- Strange Antiquities x Wax Heads - 5 May 2026
Dear Thaumaturges,We’re delighted to share that we’re bundled with an exciting new game, Wax Heads, that has a lot in common with our Strange games.Wax Heads is a game about working in a struggling record store, recommending music to its quirky customers, and chilling out to a fantastic soundtrack. If that sounds like your sort of thing and you already own Strange Antiquities, you can get an extra 10% off by purchasing the bundle.Also, to celebrate their launch we sat down for a chat with the devs where we discussed, among other things, how a fateful walk helped inspire the idea for Strange Horticulture, the nuances of feedback in puzzle games, what it's like working together as brothers, and why cats are important!You can listen to that here:
- Strange Antiquities is OUT on Xbox and PlayStation! - 30 April 2026
Dear Thaumaturges, The shop is opening its doors once more.We’re excited to share that Strange Antiquities is now available on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 4 & 5. We’ve carefully adapted everything for console, so you can settle in and get comfortable with your usual routine of handling cursed objects.For those returning, everything is just as you remember. The same shelves, the same strange requests, and the same sense that something isn’t quite right. Some items are harmless. Others… less so. For those arriving for the first time, the door is wide open. No prior knowledge required. Identify artefacts, assist your customers, and try not to cause irreparable damage.Thank you for continuing to support Strange Antiquities, and for helping us bring Undermere to new places. We’re looking forward to welcoming a whole new wave of Apprentices behind the counter.Rob & John ------------------…
- Strange Antiquities Opens Its Doors on Xbox and PlayStation! - 16 April 2026
Dear Thaumaturges, Undermere is getting new residents. We’re excited to welcome console players back into our shadowy, little town when Strange Antiquities drops on Xbox Series X & S and PlayStation 4 & 5 on April 30th! Grab your coziest blanket, a cup of your favourite tea, and take on the mantle of Apprentice Thaumaturge from the comfort of your own sofa. Bringing Strange Antiquities to as many platforms, systems and players as possible, just like we did with our previous adventure, has been a delight! We can’t wait to see returning horticulturalists and brand-new thaumaturges sort, inspect, and identify mysterious artifacts, with controls and interface tailored for a smooth console experience.We’ve got a few more things in the works that we’re excited to share when the time is right! But for now, our focus is on getting Strange Antiquities into your hands on console.Until then, Rob &…
- You Have An Extra Week To Take Home Jupiter! - 20 February 2026
Dear Thaumaturges,Good news for everyone who’s been keeping an eye on our little heterochromic troublemaker. We sent a cryptic letter to our friends at Makeship and they’ve extended the Jupiter Cat Plush campaign by one week, now running until Friday, February 27th. That means a little more time to claim your very own cuddly companion before he resumes his duties at Hollowell Lane! If you haven’t claimed your official Jupiter yet, this is your last chance. After the 27th, there will not be another opportunity to have your favourite store guard your bookshelves, desks, or couches. 👉 Grab your Jupiter plush before it is too late: LinkRob & John--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bad VikingTwitterBlueskyFacebookDiscordIceberg InteractiveTwitterTikTokFacebookYouTubeSteam Publisher Page
- Strange Antiquities x Makeship: Order Your Jupiter Plushie Now! - 29 January 2026
Dear Thaumaturges,Your favourite resident of Undermere is up for adoption. The Jupiter Cat Plush is officially live on Makeship for a limited time only! Thanks to your amazing support, our little heterochromic troublemaker is ready to leave the shop and take up residence on bookshelves, desks, and couches everywhere. If you backed the original petition, your plush is already secured. If not, now is your chance to claim your official Jupiter plush, complete with his detachable Holgen Grimm mask. We can’t wait to see Jupiter quietly judging, supervising, and occasionally knocking things over when no one is looking. Bringing our favourite store cat to life wouldn’t have been possible without this incredible community. 👉 Get your Jupiter plush here: https://www.makeship.com/products/jupiter-plush Rob & John------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
- Bad Viking Wishes You Happy Holidays! - 22 December 2025
Dear Thaumaturges,As we approach the end of 2025, we just wanted to take a moment to say a huge thank you to everyone who has played Strange Antiquities and Strange Horticulture (or both) this year!The response to Strange Antiquities has honestly meant the world to us. Seeing the game reach Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, with nearly 2,000 reviews, is something we’re incredibly proud of and something we never take for granted. Thank you for every review, video, social media post, comment, message, wishlist (etc)! We’re deeply grateful to everyone who’s taken the time to share their experience, especially to those who have recommended our games to others.Making games is a strange, often solitary process (especially for us as a small team), and releasing them into the world is both exciting and terrifying. Knowing that so many of you have enjoyed our games, exploring their mysteries, un…
- For Your Consideration: Strange Antiquities for the Steam Awards! - 26 November 2025
Dear Thaumaturges,It’s that time of the year again! As we prepare our minds for the festive season and our wallets for the Steam Winter Sale, we’re also reminiscing about our favourite games of the year and contemplating which ones we want to nominate for the Steam Awards.As you can probably guess, we didn’t get a huge amount of gaming done in 2025. Most of our time went into working on Strange Antiquities: puzzling over design quirks, fixing bugs, travelling to events, and trying to keep the shop in one piece.So if you haven’t yet, we’d really appreciate it if you could nominate Strange Antiquities for the Sit Back and Relax category. Your support means a lot to us.2025 has been an incredible year for indie games... even more so for detective and mystery games. Blue Prince, The Séance at Blake Manor, The Roottrees are Dead, and The Drifter to name just a few that have really stood out…
- Strange Antiquities x Makeship: Help Us Make A Jupiter Plushie! - 28 October 2025
Dear Thaumaturges, We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve teamed up with our friends at Makeship to try and bring something rather special to life!That’s right: we’re launching a petition to create an official plushie of Jupiter!We’ll still need to nail down the final design and see if accessories are even possible, but here’s a first look at our concept art:By backing this project, you can help make the Jupiter plush a reality. We need at least 200 pledges for production to begin. This is your one chance to bring home an official, one-of-a-kind keepsake of your favourite heterochromic store cat. We can’t wait to see him sitting on our dusty bookshelves, occasionally knocking things over when our backs are turned.Back the petition here.The Undermere Collection is Out Now!:We’ve finally brought Strange Horticulture and Strange Antiquities together in one delightfully dark and cosy package…
- Strange Antiquities: Now Available on macOS! - 22 October 2025
Dear Thaumaturges, We’re excited to announce that Strange Antiquities is now available on macOS! With this brand-new Mac build (and our DRM-free release on GOG), we’re embarking on our quest to bring Strange Antiquities to as many players as possible! This is the first step to achieving that, and we’ll be working on a handful of other platforms & ports in the coming months.But for now, we’re looking forward to welcoming our newest Apprentices on Mac! As always, if you encounter any issues, be sure to report them on our Bug Report forum. Rob & JohnPS: We have a veeeeeeery special announcement to make next week, so keep your eyes peeled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bad VikingTwitterBlueskyFacebookDiscordIceberg InteractiveTwitterTikTokFacebookYouTubeSteam Publisher Page
- Thank You All For Playing! - 16 October 2025
Dear Thaumaturges,It’s been a few weeks now since Strange Antiquities opened its doors, and, well, business is… unexpectedly good.Over 1,000 player reviews on Steam – and most of them are, thankfully, positive. In fact overwhelmingly positive, which is incredible!Thank you to everyone who’s played, shared your thoughts, written a review, made content, or simply spent a quiet evening in the shop with Jupiter by your side. We appreciate all of it.To celebrate, we’ve put together an Accolades Trailer featuring some of our favourite quotes from the critics. If you haven’t picked up the game yet, hopefully this will help stir your curiosity. Thank you for all your support – and please keep talking about the game, recommending it to friends, or whispering about it to passing ravens. It all helps!Rob & John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
- Patch v1.0.40 - 6 October 2025
Added several missing translations. Added a setting to allow fine tuning cursor acceleration when using a controller or on Steam Deck. Fixed a bug where the latest autosave was deleted when exiting from the main menu. Attempted fix for an issue with Thaumic Fields not displaying. Integrated a recommended Unity vulnerability patch.
- Patch v1.0.37 - 29 September 2025
Several minor fixes.
- Patch v1.0.36 - 26 September 2025
Fixed a bug where giving the right item in specific rare circumstances could cause the game to get stuck. Cleared up some confusion with some map directions. Fixed a bug where it was possible to lose an item if you quit the game before collecting a clue card item. Fixed several other minor bugs and typos.
- Patch v1.0.35 - 24 September 2025
Made several performance optimisations Fixed some issues with the town map in various languages Made some improvements to a specific puzzle (no spoilers!) Fixed an issue with the arachnophobia setting Fixed an issue with the Ascendant Thaumaturge achievement not unlocking properly if you continued from a demo save (you may need to replay the epilogue to trigger it still). Fixed several localisation issues
- Strange Antiquities is a perfect sequel that sent my witchy heart aflutter - 20 September 2025
There's beauty in simplicity. While I love games that push me to my limits, sometimes curling up with a hot chocolate (pumpkin spice at this time of year, of course) and playing a good ol' visual novel is exactly what I need. I recently delved back into the World of Darkness with Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York, followed by a brief stint brewing warm drinks in Coffee Talk. All of this, however, was in preparation for Strange Antiquities , the highly anticipated follow-up to Bad Viking's puzzle game turned detective story, Strange Horticulture. It's been three years since we last pet Jupiter the cat and tinkered around with potentially lethal leafy oddities, and a part of me wondered how Antiquities would set itself apart from its predecessor without suffering from feature bloat. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Blending the best bits of WoW and Diablo, Fellow…
- Post launch bug fixes v1.0.30 - 19 September 2025
Fixed a bug with the end-game with some missing items Improved the cursor sensitivity when using a controller Fixed some discrepancies with the map key in several languages Fixed a bug in German with the Elva Stone book entry Fixed a bug with AZERTY keyboard support Fixed a bug where it is was possible to lose a note on Day 8 Fixed a minor display issue with empty labels not disappearing Fixed a minor font issue in the end-game for several languages
- Chinese font hot-fix - 17 September 2025
A quick fix for a font issue where Chinese Traditional fonts weren't displaying correctly.
- Strange Antiquities is OUT NOW! - 17 September 2025
Strange Antiquities is out now!Our release has finally arrived: the doors to Strange Antiquities are now open! You can watch our brand-new launch trailer below: After several years of tinkering, puzzling, and more than a few nights spent burning the candle at both ends, we are thrilled to welcome you back to Undermere. If this is your first visit, don’t worry: no prior knowledge is required.Step into your new role as apprentice Thaumaturge, running an occult curiosity shop that is cosy, mysterious, and full of secrets waiting to be discovered.To celebrate our return to Undermere, we’re launching with a 10% discount for the first week. Share your thoughtsWe’re just two brothers making these strange little games, and your feedback means a lot to us. If you’ve already spent some time in the shop, please consider leaving us a review! It’s one of the best ways to support small indie teams. R…
- Strange Antiquities - Developer Live Stream - 17 September 2025
To celebrate the launch of Strange Antiquities, we pre-recorded a gameplay stream. We'll go over the first few days in the game
- The Thaumaturge’s Handbook: An FAQ for Strange Antiquities - 16 September 2025
Dear Thaumaturges, Before you set foot on the creaky floorboards of our shop on Hollowell Lane, we figured some of you still might have a few questions about your role, the shop, and the journey ahead. In this blog, we’ll answer a handful of them to make sure you don’t cause someone’s demise during your very first shift. Do I need to have played Strange Horticulture?No. Strange Antiquities is a stand-alone sequel set in the same world but tells a completely separate story. Returning players will find familiar mechanics and lore, but the game has been designed to be welcoming for new players too. Take your time - discovery is part of the experience. And if you’re ever stuck, there’s a hint button to help. Will there be some familiar faces?Yes. Previous visitors to Undermere may spot some familiar customers, along with crossover lore, references, and Easter Eggs for fans of Strange Hortic…
