Steam News · Jun 25, 2020
Damian here! Long time! Just wanted to step in to announce that for the first week of the Steam Summer Sale (between June 25 - July 2, 2020), we'll be donating part of the proceeds to the Toronto Chapter of Food Not Bombs. If you already own the game, this is a great time to gift the game to a friend or two! Food Not Bombs is a decentralized organization with groups all around the world. There's v...
Steam News · Apr 25, 2020
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. When the historians of the future cast their cyber-eyes over the deluge of stupidity we encrusted upon the primitive internet, they will see that our fables, our moral storytelling, was mostly conducted with flashin...
Steam News · Nov 13, 2018
RPS is having an Apocalypse Day! We re celebrating the end of the world and games about it. Check back tomorrow, if we re still all here. The Yawhg is a game about what happens if the end of the world is coming but you don t know that, and thus don t care, and carry on doing whatever it was you were going to do anyway. Would it help? Would it matter? Would you survive? It s a P...
Steam News · Feb 23, 2018
A look at some our recent Game of the Year winners—Spelunky, Metal Gear Solid V, Dishonored 2—suggests that baked-in narratives are less important to us than personal stories plotted by physics and AI. That's broadly true, but not to the total exclusion of videogame storytelling, of characters and dialogue and, to give an overarching definition of what we mean by 'story&apo...
Steam News · Dec 27, 2017
Clichés dominate visual novels, but there’s so much more to this genre than just steamy romance or mundane slices of Japanese students’ lives. Over the past few years, more and more talented developers are creating experimental games, shorter novella-like experiences, and clever subversions of the anime tropes that started it all. Visual novels are finally cool. Choosing where t...
Steam News · Feb 14, 2017
Hey everyone! Thanks for enjoying the Yawhg for all these years. Back in 2016, I got together with some friends and we combined to form The Gloam Collective! We've been working really hard, in the dark, on a game called Bravery Network for a while now, and we just finished up a fancy teaser site to wet your whistle. It's even got a spiffy url: I'm doing the bulk of the writi...
Steam News · Aug 20, 2016
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Get thee to a tavern house. The Yawhg puts you and some friends into a fantasy city on the brink of a mysterious disaster and asks you to roam around doing whatever the hell you like. You don t know anything about this looming apocalypse (and you never will) except the name the Yaw...
Steam News · Jul 1, 2014
To celebrate Canada Day, we're sorry to announce our Canada Day Daily Deal. We apologize in advance for great deals on a set of Canadian-developed titles, with discounts from 33% to 75% off*. So put down those creatively flavored potato chips and see all the deals here. Poutine not included. * Fez 50% off; * Towerfall: Ascension 33% off; * Contrast 50% off; * Zombie Tycoon 2 75% off; * Retro City ...
Steam News · Feb 27, 2014
The Yawhg is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off to celebrate! The Yawhg is a one- to four-player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town s locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives? The fate of a community hinges on the characters acti...
