Gods of the Twilight News

We rooted out the remaining causes of a rare bug where unexpected character portraits would flash in the lower left corner of the screen during the transitions between lines of dialog or narration.

As mentioned in the previous hotfix, this bug became more and more rare as we took more precautions, but it was hard to be sure if it was gone because it was inconsistent, rare, and difficult to reproduce. But now, thanks to a save file that a player sent us where the bug had appeared, we were able to do extensive troubleshooting and come up with a fix that should eliminate the bug from existing bugged saves as well as prevent it from appearing again.

As a heads up, if you load a save file and find that it rolls you back to the beginning of the current chapter, this is a known issue with a recent update that had a (hopefully mild) effect on save compatibility if you open a save from before the update. Hopefully using Skip will quickly fast-forward you back to where you were, but apologies for the inconvenience! Updates going forward shouldn't cause this.

As always, if you run into any issues, we love to receive feedback via:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/godsoftwilight

email: [email protected]

The glitch we mentioned in this previous announcement appears to be very rare but may still occur! It appears to be a long-standing issue with the game engine we use, which happens so rarely that it's been difficult to root out since we can't reliably reproduce it. We have an issue open with the engine's devs to resolve it, so all bug reports from users will help with that!

In the meantime, we've found that the glitch is gone if you start a new game and fast-forward using Skip back to where you left off. Apologies for the inconvenience--We'll update with announcements here as we continue to troubleshoot.

There was another bug reported where loading a save file would roll the game back to the beginning of the chapter. This can happen after Chapter 0 with saves made before a recent update to the game, when they are opened after that update. This shouldn't happen with saves made from now on.

If anyone runs into issues, we love to receive feedback via:
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email: [email protected]

There was a bug causing the wrong character portraits to briefly appear next to the textbox on rare occasions.

The way we had been using character portraits during some choice menus was causing this to happen, and we've removed all instances of this.

NOTE: If you have a save file where you were experiencing this issue, that particular file may still have the bugged character portrait saved as part of its game state, because that save still has in its history that it was exposed to the bugged menu portrait setting before the fix. Saves that never experienced this bug, as well as new saves, should remain unaffected by it. The fastest way to get back to where an affected save left off would be to use the Skip button to fast-forward up to that point. Apologies for the inconvenience!

The time has come to face your destiny! Today we release the first five chapters of our cyberpunk visual novel Gods of the Twilight in Steam Early Access.

• Discover magic in a world of tech
  
• Shape the coming apocalypse
  
• Make friends, enemies, and (optionally) lovers
  
• Fully voiced dialog!
  

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This multi-season, episodic adventure follows the journeys of dual protagonists Althea and Farkas as old Norse magic returns to their world, and they realize they're more than human.

Faced with unexpected abilities and assassins hunting them for just that reason, they must flee their homes on the city-ship of New Reykjavík and look elsewhere for safety and answers. In the process, they will face gods, monsters, and humans on all sides of the law who could become friends, enemies, or even lovers.

With hundreds of variables tracking your choices and countless combinations of consequences, you decide what becomes of the characters, their relationships, and their apocalypse. How will you end the world?

Early Access will grant you:

• Immediate access to the first 5 chapters (about 10 hours per playthrough including the demo Chapter 0)
  
• Automatic access to the remaining chapters of Season 1 as we add them, at no additional charge
  

Season 1 is planned to include 20 chapters, and new sets of 5-6 chapters are planned every 6-12 months.