Vagabond Dog and Devolver Digital have reignited their romance to publish a sequel to the lauded, semi-biographical, digital-novella-RPG-life-sim, Always Sometimes Monsters, called Sometimes Always Monsters, scheduled for release in late 2016. No, YOU’RE using commas wrong.
Fans attending PAX East this weekend can get the original title (Always Sometimes Monsters) for free by playing the sequel (Sometimes Always Monsters) in the Indie Megabooth. During PAX East, the original title from 2014 will be 90 percent off through Steam starting soon through the weekend: http://store.steampowered.com/app/274310/.
In this upcoming sequel, you’ve finally arrived: the love of your life is at your side, your book is on the best-seller’s list and everything is as it should be – stable, comfortable and well-deserved. But success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Despite all of your achievements, whispers from the shadows grow, calling you a “monster”, “manipulative”, and “unrepentant.” Only you can decide if they’re right.
Seeking inspiration, you join a cross-country bus tour with a band of like-minded authors as each stop presents a new city to explore. Fans and strangers alike invite you into their lives – forever shaping their worlds for better or worse as you pass through town with a whirlwind of choice and consequence.
Fork Parker explained, “When they first brought it to us, we got so confused by the title. Totally thought it was their first game, the one I’d already paid for. Figured the Vagabonds were trying to scam us. Put a bounty on their head and everything. Thankfully one of the interns opened the damned thing, cleared the whole mess up. The game’s incredible. Would have been a total shame if one of my hitmen finally got to them.”
“These games are antithetical to one another, and so their naming must mirror that,” clarified Justin Amirkhani, creative director at Vagabond Dog. “We spent a long time considering alternatives, but this was the only thing that we felt truly fit. Adding a number to the end just didn’t make sense because this game doesn’t feel like a forward progression. It’s more like an opposite, or a reflection of the first.”
Sometimes Always Monsters is set for later this year, you can check it out on Steam ((this may not be live just yet but it will be http://store.steampowered.com/app/441440) and in the meantime stay in touch on Twitter @VAGABONDDOG and keep up to date with Devolver’s various ramblings at @DevolverDigital.
Official Website: http://www.alwayssometimesmonsters.com
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/317760
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