- OSAS in VN Fest 2025! - 3 March 2025
On the coattails of Next Fest comes Steam VN Fest — and this year, we have not one, but two games as part of it: Our demo for Of Sense and Soul, and its free-to-play side story, Confluence! Once again, we will be showing off those voiced scenes for those of you who love voicing in your visual novels with our broadcast all week! :) Confluence: An Of Sense and Soul Soliloquy is a short, sweet romp through the aftermath of Hugo's happy ending. It's seven minutes of fully voiced fluff, and it's available in both English and Japanese! (Did we mention it's also Steam Deck compatible?) You can check it out at the page below: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3378600/Confluence_An_Of_Sense_and_Soul_Soliloquy/ Happy VN Fest, and happy gaming!
- OSAS in Steam Next Fest - 25 February 2025
It's time for the second of the festivals Of Sense and Soul is lined up for this spring, with this latest edition of Steam Next Fest! This is a festival all about trying out the latest demos and getting the lowdown on upcoming games, so if you haven't, why try the Of Sense and Soul Demo for size? Even if you've already played it, there are plenty of reasons to return — our November Demo 4.0 Update brought new voiced scenes and revamped cinematography to the game, all in the name of boosting your experience of our story! We're also broadcasting throughout the festival, yet again showing off those voiced scenes we're so proud of. Happy Next Fest everyone, and we'll see you again for VN Fest very soon! 💖
- OSAS in the Storyteller’s Festival 2025 - 17 February 2025
We’re excited to announce OSAS is returning for this year’s Storyteller’s Festival here on Steam! Once again, we are incredibly grateful to Two and a Half Studios for organising the event, and for including us in their celebration of narrative games. Check out the festival page here! While we’re a ways away from having a game to put on sale yet, with the release delay we announced on Kickstarter at the start of the month, the brand new OSAS demo with updated camerawork is still up for you all to explore! We've also got a broadcast compilation of all the voiced scenes from the demo up for your viewing pleasure! 💖 We’d also like to call your attention to some of our fellow narrative games — all visual novels we promise will be worth your while! Looking for more tales of Love & Heartbreak? Have a gander at these titles: Asphodelium by Crystal Game Works Imperial Grace by Synstoria Summer…
- Major Demo Update 4.0 + Season of Pride 2024! - 25 November 2024
Hello, everyone! We’re delighted to announce Of Sense and Soul is part of the Season of Pride 2024 Steam Sale! 🥳🏳️🌈✨🏳️⚧️ Many thanks to Midboss, IGDA, and Gayming Magazine for featuring us in the 130+ queer games which make up this year's event. Be sure to check out the fantastic games (and deals) in store! Work behind the scenes has been ongoing, as you can see from our monthly Kickstarter Backer Bulletins, and you can actually see some of the newer game contents in the latest teaser trailer uploaded to the game's page. Of course, Of Sense and Soul isn’t for sale just yet, but I have the next best thing for you: a new major demo update to tide you all over! Extended Demo Version 4.0: The Camera Update After over a year of continued development, it’s come time to put that experience to use on earlier scripted contents: as a result, the Extended Demo has been given a cinematic make…
- VAs React: The OSAS Demo - 31 January 2024
Here we are with a special pre-recorded broadcast of a demo playthrough featuring some special members of our voice acting team: Shaun Mendum and Max Herzfeld, the actors who play Seamus and Hugo. We hope you enjoy it!
- Dev Stream Special: Playing with History in Of Sense and Soul! - 30 January 2024
The Storyteller's Festival is now in full swing, and we're delighted to say that Of Sense and Soul has once again been chosen to feature! The festival showcases the very best of story-rich and narrative games as well as many wonderful visual novels like ours, so keep an eye out for discounts and broadcasts happening during the event. And, for the first time, we'll be holding a Broadcast here on our Steam page! We hope to first showcase special pre-recorded broadcast will be playing on the OSAS page within the next few days of a demo playthrough featuring some special members of our voice acting team: Shaun Mendum and Max Herzfeld, the actors who play Seamus and Hugo. Keep an eye out on the Festival homepage for many more broadcasts being held throughout this event! A Special Live Broadcast! Are you curious to know the research behind the settings, style choices, and storyline of OSAS? A…
- 103% Funded on Kickstarter! - 23 August 2023
We're so delighted to announce that in just the nick of time, Of Sense and Soul was fully funded on Kickstarter! 💌 Those of you who have been following the campaign or kept in touch on our social media will know this already, but we really cannot thank you all enough. It's still sinking in that we have the funds we need to make the game happen, but we cannot wait to get back to work on it! If you backed the campaign (first of all, thank you!) then all there's left for you to do right now is make sure your pledges have gone through on Kickstarter and wait for an email containing the Backerkit Survey coming within a month of the funds coming through on our end. If you missed the campaign, fear not—we have a Backerkit "Better Late Than Never" Pre-Order store up which you can access from now until the end of September! Last call to grab those Kickstarter goodies, everyone! We also have a P…
- Ext. Demo Ver 3.0 + Kickstarter Countdown - 4 August 2023
Hello all! Now that we've passed the 50% funding mark on our Kickstarter with a week to spare, we've got that new demo chapter at the ready as promised! In fact, it's already available for download here, right now. But first... The Final Week of the Campaign Our Kickstarter is just a week away from the finish line, and we're gearing up for that last push to get to 100%! The sooner we can reach 75% funded the better the odds are that we can make it to the goal—and you'll all get a Chapter 8 Voiced CG Preview with it. Seeing as the campaign is all or nothing, we need as much help as we can get to make it in the time that remains. Kickstarter only charges your card if the campaign is successful when the campaign itself ends, so you can always pledge early and not worry about funds being taken out immediately. (Tell your friends about the game if you like, too—sometimes that's how the best…
- We're LIVE on Kickstarter! - 13 July 2023
The Of Sense and Soul Kickstarter has just begun! These 30 days are your chance to directly support the development of the game and grab some fun digital rewards, including printable goodies, the OSAS artbook, Making-of book, and of course, the game itself! Help us make OSAS a reality on Kickstarter here! Community Challenges You can also support the campaign by helping us reach one of our three community challenges: Spread the Word: At 300 Tumblr Notes and 200 Retweets on our announcement posts on Tumblr and Twitter, and 200 Backers on the campaign itself, we'll add an animated voice acting blooper reel to all tier rewards. 🎙️ Love Letters: At 20 posts made about OSAS across Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram, we'll add a short side story to all tier rewards. 📜 Inspired Works: At 20 fanworks (including fanfiction and fanart) made for OSAS and posted to Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram, we'…
- Ext. Demo Ver. 2.5 + Kickstarter Date Announcement! - 26 June 2023
Hello everyone! We've heard your feedback and seen your streams/videos of the demo, and it's so gratifying to hear you're all loving the demo and the added voicing. We're actually just under three weeks away from the launch of the Of Sense and Soul Kickstarter now, and we couldn't be more excited or terrified! There are lots of preparations still to be made, including making sure the demo is in ship shape. And, well, the 2.5 update is here now, so it's on to the rest of the preparations for me! Mark your calendars for July 12th or July 13th in your local time zone, because the campaign will start then and there! Follow our Kickstarter Pre-Launch to be notified when it starts on Wednesday, July 12th at 8:00PM EST Audio Fixes The most prominent concern was for audio levelling, which we're now working with our audio engineer to resolve by balancing the full soundtrack itself. In the meanti…
- Follow our Pre-Launch into OSAS! - 19 May 2023
Follow the Of Sense and Soul Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page here! We're terrified and excited to announce OSAS will be having its crowdfunding campaign in July this year! Every aspect of OSAS' production is handled with real love, high standards for quality, and attention to detail which we feel really sets us apart; we hope to guarantee that high quality in a consistent and timely manner and to better compensate our team members (and ourselves) by funding the game more substantially. Thus far our funding has been out of pocket, with some support trickling from our Patreon supporters (thank you so much! You know who you are.) While we'll continue producing OSAS regardless of the campaign's outcome, being able to assure payment to our team and guarantee steady production of assets for the game would—well, be a game-changer! This will be our first crowdfunding campaign effort, and a lot does…
- OSAS in The Storyteller's Festival 2023! + Trailer Release - 26 March 2023
We're delighted to announce Of Sense and Soul has been selected for The Storyteller's Festival hosted by Two and a Half Studios! Thank you so much for featuring us 🥰 The Storyteller’s Festival began at 9:00am 26/3/2023 (AEDT), so join us to celebrate all things narrative games! 💖📚 For this occasion, we'd also like to announce the release of our demo trailer! It says everything we'd like you to know about the story of Of Sense and Soul, and you'll hear some of the voice acting that was recently shared in our newest demo Voice Update. Give it a watch here!
- The OSAS Extended Demo Voice Update (Version 2.0) is here! - 22 March 2023
We're delighted to announce that the Extended Demo's Voice Update (Version 2.0) is now available! We have been hard at work getting this update out to you all, and we are so pleased that you can finally see all the enhancements made to the game with the voicing and GUI we've made--among other things! If you are redownloading, your save data should be intact, as the existing saves directory will not be affected by redownloading the game. Please let us know on Discord or in the comments if you encounter any issues! This update includes the following changes: Partial Voice Acting Soundbytes/Bark Lines have been added for all characters. Fully voiced segments are now featured in Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 4. Credits have been added to the About screen for our VAs and voice crew. Added sprite mouth voice line syncing so mouth animations play for the duration of voice lines instead of…
