Hey everyone!

Long time no speak! Hope you're all staying happy and healthy out there.

As you may be aware, our good friends at the Indie MEGABOOTH are holding an epic "Going Away (for now) Sale", and Sundered: Eldritch Edition is being offered at its crazy most! generous! ever! discount! Perfect opportunity to snag an extra copy for that special someone, hmm?

To celebrate, and because we really don't see y'all often enough, we'll be doing a live stream on Saturday, May 9th @ 3pm EDT! That's tomorrow, in case all your days are melding together because time has no meaning right now. (p.s. I feel ya.)

And this is no ordinary stream! It'll feature our very own resident Sundered guru, he who has logged thousands of hours in the game, and broken it more times than we can count. I am referring to none other than Med (Medlife to those in the know)!

Join us tomorrow at 3pm to watch Med take on Sundered: Eldritch Edition on INSANE difficulty, right here on Steam. It's gonna be a party, y'all!

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone!

It’s a big red letter day here at Thunder Lotus! We’re super stoked to finally reveal the project we’ve been lovingly crafting over the past 18 months or so. Behold Spiritfarer: a cozy management game about dying.

Queue our first trailer and prepare thyselves for the feels!

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

Spiritfarer is a project that’s near and dear to our hearts. Here’s the basic pitch:

In Spiritfarer, you play Stella, ferrymaster to the deceased. Build a boat to explore the world, then befriend and care for spirits before finally releasing them into the afterlife. Farm, mine, fish, harvest, cook, and craft your way across mystical seas. Join the adventure as Daffodil the cat, in two-player cooperative play. Spend relaxing quality time with your spirit passengers, create lasting memories, and, ultimately, learn how to say goodbye to your cherished friends.

Expect a release next year on Steam, as well as with Xbox Game Pass for PC and Console, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch!

We can’t wait to tell you more about the game over the next few days, weeks, and months.

Today, as I write this, we’re enjoying the frenzy of E3 2019, where we’ve been invited by the good people at Microsoft to present the first playable demo of Spiritfarer as part of their E3 activities. Come say hi at the Microsoft Theater if you’re in town for the convention! If not, maybe we’re coming to another con near you over the next few months, hmm?

Stay tuned (and do please Follow or Wishlist Spiritfarer)!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/972660/Spiritfarer/

Back to you soon with more Spiritfarer news!

Cheers y’all,

– Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus team

Hey folks!

Today, we're unleashing Sundered: Eldritch Edition, the definitive edition of of our chaotic metroidvania, containing all previous updates published to the game, along with the brand new Magnate of the Gong update! Here’s what’s being added in this latest version:

• Local co-op: It’s dangerous to go alone, especially through Sundered’s ever-changing caverns. So we’ve added local co-op multiplayer support for up to 4 players!
  
  
• New areas and quest chain: We’ve added several unique new areas throughout the existing map. Complete a quest chain of special challenges in the new areas to unlock rewards and the path to a brand new boss!

And that’s just the big stuff! We’ve added a ton of smaller features and improvements under the hood! Check out the full patch notes HERE.

And to be clear, yes, all existing players receive the Eldritch Edition update for FREE today!

Please remember that your feedback is crucial for us, so please do leave or update your review on our Store page, and strike up a conversation about this update with us on our Forums!

Resist or Embrace.

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone,

Today, we're announcing the imminent release of Sundered: Eldritch Edition, the definitive edition of our beloved chaotic hand-drawn metroidvania, coming December 21st as a free update to all existing users on Steam (and PlayStation 4), and launching for the first time on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One!

Watch the announcement trailer here.




Sundered: Eldritch Edition is the definitive edition of the game, containing all updates published to the game, along with the brand new Magnate of the Gong update! Here's what's being added in this latest version:

Local co-op: It’s dangerous to go alone, especially through Sundered’s ever-changing caverns. So we’ve added local co-op multiplayer support for up to 4 players!

New areas and quest chain: We’ve added several unique new areas throughout the existing map. Complete a quest chain of special challenges in the new areas to unlock rewards and the path to a brand new boss!

And that’s just the big stuff! We’ve added a ton of smaller features and improvements under the hood! Full patch notes will be posted when it launches on December 21st.

Stay frosty, y'all!

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone,

The fine folks at Failbetter Games (creators of TLG favorite, the richly textured seafaring survival exploration game Sunless Sea) have kicked off #LoveIndies Week, an event with the goal of celebrating indie games and their communities, while also highlighting how reviews can be a massive help to developers! Such a lovely initiative on their part!

In the spirit of the celebration, we’d like to officially re-iterate what we don’t mention nearly enough: the Thunder Lotus community is our family. Your trust and support is at the root of our work, and we never take it for granted. Thank you for supporting Thunder Lotus Games – we wouldn’t be able to do what we love without you!


You might not know how much a simple review or rating can mean to an indie development team. They absolutely do make a huge difference to us: to our morale, visibility and sales.

All this week we’re going to recommend games from other studios that we love, and we hope you’ll take the time to rate, review and recommend indie games that you’ve loved here on Steam as well. Spread the love on social with the #LoveIndies hashtag too!

Check out our latest indie game recommendations on our Steam Developer Page!

Have a great #LoveIndies Week, y'all!

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone,

We’re totally stoked to be unleashing the long-awaited Sundered Finisher Update, chock-full of delicious quality of life improvements and the badass titular finishing moves that will have you obliterating eldritch hordes in style! The Sundered Finisher Update arrives automatically as a free update to all Steam players today. Important additional updates to Sundered are still to come!

Here’s what’s in store for y’all in the Finisher Update:

• Added a set of new combat moves we call Finishers. Once a certain number of melee attacks have been landed in a short time frame, a powerful Finisher attack is ready to be unleashed! Finishers are available from the start of the game
  
• Huge balance pass to make the game smoother and reduce moments where grind feels necessary: Reworked and improved early game pacing; Increased shard drops in the early game.
  
• Expanded the skill tree with new nodes and rebalanced some stat multipliers and perks.
  
• Defeated bosses can be fought again for reduced rewards.
  
• Added player markers to help locate the player in crowded or zoomed out locations (can be toggled in the options).
  
• Tweaked minimap legend so each icon is more easily recognizable.
  
• Modified tip system so as to not spoil content that is not yet accessible to the player.
  
• Reduced loading times and stabilized frame rate (hurray!).
  
• Other minor bug fixes.

Please remember that your feedback is crucial for us, so please do leave or update your review on our Store page , and strike up a conversation about this update with us on our Forums!




Finally, don’t forget that the Not-A-Metroidvania Bundle is still live, and that you stand to save a pretty penny on some of the best games of the-genre-that-shall-not-be-named, especially with the deeper Summer Sale discounts!

Resist or Embrace.

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone,

We’ve partnered with some of our favorite developers to launch the “Not-A-Metroidvania” Bundle , available NOW! It contains four of the best games in the genre-that-shall-not-be-named: Dead Cells by Motion Twin, Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition by DrinkBox Studios, Salt and Sanctuary by Ska Studios, and Sundered by Thunder Lotus Games… hey, that’s US!

For those unfamiliar with how bundles work on Steam, Steam doesn’t force you to re-buy the games you already have. Customers that purchase the Bundle will pay for, and receive, just the titles that they don’t already have in their Steam library, and a 20% discount will be applied to the total. In other words, this Bundle rewards your exquisite taste in games by letting you “complete your collection” and get a nice bonus discount on titles you were always tempted to get, but never got around to it.

That’s right, I did say bonus discount – because from now until this Friday, June 8th, each one of the titles in the Bundle are already discounted for Midweek Madness. Dead Cells will feature an additional 33% discount, while Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Salt and Sanctuary, and Sundered will be discounted by an additional 40%. Again, the 20% Bundle discount gets applied on top of those discounts, which sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me!

Check out the “Not-A-Metroidvania” Bundle HERE .

Have a great week, y’all!

– Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone,

We’ve partnered with some of our favorite developers to launch the “Not-A-Metroidvania” Bundle , available NOW! It contains four of the best games in the genre-that-shall-not-be-named: Dead Cells by Motion Twin, Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition by DrinkBox Studios, Salt and Sanctuary by Ska Studios, and Sundered by Thunder Lotus Games… hey, that’s US!

For those unfamiliar with how bundles work on Steam, Steam doesn’t force you to re-buy the games you already have. Customers that purchase the Bundle will pay for, and receive, just the titles that they don’t already have in their Steam library, and a 20% discount will be applied to the total. In other words, this Bundle rewards your exquisite taste in games by letting you “complete your collection” and get a nice bonus discount on titles you were always tempted to get, but never got around to it.

That’s right, I did say bonus discount – because from now until this Friday, June 8th, each one of the titles in the Bundle are already discounted for Midweek Madness. Dead Cells will feature an additional 33% discount, while Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Salt and Sanctuary, and Sundered will be discounted by an additional 40%. Again, the 20% Bundle discount gets applied on top of those discounts, which sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me!

Check out the “Not-A-Metroidvania” Bundle HERE .

Have a great week, y’all!

– Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Friends,

Take my word for it: you simply haven't lived until you've gone toe to toe with Odin, The Allfather, and summarily handed his ass to him while riding a bus to work.

And behold! Jotun: Valhalla Edition, out today on Nintendo Switch, allows you to do just that!

Check out Jotun on the American Nintendo Store
Check out Jotun on the European Nintendo Store

And if riding public transit ain't your bag, our fans have imagined plenty of other fun places one could now conceivably play Jotun...









At any rate, we're super stoked to be releasing our first game on the Switch! If you are too, we hope you'll share the news, and maybe pick up a copy for yourself!

Cheers, y'all!

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus Team

Hey everyone,

Truly stoked to share this epic news with y'all: get ready for six more weeks of winter, as we're finally bringing Jotun to the Nintendo Switch! Jotun: Valhalla Edition drops on the vaunted console worldwide on April 27th, 2018!

Have a gander at the launch trailer, why dontcha?



Needless to say, we're very excited to be bringing our first game to the Switch - we're all life-long Nintendo fans over here, and have been in absolute lurve with the Switch since launch.

We wanted to take the time and make sure we were bringing the best possible version of Jotun to the system. Happily, the Switch has the horsepower to showcase Jotun in all its hand-drawn glory, even in handheld mode, so those who played the Wii U version especially will notice the great job the team has done remastering the graphics for the Switch release.

Also, since we play a lot with scale in Jotun, Thora often being dwarfed by titanic bosses, we had to rework some of the gameplay to allow for play on a potentially much smaller screen.


We hope you're all stoked to play the game on the Switch and, say, to beat Valhalla Mode without using God Powers *while commuting to work*!

We're so happy to finally have one of our games on the Switch that we'll be holding drawings to win Jotun Switch codes and other sweet goodies! Recommend you stay tuned to our social channels between now and launch day, is all I'm sayin'...

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So stay frosty, y'all! Jotun is out on Switch in two weeks!


That's a very good question, Bill!

The team remains hard at work lovingly polishing delicious DLC for the game. I can confirm that said DLC has been content-complete for a few weeks (and that it's awesome), but we're still tweaking it 'til it's up to your/our standards of excellence. We're tantalizingly close to being able to share Sundered news with you - news that goes beyond the DLC itself. If I say anymore, I'll be summarily killed. But I assure y'all that you won't be disappointed.

Stay tuned!

- Rodrigue and the Thunder Lotus