I found the steam page http://store.steampowered.com/app/27000/ but it's not yet active (no images or buy button)

on the other hand direct2drive offers prepurchase http://www.direct2drive.com/481/7808/product/Buy-The-Path-Download

Damn... now I need to decide whether to get it for Steam right away or wait until it shows up on GameTap.

I always wait and buy all my stuff on Steam. I had forgotten about this one, can't wait to get it later tonight!

... the lady asked if I was going to take the path of needles or the path of pens? What an odd change from the original.

Now that I think about it, I like the idea of calling high school 'the path of pens,' though ...

Well hell, I'll take that path of needles any day. Kids in today's high schools have guns. I'm not messing with that.

Pretty excited for this game though

Congrats to Auriea and Michael for finishing it, I'm sure it'll be an interesting experience.

I REALLY didn't like the voice acting in this trailer. Other than that, I'm excited for this game.

The official website says the game will be released at exactly 9:00 pm PST, from San Francisco, towards which the creators are currently en route by plane. They even have their flight plan posted!
For some reason this fills me with great anticipation to play this game!

What kind of rig will this run on? I have a pretty low-end computer, but I'd like to check it out.

System Requirements

o Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista
o Processor: 2 Ghz
o Memory: 1 GB RAM
o Hard Disk Space: 500 MB
o Video Card: Recent Geforce® or Radeon® x6xxx 256 MB (no integrated graphics)
o Sound Card: Any Sound Card
o DirectX® Version: DirectX® 9.0c
o Logitech gamepad and Xbox 360 controller

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Taken from the steam store page. You'll probably be able to run it, but then again you didn't say just how "low end" it is ;P

The Path of Pens sure misses a letter somewhere.

For those concerned with the voice in the trailer - there's no speech in the actual game. Only singing and unartuculated effects.

There was a preview of a similar game posted some time ago, I think it was an fps game without the s.
The website was very strange, and a trailer showed you walking through a twisted corridor in some house. Cant remember what it was, dows anyone know?

Bah, nevermind, I found it.
It was actually this game!

Titled The Path - Grandmas House... it looked so different in that trailer
(http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2009/03/preview_the_path_tale_of_tales.html)

Know its all tps and outside :-/ i liked that earlier trailer / look of it much more. :-(

Oh great, it's out. That's one of the few games I'll buy based solely on hype and art style. Ok maybe because The Endless Forest looked nice and played smoothly, too :)

Thank you all. And please come and buy the game! Let's prove that this indie thing is possible! And what else will you spend that 9.99 Dollars on?

Boughted it from Steam right now. Just waiting for it to finish installing :)

Man, I feel like The Path just dropped my intelligence levels by a massive amount.

It's like a first year art student's self absorbed emo goth fantasy as crapped out of the backside of a David Lynch wannabe.

I'm not going to get the time or the £7.25 I just wasted on this back.

Hey Michael, any chance that we'll see a combo pack of The Graveyard and The Path on Steam? Might be a good way to get more sales :D

Quiest: The game is third-person in the forest, and first-person in Grandmother's House.

"Mac and OSX ports"?

Oh, dear.

For future reference, you'll probably want to call it "Mac OS X", or even just "OS X".

Sorry about that. I never had a Mac, iPhone, Xbox360, Wii or PS3 in my life, so I confuse these things often.

http://diehardgamefan.com/2009/03/13/review-the-path-pc/

Wow, that's a pretty awful review. Anybody out there really enjoy it?

I bought this game and I think it's great. As a game/mood piece, it works very well, and the art-design and sound is fantastic. I would call it 'haunted', and I mean that in a good way.

This review is so bad it almost seems satirical (especially the appallment at the concept of ''rape'' in a game). I have not bothered reading past ''Sound''. If anything, it points to much of what needs to be changed about the discourse on games (starting with length, which is crazy-long), which a game like The Path might encourage.

I have played a copy of the game for a couple of hours, although not yet on a machine which could run the graphics properly (i.e. a 7-year-old computer, not the good one on which our ''critic'' pretends to have encountered severe problems). Having followed the development with interest, I must say I am pleased with many of the ways the makers have managed to work their concepts into the gameplay, as well as with the internal rhythm of the game, which lends itself to curiosity and meandering (although slightly more motivated than in The Endless Forest). Frustrations do turn up (some redundancies, unresponsiveness...), but I think I have seen enough to recommend trying it with fair expectations (i.e. not that of the Second Coming).

On a more positive note...

http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/03/when-it-comes-to-horror-the-pa.php

It's garbage, much like their previous stunning title "The Graveyard". More pretension than content, what's been done here has been done before much better in literally every medium including IF.

Hey, this reviewer can't even spell "artsy-fartsiness"!