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Oh, hello! It has been a little while. A quick one today to let you know that Acolyte is now available alongside Sub-Verge - a new psychological narrative/puzzle game - as part of the Deep Conversation Bundle . As both games explore the notion of dialogue and conversation as a ga
Hark! It is time we made some noise. The house of misfits is open. Pantaloon is broadening its mission of platforming bold and bizarre games by moving into the world of original publishing, as we seek to become a home for misfits with our new game label. First order of business?
The first major update to our natural-language narrative ARG is AVAILABLE NOW, alongside our first sale for the game, with 25% off for a full week. The Acolyte Voice Within Update brings some key new functionality to the game, including: Full, dynamic AI voice-over New 'Daily Hor
Ahead of some bigger news relating to Acolyte's upcoming 1.1 Update, a quick note on music. Since the launch of the game, we've had a bunch of folks asking where they can listen to the Acolyte OST. And I never had a good answer to this question other than: " boot the game and hav
First things first: HUGE thanks to those of you that have picked up Acolyte and chucked yourself down the rabbit-hole of ARG sleuthing. I've been watching as many streams and videos of the game as I can, and seeing how different players tackle the game via its open-ended input is
The day has finally arrived. Acolyte - Superstring's ambitious natural language narrative ARG - is OUT NOW! And there's 10% off to celebrate launch. Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimite
We are now one week from the launch of Acolyte. In seven days time, the game that Superstring has been working on for the past three years will land on Steam. Questions about the game? We've got you covered. ACOLYTE HAS ‘ARG ELEMENTS’? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!? It means that the game
I’ve made the difficult decision to push the release of Acolyte by a month. Due to the natural language input at the heart of the experience, there are an infinite number of ways a player might interact with the game and it’s puzzles, and my general feeling is that the game can b
Ahead of release later this month, we've released the final trailer for Acolyte - showing the game's natural language dialogue, ARG sleuthing and general corporate conspiracy in action. "Blackmail, harassment, a secret they'll do anything to hide. If tech giants like Nanomax are
Not only is Acolyte a natural language game - meaning you can talk freely without pre-defined dialogue options - it's also an ARG. This means that the game spills out of the game client itself, and starts to unfold across the web. Everything spins around the fictional company of
Acolyte is a natural language game. This means there are no pre-defined dialogue options or binary decisions to make. You can, within reason, talk freely to your Acolyte - your own digital assistant - to advance the plot in any way you see fit. Or you could choose to NOT advance
In our upcoming natural language ARG/Detective game, you are a character in the story -- not a character that you might assume the role of, but you . Today’s update aims to shine a bit of a light on the world that you’ll be immersing yourself in: the world of the technology compa
It’s taken a little while to put a date to Acolyte , but we’re finally there. Out ambitious natural language detective/ARG title will launch on Steam on May 26th, 2022 . Just around the corner, then. Since the release of Acolyte: Prologue a year ago, we have doubled down on the g
This has been a few months in the making, but we're excited to announce the additions of Olivia Wood and George Lockett (Bear//Wolf) to the Acolyte team, who are bringing their narrative design and writing talents to the table to help shape Acolyte's story, and flesh out the real