- Our studio new title is now available in Early Access! - 10 September 2026
Hello Chosen Ones,It's been some time since we shared news on this page but it is a big day today as our brand new title, Ex Sanguis, is now available in Early Access! Inspired by Othercide, but in a brand new universe, Ex Sanguis shares not only the studio of Othercide, but the color palette and timeline being your main weapon will obviously ring a bell to many of you!Ex Sanguis combines dynamic turn-based combat, strategically triggering epic chains of events across the battlefield, with a roguelite loop making of your failures a path towards improvements and power!You can read more about the game and the Early Access in their dedicated news: What is amazing is that we have a soaked in blood bundle with Ex Sanguis so you can explore the similarities and differences between the two titles, all without shedding blood!We would be delighted and honored that our Othercide community would j…
- Othercide developer's new game! - 20 November 2025
Hello Chosen Ones,Long time no see! We've been working on a game recently, some of you might think, "Well I know this aesthetic!" And you would be right! We're working on a new game inspired by Othercide, but in a brand new universe: Ex Sanguis.Wishlist now!We were really pleased and excited by the reception of Othercide at release on all the platforms. You were also quite a few to enjoy the artbook and OST of the game. So we decided to keep doing what we do best: strategy games with black, white and red art direction!To give you a bit more information, in Ex Sanguis, you lead a group of Stillae, elite warriors fighting to save a dying world from the forces of Stasis and restore the flow of life.Your perfect planPlan your next moves with dynamic turn-based combat, strategically triggering epic chains of events across the battlefield:Use Timeline Effects to speed up, delay or swap time p…
- The creators of Othercide, the grimmest TRPG ever made, are making a superhero dating sim - 13 December 2023
Othercide from French developer Lightbulb Crew is one of my favourite recent tactics RPGs . It's an atmospheric and rewardingly meticulous experience that typically pits you against overwhelming numbers, where victory comes about by carefully exploiting reaction abilities, positioning your troop of weary warriors just-so, and manipulating the initiative bar. At times, for me, it's up there with Into The Breach . But I do acknowledge that it's an acquired taste , not least because the narrative and extra-dimensional setting are relentlessly unpleasant - a terrible soup of mother metaphors and Penny Dreadful imagery, in which you pit clones against Silent Hill monsters, then liquefy the survivors to spawn new characters. What's the appropriate way to follow up a game like that? Ah yes, with an episodic dating sim. Read more
- The creators of Othercide, the grimmest TRPG ever made, are making a superhero dating sim - 12 December 2023
Othercide from French developer Lightbulb Crew is one of my favourite recent tactics RPGs . It's an atmospheric and rewardingly meticulous experience that typically pits you against overwhelming numbers, where victory comes about by carefully exploiting reaction abilities, positioning units just-so, and manipulating the initiative bar. At times, for me, it's up there with Into The Breach . But I do acknowledge that it's an acquired taste , not least because the story and setting are relentlessly unpleasant, a terrible soup of mother metaphors and Penny Dreadful imagery, in which you pit clones against Silent Hill monsters, then liquefy the survivors to fuel new characters. What's the appropriate way to follow up a game like that? Ah yes, with an episodic dating sim. Read more
- Last updates and DLC coming to Xbox and Playstation - 17 May 2022
Greeting Chosen Ones, We have a special announcement for console players today. All the last updates, patches and the Dressed To Kill DLC are coming to Playstation 4 and Xbox One Buy Othercide and its DLC on console here: https://t.co/Diee04giUS Reminder of the main features the last updates contain: 🩸 Sharing is Caring Update (free) Players are now able to use the Seed system to share their runs with friends. It's great to compete in the same conditions and see who is the best! Console players will now be able to participate to Beat The Seed Challenges! Isn't it great? More competitors 😈 🩸 Beauty Will Remain Updates (free) Customization is now added for free to the game! In the daughter overview, you can change your daughters' hairstyles, clothes, weapon skins, shard effects, etc. 🩸 Dressed To Kill DLC (paid) This DLC offers more customization options. If you'd like to have a look…
- Beat the Seed Challenge! - 13 May 2022
Greeting Chosen Ones, We've got something for you: a new Beat the Seed challenge on Discord! 🎁 Win an Exclusive Othercide physical artbook + special announcement for Xbox and Playstation players 👀 📅 May 12 - May 16 To facilitate the collection of results, the challenge will be handled on Discord. Join our Discord: click here 🩸 A reminder of the Seed system: The Seed system allows you to play and compare your progress with friends. A Seed is a code (a small line of digits between 6 and 7) that determines everything in a campaign: the order of missions spawned, the monsters encountered and the stats of the player's characters. Sharing a Seed with a friend brings comparison and competition to the game: - You will find your Seed number by going to the option menu in game and check the bottom right corner of your screen. - To use someone else's Seed, you will need to start a new save. Th…
- Othercide on TikTok - 2 May 2022
Greetings Chosen Ones, We know that some players crave more Othercide content, that's why we wanted to share a special TikTok account with you. The development studio behind Othercide, Lightbulb Crew, has created a TikTok account with a lot of exclusive content. Follow us: Othercide on TIKTOK You can also search for 'Lightbulb Crew' on TikTok. You will find: Exclusive announcements, Development processes, Behind-the-scenes moments, Trends with game mechanics A ton of funny things! Hope you will enjoy your time there! Othercide team
- Post Update and DLC Patch - 16 December 2021
Greetings Chosen Ones, After the Beauty Will Remain Update and Dressed To Kill DLC launched on December 13 and proposing you a customization feature, some players reported a bug that reset the weapon appearance during specific actions. To offer you the best game experience in Othercide, here is a Patch fixing this issue. Thank you for your amazing support. We hope you like the new update and DLC. Othercide team Patch notes Saves created from an older version are now loadable (GOG issue only) When triggering a cutscene in fight (backstabs, interruption skills, etc.) the weapons are no longer resetting to the default appearance
- The Othercide Dressed To Kill - Cosmetics Pack DLC - 13 December 2021
Chosen Ones, The Dressed To Kill - Cosmetics Pack is a paid DLC with exclusive cusomization options linked with the Beauty Will Remain Update which contains a new customization feature for the daughters. All info about the Beauty Will Remain Update here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/798490/view/3149701079619875585 The update and paid DLC are now available on Steam and GOG. Expand the variety and flair of your daughters’ looks with the Dressed to Kill - Cosmetics Pack including outfits, eyes and weapons skin variations. Tailor each Daughter’s appearance before sending them to battle the Suffering. The Dressed to Kill - Cosmetics Pack includes: 5 Outfit variants for each Daughter archetype 18 additional eye variations 16 weapon skins for each Daughter archetype The new customization feature is available in the daughters overview thanks to the free Beauty Will Remain Update. Don…
- The Beauty Will Remain Update and DLC are now live! - 13 December 2021
Chosen Ones, The Beauty Will Remain Update is now live on Steam and GOG. This update, containing a new customization feature and bugfixes, is accompanied by the Dressed To Kill - Cosmetics Pack, a paid DLC with exclusive design options for the daughters and their weapons. 🩸 A new customization feature: A whole new feature has been added to Othercide: a customization tool. You will now be able to modify your daughters' appearance as much as you want. The weapons are also customizable now. To do so, you will have to go to the daughters overview. You just need to click on "R" to customize your daughter. There, you can either rename your daughter or change her appearance. 🩸 Customization options in the update: Hairtcuts: 25 variations common for all archetype (base game content, but ability to choose between them) Eyes: 12 variations common for all archetype (base game content, but abilit…
- A new update and DLC for Othercide - 10 December 2021
Chosen Ones, We're proud to announce that the Beauty Will Remain Update and the Dressed To Kill - Cosmetics Pack will be live on December 13. This update will contain a new feature and a certain number of bugfixes. As you may have noticed with the images shared on our social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and Discord server, a totally new feature will be implemented in the game. Have a look at the teasers on social media: Eyes modification on a daughter Weapons with a new skin It's official, Othercide will have a customization feature! You will be able to change your daughters' eye colors, haistyles, garments, etc. We always read carefuly your suggestions in the Discord and on Steam. Modifying the appearance of your daughters was asked really often and we wanted to give you the possibility to have a personalized experience in Othercide. In June with the Sharing Is Caring Update, y…
- Beat the Seed Challenge - 5 November 2021
Greetings, Chosen Ones, Even if the spooky month is over, we've got something for you! We're pleased to announce that a Beat the Seed challenge will start today, November 5 and end on November 9. It's you chance to win an Othercide 4 pin set. To facilitate the collection of results, the challenge will be handled on Discord. Join our Discord: click here 🩸 A reminder of the Seed system: The Seed system allows you to play and compare your progress with friends. A Seed is a code (a small line of digits between 6 and 7) that determines everything in a campaign: the order of missions spawned, the monsters encountered and the stats of the player's characters. Sharing a Seed with a friend brings comparison and competition to the game: - You will find your Seed number by going to the option menu in game and check the bottom right corner of your screen. - To use someone else's Seed, you will nee…
- Post Update Patch - 28 June 2021
Greetings Chosen Ones, After the Sharing Is Caring Update launched on June 23rd, some players reported a bug that could block your progression on era 5 if some specific conditions are met. To offer you the best game experience in Othercide, here is a Patch fixing this issue. Thank you for your amazing support. Othercide team Patch notes Fixed a bug which could block the game in Era 5.
- The Sharing is Caring Update is live on Steam! - 23 June 2021
Greetings, Chosen Ones, The Sharing is Caring Update is now live on Steam! Discover the new features we added to Othercide along with some QoL changes and bug fixes. The Sharing is Caring Update is based on your reports and suggestions. We want to thank you for being such an involved and great community. To download the Sharing is Caring update, don't forget to quit Steam and reopen it to see the update appear. As always, feel free to give us any feedback and suggestions, or ask us any questions. We’re more than willing to help! Head over to our official Discord server, it’s the best places to chat with us. Our Discord: https://discord.gg/jFN7Q35D3Z We hope you'll like the update! Othercide team Full patch notes 🩸 New Features: Seed system Allows you to play and compare your progress and strategies with friends. A Seed is a code (a small line of digits between 6 and 7) that determines…
- Community Update - Sharing is Caring - 18 June 2021
Greetings, Chosen Ones, 6 months after the November Update, we are back with some news! We carefully read you comments and suggestions and decided to release a new update based on your feedbacks. Thanks a lot for being an involved and great community! After a successful Open Beta last month, we are glad to announce you that the Sharing is Caring Update will be launched on June 23rd. This update contains news features, allowing you to share your game experience with friend and other to improve the QoL. Read the complete change list below and be ready to overshadow your friends! Spoilers! New features 🩸 Seed System The Seed system allows you to play and compare your progress with friends. A Seed is a code (a small line of digits between 6 and 7) that determines everything in a campaign: the order of missions spawned, the monsters encountered and the stats of the player characters. Sharin…
- The Othercide Open Beta is live! - 19 May 2021
Greetings, Chosen Ones, An Othercide Open Beta started today, May 19th and will end on May 26th. This Open Beta has been set up to allow players to help Lightbulb Crew in the development of a new update coming this Spring. Thanks to your help on testing new features and reporting bugs, you will allow us to give you the best experience possible. How to enter the Beta? First, you will have to join our Discord, in order to ease future communications. Announcements about the Beta will be made on the Open Beta category and a channel called #general in this category has been created to give you the possibility to directly exchange with us. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jFN7Q35D3Z Before you enter the Beta, please make a copy of your save files in order top recover them in case you encounter any problem during your test of the Beta. You can find you saves in ""DISK:\Programmes\Steam\ste…
- 2020's best games took me under the surface - 28 December 2020
Editor's note: Take a breath. We're almost there. 2020's been quite the year, and it's very nearly over. Across the festive break, members of the Eurogamer team and our contributors will be running down their personal top five games of 2020, before we announce our game of the year - and before, of course, we hand over to you for the annual Reader's Top 50. Thanks for being with us this year, and see you on the other side. Sometimes when I have trouble sleeping, I imagine myself climbing out of a vast underground citadel, stairways upon stairways following each other upward in the light of a single candle. I pass doorways heaped with dust and swivelling, gold-rimmed mirrors of the kind that often feature in Zelda puzzles. Reaching the top after many days I halt inside the entrance, listening to birdsong, my toes inches from a bar of sunshine. Then I rewind the daydream and start again. I…
- Vote for Othercide in the Steam Awards! - 26 November 2020
Chosen Ones, The annual Steam Awards are here! We’re very thankful for your continuous support and love since release. Without your feedback and suggestions, we could not have made Othercide the game it is today! Do you remember the first time you launched Othercide while listening to Soulswap? Have you seen your Daughters grow up with different traits that change their visual expression? If yes, vote for us in the Steam Awards! If you haven’t listened to our Original Soundtrack yet, don’t worry, we have you covered here: https://ffm.to/othercidesoundtrack You're tearing up my soul Killing the one that you loved I suffer through your eyes Killing the one that you loved Have you lost your mind Killing the one that you loved I gave you all my life If you haven’t had a chance to learn more about the stunning work of Alexandre Chaudret, here’s an article showcasing his inspiration behind Ot…
- November Patch is now live on Steam! - 25 November 2020
https://i.imgur.com/T9yI5hK.gif Greetings, Chosen Ones, Our November Patch is now live on Steam, and will come to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 2nd. As explained earlier in our last Community Update Blog, this patch introduces various changes to the game, including a map and mission spawn system rework, a new mission type, and bug fixes. Read the complete change list below and be prepared to bring your Daughters back to the battlefield with new content! As always, feel free to give us any feedback and suggestions, or ask us any questions. We’re more than willing to help! Head over to our official Discord server, it’s the best places to chat with us! Hope you enjoy the changes! Othercide Team https://i.imgur.com/WTtGCkM.jpg Full patch notes Map repurpose 2 new portals have been created (one portal = 1 map + 1 mission type): “The Dark Corner” level was previously used only for Su…
- Community Update - November Patch - 19 November 2020
Greetings, Chosen Ones It’s been around 4 months since Othercide released on PC. Since then, we’ve released several patches, bringing multiple bug fixes and new content, such as the dream mode. We hope you all enjoyed your journey in Othercide with these changes. Without your continuous support and feedback, we could not have made Othercide a better game. For that, we’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of you who have ever jumped into the battlefield with your army of Daughters and who provided valuable feedback to us. We’re now working on the November patch for PC, which will introduce a number of new changes. Check out what’s new in the next patch below. Spoiler Alert In the upcoming patch, we will introduce an improvement on the current map and spawn system, trying to reduce the feeling of repetition induced by the roguelite loop. For that, we worked on three different aspects:…
