Calling all Penitents and Sinners alike,
Blasphemous is nominated in the 'Labor of Love' category for the 2020 Steam Awards! As the Miracle wills it, we must reach out and seek to claim this prestigious relic for the land of Cvstodia!
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The Path to Penance
Blasphemous began its pilgrimage on Steam on September 10th, 2019. Many of you raised Mea Culpa for the first time on this date, twisting fate to your will as you challenged and triumphed over the twisted, the corrupted and the zealous.
Blasphemous Launch Trailer
Since that day, many more of you have swelled the ranks of the Brotherhood of the Silent Sorrow, further building a community around Blasphemous that we are humbled to serve.
As the community continued to grow, we set about working on your feedback around bug fixes, quality of life improvements and more - all of this driven by what we saw being discussed by you, our players.
The Stir of Dawn
Then, in August of this year we released our first free DLC for Blasphemous, The Stir of Dawn, adding a host of new features including:
- New Game + (True Torment Mode)
- New story quests
- New bosses, prayers and items
- New ways to play via the Penitence system
- New executions
- Visual update and location overhauls
- Map overhaul
- More fast travel options
and more...
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The Stir of Dawn not only gave us a fantastic opportunity to further build upon Blasphemous with our own ideas, but implement a lot of the great feedback we'd seen from the community around what they'd like to see added / changed about Blasphemous.
The best bit? This DLC was and still is absolutely free to everyone that already owns Blasphemous, or decides to purchase it in the future.
Spanish VO - Honouring the roots of Blasphemous
Some of you may already know this, but The Game Kitchen is a Spanish Developer Team!
As such, when creating Blasphemous we took inspiration from our home country, it's architecture and its history. But, we were missing one key part of our home... Its language.
This was rectified when we released The Stir of Dawn as it came with a full, optional Spanish voice over for all characters in the game.
We were privileged to work with a fantastic and prestigious group of actors, check them out below:
Just like The Stir of Dawn DLC it was apart of, this content came absolutely free to all our players.
Mac & Linux Support
Whilst we worked away on the above content, part of the team were busy creating Mac and Linux versions of Blasphemous for their respective communities here on Steam!
We're pleased to say that in September of this year those versions became feature complete and arrived on Steam with full parity with the Windows version of the game, including with it The Stir of Dawn DLC and all quality of life patches / fixes the game had seen.
Penance never truly ends
With that, our dear Penitents, we are all but finished with our post where we humbly ask that you vote for Blasphemous to receive Steam's 'Labor of Love' award.
Each and every one of your votes will go a long way, and who knows, if the Miracle wills it we may even be blessed with such an accolade!
But know this, Cvstodia still has much left to reveal as Blasphemous' next free DLC arrives in 2021!
Penitent be the heart.
