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We've been quiet in our jungle, but now our time has come to emerge.

The Church in the Darkness is manifesting in limited physical editions for The Nintendo Switch & PS4 from Limited Run Games.

Pre-orders are available on December 10th – so come meet us, soon. 

#the church in the darkness #cults #indie games #limited run games #nintendo switch #plastation

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The Church in the Darkness are long time guests of LudoNarraCon, the annual online festival about narrative games.  And we’re glad to be featured again for 2023, now with a 90% off discount!  Check out us and all the featured games on Steam right here:  https://store.steampowered.com/sale/LudoNarraCon

As part of LudoNarraCon, our project director Richard Rouse also participated in the panel Game Stories Told in Most Unexpected & Surprising Ways which includes Richard Dansky (of The Hunt:  Showdown), Daniel Benmergui (of Storyteller) and Latoya Peterson (of Insecure: The Come Up Game).  The panel is streaming all weekend long as part of LudoNarraCon, and  but also you can watch it anytime on YouTube right here:  

Not all the games features will all promise cults in the jungle, but there's more to life than joining the Collective Justice Mission.   Right?  Right?  

#LudoNarraCon #Game Narrative #Narrative Design #The Church in the Darkness #Steam #steam games

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We're happy to see the Fellow Traveller exploring kid is skipping off on their way to join The Church in the Darkness and our very friendly little cult...  Even the dog is coming! 

And all because the game's on sale on Steam right now.  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/339830/The_Church_in_the_Darkness/

Kid can’t be wrong?

#The Church in the Darkness #steam games #steam sale #Fellow Traveller #Fellow Traveller Games

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For the New Year, Isaac and Rebecca want to bring their music to the world, so we are proud to say our unique soundtrack is now available on Bandcamp.

Of course it features the talents of our cult leaders John Patrick Lowrie & Ellen McLain, along with soundtrack music by Andre Maguire.    With cover art by Shane White

https://paranoidproductions.bandcamp.com/

And we should add that if you really love our music, you can still pick up a beautiful 1970s-style gatefold double vinyl from Minimum Records  (Though it is sold out at Limited Run Games)

UK/EU/World via Minimum Records

US via Ship to Shore Phone Co   

And if you want to hear our music while running through the jungle, we are still on Winter Sale at some of your favorite places to play video games set inside dark religious cults.

Steam 

GOG

Nintendo Switch

#Ellen McLain #John Patrick Lowrie #Andre Maguire #The Church in the Darkness #video game music #video game soundtrack #video game vinyl #Nintendo Switch #steam winter sale #steam games #gog.com #bandcamp #Shane White

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The #SteamSummerSale  - that darkest time of year when we are on sale, but so are all our friends in The Dark Cult Bundle:   

Darkest Dungeon 

Outlast 2 

Blasphemous 

The Shrouded Isle 

and Us! 

 Escape the sun to complete darkness.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13522/The_Dark_Cult_Bundle/

#steam games #cults #darkness #Darkest Dungeon #Outlast #Blasphemous #The Shrouded Isle

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Of all the unique narrative games on sale as part of our publisher Fellow Traveller’s big sale (going on as you read this) we are certainly the darkest.  But probably not the weirdest... Come venture into our dark jungle, or make some new friends.  Or both.

We also just went on sale on the Switch!  

Come find us.  Come join us.  We welcome you to our utopia in the jungle.  

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/the-church-in-the-darkness-switch/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/339830

Or the rest of the Fellow Traveller lineup:  https://store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowtraveller

#The Church in the Darkness #Fellow Traveller #Steam games #nintendo switch #jungle #cult

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LudoNarraCon - the Steam festival dedicated to narrative games - is taking place right now, April 23 - 26. It's a great place to find new narrative games, try out some demos, watch some panels (including one that talks about The Church in the Darkness - more on that below) and get some deals on interesting games. The Church in the Darkness has exhibited at all the previous LNC events, so naturally right now we're on sale for this one! A good time to head to the jungle if you yet come to join us.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/339830/The_Church_in_the_Darkness/

But if the Xbox is more you're speed, right now we're also on discount as part of the Xbox Un-Halloween Sale along with many dark friends. Great place to try out our new v1.42 update as well (more on that below). That sale goes through tomorrow!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/the-church-in-the-darkness/9MVFW9BC7F5C?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

"Telling Dark Stories with Games" Talk In addition to joining the LudoNarraCon sale, as part of this LNC our director Richard Rouse hosted the "Telling Dark Stories with Games" panel. Joining him are some great storytelling panelists:  Emily Short (Sunless Skies, Sunless Seas, Fallen London), Marta Fijak (Frostpunk) and Thomas Grip (Amnesia series, SOMA).  Catch it when it loops on the LudoNarraCon Theater page, or watch the video recording whenever you want (on demand) right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osBN80_AhNo

Or you can check out all the great talks and LudoNarraCon 2021 action over here:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon?tab=4

#LudoNarraCon #Narrative Games #game narrative #Dark stories #Frostpunk #Amnesia #Fallen London #The Church in the Darkness

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On Friday April 23rd, 11am US Pacific time, come join me talking about dark game storytelling with a really great lineup of creative directors!  Emily Short (Sunless Skies, Sunless Seas), Marta Fijak (Frostpunk), and Thomas Grip (Amnesia, SOMA). 

Free to watch on Steam!  Come ask us your darkest questions.

More info here:  ludonarracon.com/speakers

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Update to the True Believer Special Edition

Our True Believer Special Edition was just updated!  This is our DLC you can pick up on Steam that includes our soundtrack and a number of Behind the Scenes videos.  We've just expanded it with two new videos.

These new clips were ones we had in the vault that we thought people would really enjoy checking out - we've edited them and synced them up with the best sound.  The videos are live in studio recordings of songs by our cult leaders and voice actors extraordinaire Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie. One of the new videos features Ellen doing a spirited alternate take on that ultimate cult tune "The Working Song," a fan favorite. In the second new video, John does a perfect one-take performance of "Flee As a Bird" which he sings while simultaneously finger picking his guitar.  He’s really good at doing both at the same time.   If you already purchased the True Believer edition, you will automatically get these files added to your collection in your Steam files location. And if you haven't become a True Believer yet, now's a perfect time to pick it up, because it's on sale for another day!

Version 1.42 Now Live

We've just published our version 1.42 to Steam and all platforms which adds some more functionality and polishes our "Notes" feature that we introduced in v1.4. To recap, our last update v1.4 added a Notes menu item, letting players review all of the documents they have unlocked in their many journeys through Freedom Town, letting you review notes you have collected over multiple playthroughs. We like how this showcases all the different narrative pieces our writers and artists came up with for the game's collectable documents, and lets you read them in the calm between playthroughs. Read more about the feature in our last update: https://churchinthedarkness.tumblr.com/post/635972408134795264/weve-just-rolled-out-our-new-version-14

This 1.42 version adds a "Total Collected" counter in the top left of the screen so you can track your progress in collecting all the many documents you might find in Freedom Town. V1.42 also improves the interface on the menu, adds Japanese translation to the new screen, and fixes some other UI and polish items.

The Story of All of Us 

And all of that is on sale right now on Steam, a perfect reason to pick up the DLC if you haven’t yet.  Or the whole game if you’ve been inexplicably holding out until now.  Or if you’ve already got the game, now’s a good time to return to us.  Get back into the jungle and use our new “Notes” feature to see if you can locate all the journals, newspaper clippings, inter-cult memos, stained Polaroids, postcards, and cries for help that are tucked away in some footlocker in Freedom Town... The story they tell is the story of all of us.

#The Church in the Darkness #DLC #Ellen McLain #John Patrick Lowrie #Behind the scenes #video game soundtrack

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We've just rolled out our new version 1.4, featuring our note & document tracker, available via the Notes entry on the main menu. UPDATE:  This latest version is now live on all platforms.

This new feature tracks all the notes & documents you find in your playthroughs of the game and lets you read or re-read them whenever you want.  As you travel through Freedom Town, in desks, trunks, and other searchable spots you'll collect documents that you can read in-game. But some people have mentioned reading them during gameplay can be stressful given how intense the game can be. Plus, since not every document is in every playthrough, it was previously impossible to read all the notes in one place. So we made the new "Notes" menu. We love this feature because now you can explore the full narrative of the game across multiple playthroughs, and you can read the notes not during stressful gameplay but instead from the calm between games. Our writers and artists put a bunch of work into these, and we wanted to shine an extra spotlight on them through this new menu. You can even explore how these documents and the story change between different versions of the cult, because we show you all the different versions of a specific document you might find in different playthroughs/scenarios. You can also see what notes you haven't found yet, giving you a good reason to venture back into the jungle again and see if you can find what you're missing. Want to know how to find one missing from your collection? Keep searching those desks, the bulletin boards, and also the red chests in the chapels. The more you search in a single play-through, the more obscure the documents you will start to find... And remember, you can never find them all in a single playthrough.  So for the completionist, exploring the different versions of the cult is key.   We're looking forward to seeing who will be first of our players to collect all the notes. We should remind you that we have only been tracking your Notes/Document collection since our 1.3 patch earlier this year, so if you're a long time player not everything you've found will be displayed. Good reason to go hunting in Freedom Town for those missing documents.

We Are On Sale!  

In celebration of our new v1.4 release (and because it's that time of year) find us on sale with generous discounts at:

Nintendo Cyber Deals Sale

Steam Autumn Sale

GOG Black Friday Sale

And remember, a 1970s cult group in the jungle with charismatic leaders who encourage you to reject the evils of your home country makes a great gift.  

#The Church in the Darkness #Steam Games #gog.com #Nintendo Switch #Update

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It's been a while. Want a change of scenery?   

How about infiltrate a religious cult in the jungle and see how many people you can save?   

 Through tomorrow, we're 50% off on Xbox in ID@Xbox Super Saver Sale.  And we have an Xbox update coming soon... 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/the-church-in-the-darkness/9mvfw9bc7f5c

#Xbox #Xbox One #The Church in the Darkness #ID@Xbox

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Preachers Isaac & Rebecca have always wanted to spread their message through their music - so our soundtrack is coming out on vinyl from our good friends at Minimum Records.  And it's a two-disc, 1970s-style gatefold!  It features all new artwork to make it look as authentic to the period and the Collective Justice Mission as possible.  This includes both the 10 songs recorded by Isaac and Rebecca (aka our actors John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen McLain) as well as 18 pieces of music from our in-game soundtrack.

You can read more about it at one of these handy pre-order links:

• Pre-order (UK/EU/World) https://bit.ly/3jov8GE

• Pre-order (US) https://bit.ly/34ImLBI

Oh and you may want to hear from our cult leaders Ellen McLain and John Patrick Lowrie who have a message to share with you about brainwashing and the soundtrack and how the two may be related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jdyhQZrsA

Join us.  

#Video game vinyl #vinyl #The Church in the Darkness #John Patrick Lowrie #Ellen McLain #Minimum Records #video game music #video game soundtrack #game music

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Game Version 1.3 + True Believer DLC Update Are Live

Our latest updates to the game include:

Fixes to some bugs in the inventory when using mouse control which sometimes resulted in lost items, or using items at the wrong time.

Fixes to allow Steam controllers to work correctly, as well as some more rare cases where Xbox controllers would have issues (on PC only).

Some infrastructure that sets up our NEXT patch. We've introduced a new system that tracks and saves what you collect in each game playthrough, and we're working on a cool way to display that in game, both so you can review it when you're not in the middle of a difficult infiltration but also to help you track how much of the game you've uncovered.

If you purchased the True Believer edition on either Steam or Itch, we’ve also got an update for you - we’ve added a recently edited video for our cult leaders John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen McLain singing "Where We'll Never Grow Old” to the Behind the Scenes footage section - if you have the DLC installed, you 'll get it automatically.   We're hoping to do a few more updates to the True Believer Edition this year.  

On Sale Right Now!

And now's a great time to pick up the game with all these updates, as the game is currently up for 60% off at some of your favorite PC shops:

The Church in the Darkness on Steam

The Church in the Darkness on GOG

Or now's a good time to pick up the

True Believer Special Edition on Steam

because it's 60% off too!  Remember it includes that digital soundtrack and a whole pack of Behind the Scenes footage.

#The church in the darkness #Steam games #GOG #gog.com

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In this dead of summer, much is happening on Steam.

We rolled some controller fixes and a few other tweaks into our version 1.29 which is live now on Steam. More information on that here:   https://steamcommunity.com/games/339830/announcements/detail/2396425843546122746

And in the Steam Summer Sale we're 60% off! https://store.steampowered.com/app/339830/The_Church_in_the_Darkness/

Or check out the Dark Cult Bundle where you can also get our fellow darkness dwellers Blasphemous, Darkest Dungeon, Outlast II and The Shrouded Isle for 70% off.  Already have some?  The perfect time to complete your collection.   https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13522/The_Dark_Cult_Bundle/

Join our summer darkness.

#The Church in the Darkness #Outlast II #Darkest Dungeon #Blasphemous #The Shrouded Isle #Steam summer sale #steam games

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Good day to talk cults?

Three streams we did for LudoNarraCon 2020 are now up on YouTube.

First we have our energetic actor Arif S. Kinchen along with our director Richard Rouse.  They talk Arif's work on the game, find secret parts of the cult, hunt for Alex, run away a lot, & even talk The Suffering.  So check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUmG_VV0zNs

Next Richard is joined by Brock Wilbur:  journalist, knower of cults, and as it happens a big fan of our game.  Brock asks questions about why the game is like it is, while we discuss other cults they find fascinating and just how real the game is. Check them out over here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mT2UFGOaE

And you can also catch Richard not talking cults directly, but rather on a panel featuring several of the guest writers for our game.  Join him with the esteemed Steve Meretzky, Brenda Romero, Brian Moriarty, and Clara Ferandez-Vara as they talk the evolution of game narrative, as the discussion focuses on games have tackled serious subject matter over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfT9-0He4fM

#LudoNarraCon #Narrative Games #cults #The Church in the Darkness #Arif Kinchen #Arif S. Kinchen #Brock Wilbur #Steve Meretzky #Brenda romero #brian moriarty #Clara Fernandez-Vara #voice acting

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Had lovely talk on the “Evolution of Game Narrative” with a great lineup at #LudoNarraCon2020, including esteemed writer/designers:

Clara Fernandez-Vara 

Steve Meretzky

Brian Moriarty

Brenda Romero

and me…

Many great tales were told, many insights shared. Now up on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfT9-0He4fM

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This weekend, April 24th-27th, is the online convention dedicated to fascinating narrative games, LudoNarraCon, and we'll be participating in a number of ways we think you'll like.  And best of all, LudoNarraCon is 100% free to attend. 

For the duration of LudoNarraCon, you can pick up the game for 50% off on Steam.  We're also half off on Xbox as part of their Un-Halloween Horror Sale through the weekend.  

Game Streams & Panels

As part of LudoNarraCon, we'll be doing two streams hosted on our Store page which will loop all weekend, showing off some advice and tips players may not know about.  And we welcome two very special guests.

First up we have Arif S. Kinchen, the voice actor who plays Alex, Charles and Scooter in the game.  Or you may know him as Miles from The Suffering: Ties that Bind, or as Pierce Washington in the Saint's Row games.  

Next up we have Brock Wilbur: journalist, knower of cults, and as it happens a big fan of our game.  He will be on to talk about the game and ask me some questions about why the game is like it is, while we discuss other cults they find fascinating. 

To check out either of those streams, head over here:  https://store.steampowered.com/app/339830/The_Church_in_the_Darkness/

Also, as part of LudoNarraCon you can catch The Evolution of Game Narrative panel. This is moderated by our director Richard and features three of the guest writers from the game: Steve Meretzky, Brian Moriarty, and Brenda Romero, along with narrative design specialist and scholar Clara Fernandez-Vara. To find that, go to the LudoNarraCon home page and click on the loop of Friday's talks:  https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon

What about Giveaways?

Even though LudoNarraCon is an online convention, we still wanted to hand out some cult themed items to attendees.  So we've got revolutionary pins, recruitment brochures, and a few Isaac/Rebecca Walker devotional cards signed by Ellen McLain and john Patrick Lowrie...  If you'd like to be entered in our random drawing to receive some convention swag in the mail, please fill out this form to give us your mailing info:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6oTFTe9sP1kd4dr3szByyXEc423gnWRQYTwxMnl7m-rYwLw/viewform

#LudoNarraCon #The Church in the Darkness #Brock Wilbur #Arif S. Kinchen #narrative games #steam games #steam #Steve Meretzky #Brian Moriarty #Brenda Romero #Clara Fernandez-Vara #narrative design #cults