In this update we’d like to recommend you a game our friends made, which has left early access today and is now available with a 25% Launch Discount.
Breathedge is a hilarious space survival game. You play as the survivor of the spaceliner catastrophe who finds himself in the middle of a ridiculous universal conspiracy, all the while battling the elements in order to find the way home.
Breathedge boasts a wild mix of awesome visuals and exciting first-person survival experience in outer space, spiced with grotesque humor. Collect items, make tools, build vehicles, and more to help you unravel the mystery behind the explosion of the largest space vessel and all its dark secrets. Smooth navigation through space is not without dangers: watch out for extreme cold and heat, ever-encroaching radiation, and coffin-robots out for blood!
We’ll be concise: we’ve got some good news for you. Two of them, actually.
First of all, Police Stories Supporter Pack has been updated: we’ve finally added in-game donuts and trumpet as a supplement to the existing soundtrack and artbook, just as promised — better late than never, right? Those are not simple reskins, but rather totally new pieces of equipment which will (at least we hope so) make your gameplay a bit funnier and more varied.
Donuts — strategic set of nutrients. Restore vitality, improve your mood.
Trumpet — capable of inspiring allies and demoralizing enemies in the right hands. Or the other way round.
Maybe that's not HUGE, but if you enjoy the game and keep playing it – purchasing Supporter Pack is the best thing you can do to show your love.
Secondly, our publisher HypeTrain Digital celebrates the 5th anniversary (congrats!) and launches a major Steam Publisher Sale running November 4-9th, where you can grab their titles at up to 80% off. And, of course, Police Stories is a part of this as well — the game will be available with a 50% discount throughout the sale!
>>> Check Out Publisher Sale That’s it for today (we promised we’d be concise). Have fun with the donuts, and see you soon!
Today’s the big day for the project — it’s been exactly one year since the first release of Police Stories on Steam and Nintendo Switch. A lot has happened in a year, be it projectwise or not, but you’re still here playing the game, and we want to sincerely thank you for that!
We’d like to take stock of the project’s evolution and briefly review the results we’ve achieved so far. So, let’s get started!
More than 150k game owners at the moment (Steam, GOG.com, Nintendo Switch).
Launched Level Editor on PC — more than 200 user levels are already available for download from Steam Workshop.
PlayStation 4 Release.
And now we’re actively working on Xbox release, which is coming quite soon!
Oh, and not to mention numerous patches, bugfixes and so on. It always could be better, but we’ve been working on Police Stories a lot trying to improve and enhance the experience it provides. And, to be honest, we think we did quite a good job!
If you agree with us, please leave a review for the game on Steam — it would be the best gift for everyone at our team.
There’s more to come, and we hope that next year will be as awesome as the past one, so stay tuned!
We know that some of you have been waiting for this, and, finally, the day has come — Police Stories Level Editor launches today! It is now available to owners of the game through the "Tools" section of their Steam Library.
Just reminding: Level Editor is a standalone application which lets you design locations from scratch in a straightforward and intuitive way. It’s free for all Police Stories owners and available for Windows, Mac and Linux. By the way, if you still don’t have a copy of the game, you can get it at 50% off within 2 days — let’s celebrate the release of Level Editor together!
If you enjoy Police Stories but have played it backwards and forwards, or you’ve got lots of great level design ideas that go for nothing — you will definitely find this tool useful and fun.
Build real locations from scratch. Place enemies, evidence and bombs wherever you want and construct levels you’ve been dreaming of.
Share and play the levels. Share your levels through Steam workshop. Pick and download levels within the game, sorting them by popularity or newness. Complete levels in single-player mode or co-op.
Compete with other players. Play the user levels and compete with other players through built-in leaderboard.
Get as creative as possible, and we’ll be waiting for the perfect levels of yours. Good luck!
If you enjoy Police Stories but played it backwards and forwards, or you’ve got lots of great level design ideas that go for nothing — here’s something for you!
We’re launching a closed beta of level editor — a standalone application, allowing everyone to design the levels they’ve been dreaming of and share it with the world through Steam Workshop.
And so we’re looking for volunteers that can help us polish it! The requirements are not strict at all: you must have a Windows computer, own Police Stories on Steam and be ready to prepare a text report with your feedback and found bugs.
We’re delighted to take part in the Steam Game Festival (June 16 - June 22), which is already live now! Throughout the event we've brought demos for each of the 8 games we are currently working on.
All of them are in different genres, settings and styles. You will surely find something that piques your interest! All the content available for Steam Summer Festival is free, some demos are long, some allow infinite play. Here is a little sneak peek of every title available.
Voidtrain
Voidtrain is a first-person action/survival game where you become a crew member of an interdimensional express. Build your own train, upgrade it, craft weapons and travel across different mysterious worlds full of outlandish creatures, Nazis and other dangers.
Voidtrain’s demo features a base loop of the game, where you’ll be able to travel between biomes on your train, gather resources to upgrade it and stop by interdimensional train depots filled with Nazis ought to be defeated.
Tunche is a charming, hand-drawn beat'em up hack and slash game with roguelike elements, co-op and a pinch of shaman witchcraft. Visit the amazonian jungle alone or together with your friends, choose one of the 5 unique characters and hack through hordes of enemies!
And if you like A Hat in Time, we got a big surprise for you — Hat Kid will be the 5th Playable Character in the game. Moreover, you’ll be able to test her in the demo!
Do you miss the golden era of Game Boy? Linked Mask is a 2D platformer that will make you reminiscent of the good old days, where a player has to overcome six towers, collect six masks containing elemental powers and ultimately conquer the Castle of the Primals. And there’s a chillingly cool soundtrack that will make your head bop as you traverse the deadly Towers!
Plunge into a VHS-era cyberpunk world of Jack Move, an RPG featuring japanese style turn based battles and gorgeous Hi-Bit pixel art. Take on the role of Noa, a vigilante hacker who is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping and dark research after her father goes missing.
Black Book is a dark RPG Adventure based on Slavic mythology and featuring card-based combat. You will take on the role of Vasilisa, a young sorceress on a quest to revive her beloved one. In order to do so, she has to uncover all the 7 seals of Black Book — a demonic artefact, said to be powerful enough to grant any wish.
The demo features an essential part of the story — the First Day of Vasilisa becoming a witch. You’ll be able to test test the core game mechanics, battle regular demons and even test your strength in a fight against a boss.
There Is No Light is a pixel-art action adventure in a dark post-apocalyptic setting, which tells a story of a protagonist fighting against a fallen underground civilization and its appalling religious rituals.
In this demo you’ll be able to explore a small part of the game world. Visit a village, the existence of which remained unknown for a long time. Find out how people live in the underground world ruled by the Church of the Great Hand. Find your own playstyle by combining 3 available weapon types, so that eventually you can fight a giant boss Behemoth that gets in your way to freedom.
Tower Princess is a 3D roguelike action platformer where you'll have to beat a dungeon, defeat a dragon, rescue a princess/prince and manage a perfect date with them! There’s a wide variety of royalty members you can hit on — you’ll be able to find someone you like even if you’re not into humans.
The demo is a linear and brief sample of a run in one of the Castle's areas. It shows the visuals and the core gameplay of Tower Princess, but it's focused on the princess aid in combat, as without her help, you wouldn't stand a chance against the Evil Dragon. Are you ready to test yourself as a knight in shining armour?
SuchArt is a painting sim game featuring you being such an amazing artist. Really you rock, your latest DNA test is very positive about it. Now please paint, sell and expose your art from your new studio aboard the Space City. And don’t forget — the only limit is the size of your brush (or a flamethrower).
SuchArt demo features a separate room (a virtual studio instead of a real one you’ll get in the full game) with a limited amount of tools and an introductory part of the story. However, you’ll be able to test the core game mechanics and take a couple of commissions from virtual clients, which is already fun!
- Fixed bug which caused inability to start the game on Ubuntu/Debian/SteamOS - Fixes and improvements of network stability - Updated language selection
Hope you're doing fine. We continue improving the online co-op in Police Stories.
Patch Notes:
- Fixed the problem with black screen in online co-op. - Optimization of data transfer between players - Added ping counter which is shown during unstable connection - Fixed the bug with Chinese language