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The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
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Review score: 78% on 2026-11-01 → 78% today (554 reviews)
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We're very excited to announce The Novelist version 1.13, which is a stability and longevity update that also improves the save game system and adds Steam Cloud support. Here's the list of changes: The Novelist has been updated to Unity 4.7.2, the final build …
Hey everyone, just a quick note to let you know that the game is 50% off this week as part of Steam's Weeklong Deals. There's also a new patch to the game with two important changes. You can read more about everything here.
Hey everyone, just a quick note to let you know that the game is 50% off this week as part of Steam's Weeklong Deals. There's also a new patch to the game with two important changes. You can read more about everything here.
Good news, Mac fans! The Novelist has been updated into a 64-bit app; this means it will be playable in macOS Mojave, the next update to macOS coming this month. Mojave will be dropping support for 32-bit apps, meaning they'll no longer be playable at all. You…
We've just added the original score for The Novelist as DLC! You can find it here for just $4.99 USD. The original score features 14 tracks of beautiful, haunting ambient piano music. While the game generates its soundtrack in realtime, the downloadable score …
We've just added the original score for The Novelist as DLC! You can find it here for just $4.99 USD. The original score features 14 tracks of beautiful, haunting ambient piano music. While the game generates its soundtrack in realtime, the downloadable score …
We're very excited to announce The Novelist version 1.13, which is a stability and longevity update that also improves the save game system and adds Steam Cloud support. Here's the list of changes: The Novelist has been updated to Unity 4.7.2, the final build …
Hey, everyone, we're very excited to announce The Orthogonal Games Bundle! It packages Near Death with The Novelist for a $5 discount, and if you already own one of the games you still get a discount on the other one. So spread the world and tell your friends.…
Hey, everyone, we're very excited to announce The Orthogonal Games Bundle! It packages Near Death with The Novelist for a $5 discount, and if you already own one of the games you still get a discount on the other one. So spread the world and tell your friends.…
The Novelist was a thoughtful hands-off Poltergeist-meets-Gone Home-type endeavor, and Near Death marks a distinct change in direction for developers Orthogonal Games. Announced yesterday, the Californian outfit’s upcoming survival-a-thon pits you agains…
Hey, everyone, just a quick note to let you know that the Humble Store is doing its Spring Sale for the next two weeks. The Novelist is on sale there for a cool $5.09, and it comes with a Steam key so it's a great way to pick the game up for your Steam library…
Hey, everyone, just a quick note to let you know that the Humble Store is doing its Spring Sale for the next two weeks. The Novelist is on sale there for a cool $5.09, and it comes with a Steam key so it's a great way to pick the game up for your Steam library…
Players have been requesting this for quite some time, so I’m very excited to announce that trading cards have been added to The Novelist! There are 6 cards, 3 profile backgrounds, 6 emoticons, and of course 6 badge levels. It was really fun revisiting the gam…
Players have been requesting this for quite some time, so I’m very excited to announce that trading cards have been added to The Novelist! There are 6 cards, 3 profile backgrounds, 6 emoticons, and of course 6 badge levels. It was really fun revisiting the gam…
Hey, everyone! The game is on sale at 70% off as part of the Steam Halloween Sale, and to celebrate I wrote a new blog post over on the game's site. The Novelist is full of references to old horror movies, so I created a guide that lists all of the specific re…
Hey, everyone! The game is on sale at 70% off as part of the Steam Halloween Sale, and to celebrate I wrote a new blog post over on the game's site. The Novelist is full of references to old horror movies, so I created a guide that lists all of the specific re…
Hey everyone, I just wanted to make a quick post letting you know that The Novelist is on sale for $5.99 over at the Humble Store. You can also pick it up directly at the game's website. Each purchase comes with a Steam key, so it's a good way to support the g…
Hey everyone, I just wanted to make a quick post letting you know that The Novelist is on sale for $5.99 over at the Humble Store. You can also pick it up directly at the game's website. Each purchase comes with a Steam key, so it's a good way to support the g…
Hey, everyone, I wanted to quickly let you know the game is part of the Humble Spring Sale here. I didn't know that the Humble Spring Sale was coming when I put the game on a Weeklong Deal here last month, and unfortunately there is a two-month waiting period …
Hey, everyone, I wanted to quickly let you know the game is part of the Humble Spring Sale here. I didn't know that the Humble Spring Sale was coming when I put the game on a Weeklong Deal here last month, and unfortunately there is a two-month waiting period …
