- HOW MANY YEARS?! - 2 April 2025
Hello Vagabonds, Thank you for playing our game. Hard to believe it's been over five years since launch. To celebrate, we're slashing the price on the game forever. Cheers to anyone new discovering our weird little experience. PRICE DROP 🍁 $14.99 CAD 🍔 $14.99 USD (etc, other countries) Double-thanks to our hometown fans. You still remain the best part of this. Lots of love. — Vagabond Dog http://discord.gg/vd
- Season of Pride Event - Build Update #472 - 12 June 2021
From June 9 - June 24, Steam is hosting the Season of Pride event presented by MidBoss which features over 50 LGBTQ+ inclusive games at up to 80% off, along with a bevy of special streaming engagements. In addition, all through July, seasonofpride.tv will be featuring a special Twitch schedule highlighting a fantastic collection of inclusive games played by amazing members of the LGBTQ+ streamers and raising money for The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, and GaymerX. Visit the calendar to follow these individuals on Twitch and stay tuned for the start of this worthwhile fundraiser at the beginning of July. Through the promotion, ASM is 75% off and SAM is 40% off. In addition to these discounts, we've updated Sometimes Always Monsters with a special Pride event, available only through June. The World's Smallest Pride Parade In celebration of Pride and the LGBTQ+ community, a special event…
- Win $250 in the ASM Special Edition Art Contest - 1 June 2021
Hello Vagabond Artists! In the coming months, Vagabond Dog will begin production on a Special Edition of Always Sometimes Monsters. This physical release is being designed for collectors and fans alike, and we want to make it extra nice with some unique bonuses for all to enjoy. To this end, we are hosting a Special Edition Art Contest for all the talented members of our community who would like their work featured in this release. We’ve gathered some fabulous prizes for winners, including a cash award and featured placement in the package for First Prize. We are looking forward to seeing all the creative, clever and expressive artwork that you create as we prepare this Special Edition release of Always Sometimes Monsters. Submissions will be accepted until July 31, 2021. You can find all the details and rules for the contest on the submission portal: forms.gle/Et3aFoLw3NKuppju9 Good lu…
- Always Sometimes Monsters 7th Anniversary Sale - 21 May 2021
Always Sometimes Monsters turns 7 years old today! To celebrate, we're having a franchise-wide sale. 🥳 Get ASM or SAM (and all of their DLCs) 50% off! 👍 Limited Time Only! Check it out on Nintendo Switch as well. https://store.steampowered.com/app/274310 http://store.steampowered.com/app/441440
- Starlust & Startups - Build Update #470 - 15 May 2021
Aaaannndd.... we're back! It's been a little while since we've written one of these update notices, but rest assured this is a good one. While we've been off releasing The Stonks Market, releasing Always Sometimes Monsters on Nintendo Switch, and prepping our studio for the next big project, we've been slowly adding small improvements and new content to Sometimes Always Monsters. While, as mentioned, the studio is getting ready to step into production on its next major production, we remain commited and eager to continue improving SAM and adding new content to the game. More new updates will continue to come in future months, though more periodically than they have previously been. Stay tuned to the Vagabond Dog Twitch Channel for day-to-day developments, join the Discord Server to request content, and stay tuned here to see all the latest updates. Desdemona's Starlust On the beaches of…
- The Stonks Market is Now Available - 5 May 2021
How's your portfolio doing? Today we're pleased to release The Stonks Market, right here on Steam. It's a simple trading simulator with a funny story about a rather clueless guy who gets into all kinds of trouble through the stock market. You'll get access to a basic trading terminal, a stimulus check, and enough time to risk it all gambling on bad plays you've barely researched. All of this while you contend with a frustrated wife, too many know-it-all advisors, and the crippling fear of losing it all in an instant. Kinda like real-life, huh? Whether you're an avid stock bro, a crayon-eating monkey, or never touched a trading app in your life, The Stonks Market is worth a few laughs. We hope you enjoy all its wild characters and bizarre scenarios. ------ The game is available right now with a 25% Launch Discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1554080 You can also pick it up as par…
- Halloween Surprises - Build Update #467 - 29 October 2020
Happy Halloween, everyone! We've got a very special update for those of you who want a little extra spooky with your Monsters. In addition to some fun content that's only available if you play the game on Halloween (or change your system time to match), the entire series is also on sale for the weekend. You can catch both Sometimes Always Monsters and Always Sometimes Monsters as part of Steam's Halloween Spooktacular. http://store.steampowered.com/app/441440 https://store.steampowered.com/app/274310 Spread the word. Spread the terror. We'll have more fun content in the next update, so stay tuned to our Discord, Twitter, and Twitch. Halloween Pranksters Players who are in their home, either by reaching the epilogue or never going on the tour, can enjoy a fun Halloween experience if they play the game on October 31st. Speaking to your spouse while your computer's clock reads 10/31 will h…
- 6 Month Celebration - SAM/ASM Saga Sale - 6 October 2020
Wow. The calendar just kind of melted away, huh? It feels like yesterday we were prepping for launch, and now we're officially 6 months past release. To celebrate, SAM is 30% off, and ASM is 70% off until October 12. A lot has happened in that time (both in-game, and out), but it's been a great ride so far. There have been nearly 60 build updates for Sometimes Always Monsters, including over 600 individual changes, additions or improvements, along with around 30 significant new content additions (features, scenes, or significant characters). Needless to say, the game has changed a lot since launch, and will continue to evolve as we casually work on it. We still love adding things, improving the experience, and expanding the world players can explore with each subsequent playthrough. Thanks to its success, we have runway to continue doing this for the foreseeable future, and appreciate a…
- Fake Saves & Soap Suds - Build Update #458 - 3 September 2020
We've had a pretty busy month since the last update... In addition to building and releasing Karen: An Outrage Simulator, we've been cooking up some new content for Dog Gone Golfing, and delivering high-quality development streams almost every day on our Twitch Channel. Atop all that, we've not forgotten our commitment to continually improving the Sometimes Always Monsters, and have thus prepared another juicy update since the release of the Author Outfit DLC Pack. Although we're only working about 3 days per week on new SAM content as we expand into new projects, we'll be keeping a maintainable schedule as the months roll on. Our hope is to keep adding new free content for all of you to enjoy, as long as we can manage it on the calendars. We truly love this game, and appreciate the amazing reception to these regular updates. Save Faker Long requested (even before the release), we've fi…
- Karen: An Outrage Simulator - Available Now! - 27 August 2020
Attention gamers, Our new title, Karen: An Outrage Simulator has officially released. It is now available for your gaming pleasure! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1361110 Grab a copy and enjoy the thrill of becoming the ultimate Karen, arguing your way to the top, and crush the underpaid souls of the customer service employees in a bid to get everything you deserve! Available now with a 15% Discount during its launch!
- Author Outfits & NPCs - Build Update #457 - 7 August 2020
If it's been a little while since your first time through Sometimes Always Monsters, we've got a hot new update that's makes it a great time to re-enter for another tour across the country with your writer pals. In addition to a stack of new content that's been added since launch (and more in this patch), we've also added the Author Outfits DLC to add some fresh styles to your fellow author companions. It's available right now for only $1.99, or even cheaper with the 25% launch discount until August 11. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341860 In addition to the amazing new outfits, we've got a bunch of new stuff that's slowly been added to the game over the past month. Character Selector Players who want to select which main character they'll play in Sometimes Always Monsters can now talk to the Dir. Nona character in the break room during the intro (while still controlling Shelly).…
- Fans, Fury, & Puzzles - Build Update #447 - 29 May 2020
Wow, this one took way longer than expected. That's the way it goes sometimes, apparently. For a single piece of content, the new fan (Aaron) turned out to require a significant amount of extra testing (Thanks Ash) because of it's many extra choices and endings. It's one of those situations where we had this specific apex moment we wanted to reach, but the lead-to and fallout both required a sizable amount of variance to follow the "real choice" logic that SAM typically demands. Would have felt dishonest cutting the options short or pasting them into eachother, so it came down to just writing a ton of extra script and adding appropriate variability mechanics based on your character's stats. Anyway, it's a cool scene, and we hope you enjoy it. Going forward, we hope to add more content like it if people are interested in it. It's a little less like some of the world-features, and a lot m…
- Quarters and Calls - Build Update #441 - 15 May 2020
This week we felt like working on some more opportunities to hang out with the other authors, as it's one of the elements about the game that's most fun for most players. A new commentary system has been developed that's going to make it even easier to add little sit-down conversations with your fellow scribes, and (apart from the breadth of writing) they can be implemented with relative ease. In coming updates this is likely to manifest as opportunities to chat over coffee, or other similar situations. We also resolved a common request to summon authors to you via phone call. The feature has been tested fairly thoroughly on the public beta over the past week, but it is a game-wide change and so it's possible there may still be some situations where authors can be inappropriately accessed. If you run into any weird, just let us know. We've got a clever setup for quick fixes on this part…
- Character Romance - Build Update #438 - 7 May 2020
So, we're running a sale on both Sometimes Always Monsters and Always Sometimes Monsters for the next few days. This promotion is part of an effort to help the conclusion of the INDIE MEGABOOTH organization which is shutting down due to the situation surrounding COVID-19. The folks at the IMB have been incredibly supportive of Vagabond Dog over the years, and helped us get the exposure we did during our first showcase events. We've been grateful to be part of the community ever since, and are hoping that this sale will help ease the transition for the organization as gaming events worldwide cease operation. Check out the massive sale, help one of the pillars of the indie game community, and grab some cool indie games in the process. There's tons of fantastic titles on discount. As part of the promotion we'll continue doing daily streams for both Always Sometimes Monsters and Sometimes A…
- Drunk Burger Haggling - Build Update #434 - 29 April 2020
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/556dac52e4b0ee2d2b00bf59/1588138211201-B4TAH295SU14ROCSPA8W/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kCB3CNBHuh5gNUHH1w1RTTNZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZamWLI2zvYWH8K3-s_4yszcp2ryTI0HqTOaaUohrI8PIss06YbmjSOo91en5rvq4A7CuEkHlvyTjYbQEJ6pSdNg/Post+Header.png?format=1000w We had a really interesting weekend with LudoNarraCon and our first experiences doing development livestreams. It was really invigorating to have a bunch of you watch our process making new content, and join the chat to leave extra suggestions. We'd never considered having such a collaborative development experience, but it's been a lot of fun. In addition to getting to talk with all of you and show off our ridiculous workflow, we actually got a lot of things finished. This update, more than others, has a lot of new content to enjoy. Check it all out: New Content: Seafood Vendors Two n…
- SAM Development with Vagabond Dog - 4:30 PM EST - 25 April 2020
Hey gang, We're doing another developer livestream really soon! You can watch it right here, starting at 4:30 PM EST: https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561197970929040 Last night's stream was ridiculous and a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who joined us. Together, we managed to make a new Seafood Vendor who lives in New Creole. You can buy his daily catch of lobsters and shrimp, haggle for better prices, and help put his kid through college! We also finished a new feature where you'll be able to take the authors (or your spouse) with you to Bullet Burger and chow down on piles of hamburgers while you talk shit about the others on the bus. No idea what we're going to make tonight, but if you're keen to see how Sometimes Always Monsters gets put together, then join the stream chat and hit us with your requests and suggestions as we add new content for the patch going out early…
- Developer Livestreams through LudoNarraCon - 24 April 2020
This weekend, Always Sometimes Monsters and Sometimes Always Monsters are being featured as part of the LudoNarraCon digital games convention. It's an event happening here on Steam that celebrates a variety of independent narrative games with sales, demos, and livestreams. That means that from April 24 to April 27, you'll be able to pick up Always Sometimes Monsters for 80% discount. Also, If you already own ASM, then you can now grab its sequel, Sometimes Always Monsters via the SAM / ASM Saga Bundle for just $17. Throughout the weekend, we'll be livestreaming both gameplay and development of Sometimes Always Monsters right on the main store page of the game. Check it out, as the devs will be answering questions and taking requests for additions to the game. We're excited to bring the event to you this weekend, and hope you'll take this opportunity to check out the new game, convince y…
- Still Back At It - Build Update #429 - 24 April 2020
As we said in the last patch, it's probably impossible to reach a truly bugfree state for the game. Just as we finished crushing the list we were given, more reports began to pop up. Considering our plans to continue adding content to the game, this is likely to continue as new features get tossed in the mix. Speaking of adding new content, this build features a number of recent additions that help with guidance and some random sprinkles of extra story, exposition, and flavor for various characters and sequences. A lot of the ideas for these changes have come from watching a handful of players who've been streaming their gameplay, which has given us some interesting ideas for new additions. Our next update is also likely to include some new stuff, as we'll be entering LudoNarraCon this weekend and we plan to run some livestreams on Sometimes Always Monsters store page starting at 1 PM E…
- ALL CLEAR?! - Build Update #427 - 21 April 2020
It's been a few weeks since Sometimes Always Monsters released, and this is our 10th update to the game. With the over 80 changes below, we've officially updated over 400 ticket items. While a truly bugfree game is beyond feasibility, we genuinely feel that your experience playing through Sometimes Always Monsters now will be vastly improved over what you may have seen at launch. This is suggested by a large number of fans in the Community Discord, as well as others on the Steam Forums who have been playing the various updates as they've come. Both of us are very dedicated to this game, and appreciate the support and passion all the players have exhibited. We've listened carefully to all the feedback and have addressed what we could for now, and made plans for additional content in the future for some desires that need longer to satisfy. We always planned on this game being something yo…
- Sweet Tunes & Tuning - Build Update #421 - 15 April 2020
The official Sometimes Always Monsters soundtrack from LASER DESTROYER TEAM is now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286800/Sometimes_Always_Monsters_Soundtrack/ Grab a copy and enjoy a sweet selection of 17 tracks from Sometimes Always Monsters, including full themes for each of the authors, that killer finale track, and much more audio goodness. In addition to the album, we're pushing another juicy patch with some more fixes and updates to various things in the game. Nothing too major in this one, but happy to see the latest reports still coming in as we round down our list of bugs to squash. We've heard significantly fewer complaints regarding continuity confusion, and some compliments about the latest sequence additions that clarify things. Those of you who've been replaying since these changes, we're really glad to hear your thoughts on them. Here's what's in the update…
