Hi everyone.

I hope you’re all excited about this announcement, as I certainly am! :)

I’m delighted to be able to tell you that we’ll be bringing the fantastic Japanese open world action game, Way of the Samurai 3 to Steam in the very near future. We’ve had loads of emails asking us to release this one on Steam. In fact, it’s been one of the most requested Steam releases in recent years.

Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you?

Jump into the sandals of a mysterious lone samurai during Japan’s turbulent Sengoku era, in one of the most atmospheric action RPGs ever created.

Explore the villages, body-strewn battlefields, bandit fortresses, immense castles and local town of Amana, in an open world bustling with a rich cast of colourful characters that you can help, ignore or victimise.

Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…

The Butterfly Effect – More than 20 different endings. Your every action, no matter how subtle or ludicrous, could set in motion a huge variety of events, allowing for huge replayability. Explore new narrative paths, reveal new allies… and enemies!
Huge Customization - Craft your own unique weapons from over 200 different parts. Create the ultimate unbreakable weapon to suit your preferred fighting style. Forge lethal swords, spears, pole axes and more outlandish weaponry and discover hundreds of new abilities as you become a true master of each weapon!
Reward System and Samurai Rating – Your actions and conduct will reward you with Samurai Points and Titles, all of which unlock new game features, customisation options, outfits and accessories. Live as an honourable samurai, wallow in the low life of a bandit or strike your own path! Your choices lead to new endings, strange followers and other unexpected outcomes.
The Pen Can Be Mightier Than the Sword - Fight your enemies by force or take the diplomatic route, using subtle gestures like the unsheathing of your sword or kowtowing. Featuring an extensive dialogue tree, combo system and much, much more!

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, we’ve been hard at work on the PC port for quite a while now, and we’re not far away from release. We should be starting our closed beta shortly, and assuming everything goes as expected with that then we’ll be ready to announce a release date very soon after. Exciting!

Before I go, I’d just like to say thank you for all your patience while we’ve been teasing our announcement. It’s taken a lot longer than we’d hoped to be able to announce this one, but I’m sure you’ll all agree that it’s been well worth the wait! :)

The new build should fix the mismatched sound effects, particularly when walking and also contains some other fixes relating to the initialisation of volumes and saving out correctly to the ini file.

We've just uploaded a new build which should fix the mismatched sound effects when walking.

Edit - Due to this build causing issues with the mouse support we have now removed it from Steam. We're are continuing to work on it and you can expect a build that fixes this issue in the near future.

We've just uploaded a new build which should hopefully fix the PhysX & runtime error crashes that some of you have been experiencing.

Hi everyone.

We're just about to upload a new build which in addition to fixing a few bugs also adds Field of View, depth of field and bloom/glare options to the ini file.

Fixed - Camera sometimes spinning when changing scenes

Added new options to the .ini file (run the game first to update the ini file)

FOV - changes FieldOfView in-game (excludes cut scenes)
EnableDOF - set this value to 0 to disable depth of field effect
EnableHDR - set this value to 0 to disable bloom/glare effect

Audio volume fix – Audio between ingame voices and cut scenes should be the same.

Fixed issue with cursor displaying after saving the game

We’ve just uploaded another new build to Steam.

This one contains the following changes:

Fixed crash in curio shop
Added Swing barrels to the right mouse button
Settings are now saved to the ini file before mode change
Potential run time library fix

We’ve just uploaded another new build to Steam.

This one fixes the audio distortion that some of you have been experiencing and also adds (as frequently requested) mouse support.

We've also made several coding changes which should address some of the crashes.


New mouse functions
Moving the mouse controls the camera
Left mouse button = weak attack
Right mouse button = heavy attack
Middle mouse button = block

The mouse should also support the various sub functions and combos involving these buttons.

Hi everyone.

We've just uploaded a new patch to steam. This one contains the following fixes:

Fixed black screens upon death or loading a save that affected certain character types.
Fixed miscellaneous crashes
Fixed some audio issues

We had mouse support in but we were unable to get it working quite right. Expect a build early next week adding it in.

The big day has finally arrived, as Way of the Samurai 4 has now been released on Steam. Everyone who’s been waiting for it can now enjoy this fantastic Japanese action game and prestigious ‘Famitsu Gold Award’ winner.

Way of the Samurai 4 is priced at $24.99, and those of you who missed out on the pre-purchase period will be happy to know that there is a 20% discount on this and on the game’s DLC, which will last until the 30th July.

Screenshots and more info can be found on the Ghostlight blog [blog.ghostlight.uk.com]