This fan-led collection features over 100 pages made by 24 contributors (and 4 mods).

Within these pages, you'll find:

• foreword by Remy Siu, the creative director of 1000xRESIST!
  
• fan illustrations and cosplay
  
• fan fiction, poetry, and essays
  
• micro-TTRPG and personality quiz
  
• food and drink recipes
  
• music transcription and diy craft project (standalone printable assets offered with the zine download)

We are so stunned by the talent and effort on display. Below is a copy of the forward, written for the fanzine. Hopefully it captures how we're feeling here at sunset visitor about this amazing display of love. This is truly next level.


I can’t believe it’s been a year.

While working on 1000xRESIST, it felt like development would never end. There was always something left to do, some sound, animation, or piece of music. A missing voice line here, a missing texture there. A bug persisting somewhere. I’m told this is a normal feeling in game development – and certainly we had similar experiences in the arts world – but this particular timbre of endlessness was new to me. And I think, new to many of us on the team.

But... upon release, we continued to experience new things. We saw the first reviews go up. We saw players resonating with the story. We saw the first bits of fan art posted online. The first forum posts in ResetEra advocating for the game. The first messages and emails sent through our contact forms. We got to experience 1000xRESIST being discovered. Discovered by fellow devs and industry workers, discovered by the wonderful community gathering in our Discord, discovered by the amazing fans and artists online, and yes, by all the fantastic people here featured in this fanzine.

Performing arts can be lonely. Even though you perform to people in-person and in real-time, after the performance is over, you rarely see the audience again. Their engagement with the work lives inside them, in memory, and one cannot really access that. This is what I’m used to. Getting the post-performance blues.

To see fans continue to engage with 1000xRESIST, to get familiar with usernames and avatars, to answer questions on the Discord, and to witness this fanzine come together – to witness it even existing – has been remarkable. Thank you to all the contributors and organizers for making this possible. There’s so much talent and passion collected here.

We are so grateful to have this community around the game, continuing to bring new people in and spreading the word. We say that a lot. We’ll keep saying it.

1000xRESIST was by no means a guaranteed success. There was a lot of risk. A lot of challenges. After all is said and done, we still exist because of the fans. It means the world to us that they’re making these characters – this story – their own. We get to discover a whole chorus of diverse artistic voices and perspectives, and all of a sudden, it’s not so lonely anymore. It starts to feel more like a collaboration.

So, enough from me. Time to step aside and let these amazing folks take center stage! Six to one and HEKKI GRACE.

– Remy Siu (Creative Director of 1000xRESIST)
April 30th, 2025


MODS

• manager & co-editor: 0x0ada
  
• editor & co-manager & social media & promo artist:mynn
  
• layout designer: eira
  
• art moderator & cover artist: SpilledTe

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

• 0x0ada
  
• Irutzencre
  
• smanki
  
• 419 MHz
  
• Issu the Res
  
• Snazz
  
• Amygdala Suzanna
  
• Jupiter
  
• Some-Creep
  
• cadmean
  
• Paprika
  
• SpilledTe
  
• Captain Turnip
  
• Rashika (litchilovers)
  
• thunder0star
  
• deadfinches
  
• ravenzeys
  
• tj_ayyee
  
• goblincat
  
• Revenger210
  
• Umbring
  
• inksoot
  
• sangkalibutan
  
• WolvZephyr

HEKKI ALLMO.

We are approaching our 1 Year Anniversary (can’t believe) on May 9th, so we thought it would be a great time to update everyone. So without further ado, attention to the sky, please! ALLMO HEKKI STRAIGHT TO YOU.

Yesterday, we launched a 1000xRESIST + Mouthwashing Steam Bundle!

Mouthwashing knocked us over last year. We are SO excited to launch this bundle with them. If you’ve played 1000xRESIST and are looking for more non-linear, spooky, narrative sci-fi – Mouthwashing is your game.

Pick it up here!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51907/Feel_Good_Games

We have released Piano Book Vol. 2! Featuring notation for:

“The Orchard -Under Moonlight-”
“Wake Up”
"Hide And Seek"
"Knocking" (One Piano, One Piano + Ossia Staff, Two Pianos)
"A Piano -Zip-" (Four Hands + Two Pianos)
"Fixer's Song"

Get it now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3697900/1000xRESIST__Piano_Book_Vol2

Today, we are announcing French, Korean, Brazilian-Portuguese localizations of 1000xRESIST. We know there have been a lot of requests for these languages, so we are happy to finally make it happen. The exact timing for this update will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!

It feels like every day, we wake up to some new and amazing fan art. We can’t thank these talented artists enough. It’s such a joy to see people draw these characters in their own style. If you’d like to see fan art yourself, as they come in, follow us on Bluesky[bsky.app] and add this starter pack[bsky.app]!

(Fan Art Credits from left to right, top to bottom: @crocrubies.bsky.social[bsky.app], @ralka-egoid2.bsky.social[bsky.app], @deadfinches.bsky.social[bsky.app], @thunder0star.bsky.social[bsky.app], @mykzurbf.bsky.social[bsky.app], @pencilequipped.bsky.social[bsky.app])

The 1000xRESIST FanZine will be releasing on May 9, 2025! A collection of NEW artwork, fanfic, recipes, and more. We’ve gotten a sneak peek and it’s amazing stuff. It's a whole other level.

As artists ourselves, we can only hope to inspire other artists to make – so this is so meaningful to us. We can't wait for everyone to see what the Fan Zine has in store.

To support the growing community, we’ve started our own sunset visitor Discord! We’ve got dedicated channels for deep dive discussions, fan art, MODDING (!!). We’ll also be holding special AMAs and events in the Discord in the future.

Come join us at http://discord.gg/sunsetvisitor! Just LOOK at these amazing stickers by SpilledTe[bsky.app]!

We’ll be heading to the Nebula and Worldcon Conferences this year for the Hugo and Nebula Awards! These ones mean so much to us, as lifelong lovers of science-fiction. Fingers crossed!

On May 1st, it was announced that 1000xRESIST is the winner of a Peabody Award. We could not be more grateful and frankly, stunned, that we’ve received this amazing honour. We’re still digesting it. It really is an honour of a lifetime. We’ll have more to say about it later, but for now...we’re still...taking that all in!

As of today, 1000xRESIST has sold over 100,000 copies on all platforms! It’s a great milestone for us to cross at the end of our first year. It's a threshold we never thought we could cross while working on the game, so we're just humbled by the love.

THANK YOU so much to all the fans that have supported us by spreading the word. We still keep up on all the channels, from Reddit, to Discord, to ResetEra – we are so, so grateful for all the passion.

We’re going to post the Mauve Stonks meme, because...why not.


✨ Something is coming on May 16th. Watch here, our Discord[discord.gg], and our Bluesky[bsky.app].

✨ Something else is coming on May 22nd. Tune into the Six One Indie Showcase.

The last year has been a rollercoaster. We are so lucky to meet so many new and talented people through the game.

We’re celebrating our 1st Anniversary with a packed month of things. We’re also working on some things we can't talk about right now, for later in the year. So stayed tuned!

A shoutout to Maarika[bsky.app], who we commissioned to do the main image for this post! We can’t wait for the next one :)

Until next time, HEKKI GRACE.

(Fan Art by masaa)

Two award-winning games that will make you feel good.

HEKKI TULPAR. We are so excited to launch the FEEL GOOD GAMES bundle with our friends at Mouthwashing! For fans of 1000xRESIST who haven't played this amazing game, now is your chance.

Get it today!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51907/Feel_Good_Games

The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.

1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.

It's almost time for LudoNarraCon 2025 which is happening May 1-5, 2025. It’s a free, global, online-only event featuring interesting narrative games, tons of demos and panels from talented creators!

1000xRESIST will be an exhibitor with a stream and the game will also be on sale. Stay tuned as we share more details shortly.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST

To learn more about LudoNarraCon hosted by Fellow Traveller[www.fellowtraveller.games], visit the LudoNarraCon[www.ludonarracon.com] website.

This is a dream come true for us at Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客. As people who grew up reading science-fiction, we can still remember browsing the paperbacks and seeing “Hugo Award” on the front covers. We couldn’t be more excited and honoured to be nominated.

Thank you to all the fans and Worldcon members that cast a ballot for us. We greatly appreciate your support! ✨

We are doubly delighted that 1000xRESIST has secured a joint Nebula + Hugo nomination, which is something we never considered possible when we set out to make a game. We’ve been pinching ourselves for the last 48 hours.

To celebrate, Remy Siu and Pinki Li take a moment to remember some influential experiences with Nebula/Hugo Award-winning books:

The Left Hand of Darkness is one of very few books I’ve read in my life that left me–upon completion—with a kind of inexplicable loss for days. Widely celebrated for its originality and revolutionarity, it offers compelling, complexing, fresh perspectives on gender, society, and otherness on an engrossing alien planet. However, what particularly stays with me, even after all these years since reading, was my embodied experience of endurance—the slow, gruelling movement of two characters amidst unforgettably punishing terrain. In all the inhospitability, The Left Hand of Darkness manages to be ingeniously funny and truly sexy. What a fantastical read in the most dreary, humanizing way. I’ve never quite been the same.
I read Hyperion when I was too young to appreciate it, but the “Priest’s Tale” is forever burned into my mind. I devoured it straight through in one sitting, delirious. The growing sense of dread and the sheer impossibility of what was unfolding – I couldn’t look away. At that young age, I never considered that science-fiction could enter such uncanny territories. I still think of the Bikura, Paul Duré, and the Tesla Tree now and again, relishing that moment of utter disbelief. What an absolute fever dream.

The Hugo Awards will be presented in a ceremony on August 16, 2025 at Seattle Worldcon 2025. Other nominated indie games include, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Tactical Breach Wizards, Caves of Qud, and more!

You can read more about the awards, and the other finalists here: https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/2025-hugo-award-finalists/

Hekki grace! ✌️

🎉 Join our NEW DISCORD SERVER today![discord.gg] 🎉

Come pick your function and chat with fans, see amazing art, and perhaps catch a glimpse of the ALLMOTHER herself...

We've got lots planned in the upcoming months and the Discord server will be the best place to keep up to date!

When we hit 2500 members, Nhi Do (the voice of Watcher) will do a AMA on our shiny new stage!

discord.gg/sunsetvisitor

Hekki Grace.

We invite you to honor the legacy of the ALLMOTHER by purchasing 1000xRESIST at 25% during the Steam Spring Sale, from now until March 20.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/

You can also enjoy the Official Soundtrack, Fixer's Song EP and Piano Book Vol. 1 DLCs - each at 25% off - or the get them all together in the Supporter Edition.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41042/1000xRESIST_Supporter_Edition/

The 60th Annual Nebula Awards® finalists have been announced, and 1000xRESIST is in the running for the Best Games Writing Award.

The team at Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客 are incredibly honored to be nominated for such a prestigious award, alongside such incredible works as Slay the Princess, Pacific Drive and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, just to name a few.

The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday, June 7, that will be streamed live as it is held in-person in Kansas City, MO as part of the 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference.

You can read more about the awards, and the other finalists here: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2024/

Hekki Allmo!

It’s been another ~4 months since our last update – and what a WILD time it’s been. So without further ado, attention to the sky, please! Incoming update, ALLMO HEKKI STRAIGHT TO YOU.

Today, we are launching a 1000xRESIST and Until Then Steam Bundle!

We couldn’t be more excited for this – Until Then was one of our favourite games in 2024, with us binging the second half of the game, desperate to find out what happens next. We recommend it to all fans of 1000xRESIST and we hope that fans of each game can discover the other!

TL;DR – Until Then is a stunning, emotional experience, snag it and 1000xRESIST together at a discount!

Pick it up here:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47276/Break_The_Cycle/

There is SO MUCH amazing fan art being made! It’s been so touching to see artists adapt these characters with their own style. Each and every piece of art has brought such stupid little grins to our faces. We can’t get over it. We feel deeply humbled with how much talent is in every one of these images.

If you’d like to see fan art yourself, as they come in, follow us on Bluesky[bsky.app] and add this starter pack[go.bsky.app]! It’s no secret that we’ve been transitioning most of our social media activity there and artists have been doing the same.

We’ve collected a few pieces to showcase here, but this is only the tip of the iceberg! We hope to continue to feature more in the future.

Fan Art Credits, from left to right, top to bottom: SpilledTe[bsky.app], Ron Chan[bsky.app], Andrew Tsai[bsky.app], Finch[bsky.app], Eve[bsky.app], Bea Ritter[bsky.app], Lizard[bsky.app]

Also check out this “Toy Orchard” Game Boy Cover by Ada[bsky.app]! And this AMV by Mynn[bsky.app]!

If you didn’t know, 1000xRESIST now has an Official Wiki[1000xresist.wiki.gg]. And better yet? It’s run by fans.

This Wiki wouldn’t exist without the efforts of Mynn[bsky.app], Hepi Chest Cow, Jay[bsky.app], Avi Avi[bsky.app], Ada[bsky.app], Pidge[bsky.app], fern[bsky.app], SpilledTe[bsky.app] and everyone who has contributed from the Discord. Their dedication and passion to this project is inspiring to us.

If you would like to contribute, join us on our Discord[discord.com]. There’s a dedicated 1000xRESIST wiki channel that’s always up to something!

Creators and podcasters continue to make wonderful content about 1000xRESIST. Here is just a small selection–

This Save Room video replicates the UI of the game and dives deep into personal connections. Daryl Talks Games shares their love of CH9 in another video. Here is a lovely essay by our Discord’s very own Stryder[bsky.app]. Nara’s emotional spoiler discussion! And WoolieVS is streaming the game and moving through methodically!

We were on the NoClip podcast! And the MinnMax podcast with the Mouthwashing Devs! Remy talked about Michael Bay too much on the Storymoders Podcast. We were also featured in the Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast.

It’s been so great discovering these videos and talking to all the hosts. If you’ve finished the game and need to unpack it – check these out!

Okay.

Okay, okay. This was our first GOTY season and we were unprepared. List after list, we saw people include 1000xRESIST as one of their favourite games of 2024.

We’re going to try and name them all here, out of appreciation. A little hekki allmo for us please...

GameRant, TheGamer, Polygon, Rolling Stone, The Verge, PopMatters, Paste Magazine, NPR, NoClip, Monty Zander, Jacob Geller, Slant Magazine, Destructoid, Washington Post, Gamespot, IGN, The Short Game Podcast, Game Developer, MobileSyrup...

Hit Points, But Why Tho?, AV Club, Naughty Dog, Console Creatures, PC Gamer, Gaming In the Wild, Kotaku, Nexlander, Indieventure Podcast, Rachel Watts, New York Times, Silicon Era, Giant Bomb, PCGamesN, ScreenRant, Triple Click, SkillUp, Second Wind, Noobfeed, The Escapist..................

Remap Radio, NookGaming, Press Play Gaming, GoNintendo, Sifter, Willa Rowe, MinnMax, Video Games are Good, Maximum Fun, Player 2, ShackNews, Black Tabby Games, SideQuesting, Eurogamer, Fawzi Mesmar, Blogcritic, Swery65, GamesCreed, Gamesmatter, Metro UK, SuperJump, TouchArcade!

(deep breath) Whep. We think this is an incomplete list, so apologies if you mentioned 1000xRESIST on your GOTY list and we missed you!

We are just so, so grateful. We don’t know what else to say.

In the last couple of months, we’ve been nominated for some amazing awards. Here are a couple standouts!

• Golden Joystick – Best Storytelling
  
• New York Game Awards – Best Music, Best Writing, Best Indie, Game of the Year
  
• DICE Awards – Outstanding Achievement in Character, Story, Game Direction, Adventure Game of the Year
  
• Canadian Game Awards – Best Art Direction, Best Score/Soundtrack, Best Narrative, Best Performance, Best Audio Design, Best Debut Indie Game, Best Debut Studio, Game of the Year
  
• Debug Awards – Best Narrative, Best Voice Acting
  
• GDCA Awards – Best Narrative, Best Debut, Social Impact

We are so excited that Nhi Do (the voice of Watcher) has been recognized in two of these nominations! She did such incredible work on the game, including being one of the very first playtesters.

We also won Best International Game at SXSW Sydney and Best Narrative at the inaugural Indie Game Awards[www.indiegameawards.gg]!

Oh, and we’re in BALA-TRO now. Thank you LocalThunk and Playstack!

The support from fans has been beyond anything we ever could have dreamed of. To everyone on socials, on Reddit, on Discord, and on ResetEra – THANK YOU. To everyone who has written about the game, covered it, asked us to be on podcasts, or recognized it in your GOTY lists – THANK YOU. Your recommendations and support have made a HUGE difference.

It really is working – and we brought proof ;-)

As of mid-January 2025, 1000xRESIST has sold over 70,000 copies on all platforms!

That means we sold 45,000 copies in the same time we sold 25,000 copies previously! Most games have their biggest sales spike during launch. For us, our best sales day is now January 1st, 2025 – 7 months after launch day! This is unbelievable to us. Polygon even wrote about it![www.polygon.com]

We can only attribute this to the great word of mouth and the passion of the fans. It was only possible because you have all been recommending the game to others. This wave of momentum started with people being upset for us about The Game Awards, then led into the GOTY lists, the Balatro Collaboration, the Autumn and Winter sale, and finally New Years. Even now, in January, our sales continue to be stronger than before!

(hekki holidays! We commissioned SpilledTe[bsky.app] to make this wonderful image)

And lastly, we passed 2500 Steam Reviews! To everyone who has taken the time to leave something of their experience, we couldn’t be more grateful. If you haven’t left a Steam review yet, please do! It’s a great way to support indie devs!

We have a lot of things planned and we think you’ll like them.

To say carefully, we’re looking at expanding the reach of 1000xRESIST further, so keep an eye out for news and updates in the coming months.

Merch is also coming. We have started compiling a SCRIPT. Expect more Piano Books. Some more music stuffs. We are still looking at releasing models to fans, to create fan animations / content.

If you haven’t already, follow us on Bluesky[bsky.app], Twitter[x.com], Steam, and join our Discord[discord.com]. That’s where we’ll be announcing everything that we’ve been working on. We can’t wait to share it with you all this year!

The last four months have been...a lot – in the best way possible! We couldn’t be more proud of the game and so, so completely grateful for the wonderful community growing around it.

It still feels all very surreal to us, but as we get to work on new things of all kinds, we can’t help but feel we’re doing it a little less alone than the first time around.

A shoutout to the one and only Maarika[bsky.app], who we commissioned to do the main image for this post (and made the image below). It’s becoming tradition!

We look forward to more people discovering 1000xRESIST in 2025! We have some fun things in store.

Until next time, HEKKI GRACE.

Praise the ALLMOTHER.

1000xRESIST is a finalist in the 2025 GDC Awards - in the following categories.

🏆 Best Narrative
🏆 Best Debut
🏆 Social Impact Award

We would like to thank the jurors for the nomination, it is a huge honor!

And of course, everyone who's supported the game and continues to spread the word.💙

See the full list of nominees below:
💠 https://interactive.org