Hello and happy summer! It is with great appreciation for all of your support that we are celebrating a very special anniversary - Svoboda 1945: Liberation turns 1 today!
We are happy that we got you as our players, whether you play on your computers or mobile devices!
Since then, we have
won 9 awards in total,
grew bigger, got new offices,
planted new pot of radishes,
held our first fan art contest,
got onto a bunch of new projects about which you will hear soon enough,
and, in addition, we also worked hard on porting Svoboda 1945: Liberation onto Nintendo Switch so even more players interested in contemporary history and moving stories it holds can experience our game. It is releasing very, very soon!
We are glad to be on this journey with you, helping us with each play, like, share, retweet, mention or subscribe. Despite the fact that this anniversary has a number, value of our community is innumerable. Thank you.
Ondrej Charles Games
Congratulations to the art contest winner!
Hello and thank you all the participants in our fanart contest! We are delighted in great submissions that landed in our inbox.
After a long deliberation, we chose the winner - it's Eva Trundova.
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Congratulations!
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She chose to depict this scene:
It's great, right? We asked some more about Eva and apart from owning a limited boxset of our games, she' doing animations and other artworks over at her Instagram. As for the artwork she sent us: can you guess where it's from? Do so in the comments and later, we will drop by with the right answer.
Thanks so much! And be on the lookout for more contests in the future!
Ondrej
Svoboda 1945 wins the Most Significant Impact award at Games for Change!
Hello and let me get the good news out right away: we won the Most Significant Impact award at the prestigious and long-running Games for Change 2022!
Svoboda 1945: Liberation was chosen from four finalists in the category that included our friends, authors of Blackhaven or Dot's Home, an important story about black family history - by the way, this title snatched the Best Narrative award and we sent out big congratulations!
We are super delighted to be recognized at a festival that's been around since 2004 and it's been a great place o look up serious, moving, and important titles every year. Also, back in 2018, Attentat 1942 was awarded the "Best Learning" award.
Taking part in this year's competition was a lot of cool games like Before Your Eyes or The Vale, so you can imagine we are glad to be in such good company. It could not have happened without your support!
That's a wrap. We got some Svoboda-related news for you and the art contest winner will be announced soon so keep your eyes peeled and have a great time!
Ondrej Charles Games
Enter our art contest and win limited boxed set!
Hello! Summer, with its long days and bright light, is an ideal time for some art - and we have an art opportunity for you!
Staring now until 20th July (midnight), we accept fanarts from any of our games!
Any minor or major character, any environment or object, any part of our work that you find inspiring is eligible. At the end of the contest we will choose our most favorite art piece and reward its author with an exclusive boxed set of Svoboda 1945: Liberation and Attentat 1942, containing a lot of special items!
Send your submissions on info@charlesgames.net, tag us or dm us anywhere.
We're looking forward to seeing your work and sharing it with our community.
The flyer:
Happy drawing (or painting!), Ondrej Charles Games
Trading cards have arrived!
Hi! Hope you are having a fine end of November. Apart from other things, we at Charles Games are still working on improving your Svoboda 1945 experience.
This time with trading cards!
So from now on, you can start collecting all 9 cards and you might be able to craft six levels of badges handmade by our art director Eva. Cards are earned by playing and if you spent some time in Svoboda 1945: Liberation, chances are that you already have some. Check your inventory!
If you click the card from the game page in your Steam library (right sidebar), you can view a special wallpaper. Each card has one, depicting parts of our in-game comics in great detail.
By the way, we plan on adding more items to the Points shop as well, but one thing at a time.
Thanks for your continued support and happy card hunting!
Ondrej Charles Games
Mystery & Behind the Scenes Stream (Czech & Slovak Games Week)
Hi! This week we are celebrating not only our national holiday (17th November and the beginning of the fall of the communist dictatorship!) but also Czech & Slovak Games Week, a showcase of our neighboring and vibrant game scenes.
To mark this special occasion we have prepared a special stream, starting at 20:00 CET / 19:00 UTC, hosted by our lead programmer Ondrej and our marketing person and developer Ondrej - they are not the same!
We'll be discussion the development background of Svoboda 1945: Liberation as well as Attentat 1942. An of course playing the games with commentary and hanging out with you.
We will also be announcing an exciting new project of our studio.
So board our streaming train and let's meet this evening!
Ondrej
Svoboda 1945 is now in German!
Hello! After months of translating, making sure all fits, tying all the loose ends, and polishing, we are happy to announce that Svoboda 1945: Liberation is now available in German! Fully subtitled, with localized comics, materials, encyclopedia, including all the context and info you need to experience its moving story, whether you are a native speaker or a German fan.
The game takes place in the Czech lands, but the history depicted in our game is truly Czech-German history. Tumultuous, but a shared one.
We hope that Svoboda 1945: Liberation, now in German, can help us all better understand the past.
Thank you for your continued support!
Ondrej Charles Games
Eastern Feast: Svoboda 1945 is a part of the Indie Cup!
Hi, We hope you are all well! We are working hard on the German translation and virtually touring the world to show our moving story to as many people as possible. So let us welcome you to the Indie Cup, a celebration of the eastern European indie gaming scene. Apart from us, you'll meet a diverse group of horror, cute, serious, or just innovative games. Visit the official Steam page to see it all: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/indiecup2021
To add to it, Svoboda 1945: Liberation is 15% off for the duration of the Indie Cup!
So let's meet during some of the streams and special events. And congratulations to all the winners!
We will let you about the release of the German translation soon :) It's weeks near.
Ondrej
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is now on Linux!
Hello! It's Ondrej from Charles Games once again and it's my pleasure to announce that our long awaited native Linux port is here! You asked, we listened!
Attentat 1942 was so warmly received by the Linux community, so porting Svoboda 1945: Liberation was a no-brainer. Linux players are among the most encouraging and passionate. Thanks a lot.
Starting now you can explore the dark past in our fresh native Linux. Meet the two people responsible for bringing it to the world’s favorite free OS:
Happy playing! And we got one favor to ask all our new and existing players: If you haven’t done so already, please leave us a review here on Steam. Every single one helps us, really, to get our game in front of more potential history connoisseurs.
Thank you! And as always, if anything goes wrong, leave us a comment here or write to us at info@charlesgames.net.
Ondrej Charles Games
See it all with our new Gaming the Past Bundle
Just a quick announcement - if you loved Svoboda 1945: Liberation, you'll also like Attentat 1942. Luckily, we have made it easier to complete your collection of unique historical adventures!
Now you can get our award-winning game, Apple Design Awards finalist, and Czech game of the Year at 10% off. And if you know of somebody who'd like to dive right into Charles Games Extended Universe, you know where to send them.
Meanwhile, we're preparing some other improvements for Svoboda 1945: Liberation, working on Linux ports, German translation, and more! Stay tuned.
