Garenburg Woods — 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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| Woods Developer Commentary + A bunch of free Garenburg games now available! | 2026-01-27 | Hello!Little quick announcement. I've now released the free game collection Archival Anemoia to Steam. It's a collection of over 30 different projects and games over the course of a decade, and development commentary for every single one of them! That includes this game right here! Want to know about the thought process and what went into making this game project? This is the place to see that!In addition, you can find a bunch of games related to this one; this game is a part of the Garenburg series! Each of the games are all standalone, and flesh out a bit of the world a little more.That's pretty much that; feel free to check it out if you'd |
| Free Garenburg Visual Novel for the Game Boy Advance! | 2025-10-02 | Hello there!A free and short visual novel for the Game Boy Advance, called bygone snow, will be releasing on October 31st, 2025 to Steam! It is a part of the Garenburg series, although it's much more loose in any connection to Garenburg Woods...If you want to check it out, please feel free to wishlist it on Steam! This will help get it a bit of a visibility boost! You can find it at the link below!Though, if you want to play it a little early, it's also available for free right now on Itch.That's all. Thank you for your time, hope you enjoy it!!! |
| (April Fools) Garenburg Woods: Pink Eyes Release! | 2025-04-01 | To play Garenburg Woods: Pink Eyes, please follow these steps! Pink Eyes contains spoilers for the main game. Please only play it if you beat the true ending of the main game. 1. Right click the game in your library. Select "properties" 2. Select "betas" and then under "beta participation," choose "pinkeyes." 3. Wait for it to install. 4. Open the game! To revert back to the main game, you can set beta to "none." Please note that loading any old saves WILL run into issues; just launch a new game. Spoiler Note: The singular track made for this "update" is available on Bandcamp here. Hope your start of April's going well! |
| Patch 1.1.1 - Steam Achievements! Happy New Year~ | 2024-12-31 | A follow up to the past patch, thanks to the new engine, we now have... drum roll... achievements via Steam! Ta-da! This is a follow up to the prior patch (you can see info of that update here) and mostly focuses on making sure all the achievement stuff is up and working. Steam Achievements Achievements are checked once a minute, so if you open your past saves, just give it a minute or so and you should have them automatically unlock. You can also get your achievements unlocked on any save file, so if you have a separate save where you got some things done and another where you didn't, you will still get all achievements unlocked from those i |
| Patch 1.1.0 - Engine Updates, Merch, & Future | 2024-12-26 | Hello all! This update is a pretty big one at the same time as pretty simple; it massively improves some features with the update at the same time as being not that different. If you already played through Garenburg Woods, you don't need to worry much about this update. That said, there is something planned you should still see that'll be coming! Engine Improvements This main update puts us on EasyRPG Player, a project that allows the game to run much better on modern platforms. This will mean that this should run more smoothly than before, have much more options and settings and features for toggling, and make it overall a better and less ar |
| Patch 1.0.3 - Minor Tweaks and Bug Fixes | 2024-08-06 | Hello! Small update. Not a big patch. Mostly just adjusting a few things I'd been meaning to and... didn't! Patch 1.0.3 Removed an attack from Gown that it was never supposed to have and does basically nothing that was left in due to an oversight C7: Changed the music box music to the new track "Brother." This track is also present in the Bandcamp / Spotify uploads of the soundtrack, it's due to copyright as the original track was an arrangement of something. C7: Redid how the shadows cause harm to the player during the music box scene. Previously, they would do 100 damage to the party and give a one second delay before the both it and the pl |
| A Free Short Garenburg Fishing Spinoff! | 2023-06-29 | Hello! This is a small and short little announcement, but there is now a free spinoff of Garenburg available. It's really short (around 20-30 minutes of gameplay) and was made in a little under 2 weeks, so if you'd like to give it a try, it's there! It was actually released a little bit ago, but I neglected to mention it here. You can find the download for the game, Charmolypi: Ordinary Sunrises, on Itch.io available here. As for other projects, development of Garenburg Penitence has been going well and a new trailer of it should release soon as the game finishes up all the main content and moves into playtesting and polishing before finally |
| Garenburg Woods: Pink Eyes | 2022-09-30 | Garenburg Woods: Pink Eyes will be an additional story. It will release at some point after Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird, as that game is a much bigger priority and I would like to finish that before going back completely to Garenburg Woods. More information will be available eventually, Pink Eyes may take a good while before it is even close to completion as still has a significantly long way to go from here. Everything with this is also still heavily subject to change as a result. Aside from that, Garenburg Woods will now remain at the price cut. We also have a Discord server for a lot of updates on future projects. Thank you for read |
| 1st Anniversary, Price Reduction, Free Copy of Garenburg Penitence! | 2022-09-02 | Hi! After much consideration, Garenburg Woods will have a permanent price reduction to $2.99 USD. In the end, my goal is to make a game and one I am happy with as well as one that others can play and experience for themselves. A price reduction helps make the game more accessible, and that is something I value more than monetary gain. The $2.99 price point is also going to be my goal going forwards for many other games I made in the future. Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird (the next Garenburg game) will follow suite. To say thanks to anybody who has already purchased Garenburg Woods, you can get a free copy of Garenburg Penitence once it re |
| Official Discord Server, Patch 1.0.2, and Achievements Guide | 2022-03-16 | Hello! A few little things! Official Discord Server We now have an official Discord server for this game. You can feel free to stop by and say hello as well as ask any questions you may have. The invite is here, or alternatively the invite code is PSsybree9m. Patch 1.0.2 Small patch update to fix a few little things! Slight alterations to dialogue with the rocks at the beginning to not be misleading. Adjustment to the Tape 7 entrance to be more distinct. Added a save prompt after getting any ending before the intro cutscene plays again. Fixed a bug that would play music for a split moment after getting Tape 10. Fixed some typos on the achieve |
| Garenburg Penitence Announcement / Garenburg Woods Planned Content Update | 2022-02-25 | Hello! Here's some news about the state of Garenburg. Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird The second game in the Garenburg series is in development! The gameplay is firing spheres and matching colors. This game is heavily influenced and inspired by a few titles, including Luxor, Sparkle, Tumblebugs and other marble popper games from the 2000s, Irisu Syndrome, and Serial Experiments Lain (for the PlayStation 1). I realize those are weird inspirations, but they are there for a reason. For those who have played through Garenburg Woods, I feel that it is important to mention that Garenburg Penitence is a very different game in gameplay, format, an |
| Soundtrack + Art Gallery Now Available | 2021-10-03 | The soundtrack and art for the game (as well as unused art) is now available for a free download! The soundtrack is also available on streaming. You can find them below. Original Soundtrack Extended Soundtrack (scrapped/unused/alt versions) Glockenspiel Soundtrack Art Gallery |
| Patch 1.0.1 | 2021-10-03 | Thank you for playing, everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the trip to the woods. Here's a small patch to squash a few bugs! Changes: Fixed a bug that allowed the rocks in the beginning of Day 1 to be moved without Working Gloves Fixed a bug that gives you the Mirror Mirror textbox instead of GREEN (and vice versa) when purchasing either of them Fixed a graphic overlap for Achievement 26 Removed a dialogue on Day 6 with Malik that softlocks the game Adjusted all stories so that the color of the text does not blend in regardless of your current textbox Added a version indicator in the bottom of the title screen |
| Garenburg Woods has released! | 2021-09-29 | Garenburg Woods has released! Have a good one, and please report any bugs to this discussion page so they can be swiftly patched. Thank you! |
| Full Game Release Date - September 29th | 2021-09-23 | Hello! Garenburg Woods will finally be releasing on September 29th, 2021. This game has been in development for a long time, but is now polished and completed in its content. A more detailed post about the development of the game (with spoilers) will be made in the coming days for anybody interested in its development period and why it's taken a long while, but it will be releasing very soon. The game will be on sale at launch for 40% off, and the soundtrack will be available separately for free with additionally scrapped and unused tracks, a collection of tracks with a glockenspiel version, concept art, and more. For anybody who has been int |
| Garenburg Novellas | 2018-12-26 | Hello! I'm pleased to announce the creation of Garenburg.com, a website that will contain information about the world this game takes place in. Feel free to read through the novellas as there will be multiple updates over time and there are no spoilers for this game. They are meant to provide insight and translate some small stories that are part of Garenburg into text form. Enjoy, and happy holidays! |
| Development Update | 2018-11-30 | Hello, Sorry for the large delay in the release. The game development has gone well but I'd like to polish things and make it much better before release. There currently isn't a 100% planned release date, but I should finish sometime before July 4th, 2019. The game will have a lot of content and things to do luckily, and you'll be able to obtain multiple endings on the same save file. Something I may do before the release of the game is make a small project with a lot of assets from the main project and have the side game be available for free and be kind of like a demo. It would be a very short prequel, and not be very polished but it would |
| Garenburg Woods - Production Update | 2018-01-17 | Hello! Garenburg Woods is going pretty well, with plenty of new stuff being added that previously was not planned. There's now quite a bit of new party members, customization, achievements, various props... It's going well and the game is over half way complete! That being said, the game is going to take longer than planned, and now I'm pretty sure the game will be finished in April, instead of January. Apologies! However, the game is going to be pretty interesting and feature quite a bit of more content now, so I'm hoping that everything goes well so I can finish this as soon as possible. Here's a nice little game track (link at bottom!) as |
| Garenburg Woods - Production Update | 2018-01-17 | Hello! Garenburg Woods is going pretty well, with plenty of new stuff being added that previously was not planned. There's now quite a bit of new party members, customization, achievements, various props... It's going well and the game is over half way complete! That being said, the game is going to take longer than planned, and now I'm pretty sure the game will be finished in April, instead of January. Apologies! However, the game is going to be pretty interesting and feature quite a bit of more content now, so I'm hoping that everything goes well so I can finish this as soon as possible. Here's a nice little game track (link at bottom!) as |