“The cats that live in your cat shelter have run away, and you’ll need to meet their ridiculous demands before they’ll follow you home again.
“Also, you are a ghost.”
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Release: December 6, 2017
Author: Pickled Sea Cat
Beat Blast
“A music maker bullet hell. Make a beat by traversing through levels collecting new sounds and powers. Combine your musical notes in different ways to create the songs and powers you want. Collect unique power note sounds to unlock powerful abilities. Destroy bosses and enemies with the music you make. The world is full of hypnotic sounds to groove with. Be your own soundtrack! Music, powers, enemies, bosses and dungeons.”
Platforms: Windows
Release: 2020
Octocurio on a podcast
Hey! So I was a guest on a gaming podcast by Tomasz Niemiec where we shared our thoughts on indie games, curation, and how Octocurio got started. If you’d like to hear me go through the five stages of fright (deer in headlights —-> rambling rhino) then have a listen below. 🙃 The podcast is in English but the intro is in Polish.
In the podcast I actually blanked on how the octopus came about, in case you were interested in a little back story… I was stuck for a long while thinking of a name for my gamedev studio, and while driving by a rum shop (bar/pub) I saw a giant sign advertising pickled seacat (seacat = octopus here) and a light bulb went off. That’s how Pickled Sea Cat came about. When I later created an indie game website I stuck with the octopus theme for the avatar and then for the name, an octopus in charge of curios (curious objects).
The back of the shop with the name is in the picture below but after some years it’s almost completely overgrown and you can barely see anything. 🙈
In Other Waters
“Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?”
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Release: April 3, 2020
Embr
“A frantic firefighting game set in a hyper-capitalist reality where traditional emergency services are a thing of the past. Scale buildings, smash windows, fight fires and save lives either alone or with up to four players. Embr is the last stand in a world ablaze.”
“It’s time to redefine the firefighting service paradigm and give the power to you – the people – and we’ll take care of the pesky paperwork. Everyone should have the opportunity to be a hero, and that’s why with just one simple payment, you can become a Respondr™ today!”
Platforms: Windows
Release: Spring 2020
Hazel Sky
“A heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires.
“Sent to an island far from home in the flying city of Gideon, Shane must pass the trials and return as an Engineer or face banishment. Connected via radio, Shane and fellow trainee engineer, Erin strike up an illicit friendship. A friendship that will change the way Shane sees the world.”
Platforms: Windows, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
Release: 2020
Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead
“An all new arcade lightgun dungeon crawl developed by Griffin Aerotech in collaboration with Devolver Digital and Dodge Roll. Explore and explode your way through an ever-evolving series of floors protected by the dangerously adorable Cult of the Gundead. Use your wits to discover uniquely fantastic weapons, insane power ups and hidden secrets to gain an edge against the Gundead horde.”
Platforms: Arcade Cabinet
Release: “early” 2020 (checks calendar) 👀
DEEEER Simulator
“A ‘Slow-Life Town Destruction Game’. You can spend your days enjoying a nice, relaxed frolic here and there together with the other animals around town, or you can choose to relieve some stress and absolutely destroy the town and everything in it.”
Platforms: Windows
Release: January 21, 2020
Lies Beneath
“A single-player survival horror game with a heavy dose of action! Something’s gone horribly wrong in the sleepy town of Slumber, Alaska. Now, returning college student Mae must fight to save her father (and her sanity) from the terrifying townsfolk and creepy creatures infecting her hometown. Experience a living comic book full of frightful scenarios as you uncover the secrets of Slumber… and Mae’s past.
“With a full arsenal of melee and ranged weapons, Mae will fight monsters across the menacing remnants of her hometown. Along the way, she’ll need to solve puzzles in her surroundings and find lore objects that uncover hidden truths.”
Platforms: Oculus
Release: March 31, 2020
Dark Light
” A Sci-fi action-platformer with unique game-play. Explore apocalypse cyberpunk world full of supernatural beings. Encounter and defeat creatures of darkness which are invisible to the naked eye, detected only with the light source of your drone. Experience the horror and feel their presence as they surround you.”
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Release: 2020