- Patch 1.3.1.4 now available! - 3 November 2025
Howdy fellow gunslingers!Months have gone by and I'm still seeing new faces enjoying Colt Canyon. This makes me very happy and motivated to work on a new patch to further fine-tune the game. Overall I am happy with the state of the game though, so not much will change any time soon but as long as the game is alive I cannot quite leave it just yet.If you are skilled enough to reach your partner but struggle on the way back you will be glad to hear that there are some minor balancing changes in this update to make the B-Levels less frustrating. Your partner from now on will bleed out significantly slower, giving you much more time to react. There it should also be less risky to send your partner into combat, because as long as there are still fights going on your partner will never give up now, even when downed. Combined with the slight decrease in late-game enemies overall it should've n…
- Patch 1.3.1.3 now available! - 14 February 2025
Howdy fellow gunslingers! Great to see that a lot of the new players stuck around and are still enjoying their time in the canyon. I gathered a lot of feedback and bug reports over the last weeks and therefore want to get this patch, which is addressing most of these reports, out as soon as possible. So again this is mostly bug fixes, balancing changes and minor improvements. For example minor buffes for light ammo weapons and arrow weapons. Nerfing the bear boss, and a bunch of improvements to gamepad input and the camera. Your existing save games should also work just fine with this update, so you can continue your in-progress run and enjoy the improvements without having to restart from scratch, just in case you had already a run going on. This patch will also come to all other platforms as soon as possible, for real this time. Please find the changelog for Update 1.3.1.3 below or on…
- Patch 1.3.1.2 now available! - 20 January 2025
Howdy fellow gunslingers and happy new year! And a warm welcome to all the new players who joined us in this new year, of which there are plenty. It's great to see so many of you enjoying the game so long after the initial release. The game has changed a lot since 2020 and it's much appreciated that you recognize this and are still excited for it. Of course even now years after release I am still listening to all your feedback and reading the now (as of writing this only close to, but when you are reading this hopefully over) 1000 official Steam reviews. Big thanks for that! It's not easy to sit at a very positive review score with this many reviews from all over the world and from all kinds of players. Today I got another patch for you, addressing a lot of the issues that I've read about in the last weeks. If you were waiting for one of these fixes I hope you can now enjoy the game a b…
- A Fistful of Fixes and Tweaks: v1.3.1.1 Launched! - 19 December 2024
Howdy fellow gunslingers! This is just a small patch. A lot of these changes were already integrated in the public Steam version as part of a hotfix shortly after 1.3.1.0 - But now I've added a couple of additional bug fixes and am releasing this patch with a new game version and official release announcement. This patch will not affect your existing saves, you should be able to continue your run. This patch will also come to all other platforms (incl. Xbox One) as soon as possible. But please keep in mind that we are deep into the holiday season which makes a release for all platforms before next year very unlikely. On Steam you will be able to enjoy this patch rightaway though. v 1.3.1.1 Added 240 Hz option to frame rate setting Increased accuracy when walking by 20% Slightly increased Muzzle Brake upgrade's effect but reduced its silencing effect Slightly increased cooldown reduction…
- Patch 1.3.1 now available! - 22 November 2024
Howdy fellow gunslingers! It was fantastic seeing all of you excited for patch 1.3! I got a lot of valuable feedback from the community and also made a lot of play testing myself. That's how a minor patch became this major update. Basically Update 1.3 Part 2. Packed with bug fixes, overhauls and balancing tweaks and even some small new mechanics and props. Some of the more exciting changes are combinable shields, increased ammo cap, some new decorations/secrets, loadout changes, improved weapon power level indicators and reworked weapon spray + crosshair system. There are also a ton of tweaks to most, if not all, weapons. So now is the time for giving all weapons another try! Let's talk about the shield change some more: You should find more shields in general now, which can combine into a single stronger shield once you've collected 3 undamaged ones of the same level. This is mostly to…
- Patch 1.3 - The Horse Update - now available! - 12 October 2024
Howdy fellow gunslingers! It's been a while. But there are still some people left fighting for their lives in the canyon. So I couldn't help myself but visit the canyon one more time. And now I am back and bring you patch 1.3! Packed with balancing changes, a bunch of QoL changes, many bug fixes and of course the most interesting change: Ridable horses! Steam players are part of the lucky few that get to play with the horses first! All other platforms will have to wait some longer. (Join the discord or follow on social media to stay up-to-date) Over the last months I noticed how valuable time is. I do not have as much time to work on my own games as I used to have. And with this realization I decided that I should give my players some options to more efficiently conquer the canyon and use the little free time they have more fairly. The logical next step after the last big update, which…
- ✅ Make sure to complete your Thunderful Steam Deck Collection! - 5 May 2023
Happy Friday, friends! Let us make you an offer you definitely can't refuse! We recently published the ultimate "Thunderful Steam Deck Bundle", including Swordship, Colt Canyon, SteamWorld Dig 2 and Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32148/Steam_Deck_Bundle/ Make sure to complete your Thunderful Steam Deck collection, because thanks to our current Thunderful Publisher Sale here on Steam (May 4-18), the price is really unbeatable low! It's now or never, friends - don't miss out! ːsteamhappyː Have a relaxing weekend all! The Thunderful Team
- Verified for Steam Deck: Play Colt Canyon wherever you want! 🤠 - 16 January 2023
Howdy fellow gunslingers! Some good news for all you lovely gunslingers out there: Colt Canyon was recently reviewed and verified for the glorious Steam Deck! Yee-haw! ːsteamhappyː What does that mean? It's simple: I put in some efforts to fix issues the game had with the Deck so that you can now enjoy Colt Canyon in all its glory on the Steam Deck wherever you are: at home on the couch, on the back of your horse, in the bathroom - just about anywhere! So grab your Deck folks, there is colt work to be done! All the best and thanks for playing! Jonathan https://store.steampowered.com/app/940710/Colt_Canyon/
- A Fistful of Fixes and Tweaks: v1.2.1.2 Launched! - 15 December 2022
Howdy fellow gunslingers! This is just a small patch. There was a bug that sneaked through all the way until now that prevented ambushes from being a thing. You probably thought I would never notice and all of you could live happily ever after without having to worry about ambushes and I bet there have been a few new speedrun world records. But the achievement hunters noticed ambushes never occuring and now it's time to end this madness. If you still prefer your runs without ambushes you can still turn them off in the run settings. This patch is also going to be released on all other platforms soon. Xbox should go live any minute now! Xbox was highest priority here since it didn't get the latest 1.2.1.1 revision. Sorry for that, but getting stuff patched on consoles just takes forever and there was some small miscommunication between me and my pubisher. The long processes on consoles ar…
- A Fistful of Fixes and Tweaks: v1.2.1.1 Launched! - 5 October 2022
Howdy fellow gunslingers! I hope you already had some fun with the new optional permadeath mode and save system! If not, now is the time! New Patch Today I got a big pack of fixes for you, addressing a lot of issues that were reported over the last weeks. The patch is live right now on all platforms, including Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. If you experience any issues with the latest patch please always make sure to report the problem. I am reading every single report and try by best to react to it as fast as possible. Best way to reach out to me is via discord! Physical Edition For everyone owning a PlayStation or Nintendo Switch I got some more exciting news: Pre-Orders for the Colt Canyon physical release are open right now! We teamed up with Red Art Games to create a limited physical edition that you can pre-order now and get delivered later this year, of course with the patch 1.2.1…
- Update Unchained: Patch 1.2.1 now available! - 23 August 2022
Howdy fellow gunslingers! Last major update (1.2) did not go over quite as smoothly as planned. A bunch of bugs sneaked through and while the PC version got a hotfix shortly after (with some issues still remaining to this day) all console players were out of luck and stuck with 1.1 or a somewhat broken 1.2. I am very sorry for that inconvenience and that we didn't catch these issues earlier. But today this will hopefully be forgotten. I spent a lot of time reworking remaining issues and finding new approaches to allow all features to work cross-platform and hopefully without any issues, and additionally managed to add an interesting new feature. Obviously, while console players will be mostly interested in finally getting the save and continue functionality, PC players will mostly be interested in the spicy new feature, which I think will change how players play Colt Canyon: OPTIONAL PE…
- A Fistful of Fixes and Tweaks: v1.2.0.1 Launched! - 20 July 2022
Howdy fellow gunslingers! First of all I want to thank all of you who still enjoy Colt Canyon! You are the best, and the reason why I keep working on the game. I also want to thank everyone who helped me track down issues with the latest patch. Obviously this also helps a lot. Unfortunately some of you had severe issues with the latest patch, I am sorry for that but it was difficult to catch during QA. I am blaming the engine update. There were a couple of issues with the new engine version that were only identified now. Luckily we found a workaround for (hopefully all) the crashes and don't have to wait for an engine patch to fix the crashes. At least for the PC version. Sadly the console version of Colt Canyon will take longer to get right. Console players will have to wait for patch 1.2.0.2 which will hopefully fix all remaining issues and which is scheduled to be ready early next mo…
- Update Unchained: Patch 1.2 now available! - 1 July 2022
Howdy fellow gunslingers! It took a bit longer than expected but it is finally here: Update 1.2 is now available! At least on Steam, GOG, PlayStation and Xbox. Switch and some other stores will need to wait until early next week. Not a lot of new content this time but a lot of balancing changes and of course the biggest new feature ever yet: Quit and Continue! A savegame feature is something many have been waiting for, because depending on your playstyle a run can easily take more than an hour to complete. And some people just don't have this time. So, with this feature I am trying to better value your time and allow new players with less time on their hands to still enjoy the game to the fullest. Additionally the save feature will also allow another type of player to enjoy the game by cheating their way through the canyon. Good old save scumming. It's something that is very much possib…
- Colt Canyon Developer Update: Quit And Continue - 4 May 2022
Howdy everyone! Welcome to the first "dev update" post. I decided to post an announcement even though I am not releasing a new stable version today (but I did release a preview version so please keep reading), because if you are not active on the Colt Canyon Discord Server, you might miss some interesting news, and also because the patch frequency is not as high as it used to be. So I assumed, with Colt Canyon not being an Early Access title, some of you might be thinking that Colt Canyon is all done and will never get touched again. But thats not what I want you to think, because the opposite it true. I am still actively working on Colt Canyon and its getting better and better with every patch. The last couple of months I spent on updating Colt Canyon's game engine to a new and more advanced up-to-date version. This was quite some work but is important to keep supporting the game in th…
- For a Few Fixes More: v1.1.1.1 Launched! - 14 February 2022
Howdy fellow gunslingers! Just a small patch this time. Mostly fixes and improvements for the PC version. That's why it's not launching on all platforms simultanously. But because there are also some balancing changes this patch will also be released on all consoles as soon as possible. I added some interesting new scripting possibilites, but I will post an update and more details on that in a special post or on the wiki, since it's really only interesting for people looking to modify the game. For everyone else this is mostly just a bugfixing and balancing patch. For anyone struggling with rare late-game crashes on console: I am aware of the issue but it's not fixable right now since its related to the engine itself. It will require a major engine update which will take a long time to complete. But this is next on my to do list. Afterwards I will also start working on more interesting…
- Colt Canyon 2021 Recap - 31 December 2021
With 2021 coming to an end I want to say thank you and goodbye to everyone reading this, especially if you've played my game this year. You are the reason why Colt Canyon keeps getting better and why I still have the motivation to improve the game wherever I can. Before we take a look at this year's achievements I want to remind everyone that Colt Canyon is a one-man project. During pre-release we got a few artists to help me with some of the more difficult tasks, but 2021 was truly a one-man show. This is also why the update frequency is maybe not quite on par with other games. Colt Canyon was released on PC, Xbox and Switch in mid-2020. Now its almost 2022.... Or when you are reading this it's probably already 2022, so happy new year to you! The game is out for 1.5 years now, and it has changed a lot since the initial release. During the first half-year, we already saw 9 smaller and b…
- Update 1.1.1.0 is live! - 17 December 2021
Howdy fellow gunslingers! Update 1.1.1 is now live on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. After our biggest update, Update 1.1, brought a lot of big changes and new content two months ago, Update 1.1.1 is limited to mostly balancing tweaks and bug fixes. I think this update will bring Colt Canyon to a very stable and balanced state that we can be proud of. So if there are still people on your friends list who haven't had the opportunity to play Colt Canyon yet, this Christmas is the perfect time to gift it to them and allow them to experience Colt Canyon in its best state to date. But don't worry, it won't be the last update. This patch will make some parts of the game easier while it makes other parts slightly harder. So overall the game should become more balanced and neither harder nor easier. But because of less strict difficulty settings, you can have an overall easier t…
- Update Unchained: Patch 1.1 now available! - 12 October 2021
Howdy fellow gunslingers! It is finally here, Update 1.1 is now available on all platforms. It took much longer than expected, but thanks to the unstable branch many of you already got a taste of the new update. But even for those, I got some new stuff in the final release version of the update that you can get excited for. More on that later. Why did it take so long? I am a solo developer working part-time on Colt Canyon and even after being done with the implementation-side of the update bug fixing and preparing for release takes a while, especially with the amount of different versions (platforms, consoles, lanuages etc) I have to get ready nowadays. But anyway, it's here now! If you enjoy the update please make sure to leave a positive review for Colt Canyon on the store page. Changes with Update 1.1: One of the bigger changes with this update is the melee overhaul! Throwables are n…
- Anniversary, Upcoming Patch and "Best Game" Nomination - 16 June 2021
Howdy everyone! 2021 is an exciting year for Colt Canyon. Today we are celebrating not only one year of Colt Canyon but also a nomination for Best Game in the GameMaker Awards 2021. I am feeling honored and excited that Colt Canyon is getting some more recognition. Maybe some of you already feared that it might be getting quieter around Colt Canyon but the opposite is the case. Colt Canyon reached a lot of new players in the last months with many still playing today. This is great to see and seriously boosts my motivation! Who am *I*? My name is Jonathan and I am the developer of Colt Canyon. Yes, this game is to large parts a one-man project, so please keep that in mind when asking for new content, updates and support. That is also why it's been a while since the last update. But now I am back and I got exciting news to share with you. Update 1.1, possibly the biggest update yet, will…
- Update Unchained: 1.0.2.0 Launched! + PlayStation Release! - 23 December 2020
Howdy fellow gunslingers! Just in time for christmas I got a present for you! Finally another update. It took a bit longer than expected but to make up for it we are launching Update 1.0.2.0 on all platforms simultaneously! This means Update 1.0.2.0 is now available on all platforms, including Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and starting today: PlayStation! (Native PS4 + PS5 compatible) Next to all kinds of tweaks and fixes this update also brings us a heavily requested featue! Difficulty settings! Instead of choosing from vague options like easy or hard you will be able to customize your runs to your liking. You hate looking for ammo? Turn up the Enemy Ammo Drop setting. You think boss fights are too hard? Decrease the boss health setting. You want to feel like John Wick? Turn up the amount of enemies but decrease their health. I bet you will come up with fun setups to get some m…
