Greetings Weary Travelers,

How are you faring on your journey? 

We here at Square Weasel have been busy tinkering with The Remainder, and hope you will be as delighted as we are to know of the progress we've made.

This month has seen a lot of writing. We're combing through the entire script from the start to massage things. 
There are grammar mistakes, odd phrasing, characters speaking not quite like themselves, and many other minor blemishes that have become obvious to us since we've released the game.

More substantially, we're putting our heads into Vyn's and Ilar's, and just like the first time around, asking "What would I do or say here?"
Sometimes, we discover that something that they would absolutely do or say is not there, so we will add it in.

Another branch, another set of choices, another conversation that both reveals and conceals. If you've played the game, you'll know what I mean. If not, I hope it sounds intriguing enough to you to look forward to.

Long story short, we're enriching the story, adding more of what is already good, and polishing up the not-so-good. Very reasonable stuff. No shananigans, unless Fuzzpants is concerned. Then it's all shananigans.

The script is currently 167k words, up from 145k, so that's an addition of 22k. The total changes must be higher, perhaps 50k, since editing is mostly replacing what was already there.

The drafting of a side-story has also started, but it is in its infancy so I will not say anything more. You will have to imagine what happens with this clue alone — Soggy. That is all.

A fair warning. We wished to finish the expansion by Jan 2024, but since we reached a number of stretch goals, for which you all have our sincere gratitude, we think it will most likely take more time to finish the work. Current estimate is March of April 24. I hope it's not too bad a piece of news. After all, the delay before a delight would only enhance the experience. 

If you really cannot wait that long, like, it's a sort of medical or spiritual emergency or something, then you can always play the current version on Steam or Itch.io to scratch that itch. 

Finally, I want to thank you all again, our lovely supporters, for giving us this opportunity to work on this story that's dear to our hearts. We're enjoying it tremendously, and have confidence it will be worth the wait. 

For more frequent updates, you can join our discord and see what we're up to. We post something there a few times a week. 
On the weekend we have a group life-drawing session, an anime/tv show watch party, and sometimes we just get together and stream a game or chat about stuff. It's a lot of fun, even if you only want to lurk or stealth or whatever.

Here is a discreet portal: https://discord.gg/PgZASVhN7E

Once more, if you missed the KS campaign, you can still make a late pledge on backerkit: https://the-remainder-expanded-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

That's it from me, take care out there and you'll hear from me again soon!

Ze
Arch Magus