Stand By Me Steam news

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• Review score97% positive
• Total reviews38
• Release dateJul 1, 2021
• DeveloperGaroa Studios
• PublisherGaroa Studios

Genres: Casual, Indie

Company pages: Developer: Garoa StudiosPublisher: Garoa Studios

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Stand By Me Steam news

Stand By Me news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• Security Update – Unity CVE-2025-59489 - 24 October 2025

  We’ve updated Stand By Me to include the security fixes released by Unity addressing CVE-2025-59489, classified as high severity.This vulnerability could allow local code execution or unauthorized access to information on systems running older Unity versions, depending on the operating system. So far, there’s been no evidence of exploitation or impact on users or customers, but as a precaution, we chose to protect our players proactively.🔧 What we did: Updated the engine to Unity 2020.3.49f1 (secure patch).Rebuilt and redeployed the game to remove any potential risk.Since we reopened the project, we also took the opportunity to apply a few small fixes, without any substantial gameplay or content changes:Text typos in credits;Misplaced components in a few levels;The mask function in Make-a-Friend now works properly.This update ensures full compliance with Unity’s official recommendation…

• Astro Pig Released! + Garoa Hits vol. 1 - 6 May 2024

  🚀 This May 1st we've launched Astro Pig - our lo-fi adventure puzzle platformer - on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1800390/Astro_Pig/ With the launch we've also updated our Garoa Hits - vol. 1 bundle! If you've missed any Garoa classic titles' launch, take a look and grab this chance to complete your collection! 📦 The bundle includes: Cartomante (2020) Stand By Me (2021) Cat Leather Jackets (2023) Astro Pig (2024) 💿 The bundle only adds to your cart titles you don't have in your library, and applies a discount over the total value! We think it's also a great gift for that special someone that enjoys brazilian games. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38548/Garoa_Hits__vol_1/?curator_clanid=4777282

• Update 2.0 - Skills, Make-a-Friend and more! - 28 October 2021

  New Content: - Five new Skill books - player skills that, after unlocked, can be used in the story books: Hat: Gives an extra hit per page; Aim Shot: Enters bullet time, slowing down time and letting Pico aim and change trajectory (five uses per book); Warp: Five uses per book; Demolition: Allows for breaking standard breakable blocks (and multi-hit ones) without bouncing, and also destroys spikes; Tiny: Tiny. - Make-a-Friend, unlocked after finishing the first book! Improvements from the web version: new customizations, animated shaders, sound effects and now you can hang pictures of your favorite creations on the main menu wall; - Stickers on the main menu wall are now progressively unlocked during gameplay; - Five new achievements; - A photo of Luna; - Various bug fixes. And for the Halloween Sale, SBM is also 20% off until November 1st!

• Update 1.2.0 - Menus overhaul and more! - 26 July 2021

  1.2.0 is here, and with it comes a visual overhaul of the main and pause menus. We hope you like it! And additional adjustments: - More visual shader fixes, in the main menu background and during the end of book animation; - Added a second in-game timer (after completing a book for the first time) showing the current record time; - "Speedreader" now won't pop-up everytime you clear a new record if you already got the achievement; - Updated the description of the more easter egg achievements; - Fixed a few small bugs in the input editing interface.

• Update 1.1.3 - Unbreaking stuff - 15 July 2021

  Another one of those. This time we: - Fixed the "Speedreader" achievement, for completing all books under record time; - Fixed a shader bug that made the stars in the main menu and in the book end screen (the "You found a friend!" screen) misbehave and disappear.

• Update 1.1.2 - More minor fixes - 7 July 2021

  Some other minor fixes: - Small adjustments to the first and second music tracks; - Restarting the seventh book now properly keeps the music going without restarting; - Glitches due to interactions with cannons during the end of page animation now fixed (Pico wouldn't move in the next round, forcing the player to do a page reset); - "Click here" prompt in the main menu at the start of a new save now properly localized.

• Update 1.1.1 - Minor audio and gameplay fixes - 3 July 2021

  We fixed a few bugs and made some very minor adjustments – thank you to everyone that reached out to us! - Added a fade out transition to the main menu music; - Main menu music now properly silenced in the beginning of Book 7; - Fixed a soft lock you could get by resetting a scene during a page transition; - Enhanced Debug Mode; - Added system icon for the app.

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