The success of our PC launch has been downright staggering to us. Before launch, I was thinking that it would be good if we managed to get in the #10-#20 best selling slots on Steam and stay there for a few days. In actuality, what happened is that we quickly climbed up the Top Sellers chart after we launched yesterday and ended up spending most of launch day in the #1 spot. Although I don’t believe I can share specific sales data at this time, all of us are ecstatic at how things are going.

And that’s just Steam. I don’t know how well the games are selling on Gamersgate yet, but I imagine they’re doing pretty good there as well.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us by buying our games, recommending them to friends, and offering suggestions and encouragement! We’ll try to make our future games even better!

Cthulhu Saves the World + Breath of Death VII are now available on Steam! They’re even doing a 10% off sale for the first week! No “Buy 3, Get 1 Free” deal however – they nixed that at the last minute.

You can find them here and here.

They’ve also created forums to discuss the games. You can find the Cthulhu Saves the World forum here and the Breath of Death VII forum here.

Cthulhu Saves the World + Breath of Death VII is now available for purchase on Gamersgate for a mere $3 (or your local currency equivalent)! You can purchase the game here. There’s also a 4-pack for $9 option (for sharing the game with your friends) that you can pick up here.

I’ll post when the game goes up on Steam (later today).

In the meantime, Rock Paper Shotgun wrote an article about the game that you can view here.

Also, check out the new trailers we made for Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII!

Just got our a bunch of Steam review codes for Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII: The Beginning. If you are a reviewer or editor at a website and would like to cover our games send me an email at rdespair at gmail dot com and I’ll hook you up. Steam gave us substantially more codes than Microsoft ever gave us with our XBLIG releases, so we shouldn’t run out this time.

If you’re not a reviewer but would still like a free copy, I’ll be doing a few giveaways on twitter tomorrow and Wednesday, so follow me and keep your eyes pealed.

EDIT: Had so much fun coming up with questions that I did all the Wednesday giveaways today instead (Tuesday). Congrats to the winners! And if you didn’t win, please buy our games (just $3!) when they come out on Wednesday, July 13th!

The preorder page for Cthulhu Saves the World/Breath of Death VII: The Beginning is up on Gamersgate already. You can visit it here.

In addition to Gamersgate, the CSTW/BoDVII combo pack will also be available on Steam, but their page is not up yet.

Cthulhu Saves the World/Breath of Death VII combo pack coming to Steam & Gamersgate on July 13 for $3

Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII: The Beginning will be available on the PC for the first time on July 13^th, 2011. The two games will be bundled together in a convenient combo pack that will sell for a mere $3 from Steam and Gamersgate. Friends and family of the developers attribute the low price to cosmic insanity, induced by the developer’s prolonged exposure to Lovecraftian monstrosities.

Cthulhu Saves the World:

The lord of insanity, Cthulhu was all set to plunge the world into insanity and destruction when his powers were sealed by a mysterious sorcerer. The only way for him to break the curse is to become a true hero. Save the world to destroy it in an epic parody RPG journey of redemption, romance, and insanity!

Not content to merely repackage existing content and sell it at an insanely low price, the PC version of Cthulhu Saves the World will feature numerous improvements over the original XBox 360 release. Dubbed the Cthulhu Saves the World: Super Hyper Enhanced Championship Edition Alpha Diamond DX Plus Alpha FES HD – Premium Enhanced Game of the Year Collector’s Edition (without Avatars!) or CSTW:SHECEADDPAFH – PEGYCE (WA!) for short, the new version will include such features as:

Cthulhu’s Angels game mode – Cthulhu is too lazy to save the world so he talks a bunch of beautiful women into saving it for him! This remix mode features new dialogue, new playable characters (Molly the Were-Zompire! Elonalina the generic healer! Dark Knight Umi! Low level October!), new music, new abilities, and much, much more!

Director’s Commentary mode – Specially marked commentary icons scattered throughout the game tell the inside story on how one of pop culture’s most popular cosmic monstrosities became an RPG hero for great justice!

Rebalanced Gameplay – Many abilities and monsters have been rebalanced for even silkier smooth RPG gameplay! Plus a new Insanity difficulty mode and new super-hard bonus dungeon have been added to challenge even the best players ability to grind out higher LVs (because they’re really not as skilled as they like to brag)!

Unlockable Character Bromides – Due to the frothing demand for sexy Cthulhu art!

As well as all of the great features of the original release such as:

Old school RPG style mixed with modern design sensibilities!
Inflict insanity upon your opponents for fun and profit!
6-10 hour quest with unlockable game modes & difficulty levels for increased replay value.
All of the great features players know and love from Breath of Death VII: The Beginning have returned – fast-paced gameplay, combo system, random encounter limits, branching LV-Ups, and more!

These enhancements will also be made available to owners of the 360 version of the game via a free patch released at or near the PC version’s release date.

Breath of Death VII: The Beginning:

Resurrect the classic era of RPGs with the retro parody RPG, Breath of Death VII: The Beginning. Join Dem the Skeleton Knight, Sara the ghost historian, Lita the vampire techie, and Erik the zombie prince as they explore an undead world in search of the secrets of the past. Laugh! Cry! Laugh some more!

Key features:

Old school RPG style mixed with modern design sensibilities!
Fast-paced turn based combat!
4-6 hour quest with multiple game modes & difficulty levels for added replay value.
Easy to understand branching character customization system with frequent LV-Ups.
Multi-character unite techniques and combo break system for added depth!
PC enhancements – Save anywhere functionality, new Easy mode, and new customization options.

Check out what the press are saying about our RPGs:

“It’s rare to find a game that is both entertaining and genuinely funny, and so far Cthulhu Saves the World is both.”
-Joystiq

“So when I say Cthulhu Saves The World is already one of my favourite games of 2011 you can be sure I’ve not been swayed by its astonishingly precise pastiche of early 1990s JRPG cliches, strident synth music, chunky menus and all. It’s simply a really clever, hugely enjoyable game, and it’s as much honest tribute as cheeky spoof.”
-Eurogamer

“Breath of Death VII: The Beginning is a real surprise. It’s an RPG that feels like it was a classic from back in the day, but it doesn’t have any RPG hang-ups.”
-WorthPlaying

“For an RPG whose sheer fun factor is on par with a lot of the $30 to $60 games people shell out multiple bills for, it’s an extreme bargain.”
-RPGFan Breath of Death VII review

Breath of Death VII: The Beginning/Cthulhu Saves the World
-Winner of RPGamer’s 2010 Best Downloadable award

For press inquiries and media assets for Cthulhu Saves the World, Breath of Death VII: The Beginning and Zeboyd Games, contact Robert Boyd at rdespair@gmail.com or visit our website at http://zeboyd.com

Thanks to Gaslamp Games’s Nicholas Vining, it looks like we found the problem. Turns out that ClickOnce is the devil and should be avoided at all costs. In hindsight, this was so obvious (bad installer messing up real installer), but I overlooked the fact that I had setup ClickOnce months ago.

Thanks again to the many developers who offered to help!

Just a quick update to let you know that BoDVII has entered beta testing. If you were accepted into the beta testing, I’ve already sent you an email with instructions on how to download the build.

The CSTW beta test should begin in a few days. Then, onward to release!

Some of you already know this, but just to make it official – the PC version of Cthulhu Saves the World will actually be a combo pack that also includes Breath of Death VII: The Beginning. Oh and there will be a few minor improvements to Breath of Death VII since we’re using the Cthulhu Saves the World engine for it (stuff like being able to save anywhere). All this for $3. Yes, we’re insane to offer so much RPG goodness for such a low price, but I think Cthulhu would have wanted it this way..

Porting BoDVII to the PC has been much easier and faster than I expected so it’ll probably be done this week. If you’ve already signed up for the CSTW beta testing, I’ll probably send you an email offering access to the BoDVII PC beta testing as well. The actual CSTW PC beta testing will probably begin next week. Oh and I’m sorry, but we don’t need any more beta testers – we’ve already got plenty.

I’ve added two new documents to the Free Stuff section of the website, along with a link on the right to make the Free Stuff section easier to find. The first of these is the original design document for Cthulhu Saves the World with notes talking about how the design changed from its origin to the finished game. Since there are a lot of spoilers in there, I highly recommend not reading it until you’ve finished the game. The second document is the text file that I used to keep track of enemy stats & abilities in Breath of Death VII. Hopefully, you find these two documents interesting.

The stuff in our free stuff section is, well, free, but if you’ve especially enjoyed any of the things there, please consider making a donation to Zeboyd Games via the nifty Paypal donate button that we’ve just installed on the right side of the blog.