Steam News · Sep 24
Hello, fellas!Slowly we're moving to the release and since I don't run any media now I decided to share development news here at Steam.First of all, check out this new "Mid development trailer":I read some comments after releasing the last trailer, that the game "obviously isn't a jrpg". Rest assured it really is. But in yeo's style, of course )I planned to not include any grind in this part (not ...
Steam News · Sep 12
Hello, fellas!Ueda M. turns XX (asking a woman her age is bad tone)!Our story began here, on Ringo's Steam forum when I was looking for a Japanese translator and asked players for the help: continued to talk via email, she proofread the whole translation, and then in the middle of Arrest development I proposed to d...
Steam News · Jul 15
8 years later some players still discover the game! 3 games later Ringo still sells the best out of them and makes it possible for me to continue living by gamedev. I consider it a pure luck actually (aka gift of Heavens), cause there's a lot more hardworking devs than me, thousands as talented but with lesser successful or e...
Steam News · Jun 30
Hello!I discovered that some players prefer old version only because of old school speech bubbles. So I added an option to turn it back in EX version.Enjoy!P.S.Please let me know if something went wrong after this update.
Steam News · Jun 29
Hello! From time to time, when I check screenshots section (to hide the ending scenes) I see that some players still play pre-EX version (mostly Chinese players, but not only them). At first I thought that maybe there was some problems with old saves or something like that. But it's already more than 1 year after EX update and I still see many pre-EX screens. Do you have any guess?
Steam News · May 19
Hello everyone! Some of my followers know that I deleted Twitter last summer, and this spring I got rid of YouTube, and generally decided (perhaps temporarily) to reduce my online socializing to a minimum and not promote the upcoming game at all (in fact, the new game was only announced here on Steam). But today I came to che...
Steam News · Apr 13
Hello, fellas!I made a Steam page for my new game today, please, check it!
Steam News · Nov 9, 2025
Hello!I've got a bug report via email that Cloud Saves doesn't work. I checked and it seems that the game uses before ex-update catalogue "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa" instead of "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa_ex".I changed it to "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa_ex", so maybe there'll be some jeopardy with cloud saves now. I also don't quite get how it affects saves at the old version branch.Pleas...
Steam News · Apr 10, 2025
Physical edition by Tesura Games is opened for preorder: It's the only full version on Switch (it matches the Steam version, digital Switch version has no gambling mini-games, additional waifu etc. because of age ratings in Japan).
Steam News · Mar 3, 2025
Hello, fellas! New Brazilian Portuguese localization is finally live. Done by Masamune ( who translated SoR4, TMNT, Yakuza like a Dragon, Fading Afternoon etc. So I hope you'll be satisfied with the quality. Enjoy.
