Indie developer DR Studio and publisher Pretty Soon have announced that Neuron Activation launches on Steam on October 28. The game blends fast-paced micro-challenges with an increasingly unsettling narrative about workplace obedience and mysterious corporate authority. Described as a digital fidget box disguised as a puzzle game, Neuron Activation challenges players to push buttons, flip switches, adjust sliders, shoot targets, and complete more than 80 interactive tasks. As the action intensifies, players must juggle multiple objectives and chain actions together to build their scores and multipliers. However, there’s more happening behind the control panel than chasing high scores. Assignments from…
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Grandma (88) is a hand-drawn player-vs.-narrator thriller that explores family history, memory, silence, and the stories passed from one generation to the next. Players take on the role of a young woman visiting her grandmother, only to find themselves drawn into an increasingly unpredictable journey through the older woman’s memories. Grandma isn’t simply a character in the story. She is the narrator, and the world itself is shaped by the stories she tells. Her memories become explorable spaces filled with objects, characters, omissions, contradictions, and details that can change depending on how the player responds to her version of events.…
Australian thriller Cruel Hands is set to deliver an emotionally charged story that combines family drama with psychological suspense. Directed by Al Kalyk, the film unfolds during the devastating 2019 Australian bushfires, using the real-life disaster as the backdrop for a tense and intimate survival story.The story centers on a mother and her young son who seek refuge in an abandoned farmhouse while fleeing an abusive husband. As emergency responders struggle to locate the missing family amid the chaos of the bushfires, the young boy, Dai, begins to uncover unsettling details that suggest there is far more happening than anyone…
Belgian indie developer Eye Blink Twice has released the playable demo for Time To Wake Up, giving players their first chance to experience its surreal psychological thriller ahead of launch. The demo is now available on Steam. In Time To Wake Up, players step into the troubled mind of Alan Malone, who finds himself trapped inside a dream shaped by fragments of his past. The experience takes place across warped versions of familiar school settings, where endless classrooms, eerie hallways, and strange locker mazes form a shifting landscape of memories. As players explore, the environment constantly twists and transforms. Rooms…