Developer posts and news about this game.
The best things come in fours… From Beatles, to seasons, to horsemen… we love fours. And we are celebrating four great games in a Steam Bundle! While Lance is partial to the Anacrusis… everyone else has a favorite. Nessa is partial to Hunt the Showdown. An early extraction shoote
-Korean translations of the game have been improved -Fixed a bug in Versus where both Flashers wouldn't stop highlighting their target survivor on death -UV Flasher and Grabber have increased melee range in Versus -End Credits now reflect Community Update contributions -Ultrabrut
With the massive community update out - we have a quick follow-up for some things we wanted in that update as well as a few fixes for some bugs... including a strange one. With the Flasher's alt fire you can now highlight and target a survivor to send your horde their way - simil
The Community Update is Live A year ago we kicked off an experiment with the community. What happens when you give them access to the source code and set them free? The result is the community comes together and makes a crazy, compelling, and fun update that expands the game with
Join us testing the next major update - The community Update You can join us by entering "WeBeTesting" in the beta section of Steam and have access to our external playtest. Here are the notes on the latest update and what is being worked on for the Candidate build Bug Fixes: -&g
We have dropped our game price down to the lowest price we will offer this year - 75% off! This was at request of players wanting to be able to invite their friends to play and new players wanting to join our beta. To join our beta once you own the game enter - WeBeTestingInHere
The next update will be the "Community Update" We don't have an ETA yet, but are well on our way to working on and playtesting so I thought we could share here. If you would like to test I would suggest joining our discord - discord.gg/straybombay You can also test that branch an
The Anacrusis is Throwing a pool party and you are invited! To kick off the summer, we've put The Anacrusis on its deepest discount ever! It's the perfect time to pick up some copies for friends, or dive in for the first time yourself. Don't worry, you don't need to go it alone,
Happy New Year! This update adds backend support required for the impending Epic Store version of the game and gameplay fixes for Episodes 3, 4, and 5. Once The Anacrusis is live on the Epic Store, anyone will be able to download the mod tools for free. Fixed multiple areas where
We’re on sale for 50% off this week, and we managed to squeeze in one last update before the holidays! We've also enabled the holiday hats for Survivors for anyone who logs in in the next few weeks. This week’s update includes the following changes and bugfixes Dramatically incre
This patch iterates the changes to the Brute we introduced in Update 59. The Brute charge's AOE attack damage and range are much larger, and the damage falloff is greater behind the Brute than in front of the Brute. We've also increased the damage that happens when a Survivor is
This week's patch fixes the following issues: Generally increased the intensity on the first level of each episode Prevented Mr. Brute from despawning in the holdout finale Fixed the closed door that players can traverse in Ep4 Increased the maximum volume for music in all levels
Today marks our 58th update since launch, counting everything (aside from a few hotfixes here and there). It’s been a busy 22 months! Between Xbox and PC, more than a million players have tried The Anacrusis. In that time, we’ve added a dozen new weapons, a handful of new enemies
Left 4 Dead remains the high watermark for co-op shooters. Atmospheric, varied, and able to encourage teamwork without clunky or intrusive extra mechanics, it's testament to the very best of Valve's game design principles. Both L4D and Left 4 Dead 2 succeed at subtly, almost invi
The Anacrusis is a co-op swarm shooter from Stray Bombay, the studio co-founded by former Left 4 Dead developer Chet Faliszek. It's currently making its way through Steam Early Access, but Faliszek says he "will never do Early Access again" due to "how player counts are seen by s
This is it. This is (probably) the last update before we hit 1.0 next week. This week's update has a bunch of performance fixes, fixes for GPUs with 3GB of RAM, support for sound replacement mods, and a bunch of fixes for bugs that have vexed us all. Enhancements to eggs in Versu
We're up for the Labor of Love category for The Steam Awards this year. Here's our case: Since we launched in January of 2022, we've worked with the community, collecting feedback and iterating on the game constantly for the last two years. In that time, we've release 56 updates
Happy Steam Autumn Sale Week! To celebrate, we've put The Anacrusis on sale for 50% off. Tell your friends and spend the Thanksgiving weekend stuffing your faces with gravy and pie, then blast a few thousand aliens together! It’s a short week here in the US because of Thanksgivin
The march to 1.0 continues with a bunch of perf improvements and fixes for long-standing bugs. Flasher Perf fixes Flasher death leaving common they control stalled out is fixed The dead corner at the start of Episode 4 should be fixed (finally, we hope) Heavy Plasma is now louder
This week’s update fixes a handful of long-standing bugs that have haunted us since launch. Sorry it took us this long to get to them, but they turned out to be surprisingly complicated. We fixed a collection of bugs that prevented Survivor bots from reliably rescuing players who