- Korean localization - 18 July 2026
Added Korean language support
- Update Notes For Sept 12 - 12 September 2023
Fix cinematics not playing on some configurations
- Studio behind one of 2023's most thought-provoking games has laid off over half their staff - 27 June 2023
Scavengers Studio have laid off more than half their staff after photography-biking adventure Season: A Letter To The Future failed to meet commercial expectations. In an email to employees shared with GamesIndustry.biz , CEO Amélie Lamarche said “the game only sold 60,000 copies during its first five months, which falls far short of what the studio needs to survive.” Lamarche notes that discounts, critical praise, and game updates didn’t move the needle, and now only 16 employees are left at the studio after downsizing. Read more
- The developers of one of PlayStation’s best exclusives faces massive layoffs - 27 June 2023
Scavengers Studio, the Montreal-based developer behind Season and Darwin Project, is laying off over half of its employees following low sales on its latest game. Season, an indie darling and one of PlayStation's best exclusives in recent years, appears to have sold less than 60,000 copies according to French journalist Gauthier Andres . This was in spite of numerous trailers and critical acclaim for Season , a game that seems to have been a massive hit among a small crowd. In an update provided to Gamesindustry.biz , the developer shared the internal announcement sent around the studio by CEO Amélie Lamarche last week. It states: "While Season received critical acclaim, it did not meet our commercial expectations." The statement then confirms initial reporting from Andres: "Despite our efforts to boost sales through content updates and discounts, the game only sold 60,000 copies during…
- SEASON: A letter to the future - March 15, 2023 Patch Notes - 15 March 2023
Thanks to the Season community members for their feature and improvement requests for the game! We’re happy to announce that we have added quite a few fun new features, bug fixes and improvements to Season. Steam Deck is now fully supported! We’ve also added Steam trading cards, badges, emoticons and profile backgrounds! As well, there are new improvements to the bike collision system. Players should notice their ride is less affected by small environmental pieces. The patch also includes optimizations that improve overall performance. Due to numerous requests, players will now also be able to view their journal after the game’s ending! Journal customization proved to be the most popular tool in our game, and we expanded on that aspect of the player journey by providing a final glimpse into their own journal after coming to the end of their trip. Please note: Players must launch their s…
- 09/02/2023 Patch Notes - 9 February 2023
Today we’ve released a new build to improve and fix the following areas of the game: Improvements: Added an “Unstuck” button in the pause menu Improved the bike collision system Updated DLSS with the latest NVIDIA plugin version (PC only) Fixes: Fixed multiple crashes Fixed many collisions throughout the game, preventing characters from climbing on them Fixed some save system issues that would cause an incorrect state when loading a save Fixed a bug where the bike tutorial would remain visible even after being completed Fixed some floating assets throughout the game Fixed some assets which were popping up only when player was close Fixed two save zones in Tieng Valley that were not working as intended Fixed an issue where some voice lines would be missing from the ending cinematic (in French) Fixed a bug where the settings menu would not work properly on certain resolutions (PC only) Fi…
- Season: A Letter to the Future review - 3 February 2023
There's nothing I love more than a game world that wants to tell me a story, but it's rare that I'm the one asked to do the telling. Season: A Letter To The Future has a vast horizon when it starts, painting a fascinating post-apocalyptic-ish setting where the player is tasked with documenting what they find. Yet the more I travel through Season, the more its vista shrinks, taken up instead by the story its narrator wants to tell and leaving no room for my own exploration... Read more.
- SEASON: A letter to the future - February 1 2023 Patch Notes - 1 February 2023
Fixed an issue where players with an intermittent or weak internet connection got a waiting to "Access Permission" message. Players may now access the game when playing offline or with an unreliable internet connection.
- Медленно и скучно: Обзор Season: A Letter to the Future - 29 January 2023
В последний день января независимая канадская команда Scavengers Studio выпускает Season: A Letter to the Future . Компания была основана в 2015 году и до этого отметилась дебютом «королевской битвы» Darwin Project , релиз которой состоялся три года назад.
- Season: A Letter To The Future review: a melancholy travelogue of a gorgeous post-war world - 26 January 2023
Season: A Letter To The Future begins with a goodbye. You wander around your home for the last time, choosing five objects which inspire deep memories that spur each of the five senses. You then place them into a cauldron one by one, your mother keeping a watchful eye. The ritual comes to an end and the result is a small glowing pendant that will protect you from the dangers of the outside world. “You must promise me never to take the pendant off,” your mother says. The Goodbye ritual is finished, and you leave, knowing you’ll never see your mother or your hometown ever again, all as the prophecy foretold. It’s a fantastic - if sad - start to Season, and gets straight to the heart of the adventure ahead of you. This is a world where prayers, rituals, and prophecies hold great weight, and where you'll be exploring the fragility and fickleness of memory. Underpinning everythin…
- Season: A letter to the future - Tiefgründiges Roadtrip-Abenteuer startet Ende Januar - 12 January 2023
Tauche ein in die atmosphärische Welt von Season, steig auf dein Fahrrad und brich auf zu einem faszinierenden Abenteuer. » Komplette News auf pressakey.com lesen » Season: A letter to the future auf pressakey.com
- NEW Story Trailer out today! - 12 January 2023
In SEASON: A letter to the future, you play as a young woman from a secluded village exploring the world by bike for the first time, collecting memories before a cataclysm washes everything away. SEASON is a quest to discover a new world; one unknown yet familiar. Document, photograph, and record life as you find it, while you still can. The gameplay of SEASON: A letter to the future focuses on exploring, recording, meeting others, and unraveling the strange world around you. At any point, you can hop off your bike and equip a recording tool from your bag. Each captures a different element; sounds and music, art and architecture, voices of old people, vanishing religious practices, the traces of seasons long past. Your tools help you examine the world more closely until you’re able to grasp the culture, history, and ecology underneath everything.
- A new trailer for scenic travelogue Season shows who you’ll meet on your bicycle travels - 12 January 2023
Cosy photographic biking adventure Season: A Letter To The Future is out on January 31st, and a new trailer reveals a little more about the game’s story and the people you’ll meet on your journey. Season puts you in the loafers of Estelle, a young woman from an isolated village who sets off on a two-wheeled trek to capture and preserve memories from her home valley before a soggy disaster wipes them off the map. You can watch the trailer below for a glimpse of Season’s very pretty, but doomed, world. Read more
- Video: An interview with a playtester - 14 November 2022
We chatted with Towen who played SEASON earlier this year and got to know his thoughts on the experience. SEASON: A letter to the future releases Q1 2023, wishlist now.
- An Interview / The Narrative Design of Season - 14 July 2022
Hello fellow travellers! Welcome back to our monthly blog posts, where we’ll be looking more in-depth into Season: a letter to the future – and peek behind the curtain to see what inspires our team. We’ll use this space to tell you more about our world, our characters and the talented team of individuals working on the game. In this month’s instalment, we will chat with Narrative Designer Megan Hutchison about the world of Season, its roots, and what we can expect from it when we explore it soon. Caption: Season: a letter to the future Questions with Megan! 1. Let’s start off with one that lots of folks get wrong, what exactly does a Narrative Designer do? On Season, the narrative designers do story integration into gameplay mechanics. That is a bit of a wide net that I’ve cast there, but it is easiest to think of narrative designers as the bridge between game designers and writers. We…
- An Interview / The Level Design of Season - 5 May 2022
Hello fellow travellers! Welcome back to our monthly blog posts, where we’ll be looking more in-depth into Season – and peek behind the curtain to see what inspires our team. We’ll be using this space to tell you more about our world, our characters and the talented team of individuals working on the game. In this month’s instalment, we will be sharing a deep dive with Level Designer Oli Reeves about what goes into making a world fit for players to discover. Caption: Season Questions with Oli! 1. What considerations do you need to make as a level designer to keep things unique to Season’s Art style? In regards to Season’s art style and my approach to level design, two elements came to mind regarding our aesthetic: lighting and composition. Given that the art direction is driven by a variation of toon shading, we have only two nuances of lighting: shadow and light. This also affects the…
- The Art Direction of Season - 17 March 2022
This post was originally shared on our website blog in January 2022, and we are now sharing it here! Hello fellow travellers! Welcome back to our monthly blog posts, where we’ll be looking more in-depth into Season – and peek behind the curtain to see what inspires our team. We’ll be using this space to tell you more about our world, our characters, and to tell you more about the talented team of individuals working on the game. In this month’s installment – we’re taking a look at the art direction of Season. We’ll be deconstructing the “how” and “why” we’ve made Season look the way it looks, and talk about the art and visuals that influenced us. We hope this gives you some inspiration of your own! It has been our hope to make Season look like the concept art we originally conceived for it. Using custom shaders and other tools within the Unreal Engine, we’ve worked to make every frame o…
- February 2022 Blog Update / The Protagonist - 16 February 2022
Hello fellow travellers! Welcome back to our monthly blog posts, where we’ll be looking more in-depth into Season – and peek behind the curtain to see what inspires our team. We’ll be using this space to tell you more about our world, our characters and the talented team of individuals working on the game. In this month’s instalment, we’ll be taking a first look at the protagonist of Season. You’ve seen her in our trailer, on our posts, and in our concept art. Let’s talk about how she looks and moves and how her appearance has grown over the development of Season. She is your view into the world of Season. Here is where she started. The Protagonist of Season Season is a unique game that eschews action to explore the subtle power of lived experience. The beauty of the art and the landscapes calls for a minimalist approach to the characters. In Season, we discover a few people still going…
- Audit into Scavenger Studio 'did not find the presence of systemic sexual or psychological harassment' - 11 June 2021
n audit into Season developer Scavenger Studio recently concluded, finding no evidence of systemic sexual or psychological harassment, according to a public statement released on the Scavenger website... Read more.
- Playtesters wanted for Season - 16 March 2021
We couldn’t create great games without player feedback. Your comments and ideas are important for us to help improve our games. If you would like to aid in our game development process, this is your chance to become a playtester for our new game Season. We need playtesters to try different parts of the game, to answer a simple survey or even to play the whole game! Register by answering the survey here: https://www.scavengers.ca/playtest/ Considering the present circumstances related to COVID-19, you have the opportunity to play the game from the comfort of your home. As the health and safety of players and employees is important to us, playtesting will not be occurring at the studio. Wherever you are in the world, this is your first opportunity to see Season before everyone else! - Season Team
