2025-09-12 12:20 UTC · Community Announcements · TadDancer
With this update, we’re expanding language support: In addition to German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, the game is now available in Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Chinese. We’ve also achieved further performance improvements for an even smoother gameplay experience. The translations were machine-generated and manually corrected where possible. Unfortunately, we don’t have a native speaker for every language on our team – so we truly appreciate it if you report any translation errors. We will make sure to correct them and include fixes in futur
2025-08-29 23:49 UTC · Community Announcements · TadDancer
Localization Update
2025-08-29 19:32 UTC · Community Announcements · TadDancer
Dear Community, we want to thank you all for the incredible amount of valuable feedback you’ve shared with us over the past months – and especially for your patience. We know it took us a bit longer this time to release a new update. The reason is that we’ve been working deep in the core of the game, completely overhauling essential systems. Because of this, we weren’t able to ship smaller interim updates along the way – which makes us all the more excited to finally deliver this big, polished update to you now! Highlights include a complete overhaul of controller support, noticeable performan
2025-07-24 17:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Linnaea Borealis
Set on the rugged shores of the German North Sea in 1870, Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing plunges you into a tense investigation full of secrets, suspicion, and the salty sting of the sea air. Will you uncover the truth in a town that hides more than it reveals?🕵️♂️ Now 15% off during the "Games Forged in Germany" Steam Event – don’t miss out! Whether you're new to the inspector’s world or already a fan of A Bavarian Tale, this standalone story welcomes all curious minds.👉 And while you're here: explore more fantastic titles featured in the event! https://store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-Fo
2025-05-27 11:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Linnaea Borealis
"The Ebbing" is the recently released second installment in the "Inspector Schmidt" series. In this short survey, we’d like to ask you about your experience with one or both of the games ("The Ebbing" and/or "A Bavarian Tale") and hear your thoughts on various aspects. It won’t take long – and you have our sincere thanks for taking the time! Take our survey! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44357469/c1e7c2893d5390ce5f2ba04037b0fb38fb56fda7.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44357469/f93a57cf37d2f0e619518a5f0103a8868f2f72a0.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44357469/1d41a54b78dc8c1c575db0f699ba5c9e142006a9.png
2025-04-30 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
It's always nice when you meet people with whom you have something in common. It's even nicer when you find an entire game studio that has the same passion for games with a historical connection, also comes from Germany and has released a great game at almost the same time. That's why we've teamed up with Paintbucket Games to present The Investigating History Bundle - Detective RPGs made in Germany! With the Investigating History Bundle, you discover Germany's eventful past by solving exciting criminal cases: The Darkest Files is set in post World War II Germany, 1956, and based on true crimes
2025-04-20 14:37 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
- Fixed bug that would alway choose first answer when using controller - Added more CYOA audios - Reset AI after player death - Fixed missing footstep audio after player death - Made it easier to find Lysbeths cane
2025-04-16 23:49 UTC · Community Announcements · TadDancer
Fixed Audio Slider Bug in Settings Widget
2025-04-16 17:27 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
Updates: - Controller Support - Steamdeck Support - Easy Stealth Mode - Fast Skillcheck Mode - Auto-Win mode for Skillchecks - Added History Infos - Improved Guards AI - Implemented more NPCs Fixes: - Fix Crouch after Death - Localisation fixed - Fixed years on graves - Improved Blood Trails discoverability - Added a sign at the archive entrance for better orientation - Fixed bug where screams would not stop - CineCams Focus Rework - Deleted unusable ladders - Fixed wrong trigger at end of stine bloodtrail - Fixed Book Jorek Double Show - Fixed missmatch between Text and Scene Rilke Confrontat
2025-04-14 13:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
The last few months here in the studio have been pretty awesome. Not only have we released an incredibly ambitious game, but we've also been working on three other amazing projects. The fact that Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing is finally being played by you and is constantly improving thanks to your constructive feedback is still an incredible feeling a week later. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44357469/7bc247ccbee9111ffac215504d4816efed3b16aa.jpg We are being funded by the FFF! What's also incredible is that the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern is supporting us with production funding for the development of our
2025-04-11 19:37 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
- CineCams Focus Rework - Increased daytime length to 45 minutes - Fixed Epilog Leevke saying Nils is dead although he survived - Fixed wrong trigger at end of stine bloodtrail - Box Victoria Key 1 fixed
2025-04-11 18:22 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
- Dialog Edits
2025-04-10 22:38 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
- Added Seagulls - Fixed wrong Trigger Bug - Rathaus Schild Localised - Fixed Book Jorek Double Show - Fixed missmatch between Text and Scene Rilke Confrontation - Disabled Stamina Bar - Items show particle systems every time detective sweep is triggered - Double Item Firehook fixed - Fixed Emergency Exit in Bookshelf Dialog - Fixed wrong reactions in Stine confrontation - Adjustes name pos benches - Fixed Bug where using different Booster Items would reset the Skillboost
2025-04-10 15:28 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
The release of Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing is behind us - and we're incredibly happy about the initial feedback and love from the community that we've received. Many thanks to everyone who has already played it! If you have time: A review on Steam helps us tremendously to boost the Steam algorithm. Would you write us one? On Monday evening, we also had a very nice release party together with our team and the community. We played the game together and then watched other streamers play - and played bingo. We are also already busy fixing bugs. Have you found one or, heaven help us, several? Pl
2025-04-10 08:07 UTC · Community Announcements · Active Fungus Studios
- Localisation improvements - Environment Fixes - Taskdescriptions updated - Schmidts hotelroom does not look allready used anymore
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