Today marks one year since Year Unknown released. Thank you to everyone who's bought the game and left reviews - it's been incredibly rewarding to see people enjoy and talk about the game, and I couldn't have asked for more. For the anniversary, the game is 40% off, and the soundtrack is now available on YouTube: As a bonus, I've included some development insights - an early build of the game,…
Upgraded engine to Godot 4.4.1 - this may fix some crashes. · Fixed inconsistencies with the arrow indicator during dialogue. · Fixed shadow detail to be closer to how it looked before patch 2. · Fixed scrolling credits being on-screen before they're supposed to. · Fixed some light bleed issues near the start of the game. · Better distributed detail in lightmaps, reducing filesize and increasin…
Year Unknown is a finalist for Best Student Game at the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards! Watch the award ceremony this Wednesday 3/19 at 6:30 PT: In other news, a new update is available, making the game playable on more systems: · Upgraded engine to Godot 4.4 · The game is now playable on older systems that don't support Vulkan. Some effects are changed or disabled. · This may or may no…
The original soundtrack to Year Unknown is now available for free on Steam and Bandcamp: Both releases include lossless audio, as well as Music for Exploring Megastructures , a 35 minute ambient track made of new and unused music. I hope you enjoy!
Disabling the "toggle sprint" option for keyboard now works · Fix house game on controller using Steam Input · Remove accidental rumble on area 2 door dissolve · Add a framerate limit option under video options - default is 150 · Add 1 extra woke If you have any technical issues with the game, please report them here . Thanks for playing!
A casual chat about the game, possibly with some development insights.
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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.