Hello, everyone! We're back with a small bugfix that addresses a pretty serious bug and other, more minor ones.

• Fixed a bug that could make special short events repeat every new month, regardless of if they’ve already been completed or not or meet the necessary requirements
  
• Made sure that the game doesn’t crash when trying to load the endings for long event 16 (The Kraken) and long event 17 (Poisoned wells).
  
• When loading a save that was made during the ending ceremony, the background should no longer be black but show the officiant properly
  
• The “custom play” long event should now display the correct dialogue option if choosing to put on an existing play when only having Erewen and one other person in town.

• Most special short events can no longer appear on months when long events should start

​Hello, everyone! This is just a quick fix to adress a bug where the player's outfit would disappear/be replaced by a completely random sprite (like hair or body decor) when loading a pre-version 1.2 save. Fixing this bug means that there's a chance that you may end up with a "default" outfit when loading an old savefile, so you'll have to reselect your original outfit again (this is not a bug, it's part of the fix). Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hello, everyone! We are back again with the final content update for Mistwinter Bay. With this slew of new content, we’re up to a total of 105 short events, 18 long events and 31 “special” short events. Combined with all the other content in the game, that’s around 1.7-1.8 million words. Needless to say, making all of this content and moving into the fifth year of development has left us quite exhausted, especially creatively, which is why this is the final content update. We will talk a bit more about that under a separate headline, but first, let’s look at what’s new!

• CHEATS! (more information under the dedicated headline)
  
• A new long event that can only occur in Late Spring, moving into Early Summer, allows you to celebrate the holiday of Night Of Lights in various ways with different characters
  
• Two new long events that don’t have any requirements allow you to (potentially) see two types of fantastical creatures
  
• There is one new long event that can only occur if the guard presence is High and you have at least one non-spouse, non-Lynx lower class townsperson
  
• 2 new short main events allow you to celebrate Baking Fest and Soup Day in Early Autumn and Late Summer, respectively. They provide chances to spend time with a specific townsperson, among other things. (As all other short events, they aren’t guaranteed to occur in a playthrough)
  
• Added 3 new short main events with requirements
  
  • One requires High guard presence. Another requires a townsfolk couple, not containing some specific characters. There is also one that only requires 2 or more townsfolk in total.
• Added 2 new short main events centered around helping or showing appreciation for Voidists
  
• Added 2 new “special” short main events that only show up if you have supported Avallerism or Voidism through their related support events (that is, not alliances or marriage)
  
  • Special short events do not count as regular short events. They are prioritized above regular short events and have a certain percentage chance to occur each month, as long as their requirements have been met.
• If you’re allied to a foreign leader and aren’t married to them, there is a small monthly chance that you get a new “special” short main event where they request your help in accordance with your alliance (you shouldn’t be the only one reaping the benefits, after all)
  
  • Each foreign leader’s event is unique to them, meaning that there are six events in total
• There is one new “special” short main event each for Mallowan, Robin and Sasee, if they live at the estate. There is also a new “special” short event that has all three of them interacting with each other, if all of them live at the estate at the same time
  
• A very special new short main event that has very specific requirements and a very small chance to occur might set you up with a successful, profitable marriage before it has even begun and give long lasting benefits to your spouse and relationship
  
• If you have prisoners, there’s now a chance that you encounter a “special” short main event where a prison escape takes place

• The game should no longer crash when attempting to start the second month of the underground ruins event when having a team of 3 or fewer explorers
  
• Meetups should no longer be able to occur when a long event is supposed to take place
  
• The imposter-character that is supposed to look like the sovereign now has the correct face details, if any

• Orreg and Se’Vah will now give clear hints that religious conversion is needed to marry them before you have accepted their proposal
  
  • That information was previously only presented after the proposal was accepted. The clarifications of the demands and the forced conversion itself still only occur after the proposal has been accepted
    
  • If you’re already supporting the religion they want you to convert to, they won’t mention anything about it

• Fixed some minor grammatical mistakes

We have previously said (a few times, even) that there aren’t any cheats in the game and that we weren’t going to add any either. That was because we never had a “cheat console” during development and it felt like a waste of time to add one when we could make more content instead. We also knew that a cheat console would bring some game breaking issues, on top of being annoying to program in order to reach complicated game mechanics. Additionally, we assumed that players would expect some sort of “debug overlay” where they could see information about certain important and otherwise hidden game mechanics and statistics if we added a cheat console.

But we might have overestimated player expectations for the cheats (we're not sure about that). At any rate, since this is the last bit of content we’ll add to the game, we figured out a solution that brings a very simple cheat console to the game (one that basically just deals with setting numerical values). This is a very large single player game, after all, so it would be nice to have some way for players (especially those trying to uncover most of what the game has to offer) to make things easier or “more interesting” for themselves after multiple playthroughs. The caveat is that the cheats are very limited, there’s no “debug overlay” and you might encounter bugs if you don’t pay close attention to what you’re doing with it. For that reason, we ask that you disclose if you have used cheats if you leave any sort of bug report in the future. We will not be expanding the cheat console in any way in the future, nor will we fix bugs caused by it or in it (unless under very specific circumstances, like being able to affect everyone’s reputation but one character’s). The cheat console is therefore used at your own risk. However, we’ve done our best to warn you about specific issues that we’re already aware of under the detailed instruction of what each cheat does.

Now, let’s look at how the console generally works and how you can use it!

• It can only be accessed in the throne room at the start of a month. Use Ctrl+Shift+C to open it. No other menu can be open, or the cheat console won’t appear.
  
• It is only possible to enter one cheat at a time.
  
• The console allows you to manipulate the following things: good deeds, bad deeds, Avallerism, Voidism, times used magic, times used alchemy, marriage happiness, reputation, kill or execute or move out a townsperson, current resources, monthly resource production, population, which short main event should occur next and which long main event should occur next.
  
• The console only takes letters, digits and a minus sign as input. Keep in mind that no matter what you try to influence, the input string should always be a series of letters followed by numbers (except in the case of “Kill”, “Execute” and “Move”). The letters must be capitalized with a large letter first, then followed by small letters.
  
• The numbers are not additive – the number you write is the number the input will be set to, regardless of what it is you’re trying to change. For example, writing “Dawn-10” does not subtract 10 reputation from Dawn, but sets her reputation to -10. You can add a minus sign to represent negative numbers, such as in character reputation, but a plus sign won’t work.
  
• To confirm or exit out of the console, you need to click the “Confirm”-button, the right mouse button or the “Enter”-key, even if the input field is empty. Half-finished or incorrect inputs are discarded or, in the case of manipulating the next short or long event, will reset the next event to be a completely random one.
  
• There are no pop-ups or other types of UI indicating that a change has been made (except for when using the “Kill”, “Execute” or “Move” cheats). Of course, you can see the change by opening the relevant menu if there is one (resource bars, townsfolk roster, foreign leader roster).
  
• The examples we use below have quotation marks, but those are not valid inputs in the cheat console and are only used here for clarification.

Let’s go into detail on how each aspect can be manipulated!

Good deeds and bad deeds respectively are used for two of the most powerful events in the game. As the names suggest, they are usually earned by performing good or bad deeds in events. Type “Good” or “Bad” followed by a number to influence the respective deed-counter. For example, “Good5”, “Bad3”, “Good0”. In the cheat console, they’re capped at 10 each, with 0 being the minimum.

The game has a counter for how many times you have supported or helped Avallerism and Voidism respectively. The counters are used for some events, primarily one for each religion where you can declare official support for it. Type “Avallerism” or “Voidism” followed by a number to set the respective counter. For example, “Avallerism2”, “Voidism5”, “Avallerism10”. In the cheat console, they’re capped at 10 each, with 0 being the minimum.

Just as with religion, the game has a counter for how many times you have used magic and alchemy, respectively. The counters are used for some events, primarily one for each type where you can declare official support for it. Type “Magic” or “Alchemy” followed by a number to set the respective counter. For example, “Magic15”, “Alchemy2”, “Magic5”. In the cheat console, they’re capped at 20 each, with 0 being the minimum.

Marriage happiness, as the in-game tip explains, affects which ending you’ll get with your spouse. The happiness is a score between -10 and 10. -3 and less gives a “bad” ending, -2 to 2 gives a “default” ending, and 3 and above gives a “good” ending. In order to change the marriage happiness in the cheat console, type “Marriage” followed by the number you want to set it to. For example, “Marriage-3”, “Marriage0”, “Marriage4”.

Change a character’s reputation by writing their name, followed by the reputation you want to set it to. For example, “Dawn100”, “Ophelia-100”, “Cecil0”, “MG15”. This works for townsfolk who currently live in the town and foreign leaders. If changing Se’Vah’s or Te’Rohga’s reputation, you have to write their name without the apostrophe (e.g. “SeVah15”, “TeRohga-40”). For all other characters, the name must be spelled exactly like their first name is spelled in dialogue (i.e. MG being correct, instead of her full name). Reputation goes between -100 to 100. It is not possible to change the reputation of those who Detest you or are Forever Faithful. It is, however, possible to change the reputation of characters who are uninterested in you, regardless of how they became uninterested.

You are free to type any number you want between -100 and 100, but the game may not work as intended if the numbers are not increments of 5, since that is what the game is based around.

It is possible to kill, execute or move a townsperson out by typing the respective action followed by the character’s name. For example, “KillDawn”, “ExecuteCecil”, “MoveErewen”. As with the reputation change cheat, the character’s name has to be written the way it’s used in dialogue (i.e. MG is MG), with the exception of Te’Rohga, who has to be written without an apostrophe (e.g. “KillTeRohga”). You can only use these actions on townsfolk who currently live in the town. If you are married to a townsperson, you can use the kill and execute cheat on them, but not move out. No matter which action you use, notable relationships will be effected. It is not possible to use any of these cheats on the last character in town. The successful use of any of the commands will give a default message declaring the character dead or moved out.

Both the “Kill”- and “Execute”-cheat will kill the character, but what is written on the gravestone differs depending on which method is used. The “Execute”-cheat also increases a counter for how many characters have been executed, which is tallied in the stats at the end of the game, and is used for a special short event. Both actions will result in the character getting the “Dead”-ending.

The “Move”-cheat gives the “Moved out”-ending. It’s important to note that some characters’ “Moved out”-ending might appear contextually strange when moving them out with this cheat, since they would only be able to move out under very specific conditions during normal gameplay.

Keep in mind that using any of these three cheats on characters when a long event is active may break the long event or make it illogical (i.e. the character you killed might show up anyway if you chose it for something, for example being an actor, in the first half of the event).

All five resource types can be changed by entering their name (“Gold”, “Wood”, “Stone”, “Food”, “Coins”), followed by a positive number. For example, “Coins500”, “Wood25”. Resources cannot go below 0 or above their respective highest limits, which are around the hundreds of thousands-mark. The stats at the end of the game may not show the resource statistics accurately if a resource has been changed with cheats.

You are free to type any number you want, but since most resources have a standard increment (5 for Coins, 25 for Gold, etc), things may not look appealing if you don’t use those standard increments. However, this would probably not be game breaking.

As with the resources, each resource type’s monthly production can be changed as well. It works the same as with resources – just add “Month” after the resource type. For example, “GoldMonth50”, “StoneMonth5”. Keep in mind that changing things this way will likely break the guard presence, if it’s higher than Low. It will definitely break the info square detailing where the resources are coming and going from (and the text in the info square will be incorrect from then on). The stats at the end of the game will not show the resource production accurately if it has been changed with cheats.

Typing “Population1000”, “Population0”, “Population5000” will set the population accordingly. Population ranges between 0 and 10000. Some events may not work as intended if you set it too low. The stats at the end of the game will most likely not show the highest population accurately if it has been changed with cheats. While you can set the population to any number within the range that you want, keep in mind that the game is based around population increases and decreases in the hundreds. Other numbers may have unintended consequences.

By typing “Short” followed by a number from 0 to 104, you can decide which short main event will occur next. For example, “Short0”, “Short54”, “Short89”. If you type a negative number or leave a minus sign in the field whilst having a complete “Short”, the entire thing will reset and only random events will occur.

If you have already completed the event you enter into the console during that playthrough, there will be a line of text on the console informing you of that.

Likewise, a line of text will inform you if the short event is currently being tracked – that is, set as the next one to appear, if possible.

There are some important things to note when manipulating events. First of all, the number of the event you enter is saved in the current savefile. The number will be checked every month when a short event can occur. When the event has taken place, the number will be reset, allowing for completely random events again. If the event can’t occur for whatever reason (other prioritized events occur, it is time for a long event, etc), the number is still saved so that the event will happen on the first month it can happen. Keep in mind that a lot of short events have requirements that prevent them from occurring even if you have their specific number saved. So even if you keep a number for a short event during the entire playthrough, you might never get to see it because you don’t meet the requirements.

This cheat only applies to regular short main events. Special short main events can’t be manipulated, since they have very specific requirements and a certain percentage chance to occur every month. If you’re curious about the main event prioritization during months when short events should take place, it is like this: main story (Ophelia’s halfway checkup, marriage, foreign leaders’ negative reputation events, etc), special short events, meetups (if at least 6 months have passed since the last one) and regular short events (including meetups, independent of the 6-month-timer).

Keep in mind that townsfolk meetups count as regular short main events (but they also have additional, prioritized checks, akin to special short events). Since meetups require both characters and some additional relationship based things, a specific meetup may never occur during a playthrough. Therefore, be wary when trying to summon the following short events, since they are meetups: 12-13, 18-21. 23-24, 29, 52, 74-83, 85-96.

Type “Long” followed by a number from 0 to 17 to influence which long event will occur next. For example, “Long0”, “Long10”, “Long3”. The process is exactly the same as described for the short events, with the additional caveat that long events start in Late Spring and Late Autumn. The long event number entered into the console will thus be saved until a long event can occur on one of those months. But as with short events, some of the long events have requirements that need to be met before they can show up, even when using this cheat. If you have already completed the event you enter into the console during that playthrough, there will be a line of text on the console informing you of that. Likewise, a line of text will inform you if the long event is currently being tracked – that is, set as the next one to appear, if possible.


We hope that these cheats will be useful to you!

As we mentioned in the beginning, this is the final content update for Mistwinter Bay. With this, we have added more than we had intended for the game, checking off all the “would like to have”-lists and so on. The only thing we can think of that we’ve “missed” in our own minds would be 2 more long events to bring it up to 20 in total, but considering how much content a single long event can provide, it feels like no disaster to have 18. When we first started planning for the game, we wanted 100 short and 20 long main events to ensure that there were enough events to prevent you from seeing the same ones during two playthroughs. We’ve exceeded that number with the short events, especially if you include the special ones, and we’re close enough with the long ones, too. It was never a disaster if we didn’t reach those numbers since the main events, especially the long ones, have been designed to be experienced multiple times. As experienced players may know, when an event shows up can greatly change how it plays out, as was our intention.

We’re very pleased with and proud of how the game has turned out. To us, it is one of few games where choices really matter, and it seems like a lot of you agree, which means we’ve done our job. But now, that job has come to an end. It’s been five years since the idea for the game was conceived and four years since we started working on it properly. That’s a long time for two people to stare at walls of dialogue, either in text documents or code. Now, we have reached the limit for how much we can handle in terms of motivation, creativity and the content itself. While it would theoretically be possible to add main events and even cosmetics until the end of time, there’s not much of a point to add more when there is so much already.

In all honesty, we never intended to have any content updates at all, since we wanted to have a completely content-finished game upon release. But some unfortunate circumstances beyond our control cut some of the development time shortly before release, meaning that we didn’t have time to add everything we had planned for. So we moved that content past the release. When we were already forced to do those updates, we figured that we might as well add the remaining content that we wanted in a best-case-scenario. And that’s where we are now.

We will of course keep releasing bugfixes, fix grammar and things like that if we get more reports on those things. But in terms of new content, this is where it ends. We will shift our main focus to a brand new, much smaller, unrelated game instead. While that game will have nothing to do with Mistwinter Bay thematically, we might come back to the world of Sefra one day. There’s a lot of lore that’s pretty easy to build on, as was our intention, so you never know what we might come up with in the future!

A sincere thank you to all of you. Knowing that the game we’ve worked so hard on for so long has brought joy to you means that our efforts were worth it.

We hope you enjoy the new content and that you have fun exploring Mistwinter Bay with the new cheats!

The Swordlake Entertainment duo

Hello, everyone! New year, new content for Mistwinter Bay! This update is called 1.1 since it is the first one that adds new story content, namely 15 new short main events. We plan to have about 1 or 2 more of these content updates and at that point, we will have added what we wanted to the game. We will of course keep fixing bugs after that, but there will be no new content - not that that should be an issue, considering how much there already is!

Anyhow, here's what's new in this update:

• With the addition of 12 new meetups, all townsfolk now have 2 meetups each! Just as the other meetups, the new ones are counted as short main events
  
  • The character duos who have new meetups are: Dawn and Dough, Cecil and MG, Erewen and Yamileth, Ulesse and Te’Rohga, Englia and Edmund, Hector and Islynor, Lynx and Ulvar, Oscar and Amelie, Lilith and Rocca, Jerome and Eugene, Euphemia and Laith, Zane and Faye
• A short main event where MG and Ulvar interact based on some very specific requirements, one being both characters’ personal quests having been completed in very specific ways. This event is not counted as a meetup
  
• A short main event that requires low guard presence
  
• A short main event that allows you to learn more about Mistwinter Bay’s history in the form of a test that can earn you coins. Can only occur year 2 and later

• The game no longer crashes when trying to start a new main event after having declined to convert to Avallerism when attempting to create an alliance between Meblia and Ethal in Camilla’s first personal quest
  
• When failing to arrange/declining a trade deal with Yscor on Utrua’s behalf in Orreg’s first personal quest, there is no longer a loop that restarts the negotiation in Yscor during all following game months
  
• The option to pay for good food during the coronation should now show up properly regardless of if you can or can’t afford to pay for it. If you can’t afford it, you will be presented with the other two options again a bit later in the dialogue

• It is now possible to skip through dialogue by using the Control-key
  
  • The shortcut functions the same as using the on-screen button
    
  • There is no documentation of the shortcut in the game

• The standard initial resource production for wood and stone has been lowered from 5 to 2. The production when using easy mode remains unchanged at 10
  
  • The production change will only affect new playthroughs
    
  • The change will produce “ugly numbers”, but will hopefully make the game more reasonably difficult, since the 5 wood and stone per month made it too easy (especially now that there is an easy mode). We hope that having 2 production will still avoid players being completely unable to build things, whilst ensuring that everything in the town isn’t built too early (like year 3 or early year 4). It will hopefully also make certain major achievements, like forming an alliance, more special and worthwhile.
• The modeling short main event now presents characters to send out with light buttons (“likely to succeed”) instead of dark buttons (“less likely to succeed”). Nothing else has changed in the event

• Corrected various minor grammatical mistakes

We hope that you enjoy these new events if you encounter them and that you will have fun with the game regardless! We will see you again for the next update.

The Swordlake Entertainment Duo

Hello, everyone! This is a very small fix, addressing the following:

• Townsfolk who are in a relationship with someone no longer lose reputation if another, unrelated townsperson ends up in a negative situation (i.e. dies, moves out, is imprisoned, detests)

• It is now possible to take screenshots using Steam’s screenshot button (F12 by default)
  
  • Screenshots are also saved locally in the same place as the savefiles and other necessary files. You can access them by going to user -> AppData -> Local -> Mistwinter_Bay (show hidden files needs to be turned on in order for the AppData-folder to be visible)
    
  • Please be aware of the fact that the game will freeze when a screenshot is taken. It may freeze for multiple seconds, depending on the hardware and where the screenshot is taken. For example, taking screenshots in the town view will take much longer than in the map view. This is due to the game’s engine and there’s unfortunately nothing we can do about it

• Fixed a handful of minor grammatical mistakes

That's all for now!
The Swordlake Entertainment duo

Hello, everyone! We've released a new update for Mistwinter Bay - version 1.0.2.0. It's a pretty small update, but it has some serious quality of life additions. Here's what's new:

• Holding down a key when entering a custom name of any sort now only enters one copy of the letter

• There is now a Skip-button in dialogue. It is located above the Log and Pause-buttons
  
  • When the button is held down, the dialogue is sped up. The dialogue will resume when the button is released
    
  • The dialogue automatically resumes when an option is presented (i.e. it’s not possible to skip past choices)
    
  • There may be some issues with certain visual effects (mostly magic) when skipping through dialogue, but it shouldn’t be game breaking
• Regular savefiles now get 3 additional autosaves separate from the regular autosave and Seasonal Autosave. These new autosaves occur when accepting to enter a main event when clicking on the Main Event-button in the throne room at the start of a month. The saves are dedicated to each month in a season, meaning that there is one for “Early [season]”, “Mid [season]” and “Late [season]” respectively. The saves will be overwritten the next time a month starts in the same way. For example, an “Early Spring” autosave will be overwritten in “Early Summer”
  
  • By adding these saves, we hope that players who mostly rely on autosaves have less trouble going back in time if, for example, the regular autosave and Seasonal Autosave get “trapped” in a long event that can only end in the sovereign’s death
    
  • There is a new sentence mentioning these saves in the “Saving” tutorial tip
    
  • Permanent savefiles are not affected by these saves
• Savefile buttons - both in the save menu, load menu and when choosing a permanent savefile in the character creator - now display what general situation the game was saved in
  • The following categories can be displayed: Throne Room, Town, Map, Main Event, Hangout, Quest and Prologue
    
  • Existing savefiles will not have the text, meaning that there will be a comma and empty space after “Save [nr]”
    
  • In order to fit the text on the buttons, Permanent Choices Save has been renamed to Permanent Save

• Fixed various minor grammatical mistakes

We hope you enjoy the update and keep having fun with the game!

The Swordlake Entertainment duo

Hello, everyone! We've just published a fix for the game, addressing the following things:

• Made sure that Neferu’s personal quest can be accessed
  
• Fixed crashes related to Eugene’s fifth hangout
  
• Whoever is sent out as a mage to deal with Damian, succeeds and isn’t okay with killing in self-defense no longer loses excessive amounts of reputation. Additionally, all “extra kills” (hundreds, at points) that are presented in the end game statistics due to this bug are now reduced to the more reasonable number of 1
  
• Separated two previously overlapping dialogue options when renovating Artbell house
  
• Corrected the position of Marjorie’s face in Amelie’s personal quest
  
• Eria and Llemyon should now show up to the sovereign’s and Camilla’s wedding if they became uninterested in the sovereign due to creating an alliance with their country and Meblia in Camilla’s first personal quest
  
• The coin boost given in the Pegasus-event no longer charges you double the amount of coins needed to pay for things
  
• When there is a visitor at the inn and you build the other building on the lot that the visitor’s building can be built on, the “new visitor” message in the throne room and the icon above the inn in the town view now disappear
  
• The star icons on the savefiles now only show up on saves that have been manually saved to (i.e. the autosave and seasonal autosaves no longer get stars)
  
• Fixed an issue where the pause menu’s button for auto text speed didn’t match the values of the auto text speed options in the settings menu. As a result, the pause menu button could get the wrong icon and the settings menu option could get missing text. The issue has been fixed by applying the settings menu’s values to the pause menu’s button.

• Adjusted one of Llemyon’s negative reputation events to make it slightly easier to complete without a game over, but added more serious consequences for any townsfolk involved instead
  
• Lowered the cost of making the masquerade more impressive, from 75 and 125 coins to 50 and 100
  
• When hosting a party where people make requests, lowered the cost of the Meblian trade deal of 100 or 75 gold per month to 75 or 50 gold per month

• Fixed various grammatical mistakes
  
• Adjusted a loading screen tip about hearts to make it clear that they usually don’t indicate a romantic relationship until after a character’s personal quest has been completed

We hope this small update makes the experience with the game even smoother!
The Swordlake Entertainment duo

Hello, everyone! We have just uploaded the first update for Mistwinter Bay where we have fixed a few bugs, done some balancing and added some things, including an Easy Mode! We thought it would take longer to get things done, so we're pleased to get it out so soon. Here's a more detailed list of what we've done:

• Fixed a crash when opening up the collection menu in the throne room at the start of a month
  Fixed a crash when receiving an item through an item popup that occurred when particles were turned off
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to start a new main event after completing Eria’s first personal quest in a particular way
  
• Fixed an issue where there was an empty line of dialogue in the Sasee’s letters-event
  
• Fixed a bug where you could click on the bridges when reputation popups were on screen
  
• Made sure that buttons for single lots show up when sorting for buildings you can afford to build in the town view
  
• Swapped the colors of the Skip/Don’t skip buttons to match the positions of the No/Yes buttons in messages
  
• Changed the dialogue’s referral to coins from gold to coins in the following events: Message in a bottle (short), Imposter (long)
  
• Fixed an issue where the date, time, etc would not update properly on permanent savefile-buttons after autosaving in the throne room at the start of a month
  
• Saves which page you are on in the Load-menu when loading a game
  
  • Previously, the page was only saved when backing out of the menu

• Lowered the exchange rate when raising and lowering the guard presence from 50 to 25 gold per month, making it cheaper to have more guards
  • If you have a savefile with guard presence higher than Low, you should get 50 gold back when lowering it, even though the menu says 25. Likewise, if you raise it without going down to 0 first, it will still cost 50 gold
• Lowered the price of gifts. They are now 30, 70, 110, 150 for positive gifts and 20, 50 for negative gifts
  
  • We might adjust the prices again at a later date based on player feedback

• The most recent savefile of either type (regular or permanent) now has star icons, to make it more visually clear which one was saved to most recently (so save scumming is now a bit easier!)
  
• Added a base production of 5 wood and 5 stone for all new playthroughs
  • The amount has not be adjusted for playthroughs created before this update
    
  • By adding this base production, we figure that it will get easier to build in general, you won’t be completely screwed with resources if you make mistakes early on, and there will be more freedom in what to build and when. In other words, no more being forced to build the Lumber Camp or Stone Quarry first, or even being forced to have either of them in a playthrough!
• Due to the new base production of wood and stone, all types of resources - including coins - now have “Base” as a source of income. Previously, Food was the only resource that had the “Base”-category
  
• Added an “Easy Mode”
  • When playing on Easy Mode, you start out with a monthly production of 1500 food, 10 stone, 10 wood, 75 gold (of which 50 comes from the Inn) and 10 coins. The extra production is counted in the “Base”-income category
    
  • You also get a relationship boost with ALL characters, regardless of residential status, adding 15 reputation to each of them at the start of the game
    
  • Easy Mode can only be entered at the end of the character creation process. You can’t leave Easy Mode later in the game either

We want to give a sincere thank you to everyone who has played the game so far! We're very happy that you seem to enjoy it. It truly makes our efforts feel worth it. We wish you even more fun in the game with this update!

The Swordlake Entertainment duo

Today is the day – Mistwinter Bay is finally released!

It took two years from the original demo’s release and four years from the conception of the idea, but now, 1.0 is finally in your hands. Our team of two have put blood, sweat and tears into making this game a reality and we’re very excited to finally let you experience the full game for yourselves!

Those of you who have played any version of the demo will be pleased to see many new additions and improvements, such as a much more detailed character creator, unlockable outfits, achievements, many more collection items, alliances, notable relationships, townsfolk couples, personal quests, marriage, adoption and much, much more! And to those of you who are going in completely blind – you haven’t missed anything and will get to see the game in its best state. We’re very excited to have all of you along for the ride!

Of course, with a game of this size and with only two people working on it, there might be some bugs and grammatical errors. If you encounter anything like that, you can inform us about it in the community section or by heading over to our Discord (https://discord.gg/XvaKcKv7). You are of course welcome to post other things as well – we would love to see what your sovereign looks like, who you marry and moments or features that you find especially memorable!

We want to end with a sincere thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way (not the least our Patrons) and to everyone who purchases the game now. Your support is what makes it possible for us to make games.

Thank you, and please enjoy the 1.0 release of Mistwinter Bay!

The Swordlake Entertainment duo

P.S. In case you’re curious, the game has more than 1.6 million words of dialogue across more than 2000 dialogue options, so there are plenty of things to experience! Enjoy yourselves!