- Misgiven gameplay & dev insights at the AdventureX 2025 Showcase! - 20 November 2025
As an alumni of last year, Misgiven will be part of the AdventureX 2025 Steam Showcase from 19th November through 2nd December! Throughout this time we'll be streaming Misgiven's demo playthrough and we'll be keeping an eye on chat for your questions ♥️While the playthrough will be pre-recorded, answering your questions in chat will be live! Use this chance to ask us about Misgiven, studio happenings as well as about Deep Fog Signals, Misgiven's standalone prequel currently in active development and planned to release in early 2026.See you in Misgiven's chat!
- Misgiven gameplay & dev insights at the AdventureX 2025 Showcase! - 17 November 2025
As an alumni of last year, Misgiven will be part of the AdventureX 2025 Steam Showcase from 19th November through 2nd December! Throughout this time we'll be streaming Misgiven's demo playthrough and we'll be keeping an eye on chat for questions ːreheartːWhile the playthrough will be pre-recorded, answering your questions in chat will be live! Use this chance to ask us about Misgiven, studio happenings as well as about Deep Fog Signals, Misgiven's standalone prequel currently in active development and planned to release in early 2026.See you in Misgiven's chat!
- TRANSMISSION INCOMING: The Steam page for Deep Fog Signals is now live! - 27 October 2025
The Steam page for Deep Fog Signals is now live and we are SO excited to share it with you!If you’ve been following us for a while, you may already know that Misgiven has been repeatedly delayed as sufficient funding has simply not been in the cards for us thus far. This is why we had to make an initially tough decision, which felt better and better as it all sank in. We chose to make Deep Fog Signals: a smaller, more focused title we can actually produce and release on a more limited budget, allowing us to also explore the world of the Cauldron - the vast crater rich in resources and boiling over with oppressive and inexplicable fog - from another, yet equally fascinating angle. We really hope you’ll be as intrigued by it as we are!Deep Fog Signals is a short atmospheric horror puzzle adventure and a standalone, indirect prequel to Misgiven. Unlike it, it is set not in the city of Kori…
- Happy Women's Day with Misgiven! - 5 March 2025
Dear folks, this announcement is going out really close: in half an hour the Dames 4 Games Showcase will be featuring Anca, co-founder and producer at our studio Symmetry Break, to do a quick dev spotlight about her work and her relationship to Misgiven. Hope you can still catch it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/EyeDP_FeTeg?si=tFp7X_kJ0tDZpId2 🤞 We're so honored to have Misgiven also featured in the Women's Day Sale among so many cool games developed by women and other gender marginalized individuals! Check out the whole lineup while it's still running at https://store.steampowered.com/sale/womensdaysale ! Happy Women's Day 🌹
- Misgiven at The Storyteller's Festival 2025 - 18 February 2025
Misgiven is proudly part of The Storyteller's Festival 2025! 🥳 Organized by indie studio Two and a Half Studios, The Storyteller's Festival is a free digital event with: Over 400 games and demos from top developers in the visual novel and narrative game genres Dedicated streams and announcements featuring participating games and developers Giveaways, announcements and special events on social media Celebrate this incredibly creative and varied lineup of narrative games on Steam until Feb 25th: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/TwoHalfStudios/sale/TheStorytellersFestival2025
- Mis-give the demo page some love - 12 February 2025
Hi friends, just wanted to let you know that this is a thing now! In the following months we'll give it another push to promote Misgiven in ways we haven't tried yet and seek financial avenues to see it fully materialized one day. As part of that, let's see what at least some of its community's love can do for its demo page with this recent Steam feature. So please head over to https://store.steampowered.com/app/2997040/Misgiven_Demo and let others know what you've thought after playing it! Most of you have probably already submitted feedback via the anonymous form inside the demo itself, that will remain there for those who don't want to share publicly - otherwise, we're grateful for you posting this way (and spreading the word whichever else way you can). Thank you for reading this and for keeping up with our journey thus far!
- Misgiven's showcase at AdventureX 2024 & Dev gameplay stream! - 2 November 2024
Happy to announce that Misgiven is part of this year's AdventureX digital showcase, featuring 35 shortlisted titles and 10 honorable mentions from the hundreds of submissions this year, as well as the past years' exhibitors! To celebrate this recognition, we'll be doing a livestream here on Steam on Tue 5 November at 2PM CET. Come hang out with the devs, watch us play the latest demo and ask us anything! Check out all narrative games participating in the AdventureX Steam event page (available from Monday): https://store.steampowered.com/sale/AdventureX2024 AdventureX will also be livestreaming talks, panels and interviews on Thu 7 November starting at 6 PM GMT on the Steam Event page, as well as their Youtube and Twitch channels! During the rest of the week, their Steam Event page will broadcast some of the best talks in AdventureX history. Celebrate a whole week dedicated to adventure…
- Vote for Misgiven for the DevGAMM Community Award! - 14 October 2024
Misgiven is competing in the DevGAMM Awards this year! If you want to help, use this form to vote for Misgiven's submission in the Community Award category, for our chance to win $2000 to cover further development costs! Thank you
- Misgiven at Polaris Con Hamburg (11-13 Oct. 2024) - 9 October 2024
We are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting Misgiven at Polaris Con this week! Polaris is a unique mix of gaming, anime, manga, cosplay and Asian pop culture. This will be its third edition at the Hamburg Congress Center on 11. - 13. October 2024. Come visit our booth in SANDBOX Hall B7 at the Gamecity Hamburg delegation to play Misgiven's latest demo and chat with us!
- Misgiven featured in Games Baked in Germany! - 20 June 2024
We're extending the availability of Misgiven's early demo for a special Steam feature: Games Baked in Germany! 🌭 Check out a plethora of tasty games, sales and showcases for the next 7 days: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/games-made-in-germany-2024
- Misgiven DEMO out now for Women-Led Games! - 7 June 2024
Dear friends, We're feverishly excited to share that the MISGIVEN DEMO is OUT NOW on Steam - available for a limited time for the duration of Summer Game Fest! We thought this would be the right time to celebrate together how far we've come and to get more public feedback on a game that is continuously growing and changing! We're also thrilled to be part of the Women-Led Games lineup! Check it out at the Women-Led Games Event and the WLG Showcase Stream! We really hope you enjoy checking out this early demo of Misgiven. Please send us any demo feedback via this form, share it around and wishlist the upcoming release. Catch you in the next update!
- Misgiven featured at Indie Game Fest in Cologne! - 30 May 2024
We're excited to be attending Indie Game Fest between 31.05 and 01.06 - come play the demo and hang out with us! You can still grab yourself a ticket to the event with the following discount link: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/854790771207/?discount=Game20 Check out the Steam event page here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43793299/sale/indiegamefest2024 Hope to see you at Hotel Wasserturm! - Anca and Julian
- Misgiven wins German Computer Games Award for Best Prototype! - 25 April 2024
If you missed it on our social media, we wanted you - our followers rooting for Misgiven's journey - to get the update on our previous announcement: our game won the Young Talent Award: Best Prototype last week in Munich! The prize includes 50,000 EUR in funding and national recognition, and is a huge opportunity to continue expanding our prototype! The DCP (German Computer Game Award) has been awarded since 2009 and is organized by the German Federal Republic and the Game Association, with 15 categories and a total of 800,000 EUR in prize money this year! You can watch the award show stream here: For more info and lots more pics, head over to our website: https://symmetrybreak.com/2024/04/22/misgiven-wins-dcp-award-for-best-prototype/.
- Misgiven nominated for the DCP Young Talent Award: Best Prototype! - 19 March 2024
Today we at Symmetry Break Studio are incredibly happy to be able to share with you that Misgiven has been nominated as one of 5 Germany-wide titles for the Young Talent Award: Best Prototype at the German Computer Game Awards (DCP) 2024, securing at least the 25K EUR nomination prize 🌟🌟🌟 We quote here the touching review from the DCP jury for Misgiven, translated from the German version: "Multiple-choice conversations appear in countless computer games. But very often the innovations end with the layout of the ready-made answers; instead of having a conversation, we traverse a tree diagram. In this way, we do not do justice to the feeling of really talking to other people. Misgiven captures the insecurities and inhibitions in a conversation situation with an uncertain outcome with a brilliant idea: The protagonist of the graphic adventure sees more and less courageous answer options…
- End of Year Update! - 24 December 2023
Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all an update if you've been wondering what we at Symmetry Break Studio have been up to. Many of you may not have seen anything new about Misgiven ever since we showed the game at gamescom 2023. We want to let you know we're still hard at work, albeit a bit slower, as we hunt for a publisher and further funding for the game. Even though this introduces some delays in our development schedule, we're gearing up to come back in full force in 2024. 2023 was a very exciting year for Misgiven, all caused by your interest and support, whether you spoke or wrote about the game, hosted it at events, came up to us to talk about it, playtested it, offered feedback or wishlisted it. All these things were incredibly helpful and tremendously encouraging! If you're keen on revisiting the excitement of gamescom in August 2023, here's a couple ways to do it: Read th…
