2026-04-18 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Fellow Traveller Ben K
Gosh, is it that time of year already? Welcome to Fellow Traveller's annual Publisher Sale! If you're keen for a story rich title, we've got you covered. New releases! Beloved classics! Steam Deck games! Killer tunes! Discounts up to 90%! It is party time central over here, and we'd love for you to join us.The Church in the Darkness is available for 90% off, so make sure to pick it up and get ready to infiltrate a religious cult.
2025-12-18 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Fellow Traveller Ben K
Winter already? Or Summer if you're in the southern hemisphere? No matter where you're from, you can grab great bargains in the Steam Winter Sale, including The Church in the Darkness for 90% off!Have a lovely holiday break from everyone at Fellow Traveller, and see you in 2026!
2023-11-08 23:54 UTC · Community Announcements · Fellow Traveller Ben K
Limited Run Games has announced that pre-orders are open for a cool physical edition of The Church in the Darkness! Find out more below: PlayStation 4/Nintendo Switch Edition - USD $34.99 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12097543/fc0bbf92cd33e9a30e22f98f5d41d4b4edf52367.png PlayStation 4 Edition: The Church in the Darkness is on a region-free physical disc for the PlayStation 4. Also works on the PlayStation 5. Nintendo Switch Edition: The Church in the Darkness is on a region-free physical cart for the Nintendo Switch. Make sure to pre-order your copy from Limited Run Games so you don't miss out! Pre-order
2023-09-18 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Fellow Traveller Ben K
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12097543/7b512fffbdbb19a9691c4d114d1ac70ef20c47b8.png The annual Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale is now on - and to celebrate, The Church in the Darkness is 90% off! ➡️ Take me to the Publisher Sale ⬅️ There are plenty more Fellow Traveller titles on sale to choose from - so whether you're looking for something new, a bargain, some cool soundtracks and bundles, or even something to play on Steam Deck, we're sure to have something just for you. We're also thrilled to announce that three new games are joining the Fellow Traveller family; Scrabdackle, Wander Stars and Kulebra a
2023-05-04 19:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Aussie Ben
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12097543/753e1c3342fc752ec58b4d2672b305d759ebb903.png We're proud to once again have The Church in the darkness participating in this year’s LudoNarraCon sale which kicks off today and lasts until May 11th. Perfect time for you or a friend to venture deep into the cult jungles of The Church in the Darkness for 90% off. And I (project director Richard Rouse) will also be participating in the panel Game Stories Told in Most Unexpected & Surprising Ways - watch it as part of the loop on the LudoNarraCon page on Steam or on YouTube anytime right here: Be sure to check out LudoNa
2022-05-05 18:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
LudoNarraCon - the Steam festival dedicated to narrative games - is taking place right now, May 5th-9th, and you can get The Church in the Darkness for 80% off, or complete your cult experience by picking up the True Believer Special Edition soundtrack & extra videos for the same discount which makes it quite a deal indeed. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12097543/08e19ee7d019ee971301f7bbc0e4326005393aff.png As part of this LNC I am hosting the "Shocking Developments: Subverting Expectations with Game Stories" panel. I'm sure Church and other games I've worked on will come up, and I'm sharing the stage wit
2021-04-24 21:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
LudoNarraCon - the Steam festival dedicated to narrative games - is taking place right now, April 23 - 26. The Church in the Darkness has exhibited at all the previous LNC events, and right now we're going to be on sale for this one! A good time to head to the jungle if you yet come to join us. As part of this LNC I hosted the "Telling Dark Stories with Games" panel. I talk about Church on there, and share the stage with some great dark storytelling panelists: Emily Short (Sunless Skies, Sunless Seas, Fallen London), Marta Fijak (Frostpunk) and Thomas Grip (Amnesia series, SOMA). Catch it when
2020-12-16 15:32 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
This dark December brings several updates that we've combined into one, and this week it's all on sale. Come, listen. Version 1.42 We've just published our version 1.42 which adds some more functionality and polishes our "Notes" feature that we introduced in v1.4. To recap, our last updated 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
2020-11-25 07:54 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
We've now rolled out our new version our new version 1.4, featuring our note tracker, available via the Notes entry on the main menu. This tracks all the notes & documents you find in your playthroughs of the game and lets you read or re-read them whenever you want. After a few revisions and polish we're happy to bring this new feature out of Beta and make it part of the main build for everyone to play. Your game should automatically update to this version. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12097543/9bbb607dbe41c338e65fd8cc426ff0e436155c20.jpg As you travel through Freedom Town, in desks, trunks, and other s
2020-10-12 15:44 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
We've been working on a new feature that we'd love for you to try out before we set it live in the main branch/build - it's a new Notes tracker/collector, accessible from the main menu! This is something we've been wanting to get in the game for a while, and it helps you explore the full narrative of the game across multiple playthroughs. We also think it shines a light on an area of the game we think deserves more attention: the many notes and documents you can collect over repeated playthroughs of the game. As you travel through Freedom Town, in desks, trunks, and other searchable spots you'
2020-08-29 00:14 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
Hi everyone, We just did an update to our build last week, but in addition to being on a week long sale right now (through Monday), I wanted mention a different kind of update we just did... True Believer DLC Update If you've picked up The Church in the Darkness you may have seen we also have our True Believer DLC which includes our soundtrack and behind the scenes videos featuring voice over sessions, music recording, some interesting monologues that didn't make it in the game, and various other interesting items. We've just added another video to our True Believer collection! We recently dug
2020-08-24 04:29 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
Hey everybody, Wanted to let everyone know that we did a small patch this weekend that also sets up our next update. Update 1.3 Live First up, we just did a small update where we fixed some bugs in the inventory when using mouse control which sometimes resulted in lost items, or using items at the wrong time. Steam should have auto-updated you to version 1.3 to get this patch. This was something rare and that had been eluding us for a while, but we were able to finally pin down how to reproduce it and got it fixed. Now using the mouse with the inventory should work well, let us know if you see
2020-06-15 19:10 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
Hi everyone, We just wrapped up a beta weekend with several players trying out our new Steam controller fix build, and everyone has reported back it is working for them. So we have taken it out of Beta and released it as Version 1.29 of the game. Your game should automatically update to this version. This build should also should fix much rarer cases of Xbox controllers not working. We also included some fixes to the difficulty system, as well as some more tuning to our guards and how responsive they are. And to go along with this latest update, we've also put the game on sale all this week! T
2020-06-13 07:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
Hi everyone, We've had a few bug reports come in the last few months about Steam controllers not working correctly with the game, specifically players not being able to hold the left trigger down and then fire with the right trigger. A similar problem happened This has been a really baffling bug for us to fix, as it was working at launch and broke sometime after that for mysterious reasons. We got some helpful feedback in our forums that helped lead us in the right direction and we think we now have a fix! It's a combination of a "recommended" custom controller configuration for the Steam Cont
2020-04-24 17:15 UTC · Community Announcements · Richard Paranoid
This is the weekend - April 24th-27th - for the online convention dedicated to fascinating narrative games, LudoNarraCon, and we'll be participating in a number of ways we think you'll like. Get The Church in the Darkness for 50% Off For the duration of LudoNarraCon, you can pick up The Church in the Darkness for half off! Game Streams with Arif Kinchen and Brock Wilbur As part of LudoNarraCon, we'll be doing two streams hosted on our Store page which will loop all weekend. Each will have me (Richard) playing the game and showing off some advice and tips players may not know about. And with me
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