ELDERBORN has graduated Steam Early Access an entire year ago, and ever since the full release it's gaining momentum, meeting a lot of praise, and making the life of thousands of players around the world a little more badass, thicc, and barbaric. We've made a habit of giving you more, more, and MORE with each ELDERBORN update - small or big - and this time's no different.

To mark the anniversary, here's ELDERBORN Extended Sountrack! This is a soundtrack-only update, but it's so HUGE we're marking it as a 'major update'. Here's why.



With all the added tracks, the album running time is now a little over an hour and a half, and it's all packed to the brim with metal, wailing of Turkish duduk, drums, and electronic beats. We love it so much, that our friends at Ivory Tower Soundworks are here to stay. Not only they made some very unique music and sounds for our CROSSBOW Bloodnight (now also available on Nintendo Switch! - our first game on consoles, yay!), but are also already working on the sick abomination that will become the POSTAL: Brain Damaged OST!


It's been an amazing year for Hyperstrange. We're still very much indie, but we went from a development studio with one game, to development and publishing studio with several titles, and MANY more to come. Wanna know more? Please head to our publisher profile and click that FOLLOW button. You can also stay in touch with us via Twitter and Discord.

...and you can play it for free.

EQI is a trippy first-person arcade game with spatial puzzles, and a synthwave soul. You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, challenging your senses, focus, and reflexes. Interface with the great mystery and transcend.



We want you to:
- Explore and solve over 20 stages, increasing in size and difficulty
- Control your own movement and shift the world around you
- Solve puzzles, see through illusions, and master challenging obstacle courses
- Immerse yourself in the electronic pulse of the game's OST

Yes, full, complete FREE game, with no bullshit microtransactions, no strings attached, because we love you, and we need you to love us back!

If you want to support the dev, Chopin et al., and the publisher - that's us - please download and play EQI. If you enjoy it, leave a nice review and maybe tell some friends. You will help us to bring you more nice things in the future!

Now, why don't you go ahead and...


Sincerely, yours

Yuletide is here, or whatever you call it. Treat yourself to ELDERBORN with a 50% Winter Sale discount!

So, you haven't played ELDERBORN yet? What have you been doing all this year? You can clearly see it HAS TO BE GOOD, as attested by hundreds of Steam reviews. If that didn't convince you, GmanLives' video review should do the trick. So... why just keep ELDERBORN on your wishlist? Ah... you're a man of culture, who knows well enough that patience pays off. Good on you. There you go - the game's 50% off for Steam Winter Sale, and we're cutting our own throat here. Don't count on any deeper discounts anytime soon - so go grab it, play it, enjoy the savagery, and do tell your tribe about it!

But we're not just about getting new players. We also do our best to keep the ones we already have happy. The sale coincides with an oft-requested update to the game:



Playing an NG+ and you'd wish you could test a different character build right away? Now you can! Just seek out the newly-added Shrine of Respec in the catacombs. Using it will free all of your allocated skill points, so you can distribute them again among the attributes, choosing a new character balance and picking your action skills from the scratch. Like a new-born barbarian warlord! Memory fades. Power remains!

As usual, Hyperstrange has more news for you soon, so if you want to stay up to date, please drop by our publisher profile and click that FOLLOW button. You can also stay in touch with us via Twitter and Discord. It will make our winter holidays so much more blessed!

Have a wonderful time, and...

A long, hard battle lies ahead, and we need your swords, so our tribe can emerge victorious!

If you're reading these words there's a good chance you're among the thousands of players enjoying ELDERBORN. It might also be, that you're not new to the game. Maybe you even got it in Early Access, or for our January full 2020 release. If that's the case - you might have some outlook on just how much extra effort Hyperstrange has been putting in our debut title, and that we continue to do so (as reflected in the recent GmanLives video review). You know that ELDERBORN is our labor of love. But we'd love the others to know as well!

Please nominate ELDERBORN in the "Labor of Love" category in the Steam Awards 2020 event, so we get a chance to step into the arena and meet other amazing games in a trial by combat!



On the note of adding MORE to ELDERBORN, we are preparing an update of the original sound track included in the Metal AF Edition. We'd like to know what extras you'd like to see in the update, so please head to the ELDERBORN steam discussion thread, and speak your mind. One of the musicians who brought you the beats that accompany you while you plow through the City of Jurmum is there to talk to you!

There's a lot more coming from Hyperstrange, so if you want to stay up to date, please drop by our publisher profile and click that FOLLOW button. You can also stay in touch with us via Twitter and Discord. We will greatly appreciate if you do.

Once again, thank you for your support!

As the Halloween promo starts and you can get ELDERBORN 40% off, we make sure that your experience with the game is as great as you expect! Those minor problems that affected the gameplay for some people, or were reported by the players as annoying and persistent? Gone. But that's not all - we keep polishing the game as a whole. This time around - we re-recorded the female character voiceover for the cutscenes. They should sound a little less like they were recorded in a cupboard. But that's not all - we've prepared for you a whole new set of achievement icons, that look much more like the ones we've originally envisioned. Behold their pulp comic book glory!



Are they nice? Or are they super nice? They will pop up in Steam very soon. And now, onto the full...

• The elusive, yet persistant shader bug that caused the Essence Conduits to spawn a "black void" around them was fixed
  
• Persistant controller bug - workaround added (*instructions below)
  
• The female character voiceover in the cut-scenes has been re-recorded
  
• The annoying navigation bug during the last wave of the epilogue will no longer haunt you
  
• Spears will now properly work with the speed stat
  
• Spear collision bugs have been fixed
  
• There are no longer any missing characters in the Hungarian language version
  
• The New Game+ bug with missing weapons is fixed
  
• Unity patch applied

* Some players reported a problem where the plugged in controllers would continuously send errant input to the game. You can now launch the game with a "-kbm" parameter set in the launch options, to force Keyboard+Mouse only mode, and prevent that from happening.

Now, enjoy the game 40% off, and please tell all your friends about it. Our other little bundle of creepy joy - CROSSBOW: Bloodnight is (obviously) also celebrating Halloween with an all-around update and a special sale. And please also check out the very first third-party game to be published by Hyperstrange in early 2021 - EQI, a free, trippy synthwave cyberspace action-puzzle. Please support us by adding it to your wishlist!

This is it, for today. Happy Helloween, and...

We are Hyperstrange. Two years ago, following over 3 years of development by a tiny team, on October 11, 2018 we've released ELDERBORN in Steam Early access. It has changed a lot since then, and the full release on January 30, 2020 (which coincided with 40-minute total Steam outage) wasn't the end of its evolution. We followed your feedback to make ELDERBORN an even better game.

We heard you, when you said you'd like to see a New Game + mode. We listened to those hard-core barbarians calling for a permadeath mode. But most of all - we took every opportunity we could to further balance and polish the experience so you could enjoy the brutal FPP melee combat at its very best.

It was a long, and curvy road, but here we are - ELDERBORN has earned mainstream recognition.



Are we happy with the current state of ELDERBORN? Yes. Does it mean we won't expand and improve it anymore? No way. Even though Hyperstrange is now involved in other projects, ELDERBORN remains very special to us. We take pride in what we've accomplished here with all of your support, feedback, and valuable critiques. We know there's much demand for more content, and we're not going to fail your expectations. The game will continue to expand, and we'll let you know about the specifics - soon.

Once again we want to thank you - the players who supported us on our way and took part in writing our success story. Thanks to you, Hyperstrange is now an established studio. We're working with the legendary Running With Scissors team to bring you POSTAL: Brain Damaged. We've released a small horror score-attack FPS called CROSSBOW: Bloodnight just in time for Halloween. We're on our way to help some other indie teams to reach you with their games by serving as their publishing studio. The business is booming, and it is all thanks to YOU - the fierce warriors slashing, stabbing, and kicking their way through the many dangers of the ever-expanding world of ELDERBORN. We salute you!

If you want to stay in the loop for all the awesome things coming your way from Hyperstrange, please drop by our publisher profile and click that FOLLOW button. You can also stay in touch with us via Twitter and Discord. We will greatly appreciate if you do!

It's been very busy 8 months for Hyperstrange after the ELDERBORN launch. We've pushed two content updates, lots of fixes, and heavily re-balanced the game based on your feedback. We've redesigned some core combat mechanics seeing that there's a high demand for it among you. We're happy to see that our work has made the players enjoy the game even more, and now we can enjoy a nearly 90% positive review count on Steam.

This has been a great boost to our confidence, and the successful launch allowed us to expand as a studio. Here's what's new with Hyperstrange!


CROSSBOW: Bloodnight, is our small but polished, and fine-tuned arena shooter in the vein of our own all-time favorite score-attack FPS, Devil Daggers. It has you slaughtering monsters with an arcane mechanical crossbow that doubles for a machine gun, shotgun, granade launcher, and even an aerial attack holy mortar. The game is available for only $2 in the special launch promo that lasts until Thursday, 9AM PST. It's a steal - but if you need more reason to try it, it was recommended by both Civvie11 and GmanLives (both featured in the reviews section). See a gameplay clip.



What made us make such a game (apart form the obvious - blasting demons with a magic crossbow is cool!)? Are you familiar with the term "boomer shooter"? It describes a throwback, retro-styled FPS following the footsteps of such great classics as Quake, Duke 3D, or Blood. With all the 80s and 90s pop-culture references in ELDERBORN, it's safe to say we've earned all the boomer-cred we need for our But what about shooter-cred? Grab CROSSBOW: Bloodnight and find out how Hyperstrange handles a first-person shooter. This is quite important because of...


ELDERBORN made some heads turn. Some of these heads, were the heads in charge of Running With Scissors, the notorious studio of maniacs behind the POSTAL series. You might have heard this already, if not - let us break the news. Hyperstrange is working on POSTAL: Brain Damaged, a boomer shooter spin-off to the series that has pushed the limits of what video games can get away with.



POSTAL: Brain Damaged is planned to launch sometime in late 2021, but we'll be very grateful if you wishlist & follow it on Steam, so you can stay in the loop.

We would like to take this opportunity to once again invite you to our Discord Server, so we can talk to you directly about ELDERBORN, and all the other Hyperstrange projects.

Thank you for your continued support, and enjoy the hunt - now in two Hyperstrange games!

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In the midst of Steam Summer Sale we give you the collectible ELDERBORN Steam Cards set. You know the drill - get all cards, convert them to sets, redeem badges, emotes, and profile backgrounds. Here's a little preview of what we have in store for you:



The first ten people who comment under this post using the the "Stay Metal" emote are up for a nice surprise from Hyperstrange!

Also, please follow this profile, as we're almost ready to announce something new and exciting. If you love badass, over-the-top action games (and for what other reason would you be here?) then you really don't want to miss that announcement!

ELDERBORN is 30% OFF for the week, but that's not all. If you're here, there's a good chance you love old-school, single-player FPS games as much as we do. We have teamed up with the developers of Project Warlock, Hedon, and Nightmare Reaper to bring you a whole bundle of such games with a sizable discount. There's so much BANG! in this ensemble, we had to call it the...



In Quad Damage Bundle each game is a passion project by the creator, or a small handful of creators that managed to pour their heart and soul into lines of blood-sprayed and dismembered code. Do check them out.

Pry the secret of eternal youth from a cursed city as a powerful barbarian in Elderborn.
Take control of a pissed off Half-Orc in her quest to repel a cultist invasion in Hedon.
Solve the mystery of the nameless heroine in a mental asylum in Nightmare Reaper.
Face the minions of hell as a magic-wielding, gun-toting loner in Project Warlock.

This bundle is both about the chance to get all of these games at a reasonable price, and to discover titles you might not have been familiar with. So, without further ado: introducing four games to satiate your thirst for brutal, high-quality, no-nonsense fps.

Elderborn, Hedon, Nightmare Reaper and Project Warlock combine to bring you:

• 97 power-ups & skills !
  
• 101 weapons & spells !!
  
• 107 levels and stages !!!
  
• 120 enemies & bosses !!!!

Please remember: you only pay for the games you don’t yet own on Steam. Also: for the best deal you might want to buy Quad Damage Bundle between 01.06-08.06! The bundle remains for a week longer after that, but the discount will be significantly smaller.

If you do enjoy the bundle, please consider tweeting about it using the #QuadDamageBundle hashtag.

Fight well, Warriors! And, as always...

Warriors! Today is a good day to die. Perma-die. Your continuous support keeps us working on improving ELDERBORN and today marks the addition of a much player-requested feature. As if the game wasn't hard enough (yeah, we know it's not for some of you - hats off!), you wanted to have the option to play with permadeath. As in no respawn. You die, you're dead-dead, and the game removes your save file. Yea, some of you feel THAT cocky. So here it is... Ironman Mode!



This option can only be applied to a new game, so if you want a really hardcore challenge of conduid-filled NG+ and permadeath combined, you need to prove yourself first by completing the base campaign without dying once. The new play mode also comes with an appropriate new achievement to hunt for. Good hunting!




But there's more! Today's update introduces 2 new language packs to ELDERBORN. Players in Russia and Hungaria are now able to enjoy the game in their respective native tongues. This brings us to a total of 8 language versions, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Hungarian. We'd like to thank the amazing Lostprophet.hu of the Babble Knights translator team for supporting the Hungarian LOC. The Russian version was prepared by Roboto Global.

That's it for today. We'll see you around, as there's much more Hyperstrange news to be excited about in the near future. We'll keep you posted, so stick around!

Yours truly,