Yesterday, Friday 13th, we were awarded "Best Queer Horror Romance Game" at TGAGWCAGA 2024 (The Game Awards for Games Who Can't Afford the Game Awards) - a highly contested category! It was a lovely event highlighting so many cool indie games. You can see the show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrLRWxntgg

Today, Saturday 14th, we'll be at the Horror Game Awards where we are thrilled to be nominated for:

• Horror Game of the Year
  
• Best Indie Horror
  
• Best Survival Horror
  
• Best Narrative
  
• Best Soundtrack
  
• Best Indie Developer

📺 Watch the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/@HorrorGameAwards

🕔 Friday, December 14th
8pm GMT / 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT

It means so much to us to see people resonating with what we've created. We can't quite believe we've reached the 500 review threshold on Steam and are now labelled as "Overwhelmingly Positive". It is very surreal and we are very grateful!

Thank you

Tom and C.B.

We’re thrilled to announce that Sorry We're Closed will be featured in TGAGWCAGA 2024—The Game Awards for Games Who Can't Afford the Game Awards!

This one-of-a-kind indie showcase is streaming today Friday, December 13th!

📺 Watch the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/@TGAGWCAGA

🕔 Friday, December 13th
5pm UTC / 6pm CET / 12pm ET - the event has been delayed by one hour!
6pm UTC / 7pm CET / 1pm ET

TGAGWCAGA highlights incredible indie games that truly deserve more attention while also poking a little fun at the exclusivity of The Game Awards.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Hey, today we have an update for the credits (thank you to our localisation team and community testers!) as well as some adjustments to settings and stats.

• Adjustment: Credits updated for localisation teams and community testers
  
• Feature: A second song now plays towards the end of the credits so it isn’t silent after the main credits song finishes
  
• Feature: Added support for AZERTY keyboards which can be enabled in “Settings” > “Controller” > “Keyboard Remapping”
  
• Bug Fix: Removed redundant resolution option when in windowed mode is active
  
• Adjustment: The game window can be resized manually by dragging the edges when in windowed mode. After manual resizing, the aspect ratio will be automatically adjusted to be 16:9 for correct display with the fixed camera angles and cutscenes
  
• Adjustment: Text for options in dropdown menus is a little larger and dropdowns have been adjusted to show at least 4 items before needing to scroll (previously showed 3 items)
  
• Adjustment: Icons for the currently mapped buttons are now displayed when controls are mentioned in accessibility setting descriptions
  
• Adjustment: Tweaks to stats required for 6 star rankings. Additional Detail: The formula for the calculation hasn't changed but it will block awarding 6 stars if you didn't find all artifacts/critters for the level

Thank you

Tom

We would love to thank everyone so far that has supported our game and gave us such wonderful reviews! The outpouring support from you all has been so heartwarming! 432 reviews with 99% positive is something we never expected.

If you’d like to show further support, the Steam Award nominations have just started!

We would love it if those of you who enjoyed the game would vote for Sorry We’re Closed in the Outstanding Visual Style category!

Thank you

Tom and C.B.

Here’s some neat fanart we’ve found as well!! We never get tired of seeing other people's interpretations of the characters!

Hey, cursed vessels,

It has been one week since the launch of Sorry We’re Closed and we have been just blown away by the support and love for the game! When releasing any game, we’re always afraid that somehow something fell under the radar– but thanks to the hard work from a la mode, we’re thrilled at the reception Sorry We’re Closed has been getting!

It has been an honor to watch you all play the game and see the amazing talent from the community in fanart, content creation, and more!

99% positive reviews with over 250 reviews. Just wow. This is something that we never would have expected or even predicted. Thank you all who have left a wonderful review. I have been reading them alongside C.B. and Tom and it warms our hearts to see the positivity from your reviews.

Those of you who know the Riv Otter Lore™ know that fan art is where I got my start. There have been so many amazing art pieces and I want to highlight them all– but I'm pretty sure Steam would yell at me for the length of this blog if I posted every one. I will only highlight a few. If you do create some Sorry We’re Closed inspired work be sure to tag @alamodegames on Twitter [x.com]or Bluesky[bsky.app]! We would love to see them!





I wish I could show more! Please give these artists love and support!

Some streamers have been so excited for the release of Sorry We’re Closed, that they created some magnificent avatars when playing! I also want to highlight their hard work.




We have just been blown away by the support and love for Sorry We’re Closed and honestly words can not put into perspective how much seeing this means to us. Thank you all for the support whether it be leaving a review, creating fan art, or just enjoying the game.

- Riv otter

Hey, today I have fixed some bugs and made a couple of adjustments.

• Bug Fix: fixed potential for offscreen player to walk off a ledge and be killed during the credits sequence
  
• Bug Fix: fixed the aquarium generator room relocking if you previously completed it, saved, loaded and re-entered the room
  
• Bug Fix: under certain circumstances the player could spawn on the lower floor of the aquarium generators after completing the sequence on the upper floor
  
• Bug Fix: an animation for the cutscene after the 2nd boss did not play correctly
  
• Bug Fix: towards the end of the 3rd level it was possible to block progression by speaking to the eyesore, saving and loading again before passing the eyesore (he would not reopen his eye). If you have encountered this issue you’ll be able to load your save and the eyesore will reopen the next time you speak to him
  
• Bug Fix: under certain circumstances the repenting demon could be spoken to when he was not visible
  
• Adjustment: updated collection message for artifacts in the final area
  
• Adjustment: the 2nd boss is a little more forgiving with slight adjustments to delays before/after attacks

Note: I will be looking at additional combat adjustments after handling the important bugs that have been raised. This one is not a massive change for the 2nd boss but you will have a little more time to react.

I would also like to thank the Japanese players who are discovering our game. One fan has kindly been in touch to report some localisation issues which I have included fixes for in this patch.

• Localisation (Japanese): Fixed an issue where the “Perfect!” text for enemy weak point combos did not display correctly.
  
• Localisation (Japanese): Fixed an issue where a broken style tag would be displayed when trying to buy an item you didn’t have enough currency for
  
• Localisation (Japanese): Fixed an issue on the final stats screen where the main heading would overhang the length of the screen

Thank you

Tom

Hey, this is a small supplementary patch for yesterday's update.

There was an unforeseen issue where achieving the highest score for every single stat in used for end of level rankings would mean you had so many stars the game wasn't sure what to show you on the results page.

This is now fixed and you'll be correctly awarded a 6 star ranking.

Thank you

Tom

Hey! Today’s update is for some important bug fixes that players have kindly shared info on.

• Bug Fix: rankings didn’t correctly calculate if you had exactly 0 deaths or 0 water bottles used
  
• Bug Fix: in certain circumstances crushed critters could respawn when you loaded a save. If you’re trying to track them all down and encountered this issue then it won’t stop you getting the achievement (you might actually get it slightly early, if you crushed the same bug twice)
  
• Bug Fix: the Lumberjack achievement should be triggering correctly now

Really appreciate people taking the time to report these so that we can continue to improve the game.

Thank you

Tom

Thank you to everyone supporting us at release, we've been overwhelmed at the response and are so happy to see people enjoying the game.

I've been checking the community posts for reported issues and have a patch ready to address the first batch of these.

• Bug Fix: the stats screen value shown for the total artifacts available to collect was reversed on levels 3 and 4
  
• Bug Fix: some combat achievements weren’t triggering correctly (any you missed will be awarded next time you load your save)
  
• Bug Fix: purchased water bottle capacity upgrades were not correctly applied (if you purchased extra slots they will be applied next time you load your save)
  
• Change: Adjustments to how end of level stats are calculated
  
• Misc: fixed some minor typos

Please note: there is an unresolved issue with the Lumberjack achievement. I have narrowed it down but haven't written the fix yet.

Thank you

Tom