Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for your continued support while we work on new titles!

We've got some big things coming, but we've also got an entire catalog of over 30+ experiences in the same universe as The Test Franchise, all linked together in some way or another. More Lore coming soon!

Everything is on sale for Spooky Season, from all 7 installments of The Test Series and so much more!

We hope you enjoy, and remember to be kind to one another! ♥

• Randumb Studios (PS: If you follow our Curator page, something good is coming.) 😉

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13174/Randumb_Studios_Deluxe_Bundle/

Hey NecroDancers! Our team’s been cooking up a cool new feature for you to show off and add a personal touch on the leaderboards, so here’s a little preview of what to expect when it drops!

Rift Profiles are a way for you to add a personal touch to your spot on the leaderboard. You can unlock Profile items by accomplishing certain achievements!

• Character Portraits and alternate poses

• Frames

• Badges

• Name flairs

There are over 200 items you can unlock when this update goes live, including DLC related items. To unlock DLC items, you will need to purchase at least one track (free tracks don’t count sorry!) from the related Music Pack!

These items are all attached to different achievements. Some achievements will match the Steam achievements you’ve been working on to this point. Others will be totally new! These achievements give us the opportunity to challenge you with some of our most difficult achievements yet, and yes, we plan to keep adding additional Profile items and challenges as we go!

Items will be given retroactively, so you may have a TON of unlocks pop-up on your first log in for all the achievements you’ve already done.

The hardest achievement, you ask? All you have to do is clear 32 Impossible Rhythm Rifts in Remix Mode using the Coda Modifier. Easy peasy! 😉

Did you know it took one year before someone (shoutout SpootyBiscuit) completed the original “Impossible, Right?” Crypt of the NecroDancer achievement? Fun fact. Mentioning for no particular reason.

This feature drops October 30, along with the next Music Pack 👀 Stay tuned!

If you like this feature, we’d love to integrate it into more parts of the game so there are more opportunities to see and compare your Profiles, so let us know what you think!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101960/Cronos_The_New_Dawn/

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3870690/Cronos_The_New_Dawn__Demo/

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/58598/Medium__Cronos/

[h4]Wield psychic powers and discover haunting secrets as you explore two realities at once in The Medium. Face your fears and adapt to the desolate world of Cronos: The New Dawn.[/h4]

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/58599/Observer_System_Redux__Cronos/

[h4]True horror defies time. Traverse the past and future in Cronos: The New Dawn, then step into the shoes of a neural detective in Observer: System Redux. Two worlds filled with dread and suspense.[/h4]

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/58600/Layers_of_Fear_2023__Cronos/

[h4]Immerse yourself in Layers of Fear - the complete, remastered tale of artistic obsession and descent into madness, then embark on a journey through Cronos’ twisted time-travel story.[/h4]

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/58602/Layers_of_Fear_2__Cronos/

[h4]Face fresh horrors as an actor aboard a mysterious, ever-shifting ocean liner in Layers of Fear 2. Survive the harsh landscapes of Cronos’s desolate future, patrolled by merging enemies. Experience both psychological terror and high-stakes survival horror in one package.[/h4]

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/58601/Layers_of_Fear_2016__Cronos/

[h4]Revisit the unsettling world of Layers of Fear, where artistic aspiration devolves into spiralling madness. Test your survival skills in Cronos: The New Dawn, facing off against grotesque enemies that can merge with each other.[/h4]

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The Central Meadow level was quite difficult to explore, so to improve the gaming experience, I moved the long flight feature planned for Olympus, and now it is available as soon as Harpy Mode appears.

Building server blocks before the “spatial rift” level also took too much time and negatively affected the progress of the main storyline, so I made changes to reduce this time.

• Added a new feature to “harpy mode” - flight. Repeatedly pressing the jump button in flight activates additional actions.
  
• Added a new game element - “place of power”, which activates “harpy mode” for a short time. Designed to activate wings to simplify navigation - without spending decoded Olympic shards.
  
• Added a new ability to move using a grappling hook. Now you can use the hook to climb onto a desert miner instead of a ladder. Hooking spots have also been added to other levels where appropriate, mostly replacing boring stairs and ladders.
  
• The price of server blocks has been changed. Now requires fewer capsules (4->3), fewer data blocks (400->200), does not require spare parts from enemies (10), but requires “Various spare parts” (10) that can be obtained on the island.
  
• Chests in the initial headquarters now have even more space.
  
• At Elysium levels, radioemitters that need to be destroyed will now have an additional shine effect to attract attention.
  
• The fusion core in the new headquarters is additionally marked to attract attention.
  
• At the “Crossroad” level, directional arrows have been added to the upper rings to show how to get to the other side.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could sit near a bonfire while riding a hoverbike and control the hoverbike while sitting near bonfire.
  
• Fixed an issue with the battle soundtrack in the “Eye of the Storm” level.
  
• Made some fixes to the Spatial Rift level. Improved how quest markers work.
  
• Minor graphics fixes to the “Abandoned Cliff” level.

Hope you are all well!

Lets look at today's changes.

First lets take a look at the new QoL features:

• Added temporary tooltip to the magnifying glass. When hovering over a suspect in the suspect list, there will now be a small "Click for more information" text at the bottom.

• Added temporary tooltip when grabbing pen

• Added temporary tooltip when grabbing rubber

• Added temporary tooltip to first tutorial level for investigating and arresting roles.

And now some bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where conman could pretend to be a not in play role (caused by the Barkeep turning that role into a drunkard)

• Fixed bug with Faulty Clock quirk causing time showed to be wildly different from real time.

• Fixed bug with Broken Clock quirk causing Clock Tower to never ring.

• Fixed crash that could occur with a hitman in play and the Deadly Aim quirk.

• Fixed bug with Bad Influences that would cause there to be 2 identical underlings in play.

Again thanks to the people in the GRG Discord for the feedback and reports!

• We have redesigned the wife, mistress, doppelganger, chatterbox, bounty hunter, milkman, stalker, preacher, conman, and judge. So expect to see those being implemented in the next patch or two.

• We have added some temporary context popups, but we want to re-do them properly soon that extend beyond the tutorial in a more useful way. You will be able to turn this feature off in the settings when its added.

• The ability to see normal roles announcement text in the breakdown is currently bugged and we are going to fix that next patch.

• We want to add coloured string as tool on the left side, the idea would be that you can use string to connect pins together to help notate connections.

• A rework for case generation is due soon to help correct the difficulty/complexity estimations, improve board quality, and prevent more 50-50 scenarios.

• A few bugs have been reported in the discord we plan to look into and address soon.

We have a lot of things planned. Stay tuned for more!

If you've got suggestions we'd love to hear them! (Come say hi in the Discord)

Thank you all so much,

Good luck detectives!

- Lydia, Matt, and Luke.

Fix
- fixed daisy looping in dandelion scene
- end of year ui dyslexcic version layout
- fixed resolution not properly fixed

Polish
- slightly nerfed late stage dueling
- principal ending order makes better sense

Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for your continued support while we work on new titles!

We've got some big things coming, but we've also got an entire catalog of over 30+ experiences in the same universe as The Test Franchise, all linked together in some way or another. More Lore coming soon!

Everything is on sale for Spooky Season, from all 7 installments of The Test Series and so much more!

We hope you enjoy, and remember to be kind to one another! ♥

• Randumb Studios (PS: If you follow our Curator page, something good is coming.) 😉

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13174/Randumb_Studios_Deluxe_Bundle/

A huge thank you to everyone that's played the Erebus-9 demo so far and provided feedback. From the early feedback we've had on the demo, we've made the following updates.

Updates on 26th October 2025:

- Splash screen was added to introduce the demo and the contents

- Pause menu added (Please note, the game does not pause)

- Mouse sensitivity and inversion settings now available

- A fail safe has been added for instances where the player may collide and fall through the map

- Removed the numb pad developer cheats

Please do continue to let us know if you find any bugs/glitches or have any ideas for things you'd like to see added in the future.

You can join our discord here: https://discord.com/invite/b8yW5MW5aS

Hello everyone!

Thanks so much for your continued support while we work on new titles!

We've got some big things coming, but we've also got an entire catalog of over 30+ experiences in the same universe as The Test Franchise, all linked together in some way or another. More Lore coming soon!

Everything is on sale for Spooky Season, from all 7 installments of The Test Series and so much more!

We hope you enjoy, and remember to be kind to one another! ♥

• Randumb Studios (PS: If you follow our Curator page, something good is coming.) 😉

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13174/Randumb_Studios_Deluxe_Bundle/

New costumes