Once Upon a Jester cover
Once Upon a Jester screenshot
Genre: Music, Platform, Adventure, Indie

Once Upon a Jester

🤑60% off - the Crunching Koalas Publisher Sale is live!🐨

Come one, come all and feast your eyes upon the discounts on display!



All of our great games are now available with the deepest discounts ever seen!
Would be a shame to miss this opportunity, huh?

You can also use this chance to play the demos and see for yourself which game is the perfect match for you!

Head over to our sale page to see them all:



  • BUTCHER -85%
  • The Gap -50%
  • Once Upon a Jester -60%
  • Bonkies -90%
  • Lichtspeer -85%
  • MouseCraft -80%



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Once Upon a Jester works great on Steam Deck!

The misadventures of Jester and Sok are now perfectly playable and very much enjoyable on Steam Deck and Steam compatible devices!

That's right! Now you can grab Once Upon a Jester, stick 'em in your pocket and create mischief together while commuting, doing garden work or on long, remote hikes. The possibilities are endless!




  • Works in smooth 60fps in "High" graphics preset.
  • Uses xbox glyphs, so we're good and there's no confusion about pressing the triangle button
  • Controls work just fine
  • UI scaling? You're damn right
  • Runs in default 720p


Also, follow us on:



And feel cordially invited to our Discord server, where we've got giveaways, community challenges and general silliness waiting for you!

🎉 We won "Best Narrative" at Gamescom LATAM Big Festival! 🎉

Hey everyone!

We’re beyond excited to share some amazing news with you all – Once Upon a Jester has won the Best Narrative award at the Gamescom LATAM Big Festival! 🎭✨

This recognition means the world to us, especially since it’s been a journey built on your support, creativity, and love for our quirky storytelling. We couldn't have done it without you, and we’re incredibly grateful for our amazing community! 🧡

If you haven’t yet, come experience the wild, whimsical adventure of Sok and Jester—now an award-winning narrative! 🏆

Stay connected with us on social media for more updates, behind-the-scenes fun, and much more:

🐦 Bonte Avond Twitter
🐦 Crunching Koalas Twitter


Thank you for all the love and support. Here’s to more adventures!

We're nominated for awards at Gamescom LATAM's BIG Festival

Once Upon a Jester has been nominated for awards in the following categories at the BIG Festival, taking place during Latino American edition of Gamescom:
-"Best Game"
-"Best Narrative"
-"Best Audio"
-"Innovation"

We're thrilled to be nominated among other great titles - you can find the whole list of nominees here: https://latam.gamescom.global/en/big-festival-en/#finalists

WE WON IGF BEST STUDENT GAME AWARD

Yep, you read that right - Once Upon a Jester has won the Independent Game Festival award for Best Student Game! Pretty wild, huh?

Don't believe us? Here's proof (around the 24:27 mark):



We're grateful beyond words to anyone who has contributed to making this amazing moment happen!

Hope we'll continue to make players happy and here's to many more successes, be it big or small!

Once Upon a Jester is a finalist of Independent Game Festival!

The Independent Game Festival competition awards winners in eight categories during GDC in March, and we're excited to be listed among the forerunners for the award.

The ceremony will be held on March 20th, during this year's edition of GDC (Game Developer Conference), from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM PST.

We're proud to stand among other exceptional titles like goodbye.monster, Pile Up!, Planetka, RAM: Random Access Mayhem and TRY AGAIN. Best of luck to all of them!

If you'd like to see if we won, keep an eye out on these twitter accounts:
Bonte Avond (us!) - twitter.com/BonteAvond
Crunching Koalas - twitter.com/CrunchingKoalas
GDC - twitter.com/Official_GDC

Ho Ho Ho...pe you saved some room for our discounts!

The event of the Holiday Season that requires no introduction:

Steam Winter Sale is here!



If you're looking for new games to check out, take a look at our roster:




  • Solve the mystery of a neuroscientist's memory falling apart in The Gap at -25% off!
  • Tease your brain and solve some puzzles with MouseCraft! at -90% off!
  • Paint the walls red with pixelated blood in BUTCHER at -60% off!
  • Tickle your funny bone with Once Upon a Jester at -50% off!
  • Shoot spears made of pure light at weird creatures in Lichtspeer at -80% off!


See? There's something for everyone, so be sure to drop by our publisher's page!

Happy Holidays!

You can now enjoy Once Upon a Jester on your Mac! AND YOU CAN GET IT FOR -50%!

The title seems pretty self-explanatory, but just for clarification, here's some more words -

Once Upon a Jester is optimised for any MacOS systems and should run smoothly on your apple-sporting device!

And to celebrate that, and make it easier for more people to join Sok and Jester on their adventure, we're also running a -50% discount!

So what are you waiting for? Jump in!

Oh and follow us on other places on the internet, if you'd like:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BonteAvond
Discord: https://discord.gg/t85AhwqWrd
Website: https://www.bonte-avond.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bonte_avond
Bandcamp: https://bonteavond.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonte_avond

Come watch our live stream and play the demo of The Gap!

The Gap, our psychological thriller launching next week (October 19th), is a part of Steam Next Fest - a week-long celebration featuring hundreds of FREE playable demos as well as developer livestreams and chats.



Because of our participation in the demo festival, we're performing a live stream from the game, and the demo of The Gap is now available on Steam. Come and watch us play the game and check out the demo for yourself or wishlist the game to play the full version of the game next week!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458300/The_Gap/

Enjoying Once Upon a Jester? Give us a review for a chance at a prize!

Hello friends! We have a super fun announcement to let you know that we are hosting a giveaway! If you already own the game (or will soon!) and give us a review here on steam - you'll have a chance to be picked for one of our 6 steam credit gift cards! There'll be one 100$ and five 20$ codes randomly distributed among all reviewers on the 12th of September. And by all reviewers we mean all reviews - past, present and future! Well, future-ish, till the 12th!



We'd kindly ask you to make sure that we can add you on steam though! If we can't find a way to reach out to you then we'll have to find a new winner, unfortunately.

Best of luck, we're super happy with the reception Once Upon a Jester has gathered!

Oh wait, Also! Did you notice? The game's 50% off now! 7.5$ for a silly little game? That's a steal!