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We are thrilled to report that Silk has picked up two nominations in this year's TIGA Games Industry Awards, one for Best Role Playing Game and one for Heritage in Games. Silk is our homage to classic square-based exploration videogames of the 1980s, and a personal tribute to the
The new v1.6 build of Silk is out now in the Beta branch! This adds our two most requested features - holding a key to keep moving in that direction, and the option to camp wherever and whenever you like. Just press Enter when you reach the place you want to camp and choose 'Yes'
You can now download the complete Silk Landscape Map from this link, or by right clicking the above image and saving it. It doesn't have any text labels - you have to chart your own journey! - and it does contain spoilers. But if it was the 80s, a magazine would have given you a
We're pleased to announce that the winner of the competition to be the first player in the world to complete Silk is Sebastien Chaume, who lives in Orléans, France. He not only beat all four Destinies, but completed each of them with 100% Mastery to claim all the Steam trophies a
We are releasing the current beta branch of the game, which includes a few small bug-fixes, primarily relating to the Temple of Celestial Horses, outside of Khujand in the Kushan Empire. There was a bug preventing sacrifices here counting for the task in the Traveller's Destiny,
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The old Beta Branch has now been made live; this fixes a number of small but fatal bugs in Nomad settlements on the far east of Takla Makan. A new Beta branch will be going up in the next few days which fixes a few script bugs recently reported.
You can win one of these exclusive, Limited Edition Silk USB drives, previously only available to high-tier Kickstarter backers, in a special competition for all Silk players! The Limited Edition USB drive will never be available to buy again, and is one of only seventy that were
So you like to think of yourself as a gamer who can beat any game... But you haven't beaten Silk. Maybe 1% of gamers are going to beat this game - maybe 1% of those are going to 100% it (and then complain that the game is 'too easy'!). That's because beating Silk doesn't just req
Just a small update to fix a broken Moss City ruin in the Kunlun Shan mountains north of the Takla Makan desert on the east of the map. This update also includes some small fixes to the credits - including one glaring omission, the amazing Chris Shutt who composed all the music i
Knowing I wanted to make a game in tribute to The Lords of Midnight, the question was: how? Because making a direct spiritual successor to it was clearly not going to work – Legions of Ashworld had already tried, and it had struggled because it was solely fans of the original who
In 1984 and 1985, amazing things were happening in the British videogames industry. The following year, Japan would overshadow this with titles like Metroid and The Legend of Zelda that transformed videogames forever by having the ability to preserve player progression (the genes
Silk is about 200AD. Silk is about 1984. Silk is about Glorantha. Silk is about religion. Silk is about Brexit. Five seemingly contradictory statements, all absolutely true. The fact that all these claims are true doesn’t spring from any conceptual gymnastics, it flows naturally