Ahoy we have some small fixes for the playtest outlined here:

• Sail turn tutorial hint had misplaced capitalized A
  
• Equipment slot got a repair hint
  
• Equipment page hint now say repair instead of select
  
• Lowered in place rotation speed
  
• Rebalanced prices of equipment
  
• Teleportation VFX light interpolates intensity
  
• Resolution list should show all options. Thanks to @terbin for reporting the issue on Discord!
  
• Moved wishlist button a bit up
  
• Secretive trait should now always show after 3 drinks

Dev Notes

• The new Ravager: Moon-Friendly Edition is available to wishlist now. Of interest to streamers, enjoyers of less explicit dragon fiction, and our friends in Germany or China.

• As I mentioned in my State Of The Realm post, I recently discovered that I have ADHD, and I have started treatment. It’s going well! I am rapidly accelerating back up towards full productivity. Thank you for all your advice and encouragement!

• MVP of this build is Lubbio, for his truly spectacular array of new scene art.

Act V Features

• Dynamic: Sabetha and Inej’s Chapter One dialogue is adapted if they are broken (collab with DoItToJulia).

• Dynamic: The ‘Sabetha Special’ plays out differently if Sabetha and Inej are broken (collab with DoItToJulia).

• Art: Chia cleans up Boof’s mess (five images, Lubbio).

• Art: Knight Maelys performs a bridging action (three images, Lubbio).

• Art: Mina is made to relax(?) by the dragon (four images, Lubbio).

• Art: Broken Mina, while pregnant, fulfils her collateral obligations (six images, Lubbio).

• Animation: Killtoy Maëlys gives you a hand, animated (2 variants, 16 animations, Amon Ra).

• Animation: Killtoy Maëlys receives her orders orally, animated (2 variants, 16 animations, Amon Ra).

• Animation: Knight Maëlys becomes a decorated soldier, animated (8 animations, Amon Ra).

• Gallery: Chia’s “Cleanup On Aisle Three” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).

• Gallery: Maelys’s “Bridging Action” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).

• Gallery: Mina’s “Can I Talk To You In My Office?” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).

• Gallery: Mina’s “Collateral Obligations” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).

Act I-IV Features

• Scene: Eburon and Issa resolve their differences in the war room (collab with D Fyler, DoItToJulia, and HereToHelp).

• Scene: Sabetha and Inej learn to give and take (collab with D Fyler and DoItToJulia).

• Scene: Inej proves that she can do anything that Sabetha can do (collab with D Fyler and DoItToJulia).

• Dynamic: Dr. Breaker has a double booking with a pair of catkin sisters (collab with D Fyler and DoItToJulia).

• Note: Not all ensuing interactions with Sabetha and Inej will reflect their broken status just yet.

• Art: Dedicated art for the rest of Mina’s post-breaking captive scenes (three variants, 15 images, Lubbio).

• Art: Remastered art for Mina’s drunken rough tumble (5 images, Lubbio).

• Art: Remastered character sprite for dragon-Darja (Irrelevant Art).

• Art: Remastered emotes for dragon-Darja (11 images, Irrelevant Art).

• Art: Remastered character sprite for the male commoner (Sintax Error & Irrelevant Art).

• Art: Remastered emotes for the male commoner (5 images, Sintax Error & Irrelevant Art).

• Animation: Maëlys delivers a compromise manually, animated (8 animations, Amon Ra).

• Voice: Sabetha’s previously-missing lines in the initial preference setting, and ‘remain indoors’ bonus content (Emery Aylar).

• Voice: Sabetha’s previously-missing lines in the rogues’ initial meeting, second meeting, and the heist itself (Emery Aylar).

• Voice: Sabetha’s part in the attempted heist planning while consorts (Emery Aylar).

• Sound: Maëlys, Heloïse, Sabetha & Inej, Mina, and Issa’s Act III captive content has been populated with more sound effects (HereToHelp).

• UI: Content Flag Icons have been added the Gallery, letting you know what content is in each scene. Screen readers will instead read out the content flags for each scene (HereToHelp).

• UI: An option has been added to the Sound settings to disable overlapping character voice lines (HereToHelp).

• UI: An option to disable screen shake effects has been added to the Accessibility menu (HereToHelp).

• UI: The Accessibility and Language icons will be higher-contrast if the High Contrast Text setting is used (HereToHelp).

• UI: Hover highlighting has been added to the Gallery, making it easier to navigate for players on keyboard and controller (HereToHelp).

• UI: A custom defloration visual and sound effect has been added, for those with Virginity content enabled (HereToHelp).

• Gallery: Mina’s “Pawnbreaking” scene has been added to the Gallery (Tosk).

Tweaks

• Disabling the "Fluid Physics" content setting will yield alternate, less body-function-y narration during a variety of scenes (HereToHelp).

• A custom screen effect has been added for when the dragon is kicked in the balls by Inej, to better depict the experience (HereToHelp).

• Maëlys's scene art will disappear at more appropriate times for several scenes (HereToHelp).

• Mina’s dialogue about craving a bath is responsive to whether or not you have built a bathhouse (DoItToJulia).

• A number of nonstandard text pauses after commas have been removed (HereToHelp).

• More edge cases are now covered by the Inline Character Icons accessibility setting (HereToHelp).

• Act I has undergone a comprehensive internal restructure to improve maintainability, and support future work (HereToHelp).

• The left panel of the Gallery is now easier to navigate on keyboard and controller (this applies to the layouts for both standard and small screens) (HereToHelp).

• The tooltip in the Gallery has been better centered (HereToHelp).

• Gallery entries' text and image are now treated as a single entry for the purposes of keyboard/joystick navigation, making it easier to quickly move between entries (HereToHelp).

• All instances of outdated character art in the Gallery's Character Select screen have been updated to their new versions (HereToHelp). 

• In the Gallery's Character Select screen, more space has been added between the character images and the bottom buttons, making things less cramped and the buttons easier to use (HereToHelp).

• The "Lock All" and "Unlock All" buttons have had their alt text tweaked to make their function clearer (HereToHelp).

• The tab graphic in the Preferences menu will no longer appear when Font Override or High Contrast Text is enabled in the Accessibility settings (HereToHelp).

• In the Gallery's Character Select screen, the "Gallery" title header has been styled to be more consistent with other screen titles (HereToHelp).

• The Gallery and Achievements screen title headers have been made invisible to keyboard/joystick navigation and self-voicing, simplifying navigation (HereToHelp).

• Inline Character Icons will always be on the same line as the start of the name they're part of (HereToHelp).

• The internal version detection used during compilation has been tweaked so as to more reliably separate the game version from the update name (HereToHelp).

Fixes

• Machine translations will now use the proper font during the parody dream.

• Chia’s “Cleanup In Aisle Three” scene won’t play when visiting your betrothed if Naho isn’t broken.

• Heloïse, Maëlys, and Žižeryx have had their diacritics added in places they were missing.

• Heloïse will kneel when comforted after being threatened during her pregnancy talk.

• Inej's side portrait will not appear nude if her main sprite is clothed and pregnant.

• The option to punish Issa now requires the "Intersex" tag to be enabled.

• During Issa's scenes, art properly respects the "Fluid Physics" content setting.

• After Issa’s kobold punishment, he will not perform the same cough two lines in a row.

• Maëlys's possessive form has been better standardized.

• After giving the dragon a handjob, Maëlys will no longer forget to bathe if she just received clothing.

• Killtoy Maëlys will show the appropriate decorations when she services you manually.

• On the night before the attack on Pale Rock, Malice will no longer refer to herself as a virgin if the player has Virginity disabled.

• Broken Mina will respond correctly to “READY?” or “BEG FOR IT.” during her pregnant palace scene.

• Dirtying Mina's dress during her randy consort scene will now show the appropriate art.

• During Mina's randy consort scene, art properly respects the "Fluid Physics" content setting.

• Sabetha’s toppy is no longer so sloppy that the sounds continue after you have removed yourself.

• When painting Sabetha’s backdoor, her climax VA will play at the appropriate time.

• Characters will recognize Žižeryx's name during naming when the diacritics are included.

• Code to handle loading old saves into newly updated content has been improved, protecting you from some rare crashes in future.

• Fixed a crash during the "delete all saves" option caused by unexpected filenames.

• The "Main Menu" button in each character's Gallery page is accessible to players on keyboard and controller.

• Certain obscure stat changes will no longer display for players viewing scenes through the Gallery.

• Roman numerals in gallery scene descriptions will be read correctly by screen readers.

• The logic that displays the day overlay in Acts II and III has been adjusted to ensure it will always go away during illustrated scenes.

• Disabling "Continue Voices Until Interrupted" will now actually cause voices to stop whenever the textbox advances. "During Menus" has also been fixed, such that choice menus should properly interrupt dialogue when the setting is disabled.

• The "Achievements" title header in the Achievements menu will respond to the user's Font Override and High Contrast Text settings.

• Everything caught by our noble and hardworking playtesters! Thank you testers!

• And typo fixes, as always.

The new version 1.15.5 fully supports the new gameplay mechanics and content from the upcoming DLC The Rift of Sanity, which launches next Friday (June 20, 2025). Add it to your wishlist so you don't miss it!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3752400/Menace_from_the_Deep__The_Rift_of_Sanity/
In addition to supporting the upcoming DLC's content and mechanics, this update fixes numerous bugs in the base game, including:

• Fixed a bug with negative Charge values when using mass attack cards.
  
• Fixed a bug with incorrectly displayed tooltips.
  
• Fixed bugs related to selecting candidate cards for value changes.
  
• Fixed many localization issues across different languages.
  
• Made some balance adjustments.
  
• Fixed over 30 minor mechanical and visual bugs.

This is quite a large update, so if you notice any new bugs, please report them on my Discord server — the link can be found in the game's main menu.

Better late than never...

After a long time, we are finally back with another recap. :D
In this recap, we will talk about this year's goals, correct past recaps, and introduce new mechanics that we have never shown before!

Froggy and Toasty are excited to read your comments as well. 🐸🍞

AND ALSO, don't forget to update your main branch and meet Clarice..!

(If you own a copy of Tales of: Sena)

Our Socials:
Website

Support E-Mail: cloudworkstudio.sup@gmail.com

Your CloudWork Studio - 2025/06

Hey,

Since the Early Access launch of Nightmare Frontier is happening tomorrow, we want to take advantage of the calm before the storm and... First of all, we want to extend a massive thank you to everyone who’s been with us on this journey! It’s only thanks to your dedication and most importantly, the invaluable feedback you’ve shared here on Steam and on our Discord - that we’ve been able to release not one, not two, but three demo patches in such a short time!

𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐄:

• https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3310950/view/624425002170586480?l=english

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒:

• https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3310950/view/534352273139044340?l=english
• https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3310950/view/534351647699108780?l=english

Some of you may have noticed a few hotfixes dropping as well! We just didn’t post about them. (prefers to focus on refining the experience for you) ːsteammockingː

---

We’d also like to remind you that the contest for the deepest expedition in the demo is still running until tomorrow. You can win a key for Nightmare Frontier Early Access, as well as keys to our previous titles - so don’t miss out and join in before it’s too late! ⤵️

• https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3310950/view/515212619364171917?l=english

We already have a few serious contenders for the win! 😎

---

On this day, we also want to thank all the influencers who have already published content related to our game, as well as those who’ve been holding off until the Early Access launch! Good news, dear stars! 🌟 Just before launch, we managed to kick off a campaign on Keymailer, where you can now request keys for Nightmare Frontier... ⤵️



Size doesn't matter! It’s the heart that counts... 🤭

---

Since we plan for Nightmare Frontier to be a "true" Early Access title = developed side by side with you, our community - we know the real wild ride is only just beginning... But thanks to your support, we believe we can make it happen! 🙏 There’s still a lot that needs improvement and we’re well aware of that. Localization, for example, still needs work (BTW. you can leave feedback here or on Discord 😅), but with a community like this, nothing is impossible!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3310950/Nightmare_Frontier/ Thank you again for your patience and for being here with us, see you tomorrow at launch hour! ⏰📯

💸💸💸 PS: Launch price: $19.99 with a 25% launch discount! 💸💸💸

3...
2...
1...

Happy weekend!

Following on from some feedback on the demo, I've fixed some bugs that included crashes after the early ferry cutscene that was afflicting certain players.

If you haven't already played the demo recently, the latest version introduced a lot of quality of life improvements. A new checkpoint after the ferry section, some adjustments to the onboarding experience, smoothed out interacting/dropping/swapping cargo and more. Alongside that, a lot of smaller changes were made under the bonnet that I won't list here (just know that they cleaned up a lot of messy corners).

The demo timer that was added can also be used to enter a competition to win full game keys when the game comes out later this year! All you have to do is share a screenshot of your time either here or on BlueSky and we'll select some random winners at the end of Next Fest.

The current time to beat is just over 12 minutes - I'm looking forward to seeing how you fare!

See you in the dunes,

Stefan | S . K . 9 . 8

Follow me on Bluesky

Changelog:

• Fixed puppy on top of a box doesn't move along when the box is pushed

• Fixed able to rub other things than the dogs

• Added wishlist and feedback button in the last stage

A few people have requested Command Prompt / PowerShell / Linux commands for things like creating files, listing files, editing files, etc. So I've started to add em!

As well I've begun refactoring a lot of the commands in the game to not just include the solutions I've thought of for the challenges, but to have complete parity to the commands in Git. In this version of the demo you'll notice a lot more commands and flags exist now (rev list, merge base, clean, bisect, cherry pick, and more) as well additional flags on a lot of the basic commands you had already.

My hope is that soon after release I can make a "sandbox" environment. With it players will be able to build repositories and use them for their own custom challenges that will be used with Steam Workshop. The first step to that though will be full parity with Git & a range of validators for you all to use.

And once again, I just want to say thank you to everyone who has played, wishlist, or provided feedback on the game. I appreciate you all taking time to try it! I hope everyone enjoys the full game when it comes out on the 17th.

- Refactored multiple commands for fuller Git parity

- Added more git commands for full release

- Added Command Prompt Command (start)

- Added PowerShell Command (new-item, get-content, dir, invoke-item)

- Added Linux Command (touch, cat, ls, xdg-open)

- Added MacOS Command (open)

- Reflog Command & Reflog Entry Tracking

- Fixed git stash handling short commitIds (thanks nightshade nocturne)

- Changes to Cannoneers:
-- Attack Speed will now start at 100% (up from 50%) and increase to 200% over 10 seconds (unchanged)
-- Increased Attack Speed modifier on several Shell Passives
-- Increased chance for debuff effects from 10% to 20% for all Shells
- Reduced all bosses' resistance to debuffs
- Reduced Spider jump back distance for 'Tactical Retreat' by 20%
- Fixed a typo with the 'Martyrdom' Rune. You will have to re-buy the Rune.
- Fixed a few issues where 'Crown of Thorns' Rune was not counted towards the 'Bleeding' Status Effect
- Fixed a few issues with the 'Inheritance' Rune
- Fixed an issue where the chance for increased Veteran rerolls was not applied

🎣 Fishing Games Festival

To celebrate the Fishing Festival, we’re releasing a small update!

• 🌍 Added 5 new languages: Polish, Greek, Danish, Finnish, and Swedish

• 🗺️ Two new zones are now available: Gold Mine and Asian Biome

• 🛠️ Fixed a few untranslated strings

Don’t forget to share your feedback and suggestions on our DISCORD page!
👉 https://discord.gg/Fh6EPgJXMQ