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D3PUBLISHER's brand-new action shooting “FULL METAL SCHOOLGIRL” is now available for purchase on Steam!

Purchase during the first 14 days of launch to receive 10% off!

A fully armed cyborg heroine storms into a giant corporation and unleashes a relentless barrage of gunfire and sword action in this exhilarating cyborg schoolgirl action adventure.

New heroines battle in a game that combines the close combat of "Onechanbara” with the gun battles of “Earth Defense Force.”

For a limited time, receive Akemi Costume: Saki's Battle Suit from "OneeChanbara ORIGIN" as an early purchase bonus. (*)

Various DLCs such as costumes and accessories for the characters will be also released sequentially. Please check the respective stores for more details.

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Official Website: https://www.d3p.co.jp/zmg/en/

* This offer is only available to customers who purchase the product by 10:00 (PDT) on April 1st, 2026.

Full metal schoolgirl destroys a exploitative enterprise! (...with live streaming)

D3PUBLISHER's brand-new action shooting “FULL METAL SCHOOLGIRL” is now available for purchase on Steam!

Purchase during the first 14 days of launch to receive 10% off!

A fully armed cyborg heroine storms into a giant corporation and unleashes a relentless barrage of gunfire and sword action in this exhilarating cyborg schoolgirl action adventure.

New heroines battle in a game that combines the close combat of "Onechanbara” with the gun battles of “Earth Defense Force.”

For a limited time, receive Akemi Costume: Saki's Battle Suit from "OneeChanbara ORIGIN" as an early purchase bonus. (*)

Various DLCs such as costumes and accessories for the characters will be also released sequentially. Please check the respective stores for more details.

PURCHASE NOW:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3696410/

Official Website: https://www.d3p.co.jp/zmg/en/

* This offer is only available to customers who purchase the product by 10:00 (PDT) on April 1st, 2026.

Full metal schoolgirl destroys a exploitative enterprise! (...with live streaming)

D3PUBLISHER's brand-new action shooting “FULL METAL SCHOOLGIRL” is now available for purchase on Steam!

Purchase during the first 14 days of launch to receive 10% off!

A fully armed cyborg heroine storms into a giant corporation and unleashes a relentless barrage of gunfire and sword action in this exhilarating cyborg schoolgirl action adventure.

New heroines battle in a game that combines the close combat of "Onechanbara” with the gun battles of “Earth Defense Force.”

For a limited time, receive Akemi Costume: Saki's Battle Suit from "OneeChanbara ORIGIN" as an early purchase bonus. (*)

Various DLCs such as costumes and accessories for the characters will be also released sequentially. Please check the respective stores for more details.

PURCHASE NOW:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3696410/

Official Website: https://www.d3p.co.jp/zmg/en/

* This offer is only available to customers who purchase the product by 10:00 (PDT) on April 1st, 2026.

Full metal schoolgirl destroys a exploitative enterprise! (...with live streaming)

D3PUBLISHER's brand-new action shooting “FULL METAL SCHOOLGIRL” is now available for purchase on Steam!

Purchase during the first 14 days of launch to receive 10% off!

A fully armed cyborg heroine storms into a giant corporation and unleashes a relentless barrage of gunfire and sword action in this exhilarating cyborg schoolgirl action adventure.

New heroines battle in a game that combines the close combat of "Onechanbara” with the gun battles of “Earth Defense Force.”

For a limited time, receive Akemi Costume: Saki's Battle Suit from "OneeChanbara ORIGIN" as an early purchase bonus. (*)

Various DLCs such as costumes and accessories for the characters will be also released sequentially. Please check the respective stores for more details.

PURCHASE NOW:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3696410/

Official Website: https://www.d3p.co.jp/zmg/en/

* This offer is only available to customers who purchase the product by 10:00 (PDT) on April 1st, 2026.

Good eve’, creatures of the night and mortals alike! I’m Elle, 2D Artist at Triumph Studios. Previous dev diaries have already shown what’s in-game and how it works; tonight I will pull back the curtains and give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we got there.

Each ruler type we have designed so far has had a unique design process, and vampires, being a well-known fantasy creature, presented their own distinct challenges. Unlike our series-original Wizard Kings and Eldritch Sovereigns, lots of people have opinions about which vampires are the ‘right’ ones, and expectations about what ours should look like.

Early concept exploration therefore needed to cover a wide variety of fantasies, so we could narrow down what felt right for AOW4.

Instead of defining our vampire guidelines from the start, exploring freely lets us take note of only the design details that jump out at us.

For example, after the concepts above, we noted how that rose theme in the last concept could combine with the thorns and chains in the earlier ones. This concept then took those aspects even further:

These notes hit all the right spots for us, and you’ll see a lot of what this final concept presents in the final in-game-visuals. From noticing what we love and what works well together, we create huge boards combining concepts, photo references, and notes to determine which options we want to make and their priority.

Among the frilly dresses, corsets, high collars, and rose-thorn chains on this board, we also wanted a full armor option. I’ll use this armor set to explain in more detail how the full process for a customization set may look.

Initial 2D and 3D concepts for the armor set explored armor textures and shape language, from ribbed to spiked. These touched on interesting themes, but felt too human and missed that unique AOW4 Elder Vampire identity we were creating.

We did another take, now much more focused on their bat heritage and pushing silhouette further so they’d be recognizable even at a distance:

The red glass idea merged well with this expansion's new magic material, Blood Glass. Please play pretend with us and accept that this Blood Glass is shatterproof as opposed to its real-world counterpart. We loved how this concept hit on all of the core aesthetics, so took this into 3D. There we refined further through collaboration with our 2D and 3D departments, adding rose illustrations to the Blood Glass in the breastplate and shield.

Elder Vampires come in two bloodlines: Pureblood and Hybrid. Mechanically identical, visually and thematically distinct.

Pureblood Vampires look like the vampires we know and love. They range from beautiful to beastly, but all with bat-flavored features. Inspired by the saying “blind as a bat”, they also offer the possibility for two differing eye colors.

Vampires, however, are not known to be picky with their prey. Thus, they quickly started turning anyone and everyone they came across; resulting in Hybrid Vampires. These mutts can be any form, because why would a rat not be able to be a vampire?

We felt vampires worked best as a ruler type as opposed to a culture, but that came with the drawback of your vampire leading a very normal-looking city. We had a great desire to rule over a vampire castle, and we knew that you—the players—did too. So we give you the best of both worlds by replacing the Wizard’s Tower with a unique vampire version: The Vampire Castle.

This castle is built using the vampire equivalent of wizard’s castle upgrades, where each upgrade is visualized with its own building. This way, you can create a castle that completely overshadows the culture city, feeding on it like an unwanted parasitic intruder.

The vampires obviously also come with cool new ability animations, movement visuals, poses, … here is a small snippet of all of that, the rest of which I’ll let you discover yourself!

Bas previously covered the mechanics of Sunless Lands, the new terrain type. So let’s skip the talking and show you some of the behind-the-scenes goodies! We start with simple sketches as a proof of concept—these are quick, dirty, messy—but allow the team to see if the idea works visually.

Seeing this concept work in practice, and having everyone agree “yes, this is cool”, gives us the confidence to proceed with making all the individual assets. Some of these assets require further concept exploration such as the trees:

Many are also made directly from the minds of our 3D artists, based on the initial proof of concept sketch. Like the delicious Tactical Combat (TC) ground texture:

All pulled together in the end with FX such as bats and gravity-defying blood trails (a team favorite):

The terrain was also important because many structures in this expansion were going to call the Sunless Lands home. Their designs needed to heavily imply their connection to the terrain.

For example: the Thorn Heart Landmark. By the time we were doing concepts for this, the Sunless Lands terrain was already (mostly) done. The concept below was done directly on top of a screenshot of the world map:

This landmark evolved throughout production, most noticeably with the center ‘heart’ turning into a literal heart.

Out of all the landmarks we’ve done so far, this is my personal favorite. Just look how epic it is in motion! Make sure to zoom in on it yourself too, it has some epic heart beating sound effects that GIFs don’t allow me to include.

Another one of my favorites is the Rose Choked Castle, our new Gold Ancient Wonder.

We have rarely shown TC map creation in the past, and I feel this structure has a particularly cool map to highlight. We had a pretty clear vision of what we needed the map to be, letting us start with photo references rather than concept art. From reference we derive a list of obstacles and props we need, helping us create a rough blockout:

Blockouts allow us to test gameplay early so we don’t commit time to making assets that don’t serve the actual gameplay. TC maps need to work mechanically first, and visually second (rare artist confession). Once we get the green light for gameplay, it’s up to us to bring it home. Polish is done to materials, models, lighting, and FX.

All of this polish combined, we finally get what you—the player—will see in-game:

Thrones of Blood introduces three new tomes, jam-packed with all of the emo themes of your dreams (at the very least, of my own).

Tome of the Blood Rite

This shadow + chaos tome empowers the cultists among you through blood and sacrifice. I had recently rewatched the Da Vinci Code films, so conceptually there was definitely some inspiration from Silas, the bloodthirsty monk.

The themes of this tome converge in the Blood Cultist unit:

If you want to be equally fashionably scarred, you can take the Flesh Carved Runes minor transformation from the same tome:

The Blood Cultist also comes with the new Dagger of the Rite ability, sacrificing their own health for increased damage.

In-game, with all that fancy FX:

And if you’re still craving more sacrifice, the tome comes with the Special Province Improvement (SPI) Blood Altar, to remind your enemies you’re all too happy having them over for “dinner”.

This shadow tome is for those who want to master pain and use it to their advantage; for those of you with cold hearts and an affinity for the sharp and stabby. Just like the previous tome, the themes all come together in a single unit. For the Tome of Torment, that is the Pain Bringer:

As mentioned in the previous dev diary, the Pain Bringer unit from this tome is a revamped Death Bringer from AOW3. We wanted to stay true to her original design while updating her to feel at home in this tome. The Pain Bringer can get racial transformations, so if you have the Eldritch Realms expansion you can also give her some perfectly thematic umbral touches!

If this tome’s pain themes overwhelm you, pay a visit to the Basilica of Lamentation SPI to lament about those woes.

This high tier shadow + chaos tome secures your ultimate rule over blood and the units that thrive off it. The standout unit of this tome, but perhaps also of the entire expansion, is the Blood Exarch.

Who of course has some epic abilities and FX:

Now I have definitely rambled enough, so here are some final quick-fire content highlights for your enjoyment!

A perfectly spooky & gothic UI Skin:

The icons that seem to just never end:

Also, free content! A full Hunter customization set for the Pantheon (in three parts - hat, cape, and outfit), as well as three item forge visuals to provide everything you need to hunt down those pesky creatures:

And lastly, also very much free-to-use, a variety of wallpapers attached to this dev diary!

Download the wallpapers here!

A big thanks for hanging out with me! As always, there is way too much I couldn’t include, but don’t fret: just like for Archon Prophecy, the art team will be compiling their favorite works of the expansion into an ArtStation art blast when ‘Thrones of Blood’ releases on November 11th.

Look out for more information on that, and tune in again next week for the final dev diary on the Dark Culture Update!

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Hello everyone!

We are thrilled to announce that Twins & Dreams is now officially released on Steam! After months of development, player feedback, and excitement from our demo, the full version of our dreamlike puzzle adventure is finally here.

🗝 About the Game:
Twins & Dreams is a unique 2D puzzle game where you control two characters who move in the same direction at the same time. Every move counts as you solve clever, grid-based puzzles, outsmart ghostly enemies, and explore a mysterious dream world full of surprises.

✨ Key Features:

• Control two dreamers simultaneously with intuitive, dual-movement gameplay

• Solve puzzles that challenge both your logic and creativity

• Encounter dreamlike creatures, ghost hunters, portals, and tricky obstacles

• Experience a colorful, hand-crafted world filled with atmosphere and charm

• Relax with immersive visuals and peaceful dreamlike sound design

💫 Launch Celebration:
To celebrate our launch, Twins & Dreams is available with special release discounts for a limited time. It is the perfect opportunity to begin your journey into the dream world.

🛒 Play, Solve, and Dream:
Step into Twins & Dreams today, guide both dreamers through their mysterious journey, and see if you can reach the final red button.

Your support and feedback mean the world to us. If you enjoy the game, please consider leaving a review to help more dreamers discover it.

Thank you for being part of our journey.
See you in the dream world!

👉 Play now and take advantage of the launch discount before it ends!

Patch v0.503.5

This update fixes three potential bugs that could cause the game to crash, especially during the later stages when the city has a large population.

If you experience another crash, please send the log file from the game root (PompeiiLog.txt) along with a short description of what happened. It will really help me track it down. Please email it to: support@sisciagames.com

Thank you all for your support and patience!

NOLYN HERE! The moment's you've all been waiting for. Dr. Scott.

So, Scott’s redesign is kinda funny. On the surface, it doesn’t look like a huge change, but in practice? It’s a massive shift. I've said it before, I'll say it again - I'm not an artist. Always had a mad scientist in mind, and although the original does showcase the MAD part for sure, I'm not sure about the distinguished scientist part.

Again, god bless Sorahn he really knocked all of these out of the park. There is madness, there is science and there is a distinguished gentleman element I was aiming for. The moustache and a goatee is just the prefect touch.

…And that’s the last design showcase I’ve got for you! Hopefully it was funny, a little interesting, and gave you a peek at how things shift and grow over the course of the game’s design.

If you wanna see more, you can find it on Sorahn's X account!

It’s wild how small tweaks, weird accidents, or just having the right person on the team can completely change how a character lands. Thanks for sticking around, and for enjoying the ride with me, it's been a crazy one.

This update includes fixes for reported issues and Steam integration.

There is a Steam achievement called 'Beta Tester' that activates when you start a new game in the beta version after the tutorial (you can skip the tutorial).

I've added an option in Preferences under 'Experimental' to disable the Steam integration if there are issues.

There is also some new content in the beta update.

In addition to the Steam integration, I have been exploring new methods for creating animations. These are aimed at testing and may suffer from lighting and color shifts, but hopefully those can be corrected.

Twenty-five movies have been added to the Gallery section in the main menu. As you hover over a character, she will briefly animate before returning to her static pose. You can activate several animations at once, but as they scroll off the visible area, they will automatically end.

I have also added a Preference option under 'Experimental' to disable this feature.

A further twenty movies have been added to various parts of the game. These can also be disabled under the 'Experimental' section in Preferences.

Five movies in the Monday bar scene with Karla and Melanie.

One movie in the Wednesday fight scene with Keira.

One movie in the Wednesday home scene with Ashley.

Two movies in the Wednesday boutique scene with Melanie..

Eleven movies in the Wednesday home scene with Haylee.