Children of Silentown
We're nominated for Outstanding Art at the Italian Video Game Awards!
We're happy to announce that Children of Silentown is nominated in the category Outstanding Art at the Italian Video Games Awards, taking place at July 4th!
We're happy that our artstyle is getting recognition among all the games brought forward! We'd like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to our community for the ongoing support ❤️
Thank you,
Elfs
1Y anniversary! Free merch & 🐞fixes
Wow, it’s been a whole year since Children of Silentown came out! ✨🔥
Many thanks to everyone that has decided to come for a visit, and for the many positive reviews! ❤️
We hope many others will find our spooky little village a fun destination for sightseeing in the future. 🎃
To celebrate the anniversary, we created a couple of designs for t-shirts and stuff!
We made them for free, for anyone that liked the game and wanted something to remember it by. (oh the feels!)
You can grab them here if you’d like: MerchDesign
You will also find them in the Supporter Pack DLC.
If you prefer ready-made stuff to order, you can find some cool t-shirts and gadgets here:
ElfGamesWorks Shop
The costs you see are exclusively from the RedBubble website for materials and their fee.
And here’s a rare picture of us all dressed up!
Last but not least, the bugfixes:
- [BLOCKING] Using an item on a character and holding the left mouse button while hovering the item menu can break the sequence and softlock the player.
- Tiny teleport area causes the player to get lost in the third layer of the forest trunk area
- Controller: New Game Plus button is invisible but active also on not-New Game Plus slots
- Upgrade from Unity 2018.4.23f1 to 2018.4.36f1
Take care everyone, and wish you a fun and fulfilling new year!
Elfs
Thank You 30.000!
PC and consoles together, Children of Silentown has sold a whoppin’ 30.000 copies!
That's a lot of pesky cats! 🐱
We are a very small team and we are incredibly happy that so many people have decided to take a look at our little Silentown. Thank you, it means a lot to us. ❤️
PS: Discounts are on again, so if you'd like to recommend the game to a friend, now's the right time!
There's also the Prologue if someone wants just to try the game out (now also available on Steam deck like the completed game).
That's all for now!
Elfs
The Prologue is back
We just uploaded a new, shiny version of the Prologue* for Children of Silentown! 💫
Just to be clear, this Prologue covers the very start of the adventure, and is intended for new players that might be interested in playing the game, but are not quite sure yet if it's their thing or not - so if you have any friends that could be curious about it, let them know! (and if they like it, show them our last announcement)😊
Thank you!
Elfs
*The Prologue is a standalone App you can find in the Steam Store.
Daily Deal for Children of Silentown
Children of Silentown got a Daily Deal going! 🎉
So if you haven't already, consider checking it out (Or spread the news to those who still need it in their library)!
That's all for today - see ya!
Elfs
Patch 1.1.4. in time for Summer Sale!
Can you believe it's already been a thrilling six months since we released Children of Silentown? 🎂🎉 Time really does fly when you're having fun and patching up game bugs, eh?
We want to express our gratitude to everyone for being with us on this journey. Your feedback, discussions, and enthusiasm have been the driving force behind our ongoing commitment to improving the game.
But hold on, we've got some scorching hot news for you! 🔥 The game is currently on discount for the Summer Sales! So, if you have friends who haven't yet had the chance to explore Silentown and solve its mysteries, there's no better time than now! Let them know, alright? 😉
Moving on to the updates, we're pleased to announce the release of patch 1.1.4. This update addresses several issues related to the Second Run / New Game feature:
- [BLOCKING] Firewood chest was open from the beginning when furball sticker was already in the inventory. This issue has now been resolved.
- Fixed Thibescus in the islands couldn't be taken: Those elusive Thibescus should now be able to be picked up as intended.
- Barn items couldn't be taken. Same issue, same solution :D
Before we sign off, remember to keep sharing your thoughts and feedback with us. Every bit of it helps us to make the game better for all of you!
Stay cool during the summer and happy gaming!
Warm regards,
Elfs
Chapters Patch is live
It’s been roughly two months since release, how time flies! 🦋
We are glad to see so many of you enjoying our work - many thanks y’all for the support! 🌞
On our side, we have been hard at work to introduce some much needed QoL improvements for after you complete the game for the first time.
Now, upon completing the game once you now unlock (on the same save):
- Chapter select - to play any chapter you like! (but be careful - if you want a specific best friend to appear you-know-where, you have to play the game from Chapter 1).
- Minigame skip - in case you don’t want to solve them again
- Persistent collectibles and last song notes!
We’ve also added a fix for many small issues you have reported so far:
- (BLOCKING) Occasional issue in the Forest with the rope puzzles in Chapter 5;
- (Soft-BLOCKING) Carillon being unresponsive after singing to it in Chapter 4;
- Some audios of the game were not affected by game options (i.e. cutscenes, some SFX);
- The Mother's minigame was giving "success" when exiting the minigame without solving it in the Forest;
- Minor updates/fixes to Italian and Turkish localizations;
- "Save" and "Load" buttons properly localized;
- Fire sound active with no fire visible in Chapter 2;
- Broken animation in the climbing puzzle in the Forest (when using the key on the stone column);
- Broken animation during the monster reveal scene in Chapter 5;
- A few broken character animations during the game;
- Bench D2 missing "cogs" icon when the playground is interactable;
- Lucy was walking through walls during the “dark village” scene in Chapter 4.
That’s all from us - thank you!
Elfs
STEAM DECK VERIFIED!
As some of you already may have noticed, we got verified for the Steamdeck. Since this happened some time after release, we wanted to take this opportunity to tell you that you now also can enjoy Children of Silentown on the go! Thank you all for your ongoing support and positive feedback :)
Have fun and a great week!
Team Elfs (& Daedalic)
Chapter Select on NG+ available in branch!
Our launch week is almost over, and what week it was! 🔥🔥🔥
Many thanks again to everyone who has played the game, and special thanks for all the feedback!! 🎶😸
We are hard at work to fix bugs and issues, but also reading reviews and comments to see what QoL improvements people need the most… one of which is “Chapter Select on NG+”: we deployed this feature on a branch, so if you are interested go and check it out!
Branch name: 'experimental-public'
Password: none
“How to” for how Branches work: https://www.technipages.com/how-to-opt-into-a-game-beta-on-steam
Notes:
- The feature works on saves where you reached the ending at least once (NG+)
- The feature is not fully tested, so we will rely on your help to make it better 😀
- We strongly suggest to make a backup of your save files
You can find them at:
C:\Users\[YOUR_NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Daedalic Entertainment GmbH\ChildrenOfSilentown - Hopefully you will not encounter bugs, but you might - reach out in case.
- Due to how the game works, you will not be able to obtain the “Friend” achievement using Chapter Select, that is the only achievement that requires to fully replay the game.
Thank you!
Elfs
PS: our launch discount is almost over, it should end around 6 pm GMT+1 on Wednesday. If you want to recommend the game to a friend, now’s the time!!
PPS: did you figure out how to obtain the “Friend” achievement? It might not be the easiest!
Thank you all for playing!
So many of you have already tried Children of Silentown, thank you so much! 😍😻
Looking at the first reviews and comments, it seems you are liking it so far!! 😃
Some issues also came to our attention while reviewing your feedback, we are looking into them as we speak.
Keep sending all the feedback our way, we want to know what you think!
A special thanks to those that have been here since the Prologue, or even before since our first game Little Briar Rose - was Children of Silentown how you expected it? Or not?
Have fun and a very nice weekend!
Team Elfs (& Daedalic)