Dev Update October 2025 - "Catherine"

It’s Kai, Director of Schism, the political point-and-click RPG where you play as a double agent between a religious sect and an inquisition! The team and I are excited to share that we’ve been making a lot of progress and have a playable demo ready for you that others are currently playing and enjoying! The image below is our current build and what our playtesters are playing!

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Overall, we have surmounted our initial challenges of discovering our full vision for the game. We are now confident in the gameplay and the story you will experience. We will be talking more about how exactly we got to that later next week, but this is the quick update of our game's progress so far:

Let me give you a succinct list of what we’ve been working on: 

• Fully fleshed out the puzzles in the first demo level with graphics and gameplay support! 

• Rendered graphics and sprites added to the UI to further immerse you in the role of being the double agent. 

• Added a new feature: The Codex, allowing you to discover even more of the lore and world of Schism!

• New systems that we are currently testing in the game. 

• And much more, you can find a complete list of improvements in our patch notes: https://www.farowlstudios.com/post/schism-v-0-10-00-catherine-dev-patch-notes

What are our next steps?

• Building up our Kickstarter Page so you can further support us, which you can follow here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/farowlstudios/schism-1 

• Blocking out the gameplay interactions beyond the first level of the game. 

• Getting additional 3D models into the environment

• Testing out a Voice Over system for our game with our Discord community

• Setting up our Steam Page so you can wishlist Schism! 

We’ve got a whole lot going on, and I can’t wait to tell you more about it in the future! There is an entire world that we are crafting for you to get lost in and learn its dark truths. Next week, we’ll be going over how exactly we arrived at the experience you can play in the “Catherine” update!