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Full Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird update
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Hello! Bit of news, but firstly, it's Marjory Garen's birthday. Made a little casual design to celebrate, check it out here if you'd like! Anyways, onto the announcements.
What changed
- Gameplay
- Balance
- Store
- UI and audio
Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird changes
Unarchived
Garenburg Penitence
The Riflebird has now been adapted into a physical novel and book!
You can now find Garenburg Penitence
Unarchived available as an alternative way to experience the story of the game.
Not the most glamorous picture, and these were both early test prints, but I'm not exactly a photographer...
You can find it available at the links below. Sorry for a bit of a higher price on the Amazon copy, that turned out a lot more expensive than I wanted... It had to be priced that way to have any revenue through Expanded Distribution, it only makes $1.82 USD in revenue from that...
Hardcover - Barnes & Nobles - $28 USD
Paperback - Amazon - $24.99 USD
You can also find a digital copy of it on Steam if you'd like as DLC for this game.
[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3887850/Garenburg_Penitence_Unarchived_Novelization/"]
You may be wondering why this was done, and the answer is as simple as "I wanted to." That's the entire reason! I'd always wanted to publish an actual novel, and now here we are. It's also going full circle; the original draft for the story and idea was that the tale would be a novel, so this wraps all the way back around to when it was first conceptualized in 2017.
Still, the game itself is the (much cheaper) better way to experience the story, but it's an alternative way you can experience things!
In addition, the original game will be receiving a patch in the next few days that fixes a bunch of various typos/grammar issues to match the book quality, and fixes some other annoying bugs that have been driving me mad. In addition, the Steam assets have been updated as the original assets were originally submitted years ago, and didn't match the current Steam resolution and quality requirements. You can also find alternative, very spoiler-filled alternative artwork if you want to change how it looks in your Steam library on SteamGridDB.
Free Garenburg games!
Other than that, bygone snow is an upcoming free visual novel in the Garenburg series (though it can be experienced standalone) and will be releasing... soon. I hope. It has had a delay in its Steam release because the build hasn't been reviewed by Steam for approval yet despite being submitted back in September, so... hopefully that is approved relatively quickly. But you can wishlist it here so you can check it out once it's here!
[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4065050/bygone_snow/"]
In addition, Archival Anemoia will be releasing on January 26th, 2026! It is a massive free collection of all other video games by Creatalsoftware, and includes three additional Garenburg-related games, as well as development commentary on the entire series and a bunch of info on scrapped projects. Explore the end of the world in Limp, attempt to find a way to make immortality a reality with the Silver Bed Foundation in The Möbius Strip, and help two people come together and find solace in each other in the short fishing game Charmolypi. All these three are older projects in the Garenburg series, and have been given an uplift with a better way for you to experience them here!
[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4070990/Archival_Anemoia/"]
Anything else?
I would greatly like to do some additional content updates for Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird at some point. I have ideas and plans for them, but for now, the focus is on those other projects. Once they are out of the way, I'd love to come back to get started on those planned updates, so stay tuned for that!
Also, I'm working on a dedicated store website that has a list of links for any/all digital and physical merchandise. It's not done yet, but I'm hoping to have it up soon! When it is ready, it'll be at store.garenburg.com and I'll have some post about it on Bluesky. Hopefully will be ready sometime in December.
But for now, that's already a good bit of stuff coming soon, so... hope you enjoy it.
That's all! Thank you for your time and take care!!!
Mireille Scieppan
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