Thank you all for your kind support — more than a year after launch, Escape Everlit still has a 100% positive rating!

Escape Everlit got its start in late 2023, which — rounding a little — makes it one of the first games to use generative AI heavily and openly. AI tools have come a long way since then. This update is AI-driven: from a full polish of every translation to remaking the fullscreen CGs and videos, it fixes many of the slips that got past me back when I proofread a mountain of translated text by hand/eye, and goes some way toward making up for how hard it was to keep AI-generated art in a consistent style back then.

While working on it, I kept thinking: “If I were only starting this game today, think of all the detours I could have skipped.” But detours have their own charm and rewards — a winding path itself is the reward. To someone who never plays games, playing a game is really just a curious act of taking the long way round on purpose, with fun.

Without further ado, here’s what’s new:

• Japanese: Added Japanese language support.

• English: Several new rounds of polish; dialogue now reads more naturally and fits each character better.

• Traditional Chinese: Fixed 200-odd Simplified-to-Traditional conversion errors and adjusted the wording to Taiwanese usage.

• Simplified Chinese: Fixed dozens of typos and punctuation/formatting issues.

• Redrew 43 story cutscene CGs with a more consistent art style and a higher resolution.

• Remade 11 story cutscene videos to match the new CGs.

• Improved the visuals of the game’s UI and some of its systems.

• Switched to a new compression algorithm, greatly reducing the install size (1.5 GB → 0.9 GB).

• Fixed layout errors in some non-Chinese languages.

• Fixed a bug where clicking rapidly on certain screens (the computer terminal, card battles, etc.) could trigger the result more than once.

Thank you all, my fellow travelers.

• Fixed a critical bug that could block game progression.