It’s been a busy few months but while we have a little bit of breathing room we wanted to jump into your Steam news feeds with a few updates on Sonokuni, both on development progress and some other news too.


Over the Summer we took Sonokuni to Bitsummit, where it won two (!) awards: Excellence in Sound Design and VGC’s Media Highlight Award. Sonokuni was also playable on the show floor at Tokyo Games Show.

We wanted, first and foremost, to send out a huge ‘thank you’ to everyone who came along to the Kakehashi Games booths at these events and played the game. It was awesome to get some direct feedback (and of course great to see heads bopping along to the beat!).


Back at Don Yasa Crew HQ, the development team x J-hip hop crew has been busy implementing a lot of new things in the game. Not least a bunch of new tracks for the later levels.

Check out 'DO', one of these new tracks in full below - headphones/full volume recommended:




Don Yasa Crew are keen to show a little more of the surrounding world of the game outside of the titular village of ‘Sonokuni’ and the neighbouring country of ‘Wanokuni’ (where the stages take place). With this in mind they have now added a characteristically psychedelic array of transition sequences. The aim here is to gently hint at the state of the world outside of these two main locations. We hope you find these sequences intriguing and a little surprising!






One of the questions we are most asked is whether Sonokuni will be fully localised into XYZ language. We’re happy to give you a little peek behind the curtain at the localisation progress being made. The current ‘in development’ build is now playable in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian.






A key thing we wanted to tell you about as well is that, while development is coming along really well so far, we’ve made the decision to shift the expected launch window back into early 2025.

We were previously aiming to have Sonokuni in your hands by the end of this year, but after having so many people playing the game during the various events and the Steam Next Fest demo earlier in the year, we’ve received so much awesome feedback it would be a shame not to include in the final game due to time constraints.

We’re sorry to have to push the release back like this, though we’re confident that this is the right thing to do to ensure we have all the time needed to create the best, most well-balanced, and polished version of Sonokuni possible.

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Thanks for taking the time to read through this update, and for your interest in Sonokuni! Please do consider wishlisting if you haven’t already (this stuff really does help!). And of course keep an eye out - and an ear open - for more updates.

The Kakehashi Games Team

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Good morning, players. Today we will share with you the new game update schedule. The game will be updated with new content from November to December, including branch NPCs, new ending storylines and bosses, as well as a new Steam achievement called "Shendu". We are now sending you the update schedule chart. Please stay tuned.

Hello everyone! As of October 13th, it's been 1 year since we released our game. Thank you so much for all your support! Over the next several weeks, we'll be releasing some content changes, quality of life improvements, and bug fixes.

We'll have a fun announcement coming for you soon too!

Here are the patch notes for October 20th:

• Slightly lowered force of gravity so player has gentler fall
  
• Replaced all Tutorial UI with updated control icons
  
• Subtle pulse/shake animations were added to control icons to bring attention to tutorial instructions in game
  
• Added extra tutorial section to L1 based on Expo feedback (latch and extension tutorials were separated)
  
• Extended some platform trails
  
• Slightly increased death screen shake, and improved death particles
  
• Some platforms that loop between 2 locations will now briefly pause at their destination
  
• Some platforms in L3 will wait for the player to board before beginning its loop, to prevent players from having to wait too long for the platform to return after re-spawning
  
• Modified a platform in the first puzzle of L1 to prevent head-hitting
  
• Altered placement of pressure plates & surrounding tiles across all levels to reduce situations where players would be "pushed out of bounds" by releasing the box (testing a variety of potential code fixes to permanently fix problem, will push later on)
  
• Added a "controller recommended" screen to splash sequence. Slightly shortened timing of overall splash sequence
  
• Fixed strange sliding behavior on the player
  
• Disable reset && un-tether buttons when game is paused
  
• Updated credits

Stay tuned! There will be more to come. Thank you for your patience! Please report any bugs you find. <3

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Thunder Bats are common bats that hide in caves in Erikuria and lead a predominantly nocturnal lifestyle. Their white blood can absorb magic, heal wounds and cure diseases. This is all that was written in the diary of the demon Rakshasa, who first discovered the bats in the caves of Erikuria during one of the horned ones' forays into the lands of people.

The demon took several individuals with him and studied their blood for a long time, subjecting it to magical effects. He tested all the properties of white blood on human test subjects and himself.

One day, he tried to expose white blood to necrotic magic and ice magic at once. He gave the resulting blood to a person to drink, and the person turned into a monster that almost killed the demon. Rakshasa realized that his research was dangerous, so he tore out all the pages describing his experiments from the diary and burned them. Only a brief description of the bats themselves remained.

A few years later, the demon died, and his diary fell into the hands of human soldiers who had infiltrated the demons' territory. They understood nothing of it, so when they returned to Erikuria, they gave it to the library. A hundred years later, Amanda Nix found the diary and learned about the unusual bats. Who knows, maybe if the demon had not torn out the pages from the diary, the white blood crisis could have been avoided.

New version is up with a few fixes and more story for the DLC.

• New Gameplay: Heavenly Chaos
  The Universe Realm has evolved to its final stage, and the Heavenly Dao is in turmoil, profoundly impacting the Immortality-seeking realm. The chaotic Heavenly Dao may bring challenges, but those who adapt and harness these changes might forge new legends in this turbulent era. This experience is suitable for cultivators with basic knowledge of the game.
  
  
  Select Heavenly Chaos when starting a new game to enter this new gameplay. Once any Heavenly Dao is activated, the game will trigger a Heavenly Chaos event at a predetermined time based on its rules, completely altering the gameplay.

Chaos Explanation:

• Constant Chaos (Over 40 types):
  Choose one of three powerful chaos mutations to be permanently effective in this game session.
  Constant Chaos mutations are powerful forces that will change gameplay, so choose wisely.
  
  
  
• Turbulent Chaos (Over 100 types each for Cause and Effect):
  Select one from each of the four groups of cause and effect to form a complete chaos event, which will trigger once conditions are met.
  The mysteries of Turbulent Chaos are for everyone to discover.
  
  
  
• Yin Yang Chaos (Over 100 types each for Yin and Yang):
  Select one from each of the four groups of Yin Yang effects to form a complete chaos event, which will take effect within a certain duration.
  Every bit helps, the more the better!
  

Heavenly Creed Explanation:

• Taishi: Gain three consecutive Constant Heavenly Chaos events at the start of a new game.
  
• Taizhong: Trigger one Turbulent/Yin Yang/Constant Heavenly Chaos event every 10/50/100 days.
  
• Taizhen: Trigger one Yin Yang Heavenly Chaos event for every level increase in Sect Reputation; trigger Constant Heavenly Chaos every six times.
  
• Taixu: Each time a Sect disciple achieves a breakthrough, there is a chance to trigger a Heavenly Chaos event.
  
• Taixuan: Cannot manually select the effects of Turbulent Heavenly Chaos and Yin Yang Heavenly Chaos.
  
• Taiyi: After the effects of Turbulent Heavenly Chaos take effect, there is a probability to reset one effect.
  
• Taiji: When obtaining Turbulent Heavenly Chaos and Yin Yang Heavenly Chaos, expand the random range of chaos effects.

Under the influence of Heavenly Chaos, we can no longer predict whether a game session will end in soaring success or relentless misfortune. Best of luck to everyone.

• Fixed several errors in the help content.
  
• Fixed the issue where characters in graves could not undergo corpse transformation.
  
• Fixed some errors in the target selection panel.
  
• Fixed the issue of incorrect Metal attribute strength calculation in certain situations.
  
• Fixed the issue where greedy characters could not be broken by gift-giving.
  
• Fixed the issue of abnormal expired message counts.
  
• Fixed the issue of incorrect essence output from consuming different Five Elements dishes.

• Optimized the color of the blood pool.
  
• Removed the entrance to the Yaoguais' Era, now merged into Heavenly Chaos.
  
• Optimized some translations and omissions in the English version.

Configuration tables and explanations related to Heavenly Chaos are located in: `Settings\Mutation\` and `Scripts\Mutation`. Updated `Mods\APIDoc`.

Best of luck and enjoy the game!

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On Monday, October 21, S188-S190 will carry out inactive account cleaning from time to time, each cleaning lasts 10-20 minutes. Inactive account refers to: 1, does not occupy more than 10 land. 2, three consecutive days did not go online. 3, no recharge. At the same time meet the above three points for inactive accounts, will be cleared.
On Thursday, October 24th, from 14:00 to 16:00, the whole service will be maintained. After maintenance, S188-S190 will enter the second season. Please refer to the season description in the world Trend for specific season contents. The progress and recruitment times of the new season's wish card pack and Nirvana card pack will be reset, please pay more attention to the master.
After the maintenance on October 24, the "Frost Descent activity" was opened, and the Frost descent card bag of this period can be drawn: God Pang Tong, God Huatuo, God Yu Ban. Niepan card bag can draw powerful demons: demons Zhang Zhao, demons Xia Hou Yuan.
After maintenance on October 24, the festival activity of "Frost's Descent and Biqing" was launched, and the activities are as follows:
Event Time October 24, 2024, 14:00 - November 06, 2024, 23:59 PM.
Activity 1: Golden egg gift
Cash eggs and silver eggs will be released from time to time during the activity. A golden egg or a silver egg can be won with a large reward.
Activity 2: Lucky Wheel
Log in every day during the event to receive 3 turntable raffle tickets. You can transfer to the Orange Shard or even the God Shard at the Wheel of Fortune. The god fragments that can be turned to this lucky turntable are: What Dai fragments, God Huatuo fragments, God Huang Gai fragments.
Event 3: New Holiday Tavern card pack
Strong magic will be "magic Zhang" settled in this festival tavern card package, what Dai, God Huatuo, God Huang Gai these three generals appeared again after a long time in the tavern card package, want the Lord do not miss, you can enjoy drawing.
Activity 4: Redeem rewards
During the event, every battle in the field will have the chance to drop the text: Frost, fall, green, Qing, collected these words can be exchanged for Yuan treasure, General treasure chest, raffle ticket, Putian Tongqing Treasure chest, rate Earth Tongqing treasure chest, Magic will fragment box, Dragon Fengjing Yuan treasure Chest, rare treasure Chest, general booster pack, exploration order.

Activity 5: Top up bonus
The accumulated top-up during the event reaches a certain amount and will receive a large number of rewards. This reward is mainly based on the out-of-print God general "God Ling Tong". In the previous activity did not draw Shen Ling Tong, or Shen Ling Tong pieces are not enough masters can get in the recharge reward.
In addition, the cumulative top-up activity of 5000, 10000, 20000 grades have added a number of enhanced Bitengdan.
The reward in the 20000 grade is replaced with the "Wuji Demon will Option box", which can be selected from 36 demons after use, and cannot be missed.
Top up rewards are richer.
Activity 6: Login rewards
During the activity, you can log in every day to receive 50 yuan treasure, 50 noble points, 5 worship cards, 2 intermediate technology acceleration, 2 intermediate building acceleration, and 3 raffle tickets.
Activity 7: Double refund of top up
During the event, the setting of getting double coins for the first purchase in the recharge interface will be reset, and players who have already purchased can enjoy double coins again.
Activity 8: Single recharge activity reset, this daily single recharge 4998 level of the magic will props reward double, as "magic Zhu Jun fragments *200", the activity lasts 14 days, the new out-of-print magic will not miss yo! Double during this event only.
At the same time, the 4998 grade reward is upgraded, the original "luxury gift package" is upgraded to "rich gift package" (after use, you can choose one from orange crystal *25, Fengyi stone *300, Dragon Holy Stone *250, magic stone *250, Xuanhuang stone *200, seven color stone *200.)
The God of the Kingdom of Wei and the God of the Kingdom of Wu replaced the box with any optional God will box *2, and replaced the gem box with the gem box (choose one of the Gem *2 and the Flying Dan *400), and increased the gem box (7 kinds of stargazing stones, broken mirror stones, and one of the 8 kinds of military books, each in a huge amount).
Activity 9: Continuous recharge activity reset
Activity 10: The new cumulative consumption activity is opened
Activity time: October 24, 14:00 - November 06, 23:59 PM. The god in the reward transforms the shard into the shard of the deity.
Activity 11: A new period of value discount is opened
The discount items in this issue are: God Guan Feather fragments, Nobility 1 day activation items, intermediate technology acceleration, Cavalry 3 star material pack, level 6 strategy gems, medium strength potion, intermediate recruitment order, Merit.
Activity 12: The gods of the Merit Mall, the Honor Mall and the Tiger Charm Mall renew the pieces
Honor mall update to: God Lv Bu, God Guan Yu
Gong Xun mall update to: God Zhang Fei, God Da Qiao
Tiger Fu Mall update to: God Dong Zhuo, God Caoren
Activity 15: Recharging the purchased gift package to adjust the content.
From Monday to Saturday, the fragments in the resource gift pack will be changed into what Dai fragments.
A new version of the content is being produced and will be updated gradually, please look forward to it.

I tried a different style for the first time, I hope you liked it. This is the final trailer for the early access version of the game. It does not represent the full release.

I value your opinion, if you have an idea, don't hesitate to consult me!

The HELL is city-builder genre based on life after death. A soul management city simulation.

Player will play as a Hell Governor managing influx of departed souls from major natural disaster happened on earth from the early 600-700bc to early 18th century. From managing the Fimbulwinter in ancient Nordic to the Great Kanto Earthquakes of Japan.

Play DEMO on Steam now, don't miss out on this best chance to try The HELL!

I'm pleased to announce that a new update is now available exclusively for our valued playtesters. This release is part of my ongoing efforts to enhance the overall gameplay experience, incorporating the latest features and improvements that have been carefully developed and refined. Your feedback is instrumental in helping me identify areas of strength and opportunities for further refinement.

As a playtester, you have early access to this update, and we kindly ask for your insights and detailed reports on any issues you may encounter.

Please note that this update is currently in a limited testing phase and is not yet available to the general public.

I appreciate your dedication and contributions to the development process and look forward to your continued support in shaping the future of our game. Thank you for your commitment to excellence and for being an integral part of our community.

• When the lobby owner leaves the lobby, everybody leaves the lobby
  
• Set the minimum wait time to 2 minutes

• Add center board rotation and make optional
  
• Add chrismas map

• Improve global rendering
  
• Add graphical options
  
• Add option for contrast / gamma