Eternal Threads News

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We’re pleased to announce that the Eternal Threads demo has returned to the Steam store!

If you’ve got the game on your wish list, but haven’t yet pressed the purchase button, or you’ve just discovered the game, download the demo and experience what this story-driven time-manipulating puzzler has to offer.

Time really is of the essence as the demo will end when one of the following criteria has been met (whichever is first):

• Played the demo for 60 minutes.
  
• When 25 events have been watched.
  
• When 2 independent decision changes results in lives being saved.
  

Please note: if you played the demo previously, you will not be able to play the demo again.

Operator, what are you waiting for? Travel back in time and change the past to fix the future.

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The Independent Games Festival (IGF) announced the nominees of its annual awards yesterday, and Eternal Threads, the narrative-driven puzzle game from Liverpool developer Cosmonaut Studios, received an Honorable Mention in the category of Excellence in Narrative.

Eternal Threads is a single-player, timeline-hopping, first-person story-driven puzzle game about choice and consequence. As an operative, you have been sent back to 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event.

"We are thrilled to receive this recognition from the IGF," said Paul Johnson, the lead developer of Eternal Threads. "We put a lot of hard work and passion into this game and it's an honour to have our efforts acknowledged by such a prestigious organization."

The Excellence in Narrative category recognizes games that have exceptional storytelling and character development. IGF accepted over 500 individual games for the 2023 competition, making Eternal Threads' Honorable Mention even more impressive.

The IGF, which has been running since 1998, is one of the most respected and well-known awards in the game development industry. The awards showcase the best in independent game development and recognize the efforts of small and indie developers. The Independent Games Festival Awards will take place on Wednesday, 22 March at the 2023 Game Developers Conference, which will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

We’re incredibly proud to announce that that Eternal Threads has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Indie X 2022 Online Edition awards. Indie X is Portugal’s biggest indie game showcase featuring both national and international indie games with the aim to promote the best games that Portugal’s rising game dev industry has to offer, as well as a selection of international indies who tag along for an awesome showcase.

As part of the showcase event, Indie X Online 2022 will be hosting a livestream of the game alongside the game’s writer Dave Bottomley as he discusses the development of Eternal Threads.

The livestream will be on Wednesday November 9th at 16:00 GMT over on Twitch. You’ll be able to view the stream and post your questions to Dave here: https://www.twitch.tv/rtparena or here: https://www.twitch.tv/rubberchickentv

We have been blown away by the response to the release of Eternal Threads by Cosmonaut Studios. It has been such a joy to us all to see our players give the game such high praise AND for press to have reviewed the game so highly. As we hoped, people have loved exploring the house: trying to save its inhabitants and altering the past to save the future.

What we didn’t see was our release price not aligning with our fans’ expectations. We’re going to hold our hands up: at a time when global prices and the squeeze on our players have been very intense, we got our pricing wrong.

Firstly, we are so grateful for those players who did buy Eternal Threads and we thank them for their support and custom. In return we will shortly be gifting two Secret Mode titles to those players, directly into their game libraries.

Secondly, we have activated a 50% discount very early in the game’s lifecycle. Since launch we have seen incoming Wishlist numbers that far exceeded our highest expectations. This has been very humbling but also a sign that our fans were expecting a different price point. We wish to correct this and welcome many more players into Eternal Threads to experience the game’s twists and turns first-hand.

Finally, the game will exit the Steam Summer Sale at a new price, lower than our original launch price.

At Secret Mode we want to do things a little differently. This swift action, we hope, will show our customers that we are watching and listening.

Enjoy the adventure and remember: it’s never too late to fix the future.
The Secret Mode team

Time travelers should be able to stop a house fire with ease. All you have to do is fix the faulty electrical wiring, or stamp out an errant cigarette butt, right? This is the situation you face in Eternal Threads, but in this timeline, the blaze's casualties must be prevented with the power of kindness alone...
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