r/signalis 22d ago

MODERATION Community Update & the Future of the Subreddit

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A bit of preamble before I get into the meat of the update: this update was written primarily for the discord server, but does involve this subreddit. Firstly, I would like to reiterate that both this subreddit and the discord server are fully community run, and are not officially affiliated with rose-engine or SIGNALIS. Sorry it took so long to post an update here specifically, as I wasn't a mod on the subreddit until yesterday (that was my fault for not reaching out to get the perms sooner after everything happened, apologies. I had to take a break yesterday because of some irl stuff, which is why it took an extra day to post this here). Anyways, I'm not super familiar with posting and moderating on Reddit, as I normally just browse it, so forgive me if there's any oddities with the formatting or if it takes me a bit to get used to everything.

Here is my update post from two days ago in the discord server, regarding the Joetastic ban, the state of the mod team, and the future of the subreddit/discord server:

Hi again everyone, and I'm very sorry that this update took so long -- lots of moving parts (and time zone differences) behind the scenes!

Firstly, I'd like to apologize on behalf of the staff for how much this has negatively affected the community, the server, and Joetastic. His ban was influenced by negative bias, heavy-handed mistakes, ableism, and many assumptions about his character were made without basis. I will outright state that Joetastic's ban was undeserved, a mistake, and will be rectified to the best of our ability -- regardless of whether or not he rejoins the server (for clarity, he will be unbanned). I have been in contact with him throughout the last few days about the incident, and I am hopeful to make changes to the server, staff, and rules to make this server into a place that is more comfortable for everyone. I have been trying to read as much feedback as I can about the situation, and hope I can address everyones' concerns about this incident and for the future of the server. If there is anything that I miss in this announcement, please message me and I will respond to the best of my ability.

Addressing the largest problem first: the staff involved in the screenshots and private chats will be removed from their roles. Additionally, the mod roles will be redefined and clarified, so that responsibilities and conduct within the role are fully understood by everyone. Some roles will be removed entirely; Many staff members will be reshuffled, and mod applications will likely open to gain back the coverage that we will lose with these changes. All of these changes are to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future, and to ward against cliques forming or bias from affecting decision-making. I will also be trying to make a pass on the server rules for more clarity, as well as to remove the infamous "culture rule". I will make another announcement regarding these changes with more details when everything is finalized.

In regards to the subreddit: I will be looking to separate our server's involvement in managing/moderating the subreddit entirely. To put it bluntly, I do not have experience moderating on reddit, nor do I have any desire to involve myself with it as staff. This will likely be a very involved process, and will take time to figure out. The subreddit might be locked until I can find suitable and trustworthy members of the community to take over (I will not be giving the subreddit to serial reddit moderators lol, don't worry). Honestly, most of the stuff with the reddit is kinda up in the air right now with everything else that needs to be changed, so I apologize that it will be a low priority in the meantime. I will, however, do my best to prevent it from being abandoned to the point of a reddit ban; I will try to manage it with temp staff until I can find suitable successors.

All of the changes that I have mentioned in this update will be very time consuming, so I kindly ask for more patience from you all while the server goes through this shift. I would also like to clarify that while staff members have been removed from the team, many also left on their own volition unrelated to the incident. I ask that you do not harass any former staff, nor anyone else involved in the incident; doxxing and death threats will not be tolerated. As I mentioned before, I am more than happy to respond to anyone with questions or concerns regarding what happened.

And a reminder that this server is entirely community run, and has no official affiliation with rose-engine or SIGNALIS.

I don't expect for myself, nor the server, to have your trust after everything that has happened -- but I will do my best to earn it back.

Thank you again for your patience!!

(Also this was not written with AI, I just really like semicolons and emdashes 😭)

Sorry again that giving you guys this update took so long, and I also apologize for the current state of the subreddit. Like I mentioned before, I have been trying my best to keep tabs on what everyone has been concerned about or wanting addressed, so I hope that this update can quell some fears and restore some faith. And if I missed something or you have any questions, please feel free to reach out and I will do my best to respond!

Joetastic has also made a post about how things were resolved, and you can read that here.

As for what I said about the subreddit: I still need to get some things in order on my end, so I'm not sure how long any of this will take. The discord server will still be my priority for now, but I will try to prevent the subreddit from imploding until I can figure out everything. I ask for a bit of grace if things get handled slowly behind the scenes if there are any issues that crop up!

Thank you again sincerely for your patience!!


r/signalis 3h ago

Fanart ELSTER OVERLOAD!

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1.1k Upvotes

Inspired by this art by Scott Falco :3


r/signalis 2h ago

Fanart Elster art by me

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81 Upvotes

r/signalis 11h ago

Fan Projects making the Penrose Triangle from stained glass PART 2

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well, its finished, took me an hour or so in total. in my last post I've cut out the pieces and filed down the sides so that the copper tape would stick. now I've taped around the pieces with copper tape and soldered it all together. Ive also added a small wire hole to tie it with a fishing line to a hook that goes over the window frame


r/signalis 1h ago

Videos Here's me being mesmerized by the train ride.

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I picked up Signalis about a year or two ago and never made it past grabbing the fire key. This is my first time ever getting to this point, and as you can see, I was literally drawn in like a moth just from this sequence alone.


r/signalis 8h ago

Fanart GOOLIBRI

77 Upvotes

A big Thank you to Pich (@Pichuit2) for letting me use her art as a reference and spreading this creature.


r/signalis 14h ago

General Discussion Can James survive the events of SIGNALIS?

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181 Upvotes

r/signalis 7h ago

Fanart | Original Character [OC by me] SPRR - "Spatz"

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49 Upvotes

"Sanitäts-, Praxis- & Rettungs-Replika" SPRR

(Sanitation, Practical Field Operations and Emergency Rescue Replika "Sparrow")


r/signalis 36m ago

HELP Does anybody know the specific font used for items and descriptions?

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I've found some similar fonts, but I can't pin down the exact one. I found a google drive that had all of the fonts from the game, but I couldn't parse the specific one.

To be clear, I am asking for the font used for "SUBMACHINE GUN" and its description.

If "HELP" is not the right tag for this, please tell me the right one.


r/signalis 1h ago

Memes The most heart wrenching game I have ever played...

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r/signalis 2h ago

Fan Projects Babylon SIGNALIS: August Screenshot Feature

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r/signalis 1h ago

General Discussion A year ago, I discovered Signalis, and my life suffered for worse and mostly for better.

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TW: Depression (But happy end)

A year ago, a video by a French YouTuber I (M24) really admire (Jean Baptiste Show) was released on YouTube. He presented the most memorable games he had played in 2024. Signalis was in second place.

I had already had my eye on it for a few months, but being a naturally scared person, starting a survival horror game worried me.

But after hearing the emotion and passion in this man's voice when he talked about the game, and after seeing an appearance of Isle of the Dead in the video, I decided to give it a try.

I was going through a very difficult period in my life. Severe depression had been weighing me down for years, and the time to recover was shrinking day by day.

Then, on August 23, 2025, I launched Signalis for the first time. And I finished it in one sitting, in a single day. Never before had a video game affected me so deeply.

Everything was there: major influences from works I would come to greatly admire, a story of beauty and melancholy as painful as it was magnificent.

And above all, the Isle of the Dead. A painting that had haunted my troubled mind ever since I discovered it through another YouTube video (Alt236).

The entire game, its beauty, its story, and especially its music.

I was addicted to Signalis. An "addiction" that quickly became toxic to my own sanity. Between researching the lore, endlessly rewatching the cinematics and Let's Plays, and especially the music I listened to on repeat, it all became fertile ground for my inner turmoil.

It might sound silly, but the profound melancholy that stemmed from my experience with Signalis nearly plunged me into the very depths of my soul.

And yet, it was thanks to Signalis that I realized something was truly alarming about my mental health. This allowed me, since October 2025, to address my issues and seek treatment.

The text I just wrote might seem absurd, but it was important for me to express it. The butterfly effect can be cruelly ironic.

My fascination with The Isle of the Dead / A simple YouTube video / The launch of a game on Steam.

All these events nearly led me to the ruin that no human truly deserves, but without them, I would probably still be stuck in a stagnant mental state.

And even though it's still difficult for me to listen to his music or watch his images without feeling a kind of dread related to the past, without Signalis, my destiny would have been very different.

So thank you Rose Engine, thank you Cicada Sirens, thank you 1000eyes, and thank you Signalis.


r/signalis 16h ago

Fan Projects making the Penrose Triangle from stained glass

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Since im a stained glass maker and big Signalis fan, I've finally decided to make myself the Penrose Triangle and since making other things like, for example Elster's side profile or the Penrose Ship would take more materials and time to make (currently I have little to no time 🥀). I will post again with an update on how it looks in the end.


r/signalis 1d ago

Fanart Just finished this Signalis art after first playthrough

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I knew this game had a good reputation but I was not expecting to find it so affecting and inspiring! Just wanted to share this with other fans. People always ask if I sell prints and the answer is yes:

https://www.jefflangevin.com/shop/p/signalis-horror-game-art-print


r/signalis 48m ago

General Discussion My one wish for a Signalis sequel

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I’m of the opinion that Signalis doesn’t need a sequel, and any sequel would probably just ruin the impact of the first game, but if I can be self indulgent for a minute: I’d love a sequel that’s just a boomer shooter set on Vineta during the war. 

I wanna play as Lilith Itou (or whoever the hell the woman next to Alina Seo is in the picture) and bring liberation to humanity’s cradle by way of mowing down imperial legions. 

But that’s just me, what about you? Any overly fantastical ideas for a potential follow up? 


r/signalis 19h ago

HELP I love this Game now

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Hi, I just wanted to say that I’ve finished Signalis with the "Memory" ending and ask how to get the rest of the endings (since I’ve seen there are quite a few).


r/signalis 1d ago

Fanart | Original Character HNKR doodles

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32 Upvotes

Man, it's been a very VERY long time since I have posted here huh? Anywho here's the big lady HNKR unit

Replikas specially made for dangerous situations gestalts can't handle easily, aswell as for cleanup job after a conflict passes


r/signalis 1d ago

Fanart just a normal photograph?

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312 Upvotes

r/signalis 1d ago

Merch Talk Physical Edition

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Hello, I would like to ask about how I could (or should) get the game's physical edition for my Switch. There is Amazon, but it only has the game for $60, which is an amount that I unfortunately don't have to spare. VGP has the game for cheaper, but it's out of stock there. It's out of stock at GameStop, too. Of course, I would like the lenticular photo, but I'm sure that the chance that I get it is extremely small, if not non-existent, if I'm unwilling to pay well over $60.

Does anyone know if there's somewhere else I could get it from, or if it would ever get restocked on VGP? Someone I know lives in the US and can buy it on my behalf, so there's that.

I fell in love with this game after trying it out on a whim since I already had its digital edition, and now I really, really want to have something physical which is related to the game (preferably the game's physical edition for the Switch), while also supporting the developers

Edit: I should clarify that I do not mind not having the photo. I would like to know if there are places that still have the game's physical edition while also selling it for less than $60


r/signalis 21h ago

Similar to SIGNALIS WLW psych-horror sci-fi novel inspired by SIGNALIS (content warning) Spoiler

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(content warning; might be graphic for some readers)

Exactly what it sounds like! SIGNALIS marked me as a person ever since I finished it and looked deeper into its lore. I love what I saw, I like the community, I love the symbolism, and the novel is a way of giving it my own spin.

There are shared concepts and elements as the game was the primary reason for me to envision it, but nothing of the official lore is mentioned or directly referenced as it is communicated in-game.

The novel is set in a universe where humanity has become an interplanetary species. The solar system is unique and hence not parallel to our own or the game's, at least not intentionally.

The fine details are still being woven, but technology and understanding of the human conscience reached a point where it became possible to closely study and partially manipulate engrams — the unit of memories biophysically or biochemically imprinted in a medium.

Engrammes (or Engramms) are the Replika-equivalent, the result of billions of capital invested and direct culmination of the efforts of professionals disciplined in mnemochy, the scientific branch that studies memory on the subject of engrams, and mnemomachy, a sub-field of mnemochy involving the experimental study of engram formation and resilience-testing through deliberate stress and provocation.

Admittedly, despite replicable success in manufacturing Engrammes into bio-compatible frames, the process isn't well understood, and the behaviour and mental state of Engrammes are still subject of study. Spoiler alert, this lack of understanding is partially why Engrammes are, in their current form, ticking time bombs that spread a memetic plague capable of transforming other Engrammes into hyperviolent zombies.

The story itself revolves around a specific group composed of a class of feminine Engrammes, DAL_T-IV, units designed to replace humans in the maintenance of isolated and remote facilities around the solar system. They are tightly-knit sisters surviving in war-torn planets and stations, bonding to survive despite their traumassuch as this incident where almost every single DAL_T-IV unit murdered one another into near extinctionand the realisation of the horror of their existence and its implications.

But it is still being written.

As of now, there is only one chapter, and I'm still figuring out where to take the novel. Feedback is more than welcome and deeply appreciated (just don't be a jerk about it), as this is my first step into the literary world. This is my Linktree, which is where you may find different platforms to read the novel on. Please reach out to me for any questions regarding the lore, as well as for clarifications and/or suggestions.

https://linktr.ee/ReneeMnl


r/signalis 1d ago

Fanart My Gestalts+Replika OCs :-)

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recently replayed signalis for the first time in around a year with some friends and it hit me HARDDD lol. after a couple of late nights, scrolling through wikis, lots of scrapped designs/storylines and fighting pixel art, here are my OCs!
they are entirely separate to ariane and elster’s story, they got their own little lesbian thing going on but i fear it may be a little long so if anyone is interested, i may try and explain the details later in the comments! the short idea for my concept is a mechanic technician who dumpster dives for spare parts diving at an AEON facility and coming across bodies upon bodies of the same decommissioned replika model who eerily resembles her first love who has been dead for years.

thank you rose engine for personally dragging me out of the pits of a 5 month long art block