We've got a few things to tell you, and we wanted to keep you posted on what's next for Sol Cesto.

First and foremost, we wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone, once again. To people that were there even before Early Access launch, or to those who just joined us on the quest to retrieve the sun, you've been sending a lot of nice words, there's been gorgeous fan arts shared across the social medias, and that's really heartwarming. All your support and feedback has been a pleasure to read

We've also read the negative reviews, and people having issues with the game. There's been a delay on the Linux native version going out in 1.0, and we apologize about it, but 1.0 is now out natively on Linux!

However, while playing on a Linux System (including Steamdeck) via proton, you might have a white screen issue when launching the game ; we're aware of it and working on it. There's been different feedback on the forums, reviews, and even Discord, and we're gathering them and will also take care of those!

Currently, the developpers (being two people full time, and only one coder) are having a well deserved few days break. While we know it might be frustrating for some of you to have issues not fixed right away, as you might guess, the journey to a 1.0 version isn't all calm. We'd rather delay the hotfix for a few days if it allows people who develop the game to feel better. We hope you'll understand this decision. They'll resume work by Thursday at the latest, and our goal, counting development and QA tests, would be to deliver an update with a lot of fixes sometime next week

A quick word about the saves too: we've seen that some of you were annoyed that they lost their progress between 1.0 and EA, even with the 1500 gold compensation. Sorry! While we totally understand your frustration, we did not have the choice, as there was a technical conflict between EA and 1.0 versions (due to the revamp of the meta progression), forcing us to reset them. However we should've communicated on this as soon as we knew this would be the case, and we apologize for this.

Once again, thanks for all your feedback, positive or negative, it helps us to know what to tweak, what to fix, and also it's really heartwarming to read what you love about the game.

We'll keep you posted when the next patch is coming out! Thanks for your patience

Have a wonderful day ☀️

We made it!

As you may know, we’re a very small team (Géraud, designer and developer / Chariospirale, artist and designer / Antoine, composer), and bringing a project like this to completion took a lot of effort and determination.

And that’s not even counting the game development itself. There are so many things you don’t necessarily realize that constantly take up time and energy (promotion, trailers, festivals, etc.). But we made it, we survived! We honestly don’t know how we would have stayed motivated throughout 3 years of development (including one year in Early Access) if the game hadn’t found its audience. So for that… Thank you!

Thank you for being there, and also for all your feedback, which helped us improve and fix the game over time. This is the biggest project we’ve worked on so far, and we’re really happy with the result 😊 By the way, feel free to leave us a review if you’re enjoying the game 🙌

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The game now includes:

• A different ending for each of the 7 playable characters

• Steam achievements

• Various tweaks and balance changes

• An intro cinematic

• A new (mini) area, deep, very deep down below…

• The Peasant now has his own progression branch and a talent

• A complete overhaul of the interface and options

• New interactions with items and special screens (like selling your items into the well, for example!)

• New secrets and other surprises 👀

But most importantly, we’ve reworked the meta-progression system. Stars are no longer unlocked only with gold coins, some now require specific actions. This is something we wanted to include from the very beginning, so we’re really happy to finally bring this redesign to the full release.

With this new version comes one downside: we can’t keep your old save files without them conflicting with the new system…

To make up for it, we’re offering you a sum of gold coins that will allow you to unlock a good number of stars and ease your progression. You’ll also have the option to refuse these coins (which we strongly encourage), and we’ve added the ability to reset your save at any time.

The game is now in a state we’re very happy with. There are still a few minor (non-blocking) bugs here and there, and we’ll keep working to fix as many as possible. Optimization for Steam Deck, accessibility options (like a more readable font), and controller support are our top priorities going forward.

We won’t lie: after 3 years of development, what we want most is to move on! To start new projects and experiment.

Of course, there are ideas we didn’t have time to add to the game, but we’ve made peace with that. We’d rather release the game now in a finished state than get stuck in endless development. That said, we’re not abandoning the game, we’ll continue fixing what needs to be fixed over the next few months.

We can’t thank you enough for the motivation you’ve given us to keep going. We hope the game brings you joy and a bit of happiness 🌞

Thanks as well to Goblinz for trusting us and supporting the game over the past few years. We’re so happy we got to work with them! Without them, today’s version of Sol Cesto would never have existed (and it would have launched with many, MANY more bugs).

And thanks to the team behind the intro cinematic, we’re incredibly proud of it! Armand, Tom, Vincent, and Ninon, we hope we get to work with you again someday 🙌

Chariospirale, Géraud, Antoine