- Face the Carnival of Endless Delight in Rogues Gallery - 31 October 2025
Prepare yourself for a new adventure, hunters!A sinister conspiracy threatens to gut the very institution of the hunters from the inside, as a terrible evil seeps through holes in reality to gnaw upon the minds of mortals. Take to the streets and alleys of the Capital once again, in the ninths instalment of The Hunter's Journals, and face off against the sinister aesthetic of the Rogues Gallery cult today!As usual, all of our art releases we have been displaying over the past week are available as merchandise on our Tee Planet store. You can also get the front cover for the book now, and many new items which have popped up since out last release.https://www.teepublic.com/user/grindwheel-games-store
- Unity Version Update - 6 October 2025
Unity has posted that a security vulnerability exists in all builds as far back as Unity 2017. As such all Grindwheel Games titles are being updated to Unity 6 to remove this loophole. This should not introduce any issues, but please feel free to contact us for support if you discover any bugs as a result of this change.
- Wyrmwood Launch Discount! - 1 November 2024
Hello again all. After a short delay due to settling some details, the Valve team has applied a 30% discount to Wyrmwood which will last for the next 14 days. That will effectively simulate the launch discount which I should have put in place. This is in addition to the missing dollar on the base price, which will remain off until December as promised. So, thank you very much for your patience, and again I am sorry for the delay in the price adjustment. A huge shout out to the team over at Valve for helping me dig my way out of this pit, and a happy post-Halloween to you all!
- Wyrmwood Pricing Issues Apology - 31 October 2024
Hello all. As some of you may have noticed, we messed up the pricing and launch discount for The Hunter's Journals - Wyrmwood. And when I say we messed up, I mean I messed up, as this is pretty much a one man show so there is nobody else to blame in this case. I forgot to check the price of the package before launch, which *should* be $5.99 in line with our other games. I also forgot to make sure the launch discount was in place before hitting 'launch'. Now that the game is out, it cannot be discounted for a period in the Steam settings, so that's not great. The current plan is as follows: The price will remain at $4.99 until the 1st of December, when it will be raised in line with the other products. I have contacted Steam to ask if they can apply a 'launch discount' through the back end for me, and we'll have to see if that pans out. I'll keep an eye out on the message from Steam to s…
- Discover the Terrible Truth Behind the Wyrmwood Incident. - 31 October 2024
Happy Halloween from Grindwheel Games! With wooden items twisting into horrible forms, the UIC faces a terrible calamity unless YOU can discover what is causing this new horror. Battle from the midnight streets of the Capital to the muddy depths of Hag Mere in the eighth foray into the dark, Lovecraftian fantasy world of The Hunter's Journals. We hope you have enjoyed the art releases so far, and if you want to see more, please don't forget our merchandise stall over on TeePublic. https://www.teepublic.com/user/grindwheel-games-store
- In-Game Art Release 6 - 25 October 2024
As usual we end our countdown with the death page. No doubt you will see this a few times! Now all that is left is the front cover art, which will come when the game launches on Halloween. See you all then! The weight of death is known to be a physical thing – a pressure which can disrupt the flow of the natural world. This is why it is sometimes the case that particularly significant deaths can cause the spontaneous resurrection of small animals. One fashion in the UIC is to depict the heroic sacrifices of hunters, soldiers, Watchers and the like surrounded by flying skeletal doves to signify that this loss was one of deep importance.
- In-Game Art Release 5 - 23 October 2024
Our penultimate art page is here - showing the 'glorious' Potters Rann in all its splendour. Before the Wyrmwood incident, Potters Rann was only know for a squabble between who owned it: the relatively prosperous logging county of the Grey Forest, or the squalid bog-nobles of Hag Mere. Why anyone would want the damp and infested spit of land is beyond most sensible people, but the fight was long, bitter, and left a tradition of secretive, sectarian violence deeply ingrained in the townsfolk.
- In-Game Art Release 4 - 21 October 2024
We open the art countdown for this week with a vision of the misty and miasmic Hag Mere! The conditions in Hag Mere, while horrific compared to even the worst slum, are actually rather typical for a swamp within the UIC's borders. It has been extensively mapped and all known species within it catalogued for archival data. Few sane people live inside it, however. On the periphery people do fish and dredge the scummy water for eels, crabs and whatever other edible creatures breed in its dank depths.
- In-Game Art Release 3 - 18 October 2024
Our first week of previews wraps up with some detailed investigation. You will need to dig deep to come to the heart of the conspiracy in Wyrmwood this Halloween. The conspiracy at the heart of the latest scandal to hit the UIC was detailed and intricate in nature. Documents were analysed by the archivists for days before they were able to discover links between shady bank transactions, movement of goods, falsified work permits, and the like. Only with detailed investigation was the case broken open and the full horror of the situation realised.
- In-Game Art Release 2 - 16 October 2024
The countdown continues with a Witch-Silver Medallion, our second general art page. More news to come, and don't forget that each of these items will also be appearing in our store. Witch-Silver is prohibitively expensive for most people, although some items do make it to market from time to time. Very small amounts, enough to act as a highlight to precious metals like gold or silver, can sometimes be found in protective amulets and medallions. Working with it requires special permits and regular medical check-ups, as handling it for long periods causes symptoms such as nightmares, hair and teeth loss, cancer and minor mutation.
- In-Game Art Release 1 - 14 October 2024
We begin this years countdown with the first art page for Wyrmwood. We will be sticking to the Monday/Wednesday/Friday reveal schedule even though the game will release in the middle of the week, so please keep an eye out for updates as they come in. The study of the arcane is allowed in the UIC only under the strictest of supervision. One of the few lines of application permitted is Runic Invocation. This involves the caster entering a meditative state in which they inscribe the effects they wish to happen into solid objects. These proto-runes are then inlaid with Witch-Silver to add potency. The explosive in this image consists of several disks containing parts of the final rune. When they are mechanically aligned by the clockwork inside the covers they spell out an invocation of fire, which causes the explosion.
