Late last year, Games Farm’s Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms met with a lukewarm response from the gaming community at large. Though many praised its story, world lore, and visuals, the actual gameplay seemed to be a mixed bag. There were also quite a few people left unhappy with the game being chopped up into DLC and sold in different versions. Apparently, the developer wasn’t very happy with this either, since they have announced they bought the game’s rights from insolvent developer bitComposer and have opened up about their own feelings in a Steam community thread. A press release put out earlier today goes into more detail:

Games Farm are working on exciting major improvements to the existing Book 1 and the game world as a whole, further details for which will be revealed over the coming weeks and months. However, the first additional content for fans of the game is the new extended official soundtrack for Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, written and composed by Dynamedion, which contains six brand new and additional tracks to the existing 21, and is available on Steam now.

To thank the community for their ongoing patience and continuing support, Games Farm has decided to release all existing DLC content (originally available exclusively in the Deluxe Edition featuring three quests – The Tholean Tablet, The Owl Amulet, and The Scorpion King) to all players of Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. Those who have purchased the Deluxe Edition will receive a prequel to Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms entitled Kult: Heretic Kingdoms (originally Heretic Kingdoms: The Inquisition in US)’.

Furthermore, as a token of gratitude to all Early Access players and the players who have bought Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms to date, Games Farm will give free access to ‘Kult: Heretic Kingdoms’ along with the original soundtrack from Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, thus enhancing all existing copies to the Deluxe Edition.

As most may know, bitComposer, the publisher of Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, had a bad reputation within the CRPG community. Whether deserved or not, some blame them for the cancellation of Chaos Chronicles as well as the mishandling of Heretic Kingdoms by way of its weird book/episodic release schedule. With Slovakian developer Games Farm now owning the rights to their own franchise, its future is now in their own hands.

According to Games Farm, new content and fixes will be added to the game throughout 2015 and going into next year as well. Further updates will be posted on the title’s Facebook page.