When you and your co-partner wake up in the basecamp, you will find some very cheerful decorations. They look nice, but they lack power. In order to get the celebrations going, you and your fellow explorer will need to solve a special puzzle that’s hidden within the base of operations at the beginning of your journey towards Castle Rock!

So whether your friend has been naughty or nice, call them and get ready for a Christmas mystery in We Were Here Together!

Note: The special Christmas Puzzle is available on the PC/Steam and Xbox One version of We Were Here Together from December 20th 2020 until January 5th 2021

What do you think about when it comes to the Holiday season? Spending time with your family, playing games together or how about some delicious food & drinks? On our social media channels, the explorers have been sharing some of their favorite recipes that will warm you up or give you the chills!

Try them out yourself!



The Official We Were Here Discord channel is welcoming new explorers everyday and is still the perfect place to catch up on puzzle-solving adventures and search for the perfect partner to explore mysterious castles with. So if you haven’t joined yet.. well… do it!
There’s also a monthly community challenge where everyone can participate. This month’s challenge is all about the joy of Christmas music!

In case you missed it! Last month, we launched our new merchandise store for Total Mayhem Games and the We Were Here series! Some of our design series are limited, so you better hurry up if you want to wear some of our cheerful merch. One of these examples is, you’d never guess it, our holiday themed products! Head over to the Merch Store to get it now!

 

“Loud and clear! Over!” As you may have noticed, we have updated We Were Here Together right here on Steam! This patch implements a new voice-over system called Vivox. This should improve communication between explorers using their walkie-talkies, especially those trapped in Castle Rock and the outskirts of the Antarctic.

You also might see that when booting up We Were Here Together, the main menu has received a bit of a facelift! Not only is it looking better, it will also keep you up to date with what’s going on with the We Were Here Series.

Have your joined the official We Were Here Discord server yet? You should!
Not only are there a lot of fellow explorers looking for help or that have rumors about that pesky Jester guy, there is a ton of great creative work being shared on there as well! Take this artwork from one of the alchemy ingredients for example made by ‘CamelotJager’, so cute!

Don’t forget to participate in the monthly community challenge. Can you make/write/come up with a We Were Here themed Christmas song? Join the discord and find out! http://www.discord.gg/wewerehereseries

The explorers are always in the mood to celebrate something when they are not trapped in an ice cave or creepy castle halls. You might already have noticed some treats scattered around the basecamp ingame. These are treats related to the Dutch tradition known as ‘Sinterklaas’. Have you found everything yet?

Make sure you do, because those won’t be sticking around forever! In fact, on December 19th, you might want to explore the basecamp even further with your partner. Because there is that one door that wo-ho-ho-on’t open…

YOU!

We would like to thank you all for your amazing support this past year! The We Were Here community is greater than ever and it remains so much fun to see your passion for puzzles, castles and co-op communication on our channels.

If you want to show your love for the series, be sure to check out the Supporter edition of any entry in the We Were Here Series. For example, the Supporter Edition of We Were Here Together features a special skin for the walkie talkies, wallpapers and the soundtrack!

We recently released a whole new Merch store! You can look the part as a explorer of Castle Rock with a variety of new designs, to which some of them are limited time only!

TMG ESSENTIALS for big fans of the clean and the simple.


TMG FOR FRIENDS to celebrate all those precious moments together... including those where you left your friend in a creepy castle to fend for themselves.


And we have two LIMITED lines of merch including The Curse of Castle Rock and Holiday themed merchandise!


Check out our new store here: https://www.totalmayhemmerch.com/

The Steam Autumn Sale is underway! If you and your co-op partner have been thinking about entering Castle Rock, now is the best time to do so... because it's really warm and cozy in there...

You can get (the first entry We Were Here in the series for free,) the second entry in the series We Were Here Too for 60% off and the tird We Were Here Together is 40% off! If you enjoy the music of the games, now would be a good time to get the Soundtracks of all titles which are 50% off!


Every year Steam offers the opportunity for games to enter the Steam Awards. This year we would like to ask you all to help nominate We Were here Together for the 'Labor of Love' award. It's a long shot, but who knows the King might be able to reach for it.

If you and your co-op partner have been exploring the basecamp. you might find some different decorations than you normally would. Like some nice chocolate letters, a certain staff and 'pepernoten'. It is a Dutch tradition called 'Sinterklaas' that we celebrate every year on December 5th!


But don't worry, because the explorers like big feasts as much as the next, so they'll sure be celebrating thanksgiving!

No worries, it’s just us! That time of the year has come where scares are all the rage, but nothing is really frightening when you are with a co-op partner… right? We would welcome you to Castle Rock to try out this theory! During the Steam Halloween sale, you can venture to the Antarctic in We Were Here Together for 30% off, be sure to look inside the basecamp for some spooky decorations you might find!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/865360/We_Were_Here_Together/
If you’re already in a ‘spooktober’ mood, then be sure that you’ve returned to the halls of Castle Rock in We Were Here Too for 55% off. Make sure to pick up the soundtrack of each entry in the series who are also on a 50% discount!

...and now it seems they have all moved to Discord! The official We Were Here Discord server is growing with new explorers joining every day! Looking for a co-op partner, want to theorise about the mysteries of Castle Rock or do you just want to hang out in our digital hot chocolate bar? Join our Discord server today!

There’s also a monthly challenge for the community which could be a puzzle, news related to the series or a contest! For this spooky month, we asked our lovely community imagine the explorers in their worst nightmare, community member ‘Duskinator’ did an awesome job!

We are also very excited to have shared the news recently that the We Were Here series is coming to PlayStation 4! We can’t wait to have the exciting PlayStation community join our mysterious puzzle adventures and co-op shenanigans.

How is everyone doing? It's been a busy month but we've been making steady progress. In fact, we can finally reveal some exciting news... at the end of this post ;)

We can tell you that we're participating in the Tokyo Game Show this year, with some awesome news! If you aren't following the event, you can find it at the end of this post as well. The Tokyo Game Show is always an exciting event with some big announcements and trailers to enjoy - and we're always curious to see what's popular in other parts of the world. We'd love to attract new We Were Here fans from Japan and Asia more generally! If you'd like to check out the event yourself, Inverse has a nice article on how and when to watch.

Which announcements are you hyped for?


How the show looked in years past. It's all online for 2020.

Some of the puzzles in our games can be more easily solved with the aid of pen and paper, as player QAQAQAQAQ has discovered. Some great drawings here!



We're pleased to see people taking notes, because the We Were Here series is inspired in part by the legacy of classic adventure game Myst - did you know that Myst actually came with a notepad in the game box itself! You can see a cool image of someone's notes from this fun Reddit thread!


We have a great announcement for console fans today - those of you following our social media might already have figured it out - the We Were Here series is coming to PlayStation 4 soon! No dates yet, but we'll let you know whenever we have something firmed up. Follow our social media for all the latest news and We Were Here developments! And don't forget: keep your eyes open, because we will probably have more hidden messages in the coming months...


Do you see the circle in this image? There were four other images that had a triangle, cross and square. Put them together, and you got the PS4 controller buttons!

We released an update today which fixes a couple of issues with the Steam rich presence display, and adjusts the Russian translation on the final puzzle to be more clear. It also adds localization support for a bunch of new languages!

New Languages

• Arabic
  
• Czech
  
• Danish
  
• Finnish
  
• Italian
  
• Norwegian
  
• Portuguese
  
• Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• Swedish
  
• Thai
  
• Turkish

Do you recognize these locations from player screenshots? We love to see folks making use of the Steam screenshot uploader :D


A relaxing sea view by Garsupial.


Player Joni is indulging in a spot of gardening.


Probably not the safest lift you've ever used... by player GRIBABAS.

While we've been hard at work on our future projects (you're gonna love them), we've also made the time to put together some We Were Here bonus materials! Have a look and see if anything takes your fancy...

We made some pretty animated library capsules for our games. You can download our cool library capsules here!



To add them, go to your Steam library, find the game in the shelves to the right (not in the summary list), and right click on it. Then choose Manage > Set custom artwork, and choose your image! You could even make every game in your library look like We Were Here, if you wanted.



Are you planning a We Were Here stream? Or maybe you just really like the WWH aesthetic? Either way, good news with this We Were Here series streamer kit! Contains all the visual elements you need to stream in spooky Antarctic style: get it here.

You can grab the We Were Here Together soundtrack right now! Featuring 16 songs with 61 minutes of evocative music, it'll conjure that Castle Rock vibe in no time. There's even a 10% launch discount right now - move fast!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1246990/We_Were_Here_Together_Original_Soundtrack/

Did you know the We Were Here series is available on Xbox One? Well it is, and you can now get all three games together in the We Were Here bundle!

Speaking of bundles, We Were Here Together is part of this month's Humble Bundle Humble Choice games! If you're looking to play and don't have a regular partner, this month might be a good time to meet someone new who's just got the game ;)

Well, a whole lot of stuff! We recently released an update with some nice fixes and improvements. Read the full changelog here. Of course we've been working hard to finish up the Xbox One release of We Were Here Together, making sure everything is looking good there - because it releases today! Yep, all three games are now out on Xbox One as well - we're looking forward to seeing what everyone thinks!

This means the whole series to date is available on the Xbox - it's still so cool for us to see our puzzle game concept go from one title on PC all the way to a three part series on PCs and console, with more exciting things to come as well!




If you hadn't noticed, We Were Here Together is on sale right now, but not for much longer. You can currently grab the game for 25% off!


We couldn't go another news post without sharing more fan art! We loved this funny scene drawn by WWH player Blue and posted to our artwork page. Maybe check it out sometime - there's art, gifs, memes... all that good stuff.

We have a new update for you today! There are performance improvements, more colliders to prevent those rare moments of falling out of the level, and some desync fixes.

Added

• Animated dots show at the bottom right when the game is busy loading
  
• Increased auto-crouch trigger size downstairs after entering the monastery
  
• Xbox related objects added to the basecamp

Fixed:

• Players should no longer be able to walk off the left pickaxe elevator
  
• Fixed an issue causing the castle entrance puzzle not to start
  
• Fixed overall missing colliders causing players to fall through the world
  
• Optimized performance-heavy fog
  
• Increased default voice chat volume
  
• Accepting an invite just before entering gameplay from a lobby no longer leaves the other player in the void
  
• Fixed an issue with rejoining your own lobby
  
• DLC Store page languages now match those displayed on the base game store page
  
• Fixed overall texture and mesh issues
  
• Rapidly bashing the elevator buttons won't get visually stuck anymore
  
• Disabled puzzle item interaction after completing the Greenhouse area preventing players from taking unnecessary items to the next chapter
  
• Fixed an issue with the pipes where the puzzle would not complete after placing the correct pipes
  
• Fixed a desync issue with the throne room statues puzzle
  
• Fixed visual mismatch of items picked up in the mirror room and the image displayed in the inventory
  
• Fixed an issue where the basecamp fuel docks did not load in completely
  
• Fixed visual errors with some fog areas
  
• Audio of the first throne room puzzle no longer overlaps with the cutscene audio

Known Issues:

• After the voice chat system connects both players in a session, the application volume in the OS is forced to 100%

Geoff was already featured in an interesting blog post on Agora.io last week, which we'd recommend taking a look at if you're interested in games dev. This week you can get more insights into the We Were Here series and more as Geoff will be taking part in an Airmeet event organized by Agora.io, happening today! What can you expect exactly? We're glad you asked!

Two industry leaders in social gaming, Geoff van den Ouden, Producer of Total Mayhem Games, and Selcuk Atli, CEO of Bunch, will share their insights on how to make games more engaging through social connection, and why you should ditch Discord and add live voice and video directly inside your game

There will also be a Q/A session and a social networking time towards the end, as well as some tips and tricks to increase a game's user base and session times!

If that sounds good to you, check out the event here!

That's right, We Were Here Together is set to release June 5 on Xbox One!


Let your console owning friends and family know ;)

This is great news for all the new console fans who experienced the We Were Here series for the first time when we released the earlier games on Xbox One last year. We can't wait to see what they think!

To celebrate this great news, we also have a 25% sale for everyone on PC too!


A screenshot of a sinister scene by Scorpiorange!