Amarantus News

I spent a while working on the gamepad controls to make something that ran nicely and felt intuitive.
I really like playing visual novels on the Steam Deck, so I hope everyone has a good time with it.

Have fun!

Hello folks,
Amarantus was released one year ago. It's been a big year:

• Over a thousand copies sold !!
  
• Very Positive on Steam !!
  
• Very on-brand custom emojis and also Steam trading cards!!
  
• Amarantus got reviewed by Eurogamer !!
  
• Amarantus got on two GOTY lists!
  
• Amarantus won multiple awards !!
  
• People drew fanart! Meme fanart! Flower imagery fanart! Family friendly fanart! Family unfriendly fanart!* The full spectrum of fanart!
  
• We released a soundtrack ! and an artbook!
  
• The artbook made people cry!
  
• There are, like, multiple full playthroughs of the game on YouTube now, you can go check them out
  
• I got to meet up with other members of the team and we got to hang out IRL and have a nice time :)
  

Thank you for playing, for sharing, for checking it out, for telling people about it. For anything that gave this one little game a little bit of real estate in someone's head for a little bit of time.

Thinking back to a year ago, there are so many ways I might have imagined feeling now - and most of them were bad. I was determined to be pessimistic pre-launch.
Instead, thanks to you, and yours, we get to feel satisfied. I don't think there's anything better. Thank you.








*(I won't link this, but it's out there! Someone made money on Patreon off drawing sexy Amarantus characters! What greater success is there!!)

Thanks to all of your support, Steam's decided we qualify for trading cards, badges, custom emoticons, and all that other cool stuff.

We've got......five trading cards!



We've got badges!



I spent a loooong time thinking about how to translate Amarantus' rich painterly art style into 18x18 pixel emojis. I wanted them to be emojis I could actually imagine people using, but that also had a distinct Amarantus Energy.

I hope you enjoy what we did with them.



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Thanks for all your support this past year, folks. See you in a few weeks for the one-year anniversary.

-R

Amarantus is 25% off to celebrate international women's day!
Ari always drinks his respect women juice.
If you've already played Amarantus this is a great opportunity to pick up the artbook and soundtrack for 25% off, too!
Check out our stream for the event (I had a good time playing the game for the first time in months - it turns out I've forgotten a lot of what I wrote in there) and respect some women in your life.

-R

Hurray! The artbook is here!

I've spent months chipping away at this project, and I'm so happy to finally get it out to you.

The Amarantus artbook contains all the comic inserts from the game along with commentary, plus discussions of how some of the game stuff works behind-the-scenes, character discussions + concept art, and other interesting stuff to look at, if you enjoyed Amarantus and/or are interested in the experience of making a game over ten years.

Check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2798270

The soundtrack is now also available on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2651250

And you can now pick up the game PLUS the artbook PLUS the soundtrack, for a 15% discount:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38079/Amarantus__Game__OST__Artbook/

Thanks for reading!

- R


P.S. Amarantus was recently shortlisted at the Queer Games Festival and has just been nominated for the Freeplay Narrative Award. We're honoured and proud (the company we're in for the Narrative Award is truly wild), and I hope you are vicariously proud too!