Septaroad Voyager

Released: Jun 1, 2023
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 23:46 GMT

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30 Sep 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments September 2024
Hi everyone. We have some difficult news to break to you. But since we believe in open and honest communication with our community, here we go: Septaroad Voyager's sales have not been meeting expectations. Our development team has obligations to meet, and so development is going
Hi everyone. We have some difficult news to break to you. But since we believe in open and honest communication with our community, here we go:
Septaroad Voyager's sales have not been meeting expectations. Our development team has obligations to meet, and so development is going to have to take a back seat to other full-time jobs. Our lead developer Nathaniel spent most of September looking for a new job, which he has found. He will continue contributing to Septaroad Voyager, just in the evening and on the weekend.
We promise we are not stopping development on the game. During September we still managed to fix a number of bugs, add new improvements, and push out some updates, including the following:

The party's summoned ally now follows as intended on game load.
Saving in a dungeon after defeating the boss no longer breaks the saved game file.
The non-directional ambient lighting in levels now dims along with the directional lighting when characters cast spells.
The first ability any character performs now charges much faster. This improves the pace of combat and removes some of the confusion new players had when characters seemed to not follow commands right away.
Enemies can now summon many more allies at once, creating more hectic battles, especially against spider bosses and necromancers.
Improved enemy balance throughout, with soft-capped damage per level, and all enemies pulled toward the average difficulty for its level.
The biggest remaining task is creating the levels and scripted encounters that make up the main campaign. From a technical standpoint, all of the problems have been solved. As time permits, we will continue fleshing out the story and levels.
We look forward to delivering you a great game. We'll just need to adjust our schedule.
We'll be back at the end of next month with more news on how the game is going.
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29 Aug 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments August 2024
Hi everyone. As promised, we are updating you again at the end of the month with our progress on Septaroad Voyager. In July we released the prologues to all seven characters in the main campaign. In August we took your feedback (and there was a lot of it!) and we have been trying
Hi everyone. As promised, we are updating you again at the end of the month with our progress on Septaroad Voyager.
In July we released the prologues to all seven characters in the main campaign. In August we took your feedback (and there was a lot of it!) and we have been trying to improve and balance the game. We also added treasure chests and resource nodes for mining and herbalism, and we integrated resource-related quests into the main campaign. And the biggest new addition to the content in Septaroad Voyager is new music by Jenny O'Connor, whom you might know as The Hot Violinist.
You can hear Jenny's music at https://www.jennyoconnor.com/music/ and throughout the desert areas of Septaroad Voyager.
We've had the functionality for mining ore and picking herbs for a while now. But with the first world levels in place, we finally started implementing them into the game. Bringing herbs to the magic shops and ore to the weapon shops will unlock lots of new equipment.
And some of the many balance-related and bug-fixing changes we made include the following:

Enemies with weapons were doing a lot more damage than unarmed enemies. You might expect that in reality. But in a video game, it's really annoying when a level-1 tortoise bites you for 5 damage, and it's right next to a level-1 Scrapper with a chainsaw who hits you for 1000 damage. We have moved all enemy damage--for both armed and unarmed enemies--closer to an average for each level so there's not quite so much variation.
Abilities that attract an enemy's aggro weren't working very well. Tanks were losing aggro quickly, and casters were getting knocked out too quickly. We changed the effect of a few abilities to guarantee that a tank that takes aggro will stay at the top of an enemy's target list longer, and that other abilities (healing especially) don't generate as much aggro.
Alchemy abilities were vastly underpowered. We found the cause of this unintended weakness and fixed it. Now alchemy abilities--like using healing potions--heal a lot more HP. This change should put Alchemists on par with Clerics as healers. Using potions is faster than casting a healing spell, and potions have a higher base healing but lower multiplier, so which ability heals the most will still depend on the individual circumstance.
The lowest-tier paladin helmet was mistakenly left out of shops. We have added it to all shops where you can buy armor for your warrior classes. We also made the second-tier paladin helmet easier to access through the quests that provide ore to armor vendors.
We had a perplexing problem causing loot drops and resources to seem to spawn in the wrong location in South Pass. We discovered that the problem was due to a physics simulation issue, and narrowed it down to a defective blocking volume--the invisible walls preventing the player from jumping off cliffs. We deleted and replaced the defective volume and now loot drops are functioning in South Pass.
Characters progressed unevenly through skill-point and experience-point acquisition. Characters were reaching level 20 and above through XP before mastering a single character class through SP. We redid the XP and SP calculations and readjusted the cost of all skill tiles. Now you should be able to get skills through the skill board much faster, while getting fewer but larger bonuses through slower level-ups.
Turkeys were doing much more damage than intended to some characters. This was because the turkey's default attack was dealing sword damage, and some armors are weak against swords. We instead gave the turkeys untyped damage and reduced their damage overall. Beginning characters should no longer need to fear the turkeys.
Players were not taking advantage of the water-freeze-shatter attack cycle because there was no simple entry point to the apply the Soaked status to enemies. We have added a new Water Balloon attack to the Adventurer skill board, allowing you to start using this synergy must sooner.
Players reported that area-of-effect attacks were not worth the time and mana to cast them. We have improved AoE attacks, making them faster and more damaging. AoE attacks should now be worthwhile if they hit two or more enemies.
We added randomly placed elite enemies into the game. Elites have more hit points, do more damage, and give more experience and better loot when defeated. Hopefully these elites will add a little more variety to the game's combat.
We made all of these changes based on player feedback. The game is better because of your feedback. Thank you for helping us with the game. We hope that you'll continue providing feedback as early access continues.
We expect to spend September working on new areas and new story developments for the main campaign. We'll be back next month to let you know how things are progressing.
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14 Aug 2024Developer post
Patch notes 14 August 2024
Based on player feedback, we have adjusted the following: Area-of-effect attacks are now faster and they do more damage. Turkeys now do untyped damage, instead of sword damage. Characters weak against sword damage were taking too much damage from an early-game enemy. Overall turk
Based on player feedback, we have adjusted the following:

Area-of-effect attacks are now faster and they do more damage.
Turkeys now do untyped damage, instead of sword damage. Characters weak against sword damage were taking too much damage from an early-game enemy. Overall turkey attack power was also reduced.
Skill points and experience points earned through combat have been adjusted. Skills are now faster to unlock through earning skill points in combat. Level-ups are now slower through earning experience points in combat.
Enemy damage curves have been adjusted to make the early game easier.
Tortoises no longer are strong against bows. This made them too difficult for Jomo, who starts with a bow where the most common enemies are tortoises.
We will continue fixing, adjusting, and balancing the game based on your feedback. Thank you very much for your help!
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18 Jul 2024Developer post
Main Campaign Prologues Now Ready To Play
Today we are pleased to announce the release of Septaroad Voyager's campaign prologues. Each of the main campaign's seven heroes are now recruitable and playable. Start a new game, choose a starting character, then make your way through the world and recruit the others! You'll no
30 Jun 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments June 2024
Welcome back, everyone! As promised, we are here at the end of June with an update on Septaroad Voyager's progress. For the main campaign, we have the 7 starting zones almost all connected. We should have all of the battle/wilderness zones between the starting towns finished with
Welcome back, everyone! As promised, we are here at the end of June with an update on Septaroad Voyager's progress. For the main campaign, we have the 7 starting zones almost all connected. We should have all of the battle/wilderness zones between the starting towns finished within the next few days and then we will start on chapter 1 for each character.
We spent most of the month adding new zones and new enemies to make the world feel varied.
This is Sun Fields, the area outside Nicopolis, where Thekla starts her adventure.
We want the area to have a Byzantine feel, so we're adding some elements of Roman mythology. We're also teaming up with a musician to add some unique music for this area. We hope to give you a lot more detail on that next month.
To get from the northern areas to the southern areas on the map, you'll have to pass through the Drowned Road.
We made lots of new assets to make this area feel unique and dangerous. Here you see our heroes fighting froglins. And if you look carefully you might also see a swamp moccasin and a life-draining bat.
This area is also haunted by dangerous undead.
Not shown are some of the high-level slimes in the swamp. The cute colorful little slimes near the starting areas don't pose much of a threat to adventurers. But here, the acid slimes, poison slimes, infectious slimes, and dreaded toxic slimes can cause some serious problems.
While traversing the map, you'll also pass through some new snowy areas.
This scene from South Pass shows you the new ram and snowmen enemies.
In addition to adding new content, we continue to add functionality and fix bugs. To list just a few of the changes from this past month:

Fixed crashes relating to enemies and NPCs not getting deleted when their map gets unloaded.
Fixed a bug that caused dual-wielding attacks to trigger dozens of times before stopping.
Added functionality for a static image for a map, instead of the tiles we are using in the procedurally generated campaign.
Fixed lots of transitions between levels.
We have built most of the foundation for the main campaign. We hope to show you chapter 1 very soon now. Thank you very much for your ongoing interest and support. We'll be back in July with more news!
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30 May 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments May 2024
Hello again! As promised, we are back at the end of the month to update you on our progress. Throughout May, we were fixing bugs, adding features, and adding new content to the upcoming campaign for Septaroad Voyager. We added a new level, Gloomwood, between Halgdalir and Gearbri
Hello again! As promised, we are back at the end of the month to update you on our progress. Throughout May, we were fixing bugs, adding features, and adding new content to the upcoming campaign for Septaroad Voyager.
We added a new level, Gloomwood, between Halgdalir and Gearbridge. Here you'll encounter skeletons, ghosts, bats, spiders, and goblins trying to stop your quest.
In that picture you'll notice that we're reading a sign. That's a relatively small functional addition this month, but we felt it was important for you to have signs to guide you.
We spent some time trying to get the right look in Gloomwood.
Some of the tools we use to get the right look include lighting, a color-grading lookup table, and postprocess effects like the vignette. We want to make sure each area has the right look, so we've been revisiting each area to test different settings to see if we can get the effect we want.
We also added some more enemies this month, trying to make each area feel unique. We tweaked the crab sprite, added a new froglin enemy, and a new tortoise enemy. We also created new loot drops for the crabs and tortoises. Right now their shells are only useful for selling to vendors, but we'll try to add something else fun you can do with them in the future.
With a lot of the enemies, it's not immediately obvious how tough they are just from looking at them. We thought we needed a more explicit way to communicate their relative difficulty. So this month we added the enemy level to their HP bar. And for bosses, if we don't want to tell you exactly how tough they're going to be, there's a skull where their level should be.
A new feature this month is the ability to use generic items from the action menu.
Alchemists who unlock the abilities to use various potions can use those items much faster through the Alchemy skill. But for characters who haven't unlocked the alchemist's potion skills, or for using other items, like food and drink, we thought this would be faster and easier than going into the pause menu.
We received some valuable feedback this month. A friend told us:
What kinda rubs me wrong is that your store page leads with "The borders of reality start to crumble as an unseen threat breaks its way into the world" and some other rhetoric it doesn't really indicate visually. It really just looks like a bunch of dudes whacking flora and fauna because they can. I'm all for whacking monsters with misfits, but a looming threat needs presence lest it just sounds like marketing.
And we thought that maybe it was about time for us to start working on some stronger, scarier, more threatening enemies. Here is the first batch. You'll see these in the campaign soon.
In addition to all of the above, we've been working on lots of other things.

Enemies will notice the player more easily and get a quick burst of speed while entering combat. This makes it harder for players to run through an area, skipping all the enemies.
Added functionality for status effects that change stats over time, and not just damage over time or healing over time. This is currently in use for the Caffeine status effect, which raises your speed immediately but decreases speed over time. We plan to use similar functionality for enemies that will grow more powerful the longer it takes for you to defeat them.
Fixed some visual bugs relating to the outline filter and translucent objects.
Improved, more intelligent music change from a zone's peaceful theme to its combat theme. This will prevent the tracks from starting at the beginning each time you enter or exit combat, so you won't constantly hear just the beginning of the songs.
Added lots of new music.
That's about it for right now. We are still constantly working away at the game. We hope to release the first chapter of the campaign to you very, very soon now. Check back next month to see more.
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30 Apr 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments April 2024
Hello Septaroad fans! We are back with our monthly Early Access update. The big news this month is that we have finished ALL 7 of the prologues and we are now building the world that will connect the different starting zones together. When we have the world more or less laid out,
31 Mar 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments March 2024
Hi everyone! We are back now at the end of March with our promised monthly Early Access update. We here at Rockwell Studios would like to wish all of you a happy Easter. Also, we hope you had a good Passover and are continuing to have a blessed Ramadan. We have been working hard
Hi everyone! We are back now at the end of March with our promised monthly Early Access update. We here at Rockwell Studios would like to wish all of you a happy Easter. Also, we hope you had a good Passover and are continuing to have a blessed Ramadan.
We have been working hard throughout the month to improve Septaroad Voyager and to get the campaign ready for you to play. So far, we have 3 of the 7 prologues finished. Our goal is to finish the prologue and chapter 1 for every character by June. Here's a look at the prologues for Emmerich, Mika, and Jomo.
Watch on YouTube
Those of you who have been following our patch notes throughout the month know how much we have changed and fixed. For everyone, let's take a closer look.
One of the most easily visible changes is the bigger and brighter spell effects. Here are the updated effects for Meteor, Ice, and Arcane Bolt.
We also completely remade the effects for area-of-effect abilities. Here are the updated effects for
Fire Storm and Lightning Storm.
If you play Septaroad Voyager now, you'll also see updated effects for most cleric, warlock, ranger, illusionist, druid, and mage abilities. Many of those abilities now also dim the world light to give the ability's lighting extra punch. Those abilities also have a subtle slow-motion effect to make the more-powerful spells feel more powerful. Attacks now also stop their targets' movement for half a second, making the attacks feel more jarring.
While building the prologues for the main campaign, we also focused on other ways to make the game feel better. For example, we improved the scrolling functionality in the combat action window. Before, the informational popup describing the ability did not update after scrolling. The player had to move the mouse in order to update the ability description. Now the ability description automatically updates after the scroll finishes. With attention to detail like that, Septaroad Voyager should feel smoother and more polished than ever before.
We also remade Halgdalir to make it feel larger and less generic with a stream, bridges, splashing waterfalls, improved smoke particles, and both dirt paths and stone-paved paths.
We are continuing to tweak the world map as we consider the different locations we will need in the campaign.
Throughout the month, we also fixed and added the following:

In response to a player request, we added a new controller scheme to let you bind "cancel action" to a controller button. This will let you cancel just one character's action, without canceling everyone's action like you would normally do by pressing the run button.
Fixed a bug that would cause an incorrect vignette color to load in certain situations.
Fixed camera transitions.
Smooth dimming/brightening of lights through scripts.
Can equip and unequip through scripted story events.
Simpler pathfinding that should remove most of the buggy movement where a character initially ran away from the fight.
Character names can be inserted in dialog.
Gendered versions of dialog for using "my lord" or "my lady" etc. Also will be used for localizations where men talking to women, women talking to men, men talking to men, women talking to women require different versions of the text.
Speech bubbles update location so if the camera or the character moves while speaking, the speech bubbles will show up in the right place.
Pause message shows up on the HUD if you are playing RTwP.
Cleaner autosave and loading animation.
Numerous graphical fixes and material fixes to meshes that had the wrong normals, materials that were not rendering correctly.
Fixed a game-breaking bug that could stop the game when recruiting a new character into your party.
Fixed particle collision. Particles effects for the druid's lightning storm ability and the warlock's fire storm ability depended on detecting the ground level, and they did not work before. Now the particle effects for those abilities display correctly.
Longer exit hallways from dungeon rooms, with the camera borders moved farther to the sides. Now there should be no more accidentally exiting the room.
Support for enemies going immediately to combat after being spawned. This will be used in scripted encounters. Those scripted encounters used to be a little silly when the ambush starts and the enemies go to their default wandering state.
Made decals for drawing walking paths over stone arches.
Fixed normal maps on some decals that were lit incorrectly.
Fixed a place in the yellow hills map where you could exit to the west when the way should be blocked.
Added particle effect that characters play on death.
Fixed a problem where NPC speech/quest indicators could disappear.
HUD elements stay hidden throughout conversations instead of appear and disappearing when the speaker changes.
New functionality for gameplay scripting that will help with cutscenes and other scripted events. For example, different events based on character gender, enemies can stay passive until scripted event makes them enter combat.
Maps containing a static texture (such as in the main campaign) instead of map tiles no longer crash.
Attackers stay facing their targets longer. Targets that get hit stay in place for a short time. This helps tie combat down a little bit, makes attacks feel more jarring, and makes particle effects easier to read.
Fixed an area in dungeons where you would not be able to exit to the south on a specific level.
Added empty rooms to dungeons to give players a breather, so the dungeons aren't one long slog through endless combat until reaching the boss.
Faster running speed
Fixed bug where while setting up tactics, clicking on a condition will carry down into the menu below, unintentionally enabling or disabling tactics.
Better camera boundaries in several areas
Longer respawn time for enemies, automatic immediate respawn when entering a new dungeon room.
Additional decorative meshes for the Asian-themed Yamatai cities.
As you can see, we've been making lots of progress. We hope all of this is going to make the main campaign a major hit. We look forward to hearing your feedback when it's ready for you to try.
That's it for this month. Thank you everyone for your ongoing support for Septaroad Voyager. We hope to have a lot more for you next month.
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21 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch notes 21 March 2024
We uploaded a few patches since the last patch notes. Here's what's new: Improved functionality when scrolling mouse wheel over menu to choose which action to perform. Ability description now updates automatically after scrolling. Maps containing a static texture (such as in the
We uploaded a few patches since the last patch notes. Here's what's new:

Improved functionality when scrolling mouse wheel over menu to choose which action to perform. Ability description now updates automatically after scrolling.
Maps containing a static texture (such as in the main campaign) instead of map tiles no longer crash.
Attackers stay facing their targets longer. Targets that get hit stay in place for a short time. This helps tie combat down a little bit and makes particle effects easier to read.
Fixed an area in dungeons where you would not be able to exit to the south on a specific level.
Added empty rooms to dungeons to give players a breather, so the dungeons aren't one long slog through endless combat until reaching the boss.
Faster running speed
Fixed bug where while setting up tactics, clicking on a condition will carry down into the menu below, unintentionally enabling or disabling tactics.
Better camera boundaries in several areas
Longer respawn time for enemies, automatic immediate respawn when entering a new dungeon room.
Continuing to add improved particle effects. New effects for Arcane Arrow I-III.
We have also added a lot of other fixes and new functionality that you won't see just yet. Emmerich's and Jomo's prologues are done. Lights can dim and brighten--instead of just turning on and off--via gameplay scripts. We'll have a lot of progress on the campaign to show you at the end of the month.
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13 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch notes 13 March 2024
Today's patches changed the following: Fixed a place in the yellow hills map where you could exit to the west when the way should be blocked. Added particle effect that characters play on death. Fixed a problem where NPC speech/quest indicators could disappear. HUD elements stay
Today's patches changed the following:

Fixed a place in the yellow hills map where you could exit to the west when the way should be blocked.
Added particle effect that characters play on death.
Fixed a problem where NPC speech/quest indicators could disappear.
HUD elements stay hidden throughout conversations instead of appear and disappearing when the speaker changes.
New functionality for gameplay scripting that will help with cutscenes and other scripted events. Different events based on character gender, enemies can stay passive until scripted event makes them enter combat.
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12 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch notes 12 March 2024
Hi everyone! I've been gone for a few days but I'm back at work now. Today's patch added the following: Improved particle effects for ultima, smite 1-3, arrow storm, ice bolt 1-3, and ice storm. Longer exit hallways from dungeon rooms, with the camera borders moved farther to the
Hi everyone! I've been gone for a few days but I'm back at work now. Today's patch added the following:

Improved particle effects for ultima, smite 1-3, arrow storm, ice bolt 1-3, and ice storm.
Longer exit hallways from dungeon rooms, with the camera borders moved farther to the sides. Now there should be no more accidentally exiting the room.
Support for enemies going immediately to combat after being spawned. This will be used in scripted encounters. Those scripted encounters used to be a little silly when the ambush starts and the enemies go to their default wandering state.
Made decals for drawing walking paths over stone arches.
Fixed normal maps on some decals that were lit incorrectly.
We are working hard every day to improve the look and feel of Septaroad Voyager. We are also working toward a playable main campaign with an in-depth story. We hope to have more of that to show to you soon.
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06 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch notes 6 March 2023
Today we fixed/added the following: Fixed a game-breaking bug that could stop the game when recruiting a new character into your party. Some spells will now dim the world's light and start a slow-motion effect. Fixed particle collision. Particles effects for the druid's lightning
Today we fixed/added the following:

Fixed a game-breaking bug that could stop the game when recruiting a new character into your party.
Some spells will now dim the world's light and start a slow-motion effect.
Fixed particle collision. Particles effects for the druid's lightning storm ability and the warlock's fire storm ability depended on detecting the ground level, and they did not work before. Now the particle effects for those abilities display correctly.
Bigger and brighter lights for all abilities. Reworked particle effects for fire bolt 1-3, lightning bolt 1-3, nightmare 1-3, healing 1-3, fire storm, lightning storm, meteor strike, immolate, heaven's wrath.
We are trying to get the right look and feel for various abilities in the game, to make the game more fun and attractive. We would love to hear your feedback on the updated visual effects.
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02 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch notes 2 March 2024
Today we made the following changes: Can equip and unequip through scripted story events Simpler pathfinding Character names can be inserted in dialog Gendered versions of dialog for using "my lord" or "my lady" etc. Also will be used for localizations where men talking to women,
Today we made the following changes:

Can equip and unequip through scripted story events
Simpler pathfinding
Character names can be inserted in dialog
Gendered versions of dialog for using "my lord" or "my lady" etc. Also will be used for localizations where men talking to women, women talking to men, men talking to men, women talking to women require different versions of the text.
Speech bubbles update location so if the camera or the character moves while speaking, the speech bubbles will show up in the right place
Pause message shows up on the HUD if you are playing RTwP
Cleaner autosave and loading animation
Numerous graphical fixes and material fixes to meshes that had the wrong normals, materials that were not rendering correctly.
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29 Feb 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments February 2024
As promised, we are back at the end of another month to update you on what we've been doing in Septaroad Voyager. Behind the scenes, we are getting everything organized for the main campaign. We made a wiki where we are sharing mood boards and inspiration, discussing the feel and
As promised, we are back at the end of another month to update you on what we've been doing in Septaroad Voyager.
Behind the scenes, we are getting everything organized for the main campaign. We made a wiki where we are sharing mood boards and inspiration, discussing the feel and look of various places. I'm finally writing out the script for all of the characters' stories. And getting things down on paper (or the digital equivalent) is really helping me to stay organized.
For the characters' stories, I am following a template well known and loved (or hated) among scriptwriters. It's called Save the Cat! and it's an excellent guide for solid story structure.
As for the tangible things you can see in the game right now, the towns of Utakawa and Ramliyah are accessible in the randomly generated campaign currently available, so long as the route to those towns doesn't go through an unavailable location. There's not much to do there yet. But the maps are in the game.
I'm making progress on the card dueling minigame. Right now I'm working on the enemy AI for picking cards.
I have also been building the main campaign. We created each of the seven starting characters, who are all customizable, and we are in the process of building each of their introductory chapters.
Each character's story will start with a dream. This is a tiny look at Emmerich's dream.
We're continuing to face some technical challenges and bugs inherited from the old version of Unreal we're using. But we're working our way through them and adding lots of fixes and new features. If you noticed our patch notes this month, you will have seen quite a few changes. Some of them are immediately applicable. Some of them are laying the foundation for the full campaign still to come. Here is a summary:

Changed location of saved games. This will help prevent messes if multiple accounts log into the same device. Also, 32-bit and 64-bit executables now save in the same location and their games will be accessible from a 32-bit or 64-bit executable on another device. The game will automatically copy your saved files to the new save location. You will need to play one more time on the device containing your most recent saved games in order for the saved game files to reach the cloud and your other devices.
Default walking speed is a little slower. Hold down shift to run. Running will cancel any actions currently charging.
Enemies move a little slower.
You can now use the mouse to click on a target instead of clicking in the menu to choose the target of an action.
Default key for interaction is now F. New defaults will be loaded when you load the game. If you customized your keybindings, you will need to change them again.
Loot drops do not explode away from defeated enemies but now drop on the ground nearby
Lots of new enemy names. Tiered goblins, orcs, boar, cultist knights, cultist warlocks, necromancers, scrapper mechanics, scrapper alchemists all have new names.
An enemy not currently in combat that dodges or blocks an attack now enters combat as intended Enemies in the intro attack faster.
More DOF blur to background and foreground
Steal ability now has its own sound effect, will not use weapon's default sound (no more shooting sounds when stealing while gun equipped)
Cosmetic improvements--such as lighting and texture brightness--in several places.
Characters can now play up to 3 sound effects simultaneously, greatly reducing sound effects getting cut off.
The depth-of-field blur is now a bokeh blur. This requires a video card that can run DX11 and it's more taxing on the video card. In the future we can make a simple gaussian blur fallback for DX9 cards and slower DX11 cards.
Cleave now has a description indicating that it can hit two targets.
AoE abilities no longer affect non-combat NPCs.
Fixed a visual bug where the description of the previous ability appeared when reopening the ability menu.
The player can now close the map with the M key (or the key mapped to the map).
Enter and spacebar can be used to press the selected menu button.
Fixed bugged text in the instructions for switching characters.
Preparatory work for adding story characters to the game.
Force the game to load post process settings. In some cases the game would load without post process settings and effects such as the Sobel edge outline, vignette, and bokeh blur were not showing correctly.
Better camera transitions. In some cases, when transitioning between levels, or when starting a new character, the camera would glitch to a location that is not meant to be seen in the game. We now have a fix for that. This has to be set up manually for each case of a character- or level-transition, so we will keep our eyes open for other places where this happens.
Character customizer menu now fully supports default characters, for one default gender, or for characters who can be changed to a different gender.
Character customizer supports different starting equipment loadouts, different starting character classes, and different starting abilities. This is necessary for the upcoming campaign where different characters start with different equipment and abilities.
We are still adding and fixing more all the time and we're making progress toward the main campaign. We look forward to sharing it with you soon.
Thank you for continuing to support Rockwell Studios as we develop Septaroad Voyager. We'll see you next month with more news.
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27 Feb 2024Developer post
Patch Notes 27 February 2024
Today we added the following: Force the game to load post process settings. In some cases the game would load without post process settings and effects such as the Sobel edge outline, vignette, and bokeh blur were not showing correctly. Better camera transitions. In some cases, w
Today we added the following:

Force the game to load post process settings. In some cases the game would load without post process settings and effects such as the Sobel edge outline, vignette, and bokeh blur were not showing correctly.
Better camera transitions. In some cases, when transitioning between levels, or when starting a new character, the camera would glitch to a location that is not meant to be seen in the game. We now have a fix for that. This has to be set up manually for each case of a character- or level-transition, so we will keep our eyes open for other places where this happens.
Character customizer menu now fully supports default characters, for one default gender, or for characters who can be changed to a different gender.
Character customizer supports different starting equipment loadouts, different starting character classes, and different starting abilities. This is necessary for the upcoming campaign where different characters start with different equipment and abilities.
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26 Feb 2024Developer post
Patch notes 26 February 2024
Yesterday and today we uploaded some patches that changed the following: The depth-of-field blur is now a bokeh blur. This requires a video card that can run DX11 and it's more taxing on the video card. In the future we can make a simple gaussian blur fallback for DX9 cards and s
Yesterday and today we uploaded some patches that changed the following:

The depth-of-field blur is now a bokeh blur. This requires a video card that can run DX11 and it's more taxing on the video card. In the future we can make a simple gaussian blur fallback for DX9 cards and slower DX11 cards.
Cleave now has a description indicating that it can hit two targets.
AoE abilities no longer affect non-combat NPCs.
Fixed a visual bug where the description of the previous ability appeared when reopening the ability menu.
The player can now close the map with the M key (or the key mapped to the map).
Enter and spacebar can be used to press the selected menu button.
Fixed bugged text in the instructions for switching characters.
Preparatory work for adding story characters to the game.
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22 Feb 2024Developer post
Patch Notes 22 February 2024
Today we added/changed/fixed the following: Default walking speed is a little slower. Hold down shift to run. Running will cancel any actions currently charging. Enemies move a little slower. You can now use the mouse to click on a target instead of clicking in the menu to choose
Today we added/changed/fixed the following:

Default walking speed is a little slower. Hold down shift to run. Running will cancel any actions currently charging.
Enemies move a little slower.
You can now use the mouse to click on a target instead of clicking in the menu to choose the target of an action.
Default key for interaction is now F. New defaults will be loaded when you load the game. If you customized your keybindings, you will need to change them again.
Loot drops do not explode away from defeated enemies but now drop on the ground nearby
Lots of new enemy names. Tiered goblins, orcs, boar, cultist knights, cultist warlocks, necromancers, scrapper mechanics, scrapper alchemists all have new names.
An enemy not currently in combat that dodges or blocks an attack now enters combat as intended
Enemies in the intro attack faster.
More DOF blur to background and foreground
Steal ability now has its own sound effect, will not use weapon's default sound (no more shooting sounds when stealing while gun equipped)
Cosmetic improvements--such as lighting and texture brightness--in several places.
Characters can now play up to 3 sound effects simultaneously, greatly reducing sound effects getting cut off.
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08 Feb 2024Developer post
Patch Notes 8 February 2024
Changed location of saved games. This will help prevent messes if multiple accounts log into the same device. Also, 32-bit and 64-bit executables now save in the same location and their games will be accessible from a 32-bit or 64-bit executable on another device. The game will a
31 Jan 2024Developer post
Early Access Developments January 2024
Hello again! We're back at the end of January with more updates on Septaroad Voyager. We hope your 2024 is off to a great start. Ours certainly is. The biggest thing we've been working on this month is the addition of a major new minigame: dueling, presented as a collectible card
03 Jan 2024Developer post
Patch notes 3 January 2024
Hi everyone! First patch of the new year. Today we added a few small fixes, some content for use right now, and some content that will show up in the finished campaign. Fixed vignette effect, which had not been loading correctly. Added poor-quality equipment and legendary-quality
Hi everyone! First patch of the new year. Today we added a few small fixes, some content for use right now, and some content that will show up in the finished campaign.

Fixed vignette effect, which had not been loading correctly.
Added poor-quality equipment and legendary-quality equipment. Most of the equipment that drops off defeated enemies will be of poor quality. Most of the equipment you steal will be common quality. Most of the uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary drops will come from finishing dungeons.
Fixed camera logic to account for the possibility that the player is underground. Before, if the camera detected that was inside the landscape, the camera would place itself above the landscape. That resulted in buggy behavior when the character was in a cave below the landscape. This behavior has been corrected.
Added additional content not yet visible in the Early Access campaign.
We'll have more news and updates for you soon. Thanks for playing!
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