Renowned Explorers: International Society news & patch notes

Hello good people! Maybe you’ve heard it before, maybe it’s the first time you hear it: Next week on the 28th of May our newest game Reus 2 will hit the Steams! We’re happy to see the lessons we’ve learned from Renowned Explorers and Godhood put together into Reus to create a true fresh new Abbey Game! Except what you can expect from us: depth, colorfulness, and a playful heart.

Ok, but why didn’t you create Renowned Explorers 2!?

I get this question so often, I feel I need to elaborate more. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/ae8c690830aa1d9e8d8b85d61868677e4e4e1481.png Photo of Abbey Games trying to defend not working on RE:IS 2 on MonkeyCon, colorized Renowned Explorers was a creative success. We loved working on it, and we love the game. Every game we made has something special, but for me Renowned Explorers is very special. However Renowned Explorers doesn’t sell well and was expensive to make. There are too many good games in the roguelite, storylike, turn based genre. It’s also a very odd game: most of you had no idea what you were getting into except if you were enlightened by the eternal TotalBiscuit. Without him, Abbey Games would’ve been long gone after the release of Renowned Explorers. We got families to feed, and we got to make business choices. To add, Renowned Explorers has more words than War & Peace. It has 3 layers of gameplay that all have their own art, code and UX. It’s a lot to make. We would need to seriously rethink what Renowned Explorers can be in this day and age. And it has definitely nothing to do with raccoons.

Take the next step with us

Regardless, we’re super excited about Reus 2! It’s a big step for us, and we’re very happy with the result. Of course we want to share it with you who have been supporting us for all that time. It’s a major step up from the original, and we think you should give it a look! We hope you’ll find that Abbey vibe in there! In any case, we’re grateful for your support in the past years. It’s a privilege to have a shot at entertaining you with our silly ideas. We hope for many more years of colorful creativity! - Adriaan and the monks at the Abbey

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/0507292c7d1be34f85d961883c0edf75c8381711.gif In the previous tales, we shared stories of the start of Abbey Games. Today, we share about the exciting exploration of Renowned Explorers! One thing was certain; The Abbey was filled with chaotic energy! All the monks, old and new, sat together and basically mashed ideas together to see what would come out. A big difference from the four that basically set the line for Reus! It's safe to say the game went in all kind of directions! It was going to be an action RPG! No, an RTS! No! A turn based game! No, a fighter!(?){STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/e440bc1ce220b0c559bc618da2e6aecf0b096cac.png One of the early mock ups of Renowned Explorers. Not only the game was an adventure, we even started making our own tech: AbbeyCore. It was an engine made from scratch. All these factors gave us a lot of fun, but also little to show in one year. And we only had one year left to make something! Safe to say, things were getting hot.... It was time to get serious...{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/357cfbb7fe64cc9be05dec8da5fe789d96074de6.png Our attempt to getting serious. The monks double downed on the events, treasures and characters, while keeping the encounters interesting and fresh. Of course, there was still room for fun. One event had the dialogue of an... adult... movie (without obscenity, think of Hildegard!) as a test case. However, it did got sent for review by our editors, who were kind of puzzled on what this whole dialogue was about! Also, have you ever tried clicking on Earl's portrait in an encounter? You should. ;) The release of Renowned Explorers was rocky at first, but a tight community and the helping hand of a legendary reviewer helped the game to climb to the top! Would the Abbey even still be making games without that review? Maybe we would've switched to the darkside, creating AbbeyCoin or NFT's. Luckily, we don't live in that timeline! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/87601b0bccd06ed08d875ef7bd8a47331cc95422.png A museum of your pieces, that sadly never made it. We learned a lot from Renowned Explorers; The humor and character of Renowned Explorers is an important thing for our current secret project! But after two expansions and a lot of fun creating stories and characters, it was time to move to the next game. The development of Renowned Explorers already showed some cracks in the walls of the Abbey, but Godhood would really force us to define ourselves. Tune in next Monday to see the third chapter of our tales at the news section of the Godhood page! P.S. If you want to chat with us, feel free to join our Discord or follow the Abbey Games Developer!

- Fixed ice-cream van in Egypt. - Fixed some missing images. - Fixed a number of spelling errors. - Removed outdated Godhood announcement in main menu.

Dear Renowned Explorers! It is time to end the much loved Community Challenges with a bang! The amazing Challenge Organizers, said to be descendants of Pinkerton himself, have one final enormous challenge ready for you! Not a random number either; it will be the 200th community challenge! Challenge #200: The Award Ceremony Of course, we would humbly want to thank all of the Challenge Organizers for their amazing effort. Without them, Renowned Explorers wouldn't be half this vibrant and loved. We are honored to have had such amazing fans helping us out for so long! Now why would you participate in such a challenge? Well, not only is it the moment to show off one of your many renowned talents. No my good Explorer, it is also a way to eternalize your achievement with a unique wooden figurine that you can win by leading one of the 15 categories! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/656dea5749be7f036dbbf4ffae51384dc53c31ba.png

The event runs for 3 weeks. Meet your rivals! Discuss strategies, but keep your ace up your sleeve! Impress your dog/love-interest/country with astonishing discoveries. Beat that French clown, and claim your title as most Renowned Explorer!!

Hello explorers! The year is coming to an end, and thus comes the ritual of reflecting on the past. As many of you have been following us loyally, we would like to share our thoughts with you! But first; some Godhood news!

Godhood Update 1.2 Coming Soon!

We’ve been working on a new update for Godhood, scheduled somewhere early 2021! We’re not going to give away much here, but it will include some new community ideas to add your religion! One important feature that has often been requested is the “Excommunicate” action. Soon it will be much easier to remove an unwanted Disciple from your roster. Of course, sending a faithful Disciple away will impact morale a bit. But only the best get to serve you! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33418152/189f99ff399f2680ecb343ea2c85c3f61fdd2869.png

Reflecting on 2020

Just like most people on this planet, we had a pretty crazy year. In January, we were at the point of calling it quits. Because of the disappointing Early Access track of Godhood and general mismanagement, we were at a total low point with no viable business left. Up to that point, Godhood development had been a true ordeal. We had two separate burn-outs in the team, and the quality of the game only improved at a slow pace. By the start of 2020, we had to let go of all of our employees and friends (You can follow a few of them at Roost Games!) whom we shared so many beautiful memories with. We, Maarten, Manuel and Adriaan, were the only ones left of our original team of over 10 people. However, we thought Godhood to be in an unacceptable state. It was our duty to deliver you higher quality before we called it quits. So we set on a journey to release 1.0. After that, we would reevaluate our situation. In that period, we re-learned a lot about making games. We had some critical moments where we compared the production of Godhood with that of Renowned Explorers and Reus. In the process, we found our joy back, and the ability to increase quality at a much higher pace. We couldn’t have done it without the support of the community - it was at one point literally the only thing that motivated us to move forward! We’re very grateful for all your kind words, constructive criticism, and all round fun interaction! In particular, we would like to thank the good folks on the Abbey Discord. It has been a joy. We’re proud of the results! Lucky for us, this increase in joy and quality also changed our fortunes on Godhood! The game welcomed a lot of new players, and we’re happy to see many more people having fun with it. Because of that, we’re now in the position to look at the future!

The Future

This newfound joy has motivated us to take a look into the future of the Abbey. We’ve started with cutting down some of our ambitions to focus on bringing better quality games. In the past 5 years, Abbey Games was very busy trying to manage a democratic and safe work environment. However, it seems we went too far. Too many of us were more busy managing and doing HR work instead of bringing you quality gameplay. With the 3 of us, we’re going back to our times during Reus and Renowned Explorers. That means more time developing, less time managing. We’re also saying goodbye to our engine AbbeyCore. It was a fun and enriching project, but we want to focus on our game quality. We hope to use more industry standards to make it easier to deliver our games faster and to more people. This means we will fully devote ourselves to deep and thematic strategy-likes. We’ve received quite some requests for a sequel to Renowned Explorers and Reus. We have a lot of love for these games, and are exchanging interesting ideas about them! We are also very excited to try new themes, too! So what does the future bring? We’re going to keep you guys in the dark a bit longer! But know that we’re working on deep and thematic strategy-likes, in the spirit of Reus and Renowned Explorers! We hope to use some of Steam’s new features to bring our new prototype to you as quickly as possible. We believe that together, we can make a really high quality game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33418152/beb722d844207dd915f171acc97a4095d6ef7aff.png

Best Wishes

Finally, we want to give you all our best wishes for your (a)religious festivities! We hope you can leave the chaos behind you for a while, and focus on the things that are truly important to you. Be it family, friends, health, or just some really good games! Thank you for reading, and we hope to see you in 2021! Best wishes, The Abbey

Hello Explorers! We're releasing a big update for our Early Access title Godhood! To celebrate this joyous occasion, Godhood is now on sale with a 30% discount! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9244308/18183044e55d1b7891542d08e16486b99cc31953.png Check out the store page for more info on the update! - Greetings from the Monks

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/ebbdb555444662f66e67f6625a4a6cb88bbabaae.png That's right, young gods, we finally have a release date for our new game! Two moons from now Godhood will be available for everyone to play! On July 10th we will launch our strategy god game into Early Access here on Steam. This will be the first opportunity to play our new strategy god game. We're incredibly excited to move to this next stage of development. From July 10th onward, we'll be using community feedback to improve Godhood in our continuing monthly updates. Exciting times for sure! To prepare for release with us, make sure you wishlist the game on the store page. This will send you a notification once the game releases, and also helps bring the game to a bigger audience! If you know anyone you think would be as into Godhood as you are, we'd really appreciate if you could share the game with them, for example by sharing our launch-date tweet: https://twitter.com/AbbeyGamesNL/status/1134110185402884096 Follow our development updates here https://community.abbeygames.com/threads/godhood-available-in-steam-early-access-on-july-10th.188/ ~ Abbey Games

Thanks to the community's effort on social media, Kickstarter backers of our upcoming god game Godhood have unlocked a free copy of Renowned Explorers! Next to that, there's a stream of Godhood later today. Read all about it in this kickstarter update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abbeygames/godhood/posts/2422233 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/80f0566517f016fd7140948f21b428c2fae31d49.png

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/6af5b8803139cfb6e0f64522ab86cc0b6b8099b6.png We hope you enjoyed playing Renowned Explorers as much as we enjoyed making it. We've learned a lot of lessons along the way and believe Godhood couldn't have happened without your support and enthusiasm. As you may know, our upcoming game Godhood lets you create your own religion. But we also want to give you the chance to help create Godhood! You can do so by backing the Kickstarter campaign for the game, that just went live. If Kickstarter is not for you, but you do want to help us out: there are other ways! We talk about it in this post over on our community forum. Thanks for your help! From the Abbey, Sincerely, -Joni

Hey there explorers! The third and final expansion for Renowned Explorers: Quest For The Holy Grail, the Soundtrack, the Art Book and the Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition are out... now! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8f1b8872a848273517b75e99c076e9b04776154e.png The expansion contains a new expedition in which you follow in the spiritual footsteps of a certain whip-wielding archeologist in search for the ultimate treasure in the Middle-East. Meet mysterious Djinns, alluring belly dancers and even some spoiled cats! And what are those dastardly Anti-Explorers up to this time? The best part: this new expansion will be completely free for all current and future owners of the Renowned Explorers base game! The DLC should be granted automatically after tonight's update.

Special Community Challenge

To celebrate the release of this new expansion, we will be raffling five copies of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and five copies of The Curious Expedition between the participants of this week's Community Challenge participants!

Soundtrack and Art Book

You can listen to a sample from the Soundtrack here, or just go directly to the store page! The Art Book contains concept art, sketches and fully rendered marketing art, as well as a lot of background information and short pieces of written context, provided by the developers. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/96e98ccca28dbd676c316e6b7e28a84645d10955.png

Definitive Edition

Are you still missing any of the expansions or the Soundtrack and Art Book? Now is your chance to complete your collection with the Definitive Edition complete-the-set bundle, which includes everything we ever released for Renowned Explorers for an even further discounted price! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8bafcaa64ebd282d881dbbd156a880acdac5ba9a.png

Abbey Community

In preparation for the launch of Godhood we have started opening up our new Abbey Community forums, so come over and say hi! Have fun playing! ~ the monks from Abbey Games https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/9474cc17809e9ddeb3b505e741ec7cb29841f23b.png

Hey there explorers! As you might know from last week's announcement, tomorrow (Thursday, 7:00PM CET) we'll be launching the last Renowned Explorers expansion pack, a Soundtrack, an Art Book, and Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition collecting all the Renowned Explorers content in one bundle! Today we especially want to highlight what you're going to get out of the Soundtrack and Art Book. Let's have a look! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/c4b53f9065f236b875898f8a189f98bf93517e86.png

Soundtrack

For this soundtrack’s release, Abbey Games’ longtime composer Joni van der Leeuw dove back into the source material to rearrange and remaster the lion’s share of the dynamic music from the game into an actual album of twelve tracks. Next to music that you’ll probably recognise from the game, there’s also music from one of the trailers for the game and even a previously unreleased track of music that was used to pitch the idea of the soundtrack within the Abbey Games development team. You can listen to a sample track of the Emerged Island expedition music here! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/05fbf0498f7d9c0891556cafd2b132eb8103364c.png

Art Book

Have you always wanted to take a peek behind development curtain of Renowned Explorers? Besides concept art, sketches and fully rendered marketing art, it contains a lot of background information and short pieces of written context, provided by the developers. Also, tons of unused character designs! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/96e98ccca28dbd676c316e6b7e28a84645d10955.png

Quest For The Holy Grail Community Challenge

We are also preparing a special Community Challenge, where you will be guided on a classic whip-wielding adventure! Make sure to participate in this one, because we will be raffling five copies of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and five copies of The Curious Expedition between the participants! See you tomorrow! ~ the monks from Abbey Games https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/9474cc17809e9ddeb3b505e741ec7cb29841f23b.png

We have been teasing for a while now that we weren't completely done with Renowned Explorers, so we are proud to announce the third and final expansion: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8f1b8872a848273517b75e99c076e9b04776154e.png

Renowned Explorers: Quest For The Holy Grail DLC

This new expansion will contain a new expedition in which you follow in the spiritual footsteps of a certain whip-wielding archeologist in search for the ultimate treasure in the Middle-East. Meet mysterious Djinns, alluring belly dancers and even some spoiled cats! And what are those dastardly Anti-Explorers up to this time? The best part: this new expansion will be completely free for all current and future owners of the Renowned Explorers base game!

Soundtrack and Art Book

At the same time, we will also be releasing the two oft requested extras.

• A remastered Original Soundtrack with the best music from the game, including all expedition and overworld music
• An Art Book with a selection of concept and in-game art, including never before seen sketches for characters that didn't make the cut!

Both the Soundtrack and the Art Book will be available as separate packages or as part of the new Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition bundle. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8bafcaa64ebd282d881dbbd156a880acdac5ba9a.png

Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition

To celebrate the last expansion for Renowned Explorers, we are launching a new bundle that collects everything Renowed Explorers in a complete bundle with a big discount. If you are still missing one or more of the expansions, or just need the Soundtrack and Art Book, this one's for you! In the meantime, we are still hard at work at our new god game, Godhood. Always wanted to create your own religion and dictate your values and beliefs to your followers? You can sign up for the alpha here! See you all on December 13th!

Three years ago, Renowned Explorers: International Society was first released! It's been an amazing few years with multiple pieces of DLC, tons of patches, and an amazing community that still organizes a weekly Community Challenge. And we're not done yet! Even though we're still working hard on Godhood, there's more Renowned Explorers to come, so a small celebration is in order. If you participate in this week's Special Anniversary Community Challenge and join our Discord, you have a chance of winning a key for one of our games or DLCs! So go forth, and make Mama Rivaleux proud! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

As some of you may know, our other game Reus celebrates it’s fifth birthday this week. Before we start the festivities on that tomorrow, we thought it would be nice to patch in a little nod to the giant god game in Renowned Explorers. Can you spot it below? https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/ef921946b2315718e295cf4e6ff051a2d9598453.png But that’s not all, of course. Like many patches before it, this one contains some minor fixes and rebalances of which you can read up in the patch notes. So, the spotlight might shine on Reus for a moment and behind the scenes we’re also working on some unannounced stuff, but we’re definitely not planning on jumping airship from Renowned Explorers for the foreseeable future. There are still some great unexplored stories out there for our crew! And although we can’t really wait to tell you about it… we will wait to tell you about it. Expect some announcements later this year! And until then:… Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/9474cc17809e9ddeb3b505e741ec7cb29841f23b.png

Disclaimer: April Fools! After the release of the original Renowned Explorers in 2015 and the More to Explore and Emperor's Challenge DLC in 2016 and 2017 respectively, we're planning to release another expansion to the Renowned Explorers universe in 2018. The Renowned Explorers community has given us a lot of input about what direction they want the game to take and we figured it's about time we really listen. So without further ado, we're proud to present: Renowned Explorers - Daring Dates! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/10febe177be086934965777c60ab9905e2ffaf14.png In this DLC, instead of taking a crew of three explorers on an epic adventure of tales and treasure, you can take one crew member... on a date! That might sound easier than it is, though. Renowned Explorers' band of characters is made up of seasoned explorers, and they are hard to impress! Where to go on your first date, for example? The Museum? Paris? Or straight to the exotic hideaways of the Emerged Island in the Caribbean? https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/cee5dac59e64743b86007dd7331dbd356208abf6.png And that's just picking the location... How about picking the right outfit?! A date is essentially a lot like an expedition: you have to prepare for it. Bring the wrong gear or start an encounter with an aggressive attitude and you might kill the mood in just one turn. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/c1fef7aa6ada51a755133dbfaa03eaa3f341e7e2.png If all goes well, though, and you play your cards right as a 19th-century globetrotting Casanova, you might even get the chance to go on a date with the most Renowned of all the Explorers: Mathieu Rivaleux! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/9a8e735f4c5eaed5b3bfce2fe3864706f617fc3c.png Renowned Explorers: Daring Dates is still in development and it's too soon to pinpoint an exact release date. But if you want to stay posted and maybe even try your chances in a closed beta encounter with Anna or Victor, for example, be sure to sign up for the Abbey Games newsletter or stay in touch through the Renowned Explorers community hub. We hope to see you on some adventurous dates sometime in 2018! ~ the monks from Abbey Games

Disclaimer: April Fools! After the release of the original Renowned Explorers in 2015 and the More to Explore and Emperor's Challenge DLC in 2016 and 2017 respectively, we're planning to release another expansion to the Renowned Explorers universe in 2018. The Renowned Explorers community has given us a lot of input about what direction they want the game to take and we figured it's about time we really listen. So without further ado, we're proud to present: Renowned Explorers - Daring Dates! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/10febe177be086934965777c60ab9905e2ffaf14.png In this DLC, instead of taking a crew of three explorers on an epic adventure of tales and treasure, you can take one crew member... on a date! That might sound easier than it is, though. Renowned Explorers' band of characters is made up of seasoned explorers, and they are hard to impress! Where to go on your first date, for example? The Museum? Paris? Or straight to the exotic hideaways of the Emerged Island in the Caribbean? https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/cee5dac59e64743b86007dd7331dbd356208abf6.png And that's just picking the location... How about picking the right outfit?! A date is essentially a lot like an expedition: you have to prepare for it. Bring the wrong gear or start an encounter with an aggressive attitude and you might kill the mood in just one turn. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/c1fef7aa6ada51a755133dbfaa03eaa3f341e7e2.png If all goes well, though, and you play your cards right as a 19th-century globetrotting Casanova, you might even get the chance to go on a date with the most Renowned of all the Explorers: Mathieu Rivaleux! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/9a8e735f4c5eaed5b3bfce2fe3864706f617fc3c.png Renowned Explorers: Daring Dates is still in development and it's too soon to pinpoint an exact release date. But if you want to stay posted and maybe even try your chances in a closed beta encounter with Anna or Victor, for example, be sure to sign up for the Abbey Games newsletter or stay in touch through the Renowned Explorers community hub. We hope to see you on some adventurous dates sometime in 2018! ~ the monks from Abbey Games

The community just kicked-off Challenge #100! "A hundred challenges, A million resources". Join this week's cooperative challenge, win prizes and get your name in the game! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/c858f88dd704841637fa7654384cdf22042b7116.png Veteran and new explorers alike have been creating, joining and winning weekly community challenges for a hundred weeks now. As developers we're super happy and eternally grateful to see creative use of the game week after week, especially by such a wonderful community! A special hats off to the 'Challenge PI' group, organizing the challenges since number #45. You're the best! To celebrate Challenge #100, we're promising rewards to those participating in this weekly challenge. #100 is a special one, as it's cooperative instead of competitive. This means that there's a shared goal, and if you as a community reach it, we promise to immortalize the weekly challenge and all its players in-game, as well as raffle copies of our games and DLC among all participants. The goal? Find the challenge here

Renowned Explorers Legacy on Developer Twitch Stream

One-hundred challenges is a true milestone, and it's a good moment to look back on all the changes Renowned Explorers went through. What better way is there than to launch version 1.0? (dating September 2nd, 2015) During a live-stream we'll play around with the legacy build and cringe at all the old stuff that has been improved with your help since. Join us at: https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames Tomorrow, November 30th, 19:00 CET / 10:00 PT Good luck with the challenge, and see you tomorrow! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

The community just kicked-off Challenge #100! "A hundred challenges, A million resources". Join this week's cooperative challenge, win prizes and get your name in the game! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/c858f88dd704841637fa7654384cdf22042b7116.png Veteran and new explorers alike have been creating, joining and winning weekly community challenges for a hundred weeks now. As developers we're super happy and eternally grateful to see creative use of the game week after week, especially by such a wonderful community! A special hats off to the 'Challenge PI' group, organizing the challenges since number #45. You're the best! To celebrate Challenge #100, we're promising rewards to those participating in this weekly challenge. #100 is a special one, as it's cooperative instead of competitive. This means that there's a shared goal, and if you as a community reach it, we promise to immortalize the weekly challenge and all its players in-game, as well as raffle copies of our games and DLC among all participants. The goal? Find the challenge here

Renowned Explorers Legacy on Developer Twitch Stream

One-hundred challenges is a true milestone, and it's a good moment to look back on all the changes Renowned Explorers went through. What better way is there than to launch version 1.0? (dating September 2nd, 2015) During a live-stream we'll play around with the legacy build and cringe at all the old stuff that has been improved with your help since. Join us at: https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames Tomorrow, November 30th, 19:00 CET / 10:00 PT Good luck with the challenge, and see you tomorrow! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/527f172566015be90760bc1ef9ef3912f5621747.png It's time to face the truth. Renowned Explorers is not the only expedition game on the market. You will all have noticed the copycats from The Curious Expedition ALSO have an expedition management game out on Steam. SUSPICIOUS, right? Therefore, it only makes sense that people ask us ALL THE TIME how this game is different from "that other game about 19th century explorers?" Well, for one, Renowned Explorers is the better game of course! We even have 8 times as many pixels in our game! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/ce3dcf6870a407947dd16e0f843563cf3c739882.png To settle this once and for all we’re running a discount to make it easy for you to pick the right game. There’s a very deep discount of 67% on Renowned Explorers in Steam’s Daily Deal today, running for 48 hours. Not convinced? Want to compare both games for yourself? Well, like the gentlemen we are, we quite literally bundled forces with the folks from Maschinen-Mensch to make that a lot easier for you as well! Or cheaper, at least… These games are hard! For your investigative convenience, the Curious Expedition vs Renowned Explorers bundle has just appeared in the Steam store! At a unique discount of 65% you can pick up both games at once. And if you already own either one of them, you can also complete the set at a stacking discount, which means owners of the Curious Expedition can now obtain Renowned Explorers at a 75% discount! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/5888498f4fc0a22d070e5efdaf9a1d1e75e1b1b0.png If you’re interested in seeing us go through the hardship of actually playing that inferior product of a game called the Curious Expedition, you can visit this special website There’s also some footage of the Maschine-Mensch people in total awe after playing through a bit of Renowned Explorers for the first time. Great stuff. Furthermore, we just released patch #25: Family Matters which adds some surprises next to a lot of fixes and rebalancing. So, let’s boot up one or more of these expedition management games and have some… Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/527f172566015be90760bc1ef9ef3912f5621747.png It's time to face the truth. Renowned Explorers is not the only expedition game on the market. You will all have noticed the copycats from The Curious Expedition ALSO have an expedition management game out on Steam. SUSPICIOUS, right? Therefore, it only makes sense that people ask us ALL THE TIME how this game is different from "that other game about 19th century explorers?" Well, for one, Renowned Explorers is the better game of course! We even have 8 times as many pixels in our game! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/ce3dcf6870a407947dd16e0f843563cf3c739882.png To settle this once and for all we’re running a discount to make it easy for you to pick the right game. There’s a very deep discount of 67% on Renowned Explorers in Steam’s Daily Deal today, running for 48 hours. Not convinced? Want to compare both games for yourself? Well, like the gentlemen we are, we quite literally bundled forces with the folks from Maschinen-Mensch to make that a lot easier for you as well! Or cheaper, at least… These games are hard! For your investigative convenience, the Curious Expedition vs Renowned Explorers bundle has just appeared in the Steam store! At a unique discount of 65% you can pick up both games at once. And if you already own either one of them, you can also complete the set at a stacking discount, which means owners of the Curious Expedition can now obtain Renowned Explorers at a 75% discount! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/5888498f4fc0a22d070e5efdaf9a1d1e75e1b1b0.png If you’re interested in seeing us go through the hardship of actually playing that inferior product of a game called the Curious Expedition, you can visit this special website There’s also some footage of the Maschine-Mensch people in total awe after playing through a bit of Renowned Explorers for the first time. Great stuff. Furthermore, we just released patch #25: Family Matters which adds some surprises next to a lot of fixes and rebalancing. So, let’s boot up one or more of these expedition management games and have some… Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

It’s been a while, but we have a new patch for Renowned Explorers in store for you. This patch focusses on families, introducing events around relatives of Pedrinho, Charles, Dolores and… Rivaleux! Next to that we’re trying to surf on the hype of PUBG and Fortnite's Battle Royale with a new storyline on the Lost Island expedition. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/0ef2b9996c4b8c3fcbcb74f4ef8cbc2d564b6764.png Furthermore, this patch fixes a lot of small things and adds tiny pieces of surprise content, but it mainly focusses on rebalancing. You can see all the details in the patch notes. We also have a nice surprise coming up later today, especially for very fanatic explorers who think that one exploration game set in the 19th century is just not enough… Stay tuned. Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

It’s been a while, but we have a new patch for Renowned Explorers in store for you. This patch focusses on families, introducing events around relatives of Pedrinho, Charles, Dolores and… Rivaleux! Next to that we’re trying to surf on the hype of PUBG and Fortnite's Battle Royale with a new storyline on the Lost Island expedition. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/0ef2b9996c4b8c3fcbcb74f4ef8cbc2d564b6764.png Furthermore, this patch fixes a lot of small things and adds tiny pieces of surprise content, but it mainly focusses on rebalancing. You can see all the details in the patch notes. We also have a nice surprise coming up later today, especially for very fanatic explorers who think that one exploration game set in the 19th century is just not enough… Stay tuned. Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

During the 80 hours after release of The Emperor's Challenge DLC hundreds of players cooperated in the 'Around the World in 80 Hours' community content challenge. In their devoted effort they collected 2911 treasures across all expeditions and unlocked the Bronze, Silver and Gold tier rewards of the challenge. Part of the deal was that each tier would force Abbey Games to create free extra content. A deal is a deal, so today's patch introduces the following changes:

Secret Shop with Epic Items (Bronze Tier reward)

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/4405be23fed21982e107de8e6f0ae018b2de00e3.png By writing enough papers in the Engineering research tree you can unlock a new Secret Shop that contains a special new category of items. Discover new crew builds with these powerful epic items!

New stories in the Mali Mystery and the Hungarian Fort (Silver Tier reward)

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/bee3ba40354dd79c46c2110897e7b636650e5799.png Two 2-star expeditions were enriched with some new stories. Travel to The Hungarian Fort and The Mali Mystery to discover some new things...

Stockholm Split - a new Entourage Shop (Gold Tier reward)

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/f530e31cc7e9955e2a3721272d095cc48ee861a2.png It got so busy in Stockholm that many of the Entourage Specialists decided to travel south and set up their own place in Madrid. You now have many more extra entourage options after the first expedition. Don't forget that The Emperor's Challenge DLC is out since May 10th, which was accompanied with a free content addition to Transylvania. Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

During the 80 hours after release of The Emperor's Challenge DLC hundreds of players cooperated in the 'Around the World in 80 Hours' community content challenge. In their devoted effort they collected 2911 treasures across all expeditions and unlocked the Bronze, Silver and Gold tier rewards of the challenge. Part of the deal was that each tier would force Abbey Games to create free extra content. A deal is a deal, so today's patch introduces the following changes:

Secret Shop with Epic Items (Bronze Tier reward)

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/4405be23fed21982e107de8e6f0ae018b2de00e3.png By writing enough papers in the Engineering research tree you can unlock a new Secret Shop that contains a special new category of items. Discover new crew builds with these powerful epic items!

New stories in the Mali Mystery and the Hungarian Fort (Silver Tier reward)

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/bee3ba40354dd79c46c2110897e7b636650e5799.png Two 2-star expeditions were enriched with some new stories. Travel to The Hungarian Fort and The Mali Mystery to discover some new things...

Stockholm Split - a new Entourage Shop (Gold Tier reward)

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/f530e31cc7e9955e2a3721272d095cc48ee861a2.png It got so busy in Stockholm that many of the Entourage Specialists decided to travel south and set up their own place in Madrid. You now have many more extra entourage options after the first expedition. Don't forget that The Emperor's Challenge DLC is out since May 10th, which was accompanied with a free content addition to Transylvania. Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/99d9d3d9e7eff86c785aff471a994d272d7d87f1.png If you're reading this post, you could already be playing the new Renowned Explorers expansion, so let's keep it short! This expansion pack for Renowned Explorers takes you all the way to the Far East. It’s packed with new content and also provides an entirely new way to play the game! If you want to learn more about the new expansion, or simply want to find a buy button, you can go to: The Emperor's Challenge Store Page.

News from Transylvania! - Free Base Game Update

Do you dare to face... her? This patch is a free update to Transylvania for everyone who owns the base game Renowned Explorers. It also includes a small update to the Hungarian Fort expedition. We hope you'll enjoy, let us know! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/e1bd47ffad90e672c426cd044bd06f4126c64826.png

Around the world in 80 hours - Community Content Challenge

Play the game to force us to create even more content! Work together with your fellow explorers in this 80-hour long challenge, starting.... now! Read more here. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/fa40fc9263fe4a753c7b3fe9968bbaa76f234ff4.jpg Enjoy the expansion and let us know what you think! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/99d9d3d9e7eff86c785aff471a994d272d7d87f1.png If you're reading this post, you could already be playing the new Renowned Explorers expansion, so let's keep it short! This expansion pack for Renowned Explorers takes you all the way to the Far East. It’s packed with new content and also provides an entirely new way to play the game! If you want to learn more about the new expansion, or simply want to find a buy button, you can go to: The Emperor's Challenge Store Page.

News from Transylvania! - Free Base Game Update

Do you dare to face... her? This patch is a free update to Transylvania for everyone who owns the base game Renowned Explorers. It also includes a small update to the Hungarian Fort expedition. We hope you'll enjoy, let us know! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/e1bd47ffad90e672c426cd044bd06f4126c64826.png

Around the world in 80 hours - Community Content Challenge

Play the game to force us to create even more content! Work together with your fellow explorers in this 80-hour long challenge, starting.... now! Read more here. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/fa40fc9263fe4a753c7b3fe9968bbaa76f234ff4.jpg Enjoy the expansion and let us know what you think! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

Get your blimps ready! The new expansion for Renowned Explorers is releasing in less than 24 hours: The Emperor's Challenge will be available for sale at 10:00 PDT / 19:00 CEST or your local equivalent. You can wishlist it here right now to get a notification at release. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/0a95ccca347db2cd91fb2fb52bf27aa425f84c0b.jpg Now, there are a few special announcements for tomorrow:

Bonus - Free Content Update for the base game

This one might be a bit confusing. Not only will we release a full-sized expansion pack tomorrow, we also took some time to add new content to the base game. So even if you don't jump into the expansion right away (who are we kidding really, who doesn't want a fireworks inventor in their crew), you'll discover some new adventures in Renowned Explorers. What might be this new stuff? That will be revealed tomorrow at launch, but we can already say it's something much requested... http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/fa40fc9263fe4a753c7b3fe9968bbaa76f234ff4.jpg

Around the world in 80 hours - Community Content Challenge

In our eyes this game only ever deserves more content. If you share this opinion you might want to join the special community content challenge:

• The challenge starts tomorrow at release and will last only 80 hours
• This challenge can only be beaten if the community works together.
• Each reward tiers unlocks extra content that we'll then create in the coming weeks.
• More details tomorrow.

Celebration Twitch Stream

Just as hyped about tomorrow's release as we are? Then join us during the release celebration stream. It will start 1 hour before launch, counting down to release. There might be cake.

• Join us here: https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames
• Tomorrow, May 10th, 18:00 CEST / 9:00 PT (1 hour before release)
• Count down with the monks.
• Sneak preview of the first Daily Emperor's Challenge ever!

1 more day! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

Get your blimps ready! The new expansion for Renowned Explorers is releasing in less than 24 hours: The Emperor's Challenge will be available for sale at 10:00 PDT / 19:00 CEST or your local equivalent. You can wishlist it here right now to get a notification at release. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/0a95ccca347db2cd91fb2fb52bf27aa425f84c0b.jpg Now, there are a few special announcements for tomorrow:

Bonus - Free Content Update for the base game

This one might be a bit confusing. Not only will we release a full-sized expansion pack tomorrow, we also took some time to add new content to the base game. So even if you don't jump into the expansion right away (who are we kidding really, who doesn't want a fireworks inventor in their crew), you'll discover some new adventures in Renowned Explorers. What might be this new stuff? That will be revealed tomorrow at launch, but we can already say it's something much requested... http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/fa40fc9263fe4a753c7b3fe9968bbaa76f234ff4.jpg

Around the world in 80 hours - Community Content Challenge

In our eyes this game only ever deserves more content. If you share this opinion you might want to join the special community content challenge:

• The challenge starts tomorrow at release and will last only 80 hours
• This challenge can only be beaten if the community works together.
• Each reward tiers unlocks extra content that we'll then create in the coming weeks.
• More details tomorrow.

Celebration Twitch Stream

Just as hyped about tomorrow's release as we are? Then join us during the release celebration stream. It will start 1 hour before launch, counting down to release. There might be cake.

• Join us here: https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames
• Tomorrow, May 10th, 18:00 CEST / 9:00 PT (1 hour before release)
• Count down with the monks.
• Sneak preview of the first Daily Emperor's Challenge ever!

1 more day! ~ the monks from Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/9b109bca54f1a5daeb5ba255f23d84132ea84da1.png New characters in The Emperor's Challenge Renowned Explorers offers new adventures on each and every playthrough, but once in a while there's an extra special occasion. Like on May 10th, in 2 weeks, when we release The Emperor's Challenge! A full-sized new expansion pack. We júst released a trailer and a store page, both full of new information regarding the expansion. In short:

• 4 new characters
• a new 4-star expedition
• a whole new game mode: The Emperor's Challenge

View all of that juicy new information right... here V http://store.steampowered.com/app/609970 And if you're prepared to face The Emperor's Challenge, then don't forget to wishlist it. :) Thank you, ~ Abbey Games http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/8ba3870e9b7d418e5422f6b66dac31445ec9dc13.png