The Ghost and the Golem — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| The Ghost and the Golem is a finalist for the Nebula Game Writing Award! | 2025-03-13 | We are thrilled to announce that The Ghost and the Golem is a finalist for the Nebula Game Writing Award! The Ghost and the Golem is an interactive historical fantasy novel by Benjamin Rosenbaum. Confront mystic perils and revelations, pogroms, & your own wild heart, in a Jewish historical fantasy of bandits, betrothals, klezmers, and kabbalists! To celebrate, we are also putting every previous Nebula Finalist game on sale. Check out our Nebula Finalists bundle on Steam for an even bigger discount! Since 1965, the Nebula Awards have been given annually to the best works of science fiction and fantasy published that year, as voted on by the me |
| Elul Update | 2024-09-27 | Release Notes ------------------ Bugfixes: - Fixed dramatis personae, which was mostly blank (!!) - Fixed some other bugs - Got rid of stat inflation entirely, since the "turn off stat inflation" seems to have been a little wonky & unreliable. UI: - Implemented glossary paging on mobile (at least, I think I did: I can't test it.) Identity & Romance: - You can reveal trans/intersex identity to suitor during shiddukh, eliciting various reactions. (You can also fill Rivka in that you did this, in chapter 6.) - more depth in general, in the conversation with suitor during the shidddukh - There are more ways to come out as trans, to various degree |
| August Patch | 2024-08-24 | Four new Achievements A variety of continuity errors fixed More detail in a few scenes, particularly the "scribbler" ending Some trans-specific material, both bugfixes and some new content New option to de-inflate stats for code-divers |