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Cinders just went live on Xbox and PS4, which means it’s now available on all the “big” home consoles for all your fairytale trope-breaking needs!

Switch | Playstation 4 | Xbox One

The PC version launched in 2012, and if someone back then told me that in 8 years we’ll be still working on it and I’ll get to see it on my Switch or PS4 dashboard, I’d be like Pshhhh!

Hitting the desk in frustration until things start working (a.k.a. the porting & certification process) is finally over and Cinders is coming to the “big” consoles later this month!

The game launches August 25th for the PS4 and 26th for XBOX ONE & Microsoft Store at the price of $19.99.

Bonfire is finally out and available on Steam!

It’s a delightfully gloomy tactical RPG about journey and failure, with a rapid turn-based battle system and heroes who care a little too much.

I’m finding it hard to put into words how awesome it feels to finally have it go live! The game went through so many iterations since its initial alpha launch, evolving from a cool turn-based combat prototype into a full-on tactical RPG, but also becoming strangely personal along the way.

Bonfire’s main theme by Arek Reikowski. 

So, uh, after that last post about Bonfire I’ve realised that:

a) I haven’t been active here since forever.

b) Most of you follow us for our visual novels and not some roguelike we’ve barely even mentioned.

I guess I should say a bit more about the game then. Especially as it has quite the history.

Six years ago I’ve made a promising RPG prototype on a local game jam. The deadline was 8 hours, and my idea was to extract the tactical fun of jRPG battle systems but drop all the menu navigation and make it a rapid, clickety-click game to be played with a mouse.

It turned out pretty fun, so my partner and I started working on it in our free time. For a while it served as our sanity side-project for when Solstice was going sideways (which means about 60% of its development). We even released it at some point, but quickly realised it still feels too much like a prototype and needs to be reworked if we’re to ask money for it. So we started over.

Somewhere along the line Bonfire became oddly personal for both of us. A lot was happening in our lives at that time and I think it started sipping into the game. I mean, you can put whatever in there if it’s just a hobby, right? It also evolved into a pretty sizeable tactical RPG about journey and failure. With tight battles that all feel like a puzzle, creative builds and strats, and a storyline so depressing that it’s cute how depressing it is!

This year we’ve finally had the opportunity to work on it full-time and bring it close to a Steam release! All in all, it’s been the longest I have ever worked on a project, but also the most fun I’ve had since my first indie release over a decade ago. Seriously. It just doesn’t get much better than making a game with your loved one. Even if doesn’t exactly come from the best place in your lives (or maybe it’s because of it?).

So hopefully that gives your a bit more context. You can check the trailer above to see how it all turned out. The Steam store page I’ve already linked, but here it is again. Hope you like it! 

Bonfire, our cute-sad tactical rogue-lite about journey, failure, and heroes who care a little too much, finally has a Steam store page!

"With a mix of clever, interesting writing and gorgeous artwork, it avoids the usual dark fantasy pitfalls and makes for a wonderful, witty, and smart story about women and power."

As promised, Cinders is coming to devices. The coolest one first!

We’re teaming up with Crunching Koalas for this one and are absolutely ecstatic pretty cool with launching on a console by a company that shaped our childhood. No big deal.