Garden of Seif: Chronicles of an Assassin
New Price for Garden of Seif!
Instead of running a discount sale, we've decided to adjust the price of the game to $14.99 USD to celebrate this milestone.
Thank you all for supporting our studio, and be on the look out for more games from us soon. ✨
Special Discount!
Garden of Seif has been selected to be featured in The Storyteller's Festival.
Enjoy the game and the DLC Curse of Gravehollow Peaks at a discount from January 29th - February 4th.
What is all this about anyway?
The Storyteller's Festival is an event on Steam that showcases 250+ games with fantastic storytelling. There are new releases, announcements, live streams, and SALES! Go check out all the awesome games!
Click here to check out the official event page on Steam.
Hope you all are enjoying the New Year~
P.S. if you enjoy Garden of Seif, please leave a review to let us know what you liked about it!
DLC Release Day!
❄️Today is the release of Garden of Seif: Curse of Gravehollow Peaks ❄️
Today we present Curse of Gravehollow Peaks to Steam! This short side story features Iris and Seth from Garden of Seif: Chronicles of an Assassin.
About Curse of Gravehollow Peaks:
in the cursed mountains of Gravehollow Peaks, two rival assassins must set their differences aside and find a way home... unless something finds them first. A story-rich fantasy with magic, romance, and choices that matter.
The Curse of Gravehollow Peaks DLC was originally posted to itchio and made for the 2021 Winter VN Jam, a casual game jam where we worked on a game in under two months. Since then, we've added new endings and choices, and have even polished the game with new artwork over the years. This is the first time the game is launching on Steam!
Visit the Steam page here.
✨Garden of Seif Merch✨
You can still find the Chronicles of an Assassin Official Lore Book and Guide Book on our website.
Click here to visit our official shop.
🧙Support🧙
Our customer support email is here and is what you can use to contact us regarding any bugs or issues:
foxdrift.cs@gmail(dot)com
Thank you, everyone and Happy Holidays!
Release Day + Merch Shop!
🎃Happy October Release!! 🎃
Garden of Seif: Chronicles of an Assassin officially released today! Thank you to everyone who supported us by funding the Kickstarter, buying the game, or even simply sharing the game around.
We sincerely hope that you enjoy the story, and be sure to leave a review telling us what you think! Reviews help small devs like us tremendously because Steam pushes our visibility once we hit 10 reviews, even more so when we surpass that.
✨Garden of Seif Merch✨
You can find the Official Lore Book and Guide Book for the game on our website. The Lore Book features in-depth lore not found in the game journal. The guidebook is beneficial for those looking for a visual guide to achieving all endings. Use the code 4LAUNCH to purchase these digital books for 20% off. We plan to sell some of the extra merch from the Kickstarter soon, so keep an eye out for another announcement from us.
Click here to visit our official shop.
✨We had a successful QA✨
We spent over a month in QA for Garden of Seif, slaying bugs and other issues that impeded gameplay. Even so, there are a few known bugs we are aware of i.e.: ESC button opens the save menu, skipping can cause sprite overlay and cinematic movies to overlap and change positions, the quit menu UI does not pause, causing accidental clicks on the load/save slots.
🧙Support🧙
Our customer support email is here and is what you can use to contact us regarding any bugs or issues:
foxdrift.cs@gmail(dot)com
I will do my best to respond to any issues as quickly as I can!
Thank you, everyone! Let this be a successful launch day!!
Release Date Annoucement✨
Garden of Seif: Chronicles of an Assassin will launch on October 4th. ✨
We've been through a rigorous QA process for several months, having run across many hurdles along the way. We've finally reached a point where the game is in a solid state and on track to be released. Kickstarter backers will be the first to receive their copy of the game very soon.
Wishlist Campaign: The Road to 1400 Wishlists ✨
If we can reach 1400 wishlists by October 4th, we'll reveal special love letters from the LIs (not found in game). All you have to do is wishlist the game and share it with your friends to help us hit the 1400 milestone!
Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr for more updates.
Game Updates, QA, Kickstarter, Player Name Input ✨
We are in the first phase of QA for the full game. ✨
QA is in progress and more details are to be revealed soon. We will know more about a release date once the game passes the QA checklist and no critical issues arise.
A player name profanity filter is in-progress. 🛑❗
We're coding a profanity filter for the player assassin name. I didn't plan to add this filter in originally, but after the demo QA (and Chris & and Ashley typing in their hilarious assassin names) we decided it was necessary for the full game. Sorry folks, you won't be able to say bad words, but you will be able to name your assassin Spam and Pineapple Pizza if your heart desires.
New Character cards incoming!! ✨
Want to know more about the assassins and the side characters? You can expect new character cards and an official reveal for the main cast coming soon! Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr for frequent updates.
New Demo + General Updates!
It's been awhile since we posted to the Steam page announcements, so if you haven't been following us on our socials, you may be wondering where we are at with development. Ever since the Kickstarter was funded last year, we have steadily made progress to Garden of Seif. This leads to the reason we've decided to update the demo, one last time, so that the demo matches the look and gameplay of the main game, giving players a better inside look of the game before purchasing.
The length and content of the demo remains the same in many ways, there is still a lot that's changed:
- Choose your assassin alias
- New & polished UI that's more user friendly
- A function gallery
- A journal with locked content that will be found in the full game
- Iris's hit list, which will update as the player progresses through the main game
- Trust or betrayal stat boosting
- Grammar/punctual errors
- Slight story/lore changes that players won't likely notice
- A brand new Start screen by QuantumVelvet
Kickstarter backers will be the first to receive the full copy of the game. Right now, we are in the QA testing phase of development for the full game, and if all goes well we will be aiming for a Q3 2023 release!
Please share this game and wishlist it, as it helps us tremendously. :)
Last Call - Less Than 24 Hours to Pledge to Kickstarter
Hi Everyone,
Things have really come down to the wire, and I'm sure a lot of you are on the edge of your seats wondering if this campaign is going to get funded. We are right there with you!
This campaign currently stands at $8,392 USD, which means we still need a little less than $1,000 USD for this campaign to succeed. Just another reminder that Kickstarter is all or nothing, so we are depending on that final push to get the ball rolling with Garden of Seif.
On that note, these last 24 hours are crucial to our campaign, so there are a few ways you can help.
- Pledging if you can
- Sharing our Kickstarter
- Wishlisting Garden of Seif on Steam (helps us with visibility)
- Rating Garden of Seif on itch.io (helps us with visibility)
If you have done all or any of the above to support Garden of Seif, thank you! Your support is not will not go unnoticed no matter the outcome of this campaign.
Lastly, I have updated our Kickstarter "FAQ" tab which covers some important questions regarding the game and the campaign in general. Feel free to comment below and ask questions!
You can follow our Kickstarter campaign here.
Thank you all! <3
Final Hours of Our Kickstarter Campaign!
There are less than 40 hours to back Garden of Seif! There's still time to try the demo and see if you're interested in pledging.
We've gained a shocking amount of momentum in the final days of our campaign, and I'm happy to say that there's a lot of hope for us to get funding. We aren't there yet, however! We still need $1,300 USD to reach our initial funding goal.
Some of our rewards include:
- Digital Game Key (Main Game)
- Digital Game Key (Curse of Gravehollow Peaks)
- Lore Book
- Guide Book
- Holographic tuxedo chibi charms
- Mini prints
- Desktop backgrounds
- And more!
You can check out our Kickstarter campaign here.
We also launched our official gameplay trailer, so make sure you check it out!
It's all or nothing, wish us luck on the final hours of our campaign! <3
Foxdrift Studios
Garden of Seif: Kickstarter Campaign
We have officially launched our Kickstarter for Garden of Seif: Chronicles of an Assassin, and there are a ton of rewards for backers! Now is the time to pledge if you are interested in seeing this game released on Steam soon. You can find our Kickstarter page here.
Why we're on Kickstarter
Garden of Seif has been self-funded and independently run. As a solo dev, this work has been made possible by hiring freelancers and working in my available free time. My goal has always been to finish the game, but the Kickstarter will make it happen quicker and with the scope I envisioned. Kickstarter is all-or-nothing, so if we don't reach our initial funding goal then the game won't get funded. If the worst-case scenario happens, we'll discuss what that means for the future of Garden of Seif.
Until then, we sincerely appreciate pledges, shares, and wishlist! We're just $3,773 short of our goal.
Here's an overview of our rewards:
- Tier 1: Support the project and get access to updates.
- Tier 2: Digital Game Key, Digital Wallpaper
- Tier 3: Digital Player Guide Book
- Tier 4: x3 Mini Prints, Acryllic charm of your choice, x1 tarot card, Digital Key for Curse of Gravehollow Peaks AND Chronicles of an Assassin
- Tier 5
- Collector's Edition*: 4 Acryllic charms, including 2 tuxedo holographic charms, x2 tarot cards, x3 mini prints
- Tier 6: Design your own side character! (Restrictions apply)
There are 8 days left in our campaign, so if you're planning to pledge, now is the time. Once again, you can check out our Kickstarter page here.