Developer posts and news about this game.
Added screen effect for low stamina and reduced the delay in stamina recovery after stopping running. Optimized the umbrella model and added a durability indicator for the umbrella. Optimized ranged attack detection for better accuracy. Added special sound effects for melee attac
Hello everyone: We’ve recently encountered several instances where laptops with Intel CPUs experience crash upon launching the game. This issue might be caused by the need to update the NPU driver. Players experiencing this issue can try updating the NPU driver ( If the issue per
Various bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Tweak enemy AI. Various adjustments to environments. Add an option to disable film post-process effect. Other minor bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Rebalanced Difficulty: Enemy health is now lower at Rule Levels 0–2, and the attack and stamina boosts at Rule Level 0 have been removed. *This narrows the difficulty gap between Rule Levels 0 and 1, encouraging players to choose an appropriate starting level and to challenge hig
Added life regeneration on rule level 0. Fixed incorrect enemy behavior caused by 0614 update. Other minor bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Update voice plugin to improve voice quality. (Please report if you encounter any issue) Modified tutorial and some hints for better indication. Other minor bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Hello Gamers, Straying Rules is officially available on Steam Next Fest. Over the past few weeks since the demo was released, we’ve rolled out several updates based on your feedback to fine-tune the game’s balance and fix any issues. Whether you’ve played before or not, we’d love
Add highlight effect to sleeping characters. Tweak time penalty upon violation of certain rules. The penalty is reduced on standard difficulty and below. Other minor bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Various AI adjustments to slightly lower the combat difficulty. Other minor bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Fixed public rooms cannot be found and join. Other minor bugfix and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Janitors will now respond to specific actions. Tutorials will now be enabled manually. Fixed Invite button not working caused by last update (Apologies!). Other minor tweaks and optimisations. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Adjusted the entry of final stage. Adjusted certain sound mixing effects and visual effects. Fixed navigation issues with controllers on certain UI. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Fix not able to interact after knocking over. Fix knocking over too easy to trigger. Modify tutorial layout to better indicate that there are multiple pages. Other misc fixes. We are looking forward to your feedback, join our Discord:
Hello, players! The official demo for Straying Rules is now available! The demo includes the full content of the Kindergarten level, with each playthrough lasting approximately 15–30 minutes. The game features a degree of randomness and challenge, so you may need to play through
Hello everyone: The playtest for Straying Rules has now concluded. Thank you very much for your support and feedback. If you’d still like to play the beta version, you can find the archived version on itch.io: We will be releasing an official demo version later this month. It wil
Hey everyone, Straying Rules playtest has been out for over a month, and we think it would be great to hear what the community thinks about it. If you have played the game, please tell us your feelings of any kind: 🧭 Game Objective – Do you clear what your goal is and what you’r
Hello everyone, We're a small game development team from China. Straying Rules is a co-op adventure game we've been developing over the past year, and we are thrilled to announce that the playtest of the game is now available! The playtest version includes a full experience of Ki