Strobophagia | Rave Horror

Green Tile Digital · THQ Nordic

Released: Oct 28, 2020
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 14:25 GMT

Updates & announcements

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30 Mar 2021Developer post
Patch 1.0.6 - By candlelight
Hi all! Since the last update we’ve realized that we probably won’t even get close to breaking even on Strobophagia | Rave Horror, and because of that we’ve sadly had to shift our primary focus away from this wonderful fever dream/nightmare of a game. This does not mean that we’v
Hi all!
Since the last update we’ve realized that we probably won’t even get close to breaking even on Strobophagia | Rave Horror, and because of that we’ve sadly had to shift our primary focus away from this wonderful fever dream/nightmare of a game. This does not mean that we’ve abandoned the game, only that any changes will be seen more slowly and spread out over a longer period of time. It has also meant that, like the name of this patch, we’ll be working by candlelight to get changes, features, and tweaks out to you all, instead of doing it as the primary focus of the studio. This means that feature and improvement updates will be more sporadic in nature than they used to be in 2020, but we’ll still do our best to stay on top of any reported issues and bugs in a timely manner.
Oh, and here are some fixes for recently reported bugs and some complementary improvements, with a nice upgrade to the candle flames.
Bugs fixed

Fixed a camera locking bug when teleporting while looking at the phone.
Adjusted colliders for the watering hole at the beach, to stop a mexican dragon from getting stuck to their shin.
Fixed underground entrance collisions, so that you don't get your head bopped by the door frame.
Fixed the missing monster transformation before the second puzzle, gluttony path.
Can’t seem to reproduce the labyrinth monster sometimes breaking their AI near lights that are supposed to deter it anymore, so it may have been related to the above fix.
Made candle flame visible again.
Improvements

Made the first puzzle door close convincingly behind you, instead of just appearing.
Made CDs whining resonate in a greater area.
Tweaked camping chair collider to not block player movement (since it is so small).
Made the fake wall block NPC movement, and not only the player.
Created a new flame effect for the candles, to replace the low framerate one that was in the game previously.
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Kristian Jonsson
Lead Developer
Green Tile Digital
Original post
22 Dec 2020Developer post
Patch 1.0.5
Hi all, long time no patch! For the last month since the release of 1.0.4 we have been spreading our attention on a few different major improvements to the game as a whole, some of which may not affect Steam users directly. The biggest content added in this patch is in no doubt t
Hi all, long time no patch!
For the last month since the release of 1.0.4 we have been spreading our attention on a few different major improvements to the game as a whole, some of which may not affect Steam users directly. The biggest content added in this patch is in no doubt the addition of twenty Achievements to the game, which will hopefully enrich the experience by giving direction and some added challenges to people wanting more from Strobophagia.
Major improvements

20 achievements, 6 of which are hidden.
A full release on Game Jolt later today, with feature parity to the Steam version.
A full release on itch.io later today, with achievements but sadly no cloud saves.
Changes

Made navigation controls (look/move) snappier, and fixed a bug that made look speed acceleration happen sometimes.
Setting the look input style to raw input will now ensure a 100% snappy experience.
Tutorialization changes to the start beach area, focusing on highlighting important pieces of text in the chat channels, and pathfinding adjustments in the cultist scrapyard.
Underground ruins lightmaps have been tweaked to reduce seams between areas.
Wifi network boxes now have a more visible light when at a distance, making them easier to find while also displaying their connection status at a glance.
Gave the horned monster in the underground ruins some much needed juice.
Porta potties now have interaction UI like everything else.
Added a new snap somewhere.
Lots of minor tweaks and bug fixes.
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Kristian Jonsson
Lead Developer
Green Tile Digital
Original post
21 Nov 2020Developer post
Patch 1.0.4
Hello there all Ravers! A brand new patch is upon us, right in time for the weekend. I hope you all are staying safe, keeping at least 2 meters / 6 feet apart, and are drinking a sane amount of water. While doing that, our focus this time around has been an ever increasing stabil
Hello there all Ravers!
A brand new patch is upon us, right in time for the weekend. I hope you all are staying safe, keeping at least 2 meters / 6 feet apart, and are drinking a sane amount of water. While doing that, our focus this time around has been an ever increasing stability, rave atmosphere, and some quality of life improvements.
Bugs squashed

The hard to track down crash bug occurring sometimes when trying to exit the great hall while on the Avarice path has been found and fixed, finally.
Found and fixed a frame perfect phone breaking bug.
The AI of all irregular ravers used to have some weird lockups, like not getting knocked down, gliding after you and punching at you while down, and other nifty party tricks. These behaviours have been mostly dealt with.
During the Daedalus rave start event some ravers could walk through others. This has now been fixed.
The lighting in the beach has been adjusted on return from the forest, Feast path.
Fixed some message channels using old versions of icons after reloading the game.
Fixed a wrong warp when going back to the forest after going to the beach after completing one rite.
Improvements

You can now ask a couple questions about yourself at the Avarice ending, in front of the final door.
Message posts now show how many unread messages are inside of that post thread.
Added setting to turn off the running head-bob effect.
Made the door opening effect more visible and interesting, to make it easier for people to notice, and to give off a better vibe.
Neon Umbra start (first mini zone when starting a new game) light now follows the player.
Neon Umbra start object clipping has been improved.
Neon Umbra start looping now has an effect, making it feel more seamless.
Adjusted the ravers in daedalus to feel more rave-y in the rites started and one rite done stage of the game. Rave on!
Added dance variations. Ravers now have many more dance styles than before.
Adjustments

Made the great hall monster have a larger attack area, Avarice path.
Fewer ravers should now be pointing at stuff at all times.
Made it harder to forget taking a picture of the phrase of sanction after being attacked by the infected raver.
Grew the neon effect that happens during the Daedalus rave start event so that it now stays until the first mural is completed.
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Kristian Jonsson,
Green Tile Digital
Original post
18 Nov 2020Developer post
Original Soundtrack out now!
Hello all Ravers! Looking for the perfect beats to dance to from home? We just released our original soundtrack by DOX NARA on Steam! This album, featuring 11 tracks made by artist DOX NARA, is bound to take your body and mind on a journey in these dull times. We are planning for
07 Nov 2020Developer post
Patch 1.0.3
Hello all ravers! During this last week we have been hard at work on rooting out even more bugs, while simultaneously tweaking things to improve the overall experience. To make sure that there are few to no regressions this time around, we spent quite some time iterating on this
Hello all ravers!
During this last week we have been hard at work on rooting out even more bugs, while simultaneously tweaking things to improve the overall experience. To make sure that there are few to no regressions this time around, we spent quite some time iterating on this patch, and it should hopefully lead to a much more stable experience going forward. If you still happen to crash the game in any way, please contact us with how it happened, and share your Player.log file.
Squashed bugs

Dynamic lights now actually shine on the environment.
Fixed a wrong warp taking you to later in the game when entering the door from the beach after starting a second new game without closing the game in-between.
Fixed a possible softlock in the Nax05 puzzle, where you weren't able to place new items after getting it wrong a few times.
Found and fixed a case of repeat loading areas while the game was already loading crashing the game.
Found and fixed another case of softlocking your punch/swing ability.
Some music wasn't playing as it should when the game was loaded from checkpoints.
Tweaked colliders in the Quarantine area to reduce the risk of getting stuck.
Adjusted AI navigation in the Great Hall, making them unable to escape through the locked side doors.
Adjusted AI navigation in the large maze puzzle area, so that they cannot move through solid objects anymore.
Gamma setting wasn't being set properly when starting the game.
Hid the other floating phone in the hedonis cutscene.
Adjusted the movement shake in the feast ending.
Improvements

Adjusted the difficulty of the second maze puzzle, Feast path, by making the monster despawn in the five brightest lights in the area.
The blocking crowd in front of the door back to the beach have been tuned to make it easier getting past them.
Tweaked the distance some music in the forest area is heard.
Reduced the amount of objects in the forest, which should help a bit with general performance in the forest area.
Improved the vintage of the wine, making it drinkable.
Re-labeled the more colorful Beer to Cider.
Added a beat in the rites maze, to make it easier to find the way forward.
Added infinite boxes of Wine and Cider.
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End living less.
Kristian Jonsson,
Green Tile Digital
Original post
01 Nov 2020Developer post
Patch 1.0.2 and tweaks of the week
Hello all ravers! Since the release of Strobophagia | Rave Horror we have been hard at work listening to and applying feedback about issues with the game, and now after these first days since release we have hunted down some of the worst offenders on our bug list. This is by no m
Hello all ravers!
Since the release of Strobophagia | Rave Horror we have been hard at work listening to and applying feedback about issues with the game, and now after these first days since release we have hunted down some of the worst offenders on our bug list.
This is by no means it for our feedback based tweaks. Expect more and frequent patches in the coming weeks.
Patch 1.0.1 recap
In patch 1.0.1 we fixed lighting in some of the darkest areas, stopped a bunch of softlocks, made throwing while punching not cancel your ability to punch indefinitely, and reprimanded our raver AI for acting out against their developer overlords. We also added a brightness slider.
Patch 1.0.2.1035.1050

Fixed a cause of the phone dialogue system breaking when loading a checkpoint in certain scenarios.
Fixed regressions caused by patch 1.0.1 (text font issues, start screen transition, and performance stutter when saving the game).
Fixed reloading issues after ruins maze 1, guillotine path.
Tweaked the rites path maze puzzle to make it more understandable.
Moved the glitched music in daedalus to after completing 2 parts of the main mural.
We hope that the phone dialogue system will act as it should now, but since the bug was a tough one to find, it would be a shame if it kept occurring for some people. Because of that, please report any bugs related to the phone breaking, since it is a tough bug to track down without steps to reproduce.
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Kristian Jonsson
Original post
30 Oct 2020Developer post
Bugfix Patch 1.0.1
Hello all ravers! Thanks all who have bought our game so far! We have been reading all bug reports that have been sent to us since the game was released, and have been hard at work finding the cause of the worst of them. The darkness issues in certain areas were early on distingu
Hello all ravers!
Thanks all who have bought our game so far!
We have been reading all bug reports that have been sent to us since the game was released, and have been hard at work finding the cause of the worst of them. The darkness issues in certain areas were early on distinguished as some of the most game breaking bugs, so this patch is here to fix the darkness in certain areas. A few of our fixes added small visual issues, which should be fixed in the next bugfix patch.
Major points fixed:

The rites murals are no longer pitch black, and their images can now be seen, as was intended.
The entrance to the underground has received more lights, to make getting inside easier.
The second maze in the underground has been lit more brightly at parts.
The second maze puzzle (feast path) should now always activate when entering the area.
The entrance to the stairwell maze (rites path) is now more brightly lit.
Ari should no longer glide around on the ground if knocked out.
Throwing an item while punching should no longer stop you from being able to punch at all.
The Monster should now stop chasing you when you are killed (instead of never).
Certain doors in an undisclosed location now have collisions, as they should.
Loading the checkpoint right after the return to the beach cutscene no longer softlocks the game.
Additions:

Brightness slider.
Feast ending tweaked slightly.
Second maze puzzle now has threats.
Unfortunate regressions this patch (my bad):

Text fonts are acting up here and there, showing a square background.
Some dropped flyers are flickering.
The start screen has issues when blending to the main menu screen.
New number one target:

Loading the game may break the dialogue system.
Keep safe in these trying times, and end living less.
Kristian Jonsson
Original post
09 Oct 2020Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The best free demos from the Steam Autumn Festival
Steam returns with actual hundreds of free demos for its Autumn Festival. I am but one woman, so I could never get through them all, but I have played what I would characterise as a lot over the past two days. My own personal labour of Hercules was undertaken so that I could brin
01 Oct 2020Developer post
Developer beta Live-stream
WE'RE GOING LIVE, AGAIN on Oct 7, 19.00 CEST We are displaying our almost finished game for the Steam Game Festival: Fall Edition (Oct 7 'til Oct 13) so that you can get a more up to date impression of Strobophagia | Rave Horror before it launches at the end of the month! Be sure
02 Aug 2020Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Day-glo zombies and a dream of jeans
Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s been an absolutely roasting weekend, folks, so let’s chill out in the shade and crack open a refreshing can of work-in-progress screenshots, videos and ice-cold gifs. This week: cross-dimensional translation, precarious hangouts, neon zombie rave
12 Jun 2020Developer post
Special Developer Live-stream on 20th June - New date!
WE'RE GOING LIVE on Jun 20, 20.00 CEST The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition is coming up (June 16 'til June 21) and we're a part of it! Be sure to download and try out our demo of Strobophagia, or add us to your wishlist if you'd rather go in completely blind. BUT ! Most impor

Updates & announcements

Hi all!

Bugs fixed

Improvements

Hi all, long time no patch!

Major improvements

Changes

Hello there all Ravers!

Bugs squashed

Improvements

Adjustments

Hello all ravers!

Squashed bugs

Improvements

Hello all ravers!

Patch 1.0.1 recap

Patch 1.0.2.1035.1050

Hello all ravers!

Major points fixed:

Additions:

Unfortunate regressions this patch (my bad):

New number one target: