Familiar Travels - Volume One

Rose Tudor Ben Taylor · Halftone Studios

Released: Aug 18, 2019
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31 Aug 2025Developer post
Familiar Travels - Free to Own Forever!
Familiar Travels? More like.. Freemiliar Public Transportels! Starting September 1st, Familiar Travels Volume One will be completely FTP! Halftone Studios, in its infancy of reforming and slowly working on/releasing new, small scale visual novel projects has decided to release th
10 Jul 2021Developer post
New Game Announcement!
I’m happy to announce Halftone Studios latest project Hyper Dimensional Basement Crawler With the artistic stylings of TwoCups, the coding prowess of our own Kalvin Steelhorn and the music of Ben Agaric we are presenting to you an Alpha prototype of the game showcasing the engine
26 Jun 2020Developer post
MAJOR Familiar Travels content update!
MAJOR Familiar Travels content update! Familiar Travels has received its final major update which provides a new gameplay mode for people who are struggling to obtain the character endings, or don't want to play every character arc to receive the true ending. Novel Mode! Novel Mo
14 Apr 2020Developer post
Familiar Travels Volume Two Release Date
I am happy to finally announce, for real this time, an official release date for Familiar Travels Volume Two! Familiar Travels was always intended to be played as a single, cohesive experience. Enjoy Volume One and Volume Two together as the second Volume adds a depth of experien
19 Sep 2019Developer post
Release Build - Familiar Travels Chapter One
Alright Balin, I hear you say, what's so special about this build? We’ve improved animations, we’ve improved scene transitions and music and just about everything, we’re snuck in a bunch of extra scenes and easter eggs! If you’ve been waiting for a definitive build of Familiar Tr
Alright Balin, I hear you say, what's so special about this build?
We’ve improved animations, we’ve improved scene transitions and music and just about everything, we’re snuck in a bunch of extra scenes and easter eggs! If you’ve been waiting for a definitive build of Familiar Travels to snag to experience the game as it’s intended to be, this is that build.
So, I’d like to summarize this build and the chapter two development with a less corporate, more personal letter:
This has been an incredible month since the launch of the game. It’s been a bit of a bumpy launch, I remember telling someone else on the team that if we could just iron out some bugs for a month I’d be happy - But the support all of you guys have given in the development of the game, from giving me feedback (BTW, all of the feedback on the Steam page that was feasible to be added has been added) to joining in and engaging with the community. It’s been seriously inspiring and has put a lot of fuel in the entire team’s tanks for chapter two.

Okay, let’s talk features.
A lot of this game’s mechanics were coded from the ground up, so perhaps a lot of features typical VNs would have innately we had to integrate in a way that wouldn’t break the game. In other words, with this patch we’ve added

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These are awarded to the player as they’re leaving the tutorial/intro section of the game, so you’ll be all good with this one. I understand to a lot of people these are basic mechanics, apologies for not having them at launch, but we wanted to make sure they were fluid, non-laggy and precise.
Speaking of the intro section, we’ve re scripted a good section of the intro, polished it and added things that I feel improve the pacing a lot!
We have a route list on our discussion page, and there will be a small update coming after the sale to integrate Steam API (Screenshots, achievements, etc) and I’ll always be in there cleaning up the odd wrong letter or apostrophe ;)
The nice things you guys have said about the game means a lot to me, and I hope I can continue to do you proud as a developer, and I hope Halftone Studios can continue to be a crew you can get behind!
Don’t forget to join our discord server to participate in our community, and I hope all of you enjoy!
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11 Sep 2019Developer post
Last Bug Fixes!
Short announcement, more to come! All the bugs should be gone! NIght 4 works now! Thank you guys for being so patient with this, steam's policy to not delay games despite us needing that desperately bit us in the tail a bit, but I'm happy to say this build is goood - Added a sett
09 Sep 2019Developer post
Hurricane Update!
Okay! Fixed a few bugs that popped up after posting that build - major apologies! We got hit really hard and were without internet or power for a few days. Fixed the Night 4 and Day 7 bugs Fixed a bug with clicking items in the player's room Thanks for your patience guys! The bui
07 Sep 2019Developer post
Bonus Content, Bug Fixes, and More!
It's here! I mean, all of this stuff probably should have been here a little bit earlier but.. I'm happy to say I've taken all of the helpful suggestions and critiques from everyone who's played the game and applied a thick coat of polish over Chapter One, as well as a bunch of n
It's here!
I mean, all of this stuff probably should have been here a little bit earlier but.. I'm happy to say I've taken all of the helpful suggestions and critiques from everyone who's played the game and applied a thick coat of polish over Chapter One, as well as a bunch of new scenes!
So, here's the changelog.
== Bug Fixes ==

- Grammar and Textbox Fixes Galore
- You can now access your phone before Night Two, including settings, save/load etc.
- Fixed a minor bug with background audio carrying over
- Updated the introduction cutscene to have balanced audio and removed that.. green thing.
- Time inconsistencies with the background characters have been removed
- Removed every route error (textboxes vanishing, scenes locking up, etc)
- Fixed a bug where Kaj's ending couldn't be accessed
- Fixed invisible NPCs
- Fixed a bug where the game would launch windowed (Is there interest in a windowed mode? Let me know!)
- Sleeping on your couch now works as intended
- Locations have the appropriate Day/Night backgrounds and sprites
- Events all trigger at the proper times
- Just a whole bunch of other bug fixes!
- Seriously like 175 of them...
== Content ==

- Every character is now doing something every day (with minor exceptions)
- A full route map is uploaded (Check out the community page -> Guides)
- Just a whole bunch of new scenes, refer to the content map..
This is a big update and it wouldn't be possible without the help of everyone on the discord server, especially Barbsd and AKrowz who filled out the vast majority of the bug reports list, and all of you who helped me out with this stuff! Work is now officially resuming on chapter two so.. stay tuned for that!
Be sure to join our discord server at
discord.gg/familiartravels
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26 Aug 2019Developer post
Reviews + New Build!
A new build has been posted with extra scenes previously not included as well as most of the bugs out of the game! (All that should be left now is grammatical stuff I'm working through) So yeah! Another note with this: Please review the game! Good or bad reviews help our ranking
22 Aug 2019Developer post
NEW BUILD!
First things first, thank you for everyone who joined our discord server and helped report bugs. Although we have a diverse team of talented writers, composers, and artists, I am the only developer for the game so had a bit of a tough time getting through some of these bugs. I ha
19 Aug 2019Developer post
Bug Fixes and Polish
Hello! A new build has been uploaded of Familiar Travels polishing a few bugs and making the gameplay more clear. We are a small team with an even smaller internal testing group so thank you guys for being so helpful in outlying these bugs and rest assured if you happen to run in
01 Aug 2019Developer post
Demo, Discord, and Now Available!
Add Familiar Travels to Your Wishlist Today! I am absolutely thrilled to announce that our official release date has been set, along with a full Steam page. A friendly reminder that anybody can play our demo for free at www.halftonestudios.net and join our Discord Server at More