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Emptiness Sire Brings Cosmic Horror Tactics to Steam on January 12, 2027, With a New Demo Out Now

Published

2 days ago

November 13, 2026

Emptiness Sire isometric tactical puzzle gameplay

Oaks Games Studio and Bright Gambit are mixing the squad tactics of Into the Breach with the handcrafted puzzles of Lara Croft GO and wrapping both in Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and players can try Emptiness Sire on Steam today ahead of its January 12, 2027 launch.

Brazilian indie developer Oaks Games Studio and co-publisher Bright Gambit today announced that Emptiness Sire, a dark, turn-based tactical puzzle adventure will officially launch on Steam on January 12, 2027. Combining tight grid-based puzzles with an atmospheric cosmic horror narrative, the game challenges strategy fans to coordinate three distinct survivors, with a brand-new demo available to play on Steam today.

Why Press & Players Are Paying Attention

We are aware that players and gaming journalists get swamped with generic puzzle games. Here is how Emptiness Sire stands out:

The Ultimate Brain-Teaser Mashup: Emptiness Sire is aimed for players who love the deterministic, squad-based strategy of Into the Breach where you coordinate three unique survivors, manipulate enemy turns and master grid positioning with the handcrafted, step-by-step logic of Lara Croft GO, ensuring every puzzle is a clean, spatial brain-teaser free from turn timers or random luck. All of this unfolds through a quiet, melancholic narrative reminiscent of The Last Campfire, wrapping deep tactical gameplay in a story-driven world of haunting Lovecraftian cosmic horror.

Zero Grind, Pure Strategy: Coordinate three distinct survivors (Knight, Explorer, Guardian). Positioning is everything. One wrong move ruins the squad but an unlimited undo mechanic lets you experiment freely without annoying full-level restarts.

160+ Handcrafted Puzzles: Across 4 corrupted worlds from acid deserts to cultist ruins crafted over two years by a tight-knit 10-person dev team from Brazil.

Critically Recognized: Already named a double finalist for Best Brazilian Game and Best Casual Game at BIG Festival 2026 (Gamescom Latam).

Watch a Plan Come Together (Or Fall Apart)

Picture this: every move you make gives the enemies a turn to respond. A step towards your goal could leave you exposed, so what needs to happen before you can safely advance?

In Emptiness Sire, you read enemy patterns and use the Knight’s sword, the Explorer’s flute and the Guardian’s directional shield to find the right sequence of moves. You need to take your time to study the board; and if an idea fails, you can use unlimited undo to go back and try again without restarting the puzzle.

A Passion Project From Brazil to the World

“For our first commercial game, we poured our hearts into every aspect of the experience, always prioritizing quality and how players would feel at every step of their journey,” says Gabriel, Game Director at Oaks Games Studio. “Two years of work and the result is a game with 160+ tactical puzzles, hand-crafted art and gameplay systems that we’re incredibly proud of.”

(Fun trivia: The title is a direct nod to the iconic line in Ingmar Bergman’s film masterpiece The Seventh Seal “Emptiness, Sire…” a fitting reference for a tactical game where a Knight navigates chess-like despair on a grid.)

Think you have what it takes? Play the demo and wishlist Emptiness Sire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3197200

About Oaks Games Studio

Oaks Games Studio is an independent Brazilian game developer. Its team of 10 has spent more than two years developing Emptiness Sire, combining strategic puzzle design with atmospheric storytelling.

About Bright Gambit

Bright Gambit is an independent games funding and go-to-market partner helping developers bring distinctive games to players worldwide while retaining ownership of their creative work. Bright Gambit has supported games like Pit of Goblin, A Heavy Morning, Lonesome Village, Treetopians.

Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars Is Out Now on Quest, PICO and Android XR

Published

43 minutes ago

November 15, 2026

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Rocky, a rocky alien crewmate, reaches out with a stone fist inside the Hail Mary spaceship in Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars.

Rocky, the rocky alien crewmate, inside the Hail Mary in Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars. Photo by Maze Theory

Humanity’s last hope is now a mission you can step inside. Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars is out now, a mixed-reality adventure that tells a previously untold chapter of Andy Weir’s bestselling sci-fi universe.

The immersive mixed reality experience launched on PICO, Android XR and Meta Quest 3/3S. It comes from Maze Theory, the award-winning London-based immersive entertainment studio behind Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time.

Players step into the role of Ryland Grace. Ryland Grace and his friend and crewmate Rocky must work together in the face of disaster to keep the Hail Mary intact and bring their world-saving cargo to Eridani — Rocky’s home planet, and Grace’s new home.

It is a story of trust and communication between species. As this mixed-reality experience blends your physical environment with the Hail Mary itself, players diagnose problems, improvise solutions and push the limits of science and engineering to keep the mission alive.

Along the way, players work alongside Rocky to keep the mission alive, diagnose failing systems and improvise scientific solutions, and manage their ship and its precious cargo as they travel through the stars — experiencing humanity’s last hope firsthand.

Watch the launch trailer below.