry and bitter at Hades. She ended up killing him and usurping his throne, and the rest said, "That's not cool, you shouldn't kill other idols," and they stripped her of her throne. So, she's carried all this bitterness; this grudge against her brothers and sisters all this time. And they all have this baggage that's come with them. If you know the story of the Greek gods, they're a messy bunch. So much drama; so much that we had to work with. Really, it was a matter of figuring how this version of them works over the years. They've all died numerous times, so they all look very different. They're different people but, even so, they have those memories that stretch back for thousands of years. They never just let anything go. Funny thing is that the older gods—Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Ares—they've all disappeared or died over the years. The chorus that you encounter, they are the rulers of the islands. But there are other ones that you read into, who have assumed a new importance now that the elders are gone. Because the gods, while they've been around for so long, are all lost in their individual ways. Persephone is lost in her anger. Apollo is the God of prophecy, but prophecies trap you once you know them. So every time he tries to use his power to help, he actually ends up causing more harm than not. He feels like he can't do anything or create change. He feels helpless and kind of depressed. They're all kind of lost, and it's up to Grace to see if she can find them. What's your favourite myth or legend? You can check out the sale here.Stray Gods on sale, what's next, and a signoff for 2024...Dec 19, 2024 - Community Announcements2024 went so quickly and we’re thrilled to have had you with us along the way. We had wild awards nominations, celebrated one year of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, and released our DLC Stray Gods: Orpheus! You can grab the gift of both Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical and Stray Gods: Orpheus as part of the Steam Winter Sale right now. The keener eyed amongst you may have noticed us go quiet on a few of our social media accounts. As always, our newsletter is the best place to stay up to date on all things Summerfall. Otherwise, you can find us predominantly on TikTok, Bluesky, Threads and Instagram. If you need to contact us please email [email protected], but the team will be taking a break from the 20th Dec until the 7th of January. And lastly, a rogue hint of things yet to pass. We’ve had a demon of an idea and while you might think that we’re possessed, we PROMISE to exorcise you of any doubts. Perhaps not quite what you expect, but we’ve stacked the deck with things we think you’ll love. We’re keeping our cards close to our chest for now, but when we can say more, we’ll unleash hell. (P.S. It’s not a musical!) See you in 2025 and thank you for all your support! Love, Summerfall {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/f148b612e752ace8e9f0517c4448735e80584157.jpgIt's Orphtober with 30% off Stray Gods Orpheus!Oct 3, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsIt's that time of year again - Melbourne International Games Week! Each year Melbourne International Games Week runs during October, when the sun finally decides to join us here in Melbourne (yay!). It's a mix of events for industry, players, and more - including PAX Australia! What could be better in October than surprises? As a TREAT for you in honor of the not one, not two, but THREE AGDA's we won last year, we're putting Orpheus on sale for the first time at a whopping 30% off. This year, we're taking things a little more gently than our hectic last year, but we wanted to still share the love with you of course! Last year we had a bumper week. In case you missed it, we: held a live free Stray Gods Fashion Show in Federation Square, a huge outdoor space in Melbourne. David (creative director), Ben (art director) and Liam (managing director) were the focus of a Directors in Conversation evening at ACMI, Australia's national museum of screen culture. had a panel at PAX Australia where we shared Secrets, Stories, Myths and Mistakes from behind the scenes of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical had a bunch of the team speak at Games Connect Asia Pacific, the local games industry conference. and most exciting of all - won THREE awards at the Australian Game Developers Awards including Game of the Year, as well as Excellence in Music and Excellence in Accessibility. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/0dce7fb86e30487a54b26c81e5b332e82a9edfe5.jpg So grab the game, or grab a cuppa and peep some of the things you might have missed from last year. You can keep up to date with us via our socials - despite a Reddit comment asking if we'd shut down, we are in fact, still kickin', still makin', and full of secrets. Hehehe. xoxo, Summerfall StudiosHappy first birthday, Stray Gods!Aug 9, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsToday marks the official first birthday of our debut game: Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. It’s hard to believe that one year ago today we could finally share this project with all of you. What an odyssey! From getting to work with our wildly talented cast, winning a cheeky handful of awards, and seeing all the wonderful reactions and glorious fanworks from all of you - it’s been a WILD ride! We even shared some of the stats that YOU’VE given us so kindly and with so much love and support to celebrate earlier this week. We’re so proud of our incredible and talented Summerfall team, that Katy, our social content specialist made them a special wreath cake to celebrate (the slightly chaotic making-of you can relive here). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/f8987987d63759f2428a2cec5842aad8f0cebe67.png So, Happy Birthday Stray Gods! Thanks to all of you, backers, friends and fans alike - we quite literally wouldn’t be here without you. We can’t wait to share more wonderful experiences with you. Thank you for loving Stray Gods. ❤️💚💙 Love, Summerfall Stray Gods: Orpheus is OUT NOWJun 27, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsThe bard is back! Orpheus’ story is arguably finished - until Hermes brings him back to the world of the living. Guide Orpheus through the depths of mortal decision making - who to date, what to hope for, what instrument to rock out on… Starring Anthony Rapp, Erika Ishii, and written by David Gaider, Stray Gods: Orpheus is a comedic feature length experience that history buffs, hopeless romantics, and rock stars alike can enjoy. Experience 6 brand new original songs, composed by Austin Wintory, with lyrics by Simon Hall (Tripod), Montaigne and new addition Tom Cardy. When the curtain has fallen and the show is over, who do you go home as? Is the mortal world ready for the return of Ancient Greece’s most infamous bard? Play Stray Gods: Orpheus NOW! If you run into any issues, please do report them via our technical thread in the discussion boards. A huge thank you to our team and to you - our players. Your love for Stray Gods is everything to us and we can't thank you enough! You can share your journey with us on our socials - TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, and Facebook. Knock 'em dead! Love, SummerfallStray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical PatchJun 26, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsHello folks! With Stray Gods: Orpheus about to take the stage, we thought it'd be a great time to revisit Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical with some updates & fixes in one final and beefy patch. Thanks to those of you who have reached out to the team along the way and helped us investigate these issues — our team couldn't have done it without you! Today’s final Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical patch includes the following: Gameplay - Fix for bug where trait selections were incorrectly inaccessible - Fixes for bugs when pausing during load screens/audio descriptions - Additional Optimization - Several minor cinematic fixes - Minor environmental tweaks Menus/UI - Fixes for Option Menu bugs (some visual and technical) - Update to New Game Menu to make overwriting saves more explicit - Removed Gamesight functionality - Re-sized UI scaling to handle localized text - Re-localized some text that was not translated - Fix for some subtitles not appearing - Improved controller navigation - Support for Stray Gods: Orpheus We hope these fixes find you well - and just in time to enjoy Stray Gods: Orpheus! It’s about time for an encore don’t you think? xoxo, SummerfallStray Gods will get a whole story DLC focused on Anthony Rapp's OrpheusMay 10, 2024 - PC GamerLast year's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is getting story-focused DLC in the form of Stray Gods: Orpheus, which will star the titular mythical bard rather than base game protagonist Grace. Coming back to earth for a new story, Orpheus will once again be played by Anthony Rapp, the American actor and singer best known for his performance in the original run of the musical Rent, the film version of the same show, and most recently (and to most of you, my fellow nerds) in Star Trek: Discovery... Read more.Stray Gods: Orpheus DLC just announcedMay 9, 2024 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/b4e1cb48d7ad6435cde3cf3cd645a5bc8a362c2e.jpg We're STOKED to announce Stray Gods: Orpheus is coming to PC on June 27th! (Shout out to the eagle-eyed alsrisk, rmsgrey and co who suspected - we see you and we're here to confirm your bragging rights!) Watch the Teaser Trailer Here Stray Gods: Orpheus stars Anthony Rapp as Orpheus in a comedic feature length experience - it's cheeky, fun, heartfelt, and has all the things you love about Stray Gods. Orpheus’ story is arguably finished - until Hermes brings him back to the world of the living. With six brand new songs, you can once again enjoy hours of interactive music as Hermes (Erika Ishii) guides Orpheus through the depths of mortal decision making. For Stray Gods: Orpheus, we welcomed the hilarious Tom Cardy (of Red Flags fame) to our songwriting team, alongside fan faves Montaigne & Simon Hall (of Tripod) and of course our beloved composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Banner Saga). LudoNarraCon In addition to announcing Stray Gods: Orpheus, you can also grab Stray Gods ON SALE at our biggest discount ever to celebrate LudoNarraCon! We'll also be streaming a behind the scenes of how we put together the visuals for one of our most loved songs in Stray Gods - The Ritual (catch more info on that here). Stay Up To Date If you want to stay up to date with us in the lead up to release, you can always find us at the links below. Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, or you can sign up for our mailing list. Is the mortal world ready for the return of Ancient Greece’s most infamous bard? Oh, and Hermes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/be904aa21d711e6b3a8928cd36d37ca4cf3b99d8.gif Crafting A Cinematic: Behind The Scenes of Stray Gods Stream for LudoNarraCon!May 2, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsDid you like our rhyme? We can't help it, we're musical. 🎵 To celebrate LudoNarraCon, join Summerfall cinematic editors Olivia Ong and Lily Pagalis-Jackson through the process of planning and executing cinematics for a song in Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. Tune in at 6pm Thursday 9th May PDT / Friday 10th May at 11AM AEST right here on Steam as the duo play through The Ritual, a key song in the narrative as they discuss techniques, challenges, showcase storyboards and show behind the scenes in engine approaches to creating our unique cinematics. If you can't make it, we'll be restreaming it throughout LudoNarraCon after this time! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/09d2187bca5adb49a1f8d76957b142e9ea3658bf.png Oh, and something's coming! 🎸 Our biggest sale yet... and maybe some news? Stay tuned! Love SummerfallWe're BAFTA nominated for Debut Game!Mar 11, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsWe are absolutely over the moon to be nominated for a BAFTA!!!!🏆 Stray Gods was an ambitious first title for us and we're so grateful that our fellow developers and all of you think it's something special too. It's hard to genuinely express how much every single nomination, review, and kind word means to us as a team. And of course, a huge congrats to our fellow nominees who are all making some of the most interesting, innovative games 🎉 Remember, if you want to stay up to date with us as a team you can find us on Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, or sign up for our mailing list. Summerfall StudiosHappy Holidays from Summerfall with 20% off Stray Gods!Dec 25, 2023 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42123933/3a0f7f6bd651c3dea365ce90dc8d9df1293ba9ad.jpg We're taking a short break for the holiday season to rest, relax, and recover from a gigantic year! There aren't enough words to say thank you for your support but we're going to keep trying. From all of us here at Summerfall, thank you for one of the best years of our collective lives. We're on sale for 20% off until the 4th of January to celebrate, so now is the time to send the gift of Stray Gods to someone you know, pick it up for yourself - or send it to that person you've been telling to play it for months to give them NO excuse. We hope you have a chance to recharge and spend time with friends, family, and loved ones during this festive season as we see out 2023. Happy holidays! Love, Summerfall StudiosMyth and Music Part Two: YouTube Premiere!Dec 11, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsWhat a year! We don’t know about you, but Summerfall is very keen to be taking some time over the holidays to relax and regroup after a huge year for us... but one last thing before we go! Some of you may have seen it live, others as a VOD, or even here on Steam - back in April of this year, we held a show called Myth and Music: An Evening with Stray Gods live at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles., where we debuted a number of songs from the game, revealed our cast, and dropped the release date trailer for Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical - and streamed it all on the Critical Role Twitch. You can watch part one here. However! There was a second portion to this show that we kept as a secret - that included performances from Laura Bailey, Troy Baker and Anjali Bhimani and an interview with David Gaider and Austin Wintory. These elements were very spoilery to the full game, and we wanted you to get the chance to enjoy the surprises of Stray Gods in real time. Now that some time has passed since release, we're so thrilled to share with you the NEVER BEFORE SEEN second part of our Myth and Music: An Evening With Stray Gods live event. The 30 minute video will be released as a YouTube Premiere on December 13 at 6pm PST/December 14 at 1pm AEDT, with the Summerfall team on hand in the chat to provide fun facts during the premiere! Please join us as we watch and reflect on the event as a team. Happy holidays from all of us - we hope you like your gift. Summerfall Studios We Need Your Help for the Steam Awards!Nov 21, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsIt's been almost THREE ENTIRE months since we released Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical and things haven't slowed down! We've had award nominations (and some wins), live fashion shows, streams and more. Now, as the holidays approach (extremely quickly) we're asking for your help in the upcoming Steam Awards for 2023. Whether you've listened to one playthrough or one hundred, we hope you understand just how much love and care went into creating a soundtrack that could tell Grace's story how YOU saw it. With four soundtracks on Spotify (that still don't nearly cover all the potential choices and song paths you can take), music is the core of what makes Stray Gods special. The amount of music we crafted for this game would require you to play once every day for 75 years (a total of 27,375 playthroughs) in order to hear everything. Even now, three months on, only 1.1% of you have unlocked the Maestro achievement - and it required a lot of community work and love to figure out how! All this to say - if you enjoyed Stray Gods, if you loved the music, if Adrift sneaks into your brain once a week and refuses to leave, we'd deeply appreciate your nomination for Best Soundtrack in this years Steam Awards. Every nomination, award, and celebration helps us as a studio and as a team. Every time you share the game with a friend, wishlist us, leave a review, we are encouraged and delighted. Thank you for playing Stray Gods - we hope it means as much to you as it does to us!Stray Gods is GRAMMY nominated?!Nov 13, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsSome of you might've seen the news - we're nominated for a GRAMMY. WHAT?! It's taken an entire weekend for us to even wrap our heads around this. We're absolutely over the moon to share this incredible news with you. Your passion, dedication, and support have propelled us to new heights, and we're beyond grateful for the journey we've taken together. Whether you've been with us from the beginning or just joined the adventure, your enthusiasm has been our driving force. A huge congratulations has to - of course - go to the ever-brilliant Austin Wintory, Montaigne, Tripod, and the rest of the music team who crafted the soul-stirring melodies and epic soundscapes that made Stray Gods a truly memorable experience. Shout out to the other incredible nominees, a massive year for games. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making this possible. Let's celebrate together and, who knows, maybe we'll be adding a shiny Grammy to our trophy collection! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-lfztfaEAAppUn?format=jpg&name=mediumStray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is ON SALE!Nov 7, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsStray Gods... more like SALE GODS! That’s right folks! For the first time ever, Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is going on sale. Until 14th November 10am PST, enjoy 20% off this genre-blending game, as well all four Stray Gods soundtracks. In other amazing news - Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical has won the Developer’s Choice Award at IndieCade! It’s impossible to emphasize how much it means to us each time Stray Gods is recognized. Reviews, awards, articles and, yes, even the thirst posts (especially the thirst posts?) - they all make the team feel so proud to be part of such an incredible project. If you’ve been waiting for a sale to pick up Stray Gods, this is your chance! Gamespot recently listed us as one of the best games of 2023, and we hope you agree. If you enjoy the game, please remember to leave a review! Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical wins Game of the Year at the AGDAs!Oct 10, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsLast week was Melbourne International Games Week and Summerfall had a HUGE week - including winning three awards at the Australian Game Developer Awards. We've been all over Melbourne - with a live free Stray Gods Fashion Show, a Directors in Conversation evening, a PAX Panel, a bunch of talks at Games Connect Asia Pacific and more, we picked up three awards at the AGDA's including Game of the Year, as well as Excellence in Music and Excellence in Accessibility. We're so grateful to be recognized by our peers and a huge congratulations to our fellow nominees and winners. You can watch the whole awards ceremony here if you'd like, and thank you again for all your support. Also, we're taking your questions! Got something you want to ask us about the development of Stray Gods? Some burning questions or things you've noticed and want confirmed? You can leave us a comment here, or respond on TikTok where we'll be sharing the answers! Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical - Patch #1.2Sep 7, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsHey folks, We recently released a patch with a number of fixes but unfortunately upon release some players encountered unexplained crashes. Because of this, we made the decision to roll it back. We're happy to say we're releasing a new patch today! This patch includes the following fixes: Fixed voiceover equalisation, which brings the volume of each character’s VO into alignment. Fixed a number of issues that were causing crashes. Fixed various issues where binding actions to specific keys didn't work as intended. Fixed some localisation issues. Removed brackets from some speaker labels to make them more readable. (The last encore for our beloved ‘Ibothi’ and ‘Ialli’) Fixed an issue where you could get similar conversations with Pan one after the other during the Medusa storyline. Thank you again for your support and feedback. As always, if you encounter any further issues please reach out to us via our support form so our team can investigate. And a 5 6 7 8!Patch RollbackSep 2, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm for Stray Gods as we continue to improve the game. Earlier today, we soft launched a Patch #1.1 on Steam, which aimed to address the audio imbalance, localisation fixes, some keybinding issues, and more. However, we are receiving reports that the patch is causing some game crashes. We have decided the best course of action is to roll back this patch and re-release it after we’ve remedied the problem. We are very thankful of the patience of our community!Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical - Patch #1.1Sep 1, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsHey folks! We hope you have been enjoying your ‘time to shine’ with our idols in Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. Thank you again for all of your feedback and bug reports. They have enabled us to investigate and address a number of issues which have been fixed in today’s patch. The most commonly reported issue was the uneven volume levels, and that has now been corrected. Our gods are now in perfect harmony with one another - no more extra quiet Muses or super sonic Goddesses to be seen! In today's patch we have: Fixed voiceover equalisation, which brings the volume of each character’s VO into alignment. Fixed a number of issues that were causing crashes. Fixed various issues where binding actions to specific keys didn't work as intended. Fixed some localisation issues. Removed brackets from some speaker labels to make them more readable. (A fond farewell to ‘Ibothi’ and ‘Ialli’) If you encounter any further issues please report them via our bug report form for our team to investigate. May the Chorus judge you kindly! Summerfall Studios
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