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Tom the Postgirl Is Available Now on Nintendo Switch and PC/Mac

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Cultural media company ARTE France and independent studio Oopsie Daisies are pleased to announce that Tom the Postgirl is available starting today on PC and Mac via Steam, as well as on Nintendo Switch, priced at €9.99 / $9.99 / £8.99 (launch offer on Steam with a 10% discount for the 2 weeks following release).

Tom the Postgirl is the cute yet creepy debut from punk indie studio Oopsie Daisies, and follows Tom on her delivery rounds as she makes her way around her home village, meeting eccentric inhabitants and getting into all sorts of delightfully chaotic mischief. Darkly funny and only occasionally violent, this adventure is a perfect way to mark the spookiest time of year.

“We create games with a punk twist, exploring childhood tales and slightly awkward memories. Our studio bets on the unexpected, transforming ‘oops’ moments into exciting adventures.” — Oopsie Daisies

Tom the Postgirl is the debut game from Oopsie Daisies, five longtime friends brought together by a shared vision: to create games with a punk twist. Léa Coquoz (art direction and game design), Lorenz Kleiser (technical direction and game design), Kathleen Bohren and Natascha Dübi (animation), and Floris Demandt (sound direction) have created a universe as cute as it is disturbing, at the crossroads of a children’s picture book and an adult cartoon.

Calling all fans of creepy cute narrative games! This absurd adventure follows mischievous Tom on her delivery rounds that always go wrong. Unsurprisingly, Tom takes every opportunity to spy inside houses whenever she gets the chance. Players accompany Tom through a charming village where every resident has something to hide. You deliver their packages, but what do they do with them behind closed doors? Every window, door, and crack in the wall is a chance to learn more about the inhabitants and their dirty little secrets: a narcissistic mayor, an orphanage that looks dangerously like a dog kennel, a couple of chainsaw-wielding hippies — human nature in all its horrible beauty awaits you!

Key features: Walk and stalk — frame-by-frame animation gives a retro feel to this universe and immerses the player in a strange village where the slightest detail can turn into a suspicious event, with unique hand-drawn backgrounds and numerous hiding places from which to spy on residents. A guilty pleasure — from drug-dealing pigeons in the cemetery to wandering cowboy earthworms and grumpy squirrels, humans aren’t the only ones worth watching; whether you focus on your delivery job or disturb the peace is your choice. Between Adult Swim and a children’s book — Tom the Postgirl blends the naive aesthetic of illustrated books with the raw, nonsensical strangeness of an Adult Swim cartoon.

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Hypnos Steps Out of Steam Early Access and Launches in Full Today

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Each answer brings up more questions in this world at the edge of dreams…

The enigmatic Nameless City reveals its secrets today: Hypnos is out of Early Access and officially in 1.0 on Steam! A megastructure exploration adventure set in a world subtly changing according to your actions, Hypnos is finally complete with all 7 chapters after 5 months in Early Access, and is getting a 40% 1.0 launch discount to celebrate.

“I was quite quickly hooked on whatever Hypnos was putting down” — Rock Paper Shotgun

Set in the Maze Chronicles universe, following Redlock Studio’s previous title BLACKSHARD, HYPNOS builds on the series’ formula with an eerie atmosphere, mysterious characters, and featuring an original soundtrack by ALT236, while bringing multiple alternate endings to discover, following the different choices you make during your adventure.

Hypnos is also scheduled for a consoles launch at the end of the year!

About the game: Hypnos is a surreal narrative exploration game, set in Redlock Studio’s Maze Chronicles universe, following their previous title Blackshard. Keeping the same atmospheric focus for the series, Hypnos also weaves branching narratives into the formula. The soundtrack for the game is the creation of ALT236, a French multimedia artist and composer, in a blend of ambient, retro and dreamlike electronic music.

Features:

  • EXPLORATION: wander a unique semi-open world. Find your own way through the Nameless City.
  • BRANCHED DIALOGUES, CHOICES & ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS: Meet the strange inhabitants of the Far Reaches. Your actions influence their destinies.
  • A LAYERED WORLD: Interact with your environment. Transform the materia of dreams and the City with it. Lift the veils that conceal reality.

About Redlock Studio: Redlock Studio is a French company based in Grenoble and Lyon, France, dedicated to bringing the fictional world of The Maze Chronicles series to life. This licence has existed in the minds of its creators for fifteen years, a time spent building worlds and characters; the study of mythologies, religions, novelistic literature and pop culture (with particular influences from H.P Lovecraft, China Miéville, Frank Herbert), scientific fields and role-playing campaigns.

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