Fuchian Chronicles News

First update after Fuchian Chronicles’ story officially concluded! If you follow my social media (@ShenTzuGames on X/Twitter, u/ShenTzuGames on Reddit), you’ll see that I’ve been much more active in posting stuff from the game. Now that development of the game proper is winding down, I have more time for these things and making more promotional material, so look forward to those!

That’s not to say there aren’t changes to the game in the works. For starters:



Character profiles! They’re mostly done now and I will be/have been sharing them over time on my X/Twitter. Not every named character will have one, but I did make one for most recurring characters, as well as a few of the important ones. That said… you may have noticed who the profile is of: Fitz!

I originally didn’t have much planned for Fitz, and even planned to kill him off in Chapter 2 (hint: he can still die there depending on your actions!). But he got a bigger role as a development went on, and even became a temporary party member in certain points. With that in mind, I decided it was time he finally got his own portraits for all his appearances. I’ll also be expanding his introduction in Chapter 1 where he was basically another no-face NPC, and may expand his appearances in other chapters too.

Other parts of the game are slated for tweaking as well, one of them being increasing the number of autosave/quicksave slots from 1 to 3. That’s already finished, but I haven’t uploaded the change yet because IT WILL RENDER THE FIRST FOUR (4) SLOTS INACCESSIBLE. This means that if you have any manual saves in slots 1-4, THEY WILL BE OVERWRITTEN. So if you’re in the middle of the game, please make a manual save in one of the later save slots (slot 10 or higher to be safe). The plan is to publish this change when Fuchian Chronicles comes out of Early Access, but if you guys would like, I can publish this change earlier along with what I have finished. Let me know if that’s something you’d like, and I’ll make a small post warning you guys if I push the update early.

That’s it for this update! As always, please let me know if you encounter any bugs and I’ll fix them asap. I would also like to ask for another favour: please consider writing a review for Fuchian Chronicles! It would really help with the algorithm, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the game, both positive and negative. Thank you once again for all your support, and I hope you like my game!

- ShenTzu

Fixed a bug where a certain encounter could automatically fail.

Please do let me know if you encounter any other bugs!

Thank you for waiting, Chapter 7, the finale of Fuchian Chronicles, is finally here!



After the events of Chapter 6, the future of the Empire is shrouded in uncertainty, but now a new operation is planned to end the war once and for all. Will it succeed? If so, at what cost? And what will it mean for Kimi and her crew?

In addition the new chapter, several things have been changed/balanced and a few bugs have been fixed. The demo has also been updated with these changes where appropriate. They are as follows:

- The map in the ending scene of Chapter 5 has been redone for consistency
- Healing items and skills now show approximately how much they restore in their description
- The “Transfer Energy” ship skill now transfers 50 energy instead of 100.
- Enemies are slightly harder to stun.
- Fixed enemies dropping the wrong weapons when killed.
- Settings for autosave interval and combat mode have been moved to the Options menu. The settings have been reset to the default (5 mins autosave interval and ATB combat), so please check the settings before you load your game!
- Added “Quit Game” button to main menu (finally)
- Added difficulty selector at the start of the game. You can still change it at any time in the settings!
- Added a new joke game over to Chapter 1 with its own achievement

With the release of Chapter 7, Fuchian Chronicles is now story complete! However, that doesn’t mean the game is ready to come out of Early Access just yet. I would like to take some more time to give the game a once over, polishing up a few things and adding some extra content. Here are some of things I want to do in this phase:

- Additional character portraits, such as for Fitz
- Character profile entries in the encyclopaedia
- Proper unlocking of encyclopaedia entries like in the demo
- More CG

There are others, but these are the main things I’ll be working on. I will also be doing more work promoting the game during this time, so I may not get to all of them so I don’t want to overpromise and under deliver. Life as a solo developer isn’t easy after all. Either way, I’m planning on finishing and fully releasing Fuchian Chronicles in Q1 2024, and updates will come monthly as usual.

That’s it for this time, I hope you like the new chapter! As always, if you encounter any bugs please post them in the Steam Community thread or email me at [email protected]. There’s no price increase this time (mainly so I can participate in sales), but there will be one final price increase when Fuchian Chronicles comes out of Early Access, so this is the best time to get the game with an Early Access discount! Thank you again for playing my game, and happy holidays!

- ShenTzu

There’s a lot that still needs to be done, so only a quick update this time.

I took a break from script writing to add in what I already wrote and tested the events up to what I have finished. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in store: The bunnoid homeworld Moki!



All that's left are the final cutscenes and the post-game area and the dialogues related to those, which have already been planned out. There’s still a lot there to wrap up, so I expect there’d be a lot more writing ahead for me.

That’s it for this time. Barring any major event, I plan on releasing Chapter 7 mid-December at the latest, so look forward to that!

Cheers,
ShenTzu

Time for another update! Sorry this one’s a bit late, I was caught up in writing and it completely slipped my mind.

Speaking of which... I’d say the script is about 2/3s done? I’ve written about 14k words so far, and I’m honestly not sure how much more there will be. Chapter 7 is the finale so there’s a lot to wrap up, including all the variations based on your actions throughout the game as well as the different endings. The main thing I want to ensure is that the endings are satisfying, and I will be working towards that. It just might take a while.

In the meantime, new characters!



The bunnoids aren’t the only one improving their weapons/armour tech, the GFE has some new toys too! Though depending on how things go... they might not be only pointed at the bunnoids.

That’s it for this update! I will try and finish the chapter by mid-late November, but will take the extra time for a satisfying ending if I feel the need to. Either way, look forward to another announcement then!

Cheers,
ShenTzu