Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale
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| Community | We're celebrating the release of The Ebbing - Are you joining us? In just three days we will finally be releasing Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing. This needs to be celebrated! We cordially invite you and your friends to our release party on Discord! When: 07.04.2025, 17:30 (UTC+1) Where: On our Discord-Server in the Ebbing-Events channel What: We'll play The Ebbing ourselves before we drop in on other streamers on Twitch and play a round of stream bingo (we'll… | — | |
| Esports | 📣 World Premiere - Steinwallen plays Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing tonight! We're super excited to have Steinwallen, a fantastic history streamer, for an exclusive stream. Tonight he will be the first to play the full version of Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing. We will of course be in the chat and are already very excited! When: 03.04.2025, 20:30 CET Where: ⚓ Are you going to be there to watch? ⚓ | — | |
| Community | Dev Talk: Character face and body animations in The Ebbing In today's video, Elli and Julia talk about how we animate our characters in Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing. Which programs do we work with? Why do we need to be careful not to get lost in detail? Why is efficiency the most important skill as an indie dev? Have fun watching! By the way, if you haven't wishlisted the game yet, now is the perfect time. The Steam algorithm pushes games that have a… | — | |
| Community | What type of gamer are you? We know that there are many different types of gamer. Some people need lots of action and adrenaline, some want to really rack their brains to solve a quest, some just want to enjoy themselves and indulge in the story. Of course, there is no game that really satisfies everyone. That's not our aim either. It's clear that we cater for players who enjoy story, excitement and puzzles. Nevertheless,… | — | |
| Community | Finally a game for people with everyday lives! Are the days of barricading yourself in your teenage room for weeks on end, playing your favourite new game, gone forever? Have unnecessary distractions such as work, friends, family or sport crept into your everyday life in recent years and increasingly outstripped gaming? How annoying. It happened to us, too. We often just don't have the time to really immerse ourselves in the big, epic stori… | — | |
| Community | How our characters and 2D illustrations are made Only two weeks until the release of Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing! As a little sneak peek, we want to give you a few insights into our working methods - and talk about what has changed compared to A Bavarian Tale. In today's video, our communications person Julia spoke to character and 2D artist Hanna about the creation processes of our NPCs and the Choose Your Own Adventure parts in The Ebbin… | — | |
| Community | What's new in the game play of Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing? Only a few more weeks until Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing is released! We're looking forward to it - are you? We've taken a lot from the feedback on our Ebbing demos and of course A Bavarian Tale . It's really amazing how much you get into a tunnel yourself and no longer perceive things neutrally. That's why your feedback, which reaches us either via Discord or here on Steam, is incredibly imp… | — | |
| Esports | Now available: Free prologue to Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing! Hello everyone, Our old demo was gone for a moment - and now it's back: From today it's called “The Ebbing - Prologue” and is available again as a free, polished mini-game with three hours of playtime! Wanna give it a go? This way, please! What has changed? The game now has exactly the name that best describes it: The plot is actually the prologue to the events that take place in the main game… | — | |
| Esports | Tonight: We stream the demo of Inspector Schmidt – The Ebbing! Our demo is now two weeks old - now the developers are playing in the livestream themselves. We'd love you to join us! Bring snacks, a thirst for puzzles and all your questions. When: 27.02.2024, 6:30 pm Where: On our Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing store page and on Discord This way to the official watch party on Discord . We look forward to seeing you there! The Active Fungus Team | — | |
| Steam news | We're part of Next Fest with Inspector Schmidt – The Ebbing! Hello everyone! Our demo has now been out for a week and has been played by several streamers! We’d like to say thank you – your support helps Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing reach more people. We joined several streams live in the chat and had a great time with the communities, especially when unexpected bugs led to some hilarious moments. Here’s a list of all the Twitch streams that have playe… | — | |
| Community | Land in sight: We'll release Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing on 07.04.2025! Moin! Some things always remain exciting as an indie studio: We're finally announcing the release date for Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing AND publishing a completely new demo today! With two hours of playtime you can play the first quest of the main game and get to know (almost) all gameplay mechanics - and of course the story. We would be very happy if you played it and left us a review . We c… | — | |
| Community | Get the character handbook ‘The Residents of Havstedt’! Moin moin, you landlubbers! Happy New Year - off to a good start, because we've landed a shipload of presents for you! If you sign up for our regular bottle mail at this link , you'll receive three treasures from Havstedt: Free character handbook - With space for all your secret notes! So you can keep track of even the craziest Havstedt intrigues. Historical facts - We take you into the excitin… | — | |
| Community | Oh, look: We updated our key art! Mei, so nice! To make sure the sun is still shining somewhere in Bavaria in the gloomy December fog, we're releasing a new, summery key artwork just in time for Christmas. Hopefully, a look at your Steam library will warm your heart over the holidays! We wish you happy holidays and a great start to the new year! The Active Fungus team P.S.: By the way: On 02 January 2025 there will be an update… | — | |
| Community | Beta testers wanted for Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing! Hello, dear hardcore detective gamers! We are nearly finished with the story and with most of the gameplay mechanics - and now we’re looking for people who would like to test it all. Meticulously. We are especially interested in testers who have played a lot of detective games. You know the genre well, you know what excites and frustrates you and you have an opinion on games and always wanted t… | — | |
| Community | Feature Request: What would you like to see in Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing? Hello, dear community! Today, we are reaching out to you because we need your support. We are slowly entering the final phase of development for ⚓ Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing⚓. To ensure we deliver a game that you'll be truly excited to play, we’d love to know from you: In which detective games did you feel particularly engaged? What contributed to that feeling? Are there any game mechanics… | — | |
| Community | Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale wins "Best Story" Award at GDD 2024 This is now an award winning game! We won the GDD award 2024 for "best story"! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who was involved in making Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale. That is a lot of people: We started as a group of friends who didn't know the first thing about writing a game, learning the ropes by just doing it. The fact that our very first story driven game now has won an award for… | — | |
| Sale | Inspector Schmidt on Summer Sale | — | |
| Game update | Minor Update Minor Update - Watschenbaum Achievement fixed - Re-Introduced Engine Prerequsities because of problems in Linux Version | 14948001 | |
| Major update | Inspector Schmidt now on UE 5.4 Hi Community, We are happy to share a big tech update for Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale with you! We have: · Updated to Unreal Engine 5.4 · Optimized the performance · Improved the light and colour settings · Fixed the eavesdropping in the Priest quest · Fixed the lantern so that refilling it is working again As always, feel free to reach out if you notice any other issues in the game, an… | — | |
| Game update | Big Update Big Update: - We updated to Unreal Engine 5.4 - Light and Color settings improved - Performance improvements - A bug where it was not possible to eavesdrop in one of the quests was fixed - Refilling the lantern is working again | 14917189 | |
| Sale | Inspector Schmidt is honored to be part of the Games Baked in Germany Event! We are excited to be part of this year's Games Baked in Germany aka Games Made in Germany Steam Sale presented by Games Germany ! Grasp this great opportunity, get a 75% discount on our beloved "Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale" and enjoy some freshly baked pretzels while solving a mysterious criminal case in 19th century Bavaria! Make sure to also check out all the other brilliant games mad… | — | |
| Game update | Next on our Roadmap Roadmap Update There are still many things we want to improve on "Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale". The list below shows our planned Roadmap. It gives you a rough overview of the features and milestones we hope to achieve in the near future, but the contents are subject to change as we advance. We would love to hear your opinion on this. Please let us know which features and improvements yo… | — | |
| Sale | Weeklong Deal: Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale Save 50% now with our Weeklong Deal on Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale ! As physics reporter Valentin Schmidt, you take a trip to rural Bavaria in 1866. In addition to a mysterious criminal case, good beer and delicious pretzels, the following treats await you: · Lead intriguing conversations: use the dialogue-mechanic to find out who is hiding something from you and convince the villagers… | — | |
| Community | If your game has crashed recently ... We would like to inform you about an occasional issue that not only affects our game “Inspector Schmidt - A Bavarian Tale”, but has also been reported in other games based on Unreal Engine. The problem probably occurs in connection with a certain CPU, especially with Intel Core i9-13900K and i7-13700K. You can read more about this in this article , for example. If your game crashes and you rece… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix 1.0.1.1014 - Menu music kept playing in game: Fixed. | 13899334 | |
| Game update | Update 1.0.1.1012 Huge translation and subtitle overhaul · Fixed Archievements · Fixed Flags and Gameplay events · Fixed bugs in Widgets · Fixed other minor bugs | 13898604 | |
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Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.