- Island Off Outer Dancing OST Now Available - 12 September 2026
The original soundtrack for the sequel to Island Off Outer Darkness is now available on Bandcamp! Get it here!
- v2.2.0 Now Live - 4 September 2026
I randomly had a font of energy this morning and my wrist isn't hurting anymore so I banged out a small update I've had planned awhile to pair with IOODancing's recent release. If you haven't seen yet, IOOD's sequel is out, go download it, it's free.Patch notes:Redesigned the layout of 12.6.'s aberration.Slightly changed Marnia's dialogue to accommodate these changes.Swapped positions of Bald Eagle and Crow on 13.6..Slightly changed Marnia's dialogue to accommodate this change, as well as added a little to flesh out the difference.Added short snippets of new dialogue very sparsely to fill out some previously-lacking dialogue trees.Added one spotlight on Rekkieg to 8.6. and 12.6. to better guide players out into the seabed.Added an arrow of yellow paint to 6.6..Added some topic links in Bucephalus, Aleks, and Clavichord's dialogues that they previously lacked.Added Leonargo's description…
- Island Off Outer Dancing Out Now! - 1 September 2026
What it says on the tin! Download it here, for FREE!
- Island Off Outer Dancing releasing August 28th! - 19 August 2026
You won't have to wait much longer, 'cause Island Off Outer Dancing is releasing next Friday for free! Wishlist it and pick it up when it launches. If you haven't bought Island Off Outer Darkness yet, it's on sale for 30% off 'till the end of the month, giving you plenty of time to finish it in time for Island Off Outer Dancing.Best wishes, y'all, and thanks for all the support!
- v2.1.1 Now Live - 23 June 2026
That's right y'all: non-standard Unicode characters are now (broadly) fixed on Linux. They're still screwed up for italic characters, though. Thankfully, italics are extremely rare in Island Off Outer Darkness, so, you shouldn't see that much (though it is in the first dialogue in the game, lol). The fix has possible broad implications on text spacing throughout the entire game, and I have not replayed it since implementing the fix, so if something seems strange or different, report that to me! And NOT IN STEAM COMMUNITY, please, lemme know on one of my official social medias or my email. I like never check the Steam Community tab. Full patch notes:Fixes some Linux issues with the default fontset not including some unicode charactersAdds a setting to artificially set the game's completion status (only available when accessed on title menu)Changed some settings languageFixed the initial…
- v2.1.0 Now Live - 17 June 2026
v2.1.0 is now live, which, importantly, adds official in-game screenshot support, as well as some compatibility additions for Steam Deck. I've also now tested the game on Steam Controller, and I can definitely state, if you are not going to use Mouse + Keyboard, then Steam Controller is the best gamepad for Island Off Outer Darkness.Alongside v2.1.0 going live, I'm excited to announce the Steam page for Island Off Outer Dancing is now live! You can go wishlist it to be notified when it releases — and then pick it up for free! The plan is for Island Off Outer Dancing to be 100% free.Now, for the complete v2.1.0 patch notes:Added native screenshot support using /, \\, and ' (with each either giving a regular screenshot, a screenshot with the UI disappeared, or a screenshot with the Postman & UI disappeared)Added a link to the user's screenshots folder within the Extras menuAdded a link to…
- Island Off Outer Dancing releasing this summer - for free! - 2 May 2026
Island Off Outer Darkness has gotten a massive wave of attention the past week thanks to Side Story's podcast about it (and Titanium Court). Massive thanks to Austin Walker, Keith Carberry, Jack de Quidt, and also Blood Machine (for their initial Bluesky post) — over 80% of IOOD's lifetime sales have been in just the past two weeks! It's genuinely insane, and I'm unutterably grateful for their words and the light they've shone my way. Getting to the big announcement (which I've been sorta public about elsewhere): Island Off Outer Darkness is getting a sequel, this summer! I've been working on it with some of the team from IOOD for about a month now, and have had it planned for much longer than that. It's going to be quite different, as it's a rhythm game, not a narrative delivery simulator. But it does follow these characters in a very unique scenario, and I hope you play it when it rel…
- 2.0.1 Now Live - 16 March 2026
Patch Notes:Mirror Mode now reverts applicable portraits to their 1.0.0 appearance, as well as mirroring all that have remained unchanged.Gave special Mirror Mode behavior to Klamm, whose portrait partially-inverts in the style of :srs_invert:, and the Compurgator, who will instead use their previously-unused portrait by undead pvnk.Added a note about this to file creation.Train Mode now causes the player to make a train horn sound upon moving forward, disableable via the footsteps toggle.Added some text to the footsteps toggle explanation to imply that it also disables the train horn sound.Fixed the footsteps toggle not silencing all footsteps.Fixed the player being able to open menus from previous days while the current day is loading.Edited some dialogue to streamline 1.4..Added a recommendation to disable unique character fonts if the player has dyslexia or a similar condition that…
- 2.0.0 Now Live - 30 January 2026
Major New Additions:Added controller support.Must be enabled from the Options menu. Glyphs for the Xbox Wireless Controller, the DualShock 4, the DualSense, the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, the Steam Controller, and the GameCube Controller are included as an option (as well as generic glyphs).Added 30 rare variants of 20 regular/nocturnal/chill fish, 2 rare variants of 2 poudrins, and 1 unique rare fish.Rare variants are placed after their associated fish in the Compendium and have unique descriptions and character responses. They are worth identical DP to their associated fish.Rare variants can be caught in place of their associated fish at varying rates, provided you have already caught the base fish.Lucky will make most rare variants have 1/24th higher base odds. Utilizing Multivalent bait will double the rare fish odds.The roll for catching a rare variant utilizes a different RNG…
- v1.1.2 Now Live - 5 September 2025
Super minor update that fixes some bugs and adds a new upgrade on subsequent playthroughs that adds some QOL to the Compendium. Patch notes:Added an upgrade available on repeat playthroughs that allows you to see crops and fish you had caught on previous playthroughs in the Compendium.Changed the order of fish in the Compendium.All regular-type fish appear first, then all pluripotent-type fish, then all chill-type fish, then all nocturnal-type fish, then all luck-type fish.Changed Steam minimum system requirements to be identical to my laptop, with a note that the game can run on worse hardware.Optimized somewhat Compendium performance.Removed a disclaimer from the opening sequence.Fixed an improperly-set-up ☇ response.
- v1.1.1 Now Live — IOOD OST Now Available! - 31 August 2025
CalamityRhapsody has put together and released their complete Island Off Outer Darkness Original Soundtrack. If you've played some of the game then you already know how good it is. Go support them on Bandcamp and listen to it on YouTube! Here's the Bandcamp link again. It's a name-your-price download, so go name your price and download it!Here's a YouTube embed for the full 2 hour 48 minute thing. It's so good.If anybody's curious, my favorite track is It Settles, the song that plays during Week 4. I love them all though.Alongside this, v1.1.1 of Island Off Outer Darkness is now live! Other than adding links to the OST to the Extras menu, this update is mostly bugfixes, though I did also do the fishing metagame calcs and added some of that info as a topic exclusive to repeat playthroughs. Full patch notes: ADDITIONS: Added links in the Extras menu to the OST's Bandcamp page and a full u…
- v1.1.0 Now Available! - 19 August 2025
It's out! Isn't that awesome. Addharthus has a new portrait, by the wonderful undead pvnk (who also made Homi's portrait, which has been in the game since the release version). So shoutouts to them! There's a new delivery after the intermission, as well as some minor changes to general dialogue throughout the game as well as bugfixes. Full patch notes:Added a new portrait for Addharthus, by undead pvnk.Added a new delivery after the Bruegel Intermission that I forgot to include in the game but intended to by the end of development.Added a few more topic responses for various characters.Added a few more reactions to various weather events/aberrations.Added a new upgrade for repeat playthroughs that allows one to toggle on fixed RNG for fishing.Fixed RNG is seeded by the day, and can be activated daily. All fishing-related upgrades are disabled while active.This is in order to make achiev…
- v.1.0.2 Now Live - 28 July 2025
Second post-launch minor update. I have a changelog for this one — oh my! - Prettied up transitions to and from black.- Added a Help/Contact section to the Extras Menu.- Added possible "wrong person" dialogue to the first 4.1. delivery.- Added "No Delivery" dialogue for Dulcimer and Ukulen.- Added web links to Godot documentation for some settings, clarified some settings.- Added fog to the Low graphics option for weeks 1, 2, and 3, changed the fog density for the High graphics option for week 3.- Changed the spawn density for snow particles, changed the appearance of the secondary particle effects for 5.5..- Changed some tutorials near the beginning of the game.- Changed and added a few devnotes.- Fixed the Pop-up Menu having different settings descriptions than the Settings Menu.- Removed a particularly confusing and unneeded setting from the Pop-up Menu.- Fixed a bug involving delive…
- Debug Flag Accidentally Set in v.1.0.1, Now Fixed - 25 July 2025
A debug flag that caused the play to appear at the end of the game was accidentally set during testing for v.1.0.1 and was never reset. I am mortified by this, and I apologize intensely for this being the case. It is now fixed, and if you reset your save data, your save file should be fixed. I am so sorry.
- v.1.0.1 Now Live - 24 July 2025
Hey y'all I changed my mind about not having achievements for two of the optional modes for New Game +. I also changed my mind about some sentences and wording near the end of the game.Next post-launch update will just be some developer notes that have come to my mind now that the game's finished development, and shouldn't affect any non-devnotes playthroughs (a selectable option once you've beaten the game). There is a much larger post-launch update planned that I haven't begun work on, which I'll announce as I begin work on it.Thanks for playing the game everybody (:
- Island Off Outer Darkness is now out! - 24 July 2025
It's been a long time coming. Exciting times! Hope you enjoy the game or, at the very least, get something out of it. - Zug
- Incompatible with Steam Deck - 16 July 2025
Island Off Outer Darkness is not compatible with Steam Deck at this time. To summarize, I designed the game for a 1440 x 1080 display and mouse and keyboard without much thought as to other displays or controller support, and it seriously limits what I can do now without an overhaul. The current Steam Deck has a resolution of 1280 x 800, and Island Off Outer Darkness requires a 1440 x 1080 display at minimum, due to how the UI and camera systems are designed. These are pretty core to the game systems, and would require a significant overhaul to make function at smaller resolutions. Otherwise, the game's UI is not designed for controllers, as it mimics Morrowind's UI, and most menu handling is designed for either Mouse or (WASD + Arrow Keys + Spacebar + E). In the future, I may implement support for a 1066 x 800 resolution mode for the Steam Deck, as well as optimize the menus for mixed…
