Flowstone Saga
Flowstone Saga is Now Available!
We hope you'll enjoy the unique battle system, charming characters, engrossing story, beautiful art, and epic 4.5+ hour soundtrack. And don't forget about co-op assist mode if you have another player who wants to help out :)
During launch week, you can get the game at a 20% discount. This is the most crucial time for our visibility and we hope to have enough success to do lots of post-launch content and features.
If you purchase (or have purchased) Flowstone Saga, consider writing a review on Steam to tell other players what you think. We really appreciate it!
By the way, if you want to discuss the game, get help, or show off your awesome combos, feel free to join our friendly community Discord.
From our entire team to all of you, thank you for supporting our game. 🙏
- Andrew & the Flowstone Saga team
Flowstone Saga is Releasing on September 26th
... Wait, didn't we say September 17th before? Yes, we just hit a minor roadblock. We submitted our release build to Valve on September 8th - time to spare, or so we thought.
However, there was a hiccup where the dropdown menus in the game launcher were not clearly accessible via controller-only. Since we marked the game as "Full Controller Support", this was an immediate fail.
We addressed the issue and verified those menus are now properly controllable with nothing but a controller, and resubmitted our build.
However, since it's <24 hours to our original planned date and we still have not heard back, it's too risky for us to go forward with our scheduled launch day marketing. This includes sponsored streams/videos that are intended to go live when the game is actually available for purchase.
To ensure that we have ample buffer time to make 100% sure we have the approval AND time to reschedule these promotions, we (Impact Gameworks & our publisher in China, Doyoyo Games) decided to pick September 26th as the launch date.
We know this is disappointing for those looking forward to purchasing and playing the full version of the game tomorrow, and believe me, we're disappointed too. But we also don't want to waste our tiny (relative to major publishers!) marketing budget by fumbling on launch day, so this really does seem like the safest & right call. We hope you understand.
In the meantime, anyone who wants to hear about our continuous updates & improvements to the game prior to launch, and even catch a live dev stream, can head to our Discord server. We hope to see you there!
The True v1.0 Release Date: September 17, 2024
There's another saying that the first 80% of game development is the hard part, but the last 80% is the really hard part. When it comes to QA, polish, and localization, that is absolutely true, especially in a game as text-heavy as Flowstone Saga. We've been setting release date targets based on predictions of when launch-critical tasks would be done, such as localization QA, and then evaluating the progress as those dates approach.
But as of today, the localization is COMPLETELY done and everything left is simply QA. Fixing text, fixing bugs, polish, game balance, that kind of stuff. Which means we can confidently set a specific date without any external factors involved, which once again is September 17th. 2024, of course.
We have taken every minute of extended time to make the game as good as possible for v1.0, and naturally we have plans for post-launch as well :-)
We've been working on Flowstone Saga since 2018 and we cannot wait to truly release it to the world. THANK YOU to everyone who has supported and wishlisted the game, played the demo, supported us on Kickstarter... it has been a hell of a ride but the end is really and truly in sight.
Flowstone Saga is approaching v1.0 release!
It's Finally Happening!
After tens of thousands of combined development hours, v1.0 of Flowstone Saga is within sight! We've just updated the demo to b132 as well.Our target release date is August 27, 2024, which we'll call a 'soft' target since we want to make absolutely sure LQA (localization quality assurance) is complete in Japanese & Chinese so those languages launch in excellent shape.
The full game, which has been in the hands of playtesters for months, has been playable from start to finish for quite awhile. Our main focus in 2024 has been polish, side content, polish, bug fixing, balance, polish, dialog tweaks, quality-of-life improvements, and... we said polish, right? 🛠️
We'll be sending the playtest build of the game to content creators shortly after this news goes out as we feel like it's in great representative shape of the final experience.
And now... back to work!
Join the Community
Want to chat about the game with us and other players? Report bugs, give us suggestions, or just flex your skills in #showoffs? Then come join our community on Discord! It's been a friendly place for over half a decade (since before Tangledeep's v1.0 launch) and we hope to see it continue to grow.
Flowstone Saga: Feature Development Livestream!
Flowstone Saga Demo Now Available!
Featuring a small slice-of-life scenario outside of the game's main story, you'll get a taste of the look, feel, and gameplay that's in store in the full game. And once you complete the demo, you can even keep playing in a "New Game+" style loop that lets you find more treasure and fight a greater variety of monsters.
If you like what you see & hear, please share it with the world and wishlist the game - it makes a huge difference for us. We really appreciate it!
And just to whet your appetites for the full game, here are some hints of some truly awesome areas we have in store:
Flowstone Saga Developer Stream for Next Fest (Thursday)
We can't wait to see you there!
Flowstone Saga Developer Stream for Next Fest (Wednesday)
We can't wait to see you there!
Flowstone Saga is on Kickstarter Now!
Want to be immortalized as someone who helped make Flowstone Saga the best game it can possibly be? Now through June 9th, you can do just that by backing the game on Kickstarter!
Why Kickstarter?
In 2017, we ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for our first title, Tangledeep, with a similar purpose: raising money to further polish art and music. We think this same approach makes sense for Flowstone Saga. While we have invested our own time and money heavily into the game, there is always more we can do to improve the game's presentation, for example:
- More character portraits with additional moods or expressions
- Professional mixing and mastering of the soundtrack
- Additional live musicians to make some tracks sound even better
- A greater variety of particle FX and animations
- More sound effects to accompany the wide range of abilities and events
- Additional flavor text and character conversations
- ... and much more!
We do not need money to finish the core game. We're doing that no matter what! We're fortunate to be in the position where income from our previous game and income from other projects is enough for us to fund the core development of Flowstone Saga.
That means no risk that we'll accidentally burn through our Kickstarter funding and be unable to finish. Instead, this funding will all go to making the game tangibly, materially better-looking and sounding. What's not to love about that?
Support the Project on Kickstarter Now