Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce a major update for Black Equation — an interactive fiction visual novel with a dark atmospheric story.

New Languages Black Equation is now fully localized in Finnish (Suomi) and Simplified Chinese (简体中文). The game is available in English, Finnish, and Simplified Chinese.

Steam Achievements I've added Steam Achievements to Black Equation. Track your progress and unlock rewards as you explore the story.

Visual Improvements Game illustrations have been reworked and enhanced for a better visual experience.

UI Improvements The user interface has been refined for smoother and more comfortable gameplay.

Bug Fixes Various bugs have been fixed to improve overall stability and performance.

Thank you for playing Black Equation! If you enjoy the game, please consider leaving a review — it helps a lot. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

\[Note: Since writing this, development has continued. See Update 3.7 for the latest version.]

Hi everyone,

This is the third major update — and the final one.

For the past year and a half, Black Equation has taken many different forms. What you see now is not a compromise, but a deliberate ending point.

I want to briefly explain how this project became what it is today. It began as something very different — a minimalistic, mathematical game made in GDevelop. A black screen, simple resource management, and small logical systems. Solving numbers unlocked fragments of the story.

Later, I removed the mechanics entirely and focused on pure text, presented through a clean, bright interface.

After that, I experimented with an anime-inspired version — illustrations, branching choices, and visible influence on the plot.

But none of these versions felt honest. The more “game” I added, the further the core of the story slipped away. In the end, I chose Twine — a simple editor — and stripped everything down to what truly mattered:

• Text

• Choices

• Sound

There are no visuals now. No systems. No gameplay loops. Black Equation became what it was always trying to be — an interactive book.

What I chose to keep — and what matters most to me — is the sound. The music and songs were written by me. They were performed by people I found online — people who believed in this project and lent their voices to it.

This was not a solo journey in spirit, even if it often was in practice. I am not a professional programmer or game designer. But I carried this project through every version, every restart, and every doubt.

Living with depression, OCD, and ADHD made this impossible to finish alone. I searched for help, collaboration, and support — and while no one could carry this project in my place, nothing in it exists without my direct involvement.

Now, this journey has reached its end. In the process, I fulfilled three personal dreams:

• a book

• a game

• and music

This is not an ending of creation — only the moment where this story no longer asks to be changed.

This final update marks the moment where the work is complete — not abandoned, not paused, but finished — and finally allowed to stand on its own.

Thank you to everyone who played, listened, read, or supported this project in any way.

— Alex