- Sacrifice Your Friends -- Lunar New Year Festival - 7 February 2024
Hello everyone！ Sacrifice Your Friends is now participating in the Lunar New Year Festival 2024. Hope you like our game!
- CJ x GC Indie Game Festival - 27 July 2023
Hello everyone! Sacrifice Your Friends is now participating in the Indie Game Festival co-created by ChinaJoy, Game Connection together with Steam China.
- Sacrifice Your Friends: Chinese Localization Update! - 13 June 2023
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome…… Simplified and Traditional Chinese version of Sacrifice Your Friends have benn officially released！To celebrate the occasion, there will be a discount of 30% off on Sacrifice Your Friends from June 12 to June 19. Sacrifice Your Friends supports the features of Shared/Split Screen PvP, Online PvP and Remote Play Together. It presents a fresh take on the H.P. Lovecraft horrific mythos that let you experience its stories with your friends. Your feedback is invaluable and always appreciated! Join us on Discord and Sacrifice Your Friends!
- Early Access Patch 0.12.4.10 - 28 October 2021
Summer is gone and it's only getting colder in those 4 new maps. Keep your cool within the Mountains of Madness Arena - Gone with the Floe Arena - Ascension of Madness Arena - Den of the Frozen Arena - Flyby of Leng Misc Added the main theme song while the credits are playing Optimized the Starting Screen Added missing SFX Your feedback is invaluable and always appreciated! Join us on Discord Link] and participate in the ongoing development of Sacrifice Your Friends!
- Remote Sacrifice Together stream #2 - 24 March 2021
Devs and fans will play Sacrifice Your Friends together thursday at 1pm EST and Friday 3pm EST for the Remote Play Together Event! Simply open the game, grab a link to your game from the Friends list, send it to anyone however you like, and you'll be playing together in no time. Join the official discord for more information: https://discord.gg/cpEYa9JN Praises be unto the old ones.
- Remote Sacrifice Together stream #1 - 24 March 2021
Devs and fans will play Sacrifice Your Friends together thursday at 1pm EST and Friday 3pm EST for the Remote Play Together Event! Simply open the game, grab a link to your game from the Friends list, send it to anyone however you like, and you'll be playing together in no time. Join the official discord for more information: https://discord.gg/cpEYa9JN Praises be unto the old ones.
- Early Access Patch 0.12.4.9 - 27 October 2020
It’s been a while, but we have a lot to offer! Explore the Valley of Madness Arena - Whispering River Arena - Colour From the Well Arena - House of Hunger Arena - Old Road Story - 4 new missions Cult - Shub-Niggurath and its Dark Youngs New Items Phantom Harpoon Miska-Tonic Molotov New Characters and Hats Rainbow Billy Christine the Explorer Laniqua Bob DeBaube New Accessories New Languages (Still being worked on) Spanish Italian German Russian Portuguese Japanese Other New introduction video, narrated by Maisy Kay Multiple story missions balanced New Wall of Sacrifices Your feedback is invaluable and always appreciated! Join us on Discord Link] and participate in the ongoing development of Sacrifice Your Friends!
- Early Access Patch 0.12.4.8 - 29 July 2020
Hi there! This is the patch note for SYF version 0.12.4.8. Features Added the Quickmatch mode: play online against random players in quick matches. Game balance After an Arena Match, players should unlock the next reward if the current one is already unlocked. The Truncheon's push force is now aligned with the rotation of the player. Increased Dagon's Water Jet force from 3.5 to 4. Online Fixed an issue where players wouldn't be able to host / join a room. Audio Weapons are muted against invincible targets. Gameplay Added Weapon Selection to the Practice Mode Added The Chase to the Innsmouth Cup Your feedback is invaluable and always appreciated! Join us on Discord Link] and participate in the ongoing development of Sacrifice Your Friends!
- Early Access Patch 0.12.4.7 - 15 July 2020
Hi everyone! This is the patch note for SYF version 0.12.4.7. Features Added a Practice mode to train against NPCs. Game balance Improved the Elder Scale's block and deflection. Increased the Elder Scale's spawn rate. Increased Dagon's Rising Tide attack radius from 1.9 to 2.1. Dagon's Ominous Monolith now pushes cannonballs and bullets. Reduced the amount of stress damage in Conquest mode. Items no longer spawn during player introductions. Fixed NPC pickup offset. Online Fixed conquest points sometimes not being attributed. Synched avatar's hat. Audio Added a sound when catching or deflecting a thrown item mid-air. Added hazard sound effects. UI Score details are now properly localized. Gold medals requirements are now displayed in the score window. Unlocked items are now displayed while playing online. Moved the Game Guide to EXTRAS. Your feedback is invaluable and always appreciated!…
- Early Access Patch 0.12.4.6 - 8 July 2020
Hi everyone! This is the patch note for SYF version 0.12.4.6 which came out yesterday. It is a smaller update with some tweaks to the main menu and some gameplay improvements. With it, we are also adding a Chinese localization to the game. This is a preliminary version of the translation, as it will be revised and improved in the coming weeks. Localization Added an initial version of the Chinese localization. Game balance Increased Cthulhu Ancient Grasp' radius from 1 to 1.5. Prevented several arena hazards from damaging invincible players. Cult Avatars are now invincible for 1 sec after transforming. Physic Improved the physic interpolation of characters and items, which should result in smoother controls. Visuals Added different hit effects when hitting an invincible player. UI Added the "Wall of Sacrifices" to the main menu, which features SYF top backers from the Kickstarter campaig…
- Early Access Patch 0.12.4.5 - 29 June 2020
Hello ladies and gentlemen! This is the patch note for SYF version 0.12.4.5, the first major update since the release of the Early Access. This patch brings a massive number fixes and improvements to the game, especially for online multiplayer. See the entire list below: Features Arenas, items, tournaments and cults now be unlocked by playing Arena Mode. Various accessories designed by Kickstarter backers can now be unlocked. (Available for everyone) Game balance Increased the range of Dagon's Ominous Monolith Increased the damage dealt by the tip of the Tentacle Whip. Damage dealt by thrown weapons now properly scale with the throw's charge time Visuals NPCs roaming the main menu no longer have a ground decal. The Elder Scale's color is now more vivid. The Rune of Warding's model has been updated. VSync settings can now be adjusted in the graphic options menu. UI French localization ad…
- Devs Mini-Tournament Live Stream - 19 June 2020
Devs from Astrolabe Interactive engage in merciless battle to settle once for all who's the best worst friend of the studio. Join us on June 19th at 1 pm EST!
- Welcome to Sacrifice Your Friends - 16 June 2020
Welcome ladies and gentleman to Sacrifice Your Friends, the universe's best, first, and thus far only lovecraftian party brawler! It's a pleasure for us at Astrolabe Interactive to be part of the Steam Summer Festival! Our game's demo features 3 multiplayer arenas and 3 story missions. Try SYF either online or couch, or with a mix of both! Sacrifice Your Friends is released in Early Access on June 18th, during the Summer Festival. For the first week of Early Access, SYF will be 20% off from the standard Early Access pricing, which is itself 20% off from the full release price! We have two livestream events during the Summer Festival, so come and meet us! Thursday, June 18th at 1 pm EST Friday, June 19th at 1 pm EST About Us Astrolabe Interactive is an indie game studio based in Montreal, Canada. Astrolabe started 2 years ago with 2 young game designers in a living room. We are now a tea…
- Discover Sacrifice Your Friends with the Devs! - 16 June 2020
Steam Summer Festival is upon us! Meanwhile, Sacrifice Your Friends release on June 18th in Early Access. Join us for an hour as we play the game live and answers all your bizarre questions! Our streams on Steam: Thursday, June 18th: Launch Event at 1PM EST Friday, June 19th: Devs Mini-Tournament at 1PM EST
- Play Sacrifice Your Friends' Demo - 16 June 2020
Sacrifice Your Friends is coming out in just a few days on June 18th in Early Access. However, if you want to be extra early, the Steam Summer Festival is here for you. Starting today at 1 pm EST and until June 22nd, you can try a demo of SYF for free before jumping into the Early Access. Join us for the launch streams next Thursday and Friday on Steam at 1 pm EST!
- Sacrifice Your Friends in Early Access starting June 18th - 4 June 2020
Hello everyone! After much deliberation, we can now officially confirm that Sacrifice Your Friends will be released in Early Access on Steam on June 18th 2020! “Why Early Access?”, you may ask. In one word: COVID-19. Due to the current lockdown, our work on some of SYF remaining content has slowed considerably. We chose Early Access rather than further delay the release while we complete this missing content. We will post a detailed roadmap of future content in the next few days. Get 20% off by purchasing SYF during Early Access! We hope to see you all in the arena! Join us on Discord.
- DevUpdate - March 13 - 13 March 2020
PAX East is already behind us, and Sacrifice Your Friends is almost ready for release. Meanwhile, I created a little virtual tour of the game’s main hub: the train station. The station is the headquarters of Miskatonic Travel Co., a mysterious agency dedicated to offering occult tours around the world. The Tour The train station is located in Arkham, Massachusetts. The building’s architecture is heavily influenced by Art Deco. The style’s proeminent uses of luxurious materials, geometric patterns, and classical depictions lends itself well to an impressive look that remains faithful to the game’s 1930s setting. The travel agency’s booth serves as one of the game’s menu screens. From this location, players can choose whatever they want to play story tours, arena games, tournaments, or simply peruse the game guide. The back wall of the train station features the ticket booth. This is wher…
- DevUpdate - February 14 - 14 February 2020
In the previous update, we talked about the context of SYF’s story tours. Now let’s have a look at why we are making a story mode for Sacrifice Your Friends. All gameplay screenshots displayed in this update are from an early test version of the story mode. Everything you see here is likely to change before release. Learning The story tours of SYF are good at introducing the lovecraftian universe at the core of the game. However, it is also meant to reveal the gameplay secrets that make SYF such a fun game to play. While we designed Sacrifice Your Friends’ controls to be simple and intuitive, there is still much newcomers have to learn. Noticeably, we have noticed players often struggle with key elements of gameplay, such as madness, transformation, item charging, and item throwing. The story mode is the perfect opportunity to familiarize players with more arduous mechanics. This is not…
- DevUpdate - January 31 - 31 January 2020
Sacrifice Your Friends has entered its last phase of development. Since the end of Closed Beta, we have been extremely busy with the last big feature of the game: Story Mode. Now that the story of SYF is starting to take shape, it seems like a good time to discuss what it entails. The Context Sacrifice Your Friends is set in the universe of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). While Lovecraft’s work is highly significant in terms of supernatural horror, it's also an important part of modern pop culture. Obviously, SYF has a much lighter tone than Lovecraft’s original work: we are aiming for ironic comedy, not horror. However, we do strive to be faithful to Lovecraft’s mythos. One way this is achieved is by not directly following the plotline of existing stories. Instead, players are invited to explore the world of Lovecraft with the Miskatonic Travel Co., a shady travel agency. The agenc…
- Closed Beta Patch 0.9.1.4 - 29 November 2019
New Arena : Gilman House The legendary Gilman House of Innsmouth is now an arena in SYF! As an added bonus, the management saw fit to add portals to the hotel rooftop, much to everyone's enjoyment. The Gilman House might be one of our favorite arenas yet! Added Gilman House to the arena selection. Gilman House is locked by default. Play other arenas to reveal it! Arenas tweaks House of Hunger: Added pickable and destructible props. Temple of the Unseen: Updated columns’ models and textures. Audio Added Dash SFX. Improved Death SFX. Improved Spawn SFX. Misc Added an outline to players’ ground decals. Fixed an issue that prevented extra players from joining an online room as spectators. Some fixes and tweaks. What’s next? These changes are not yet in the game, but they are arriving fast. Stay tuned! Complete revamp of characters’ animation. (Almost done) Online quickmatches. (Almost done)…
