Publisher ESDigital Games and Epic Llama Games are pleased to announce that the long-awaited Vinny’s Diary Update for Unusual Findings, the award-winning indie 2D pixel-art adventure game from developer Epic Llama Games, available now across PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch.
To celebrate the release, a brand-new trailer is now available, offering a fresh look at the update’s new content, expanded features, and improvements.
The update also includes:
- Improved controls, requested by the community
- Various fixes and quality-of-life improvements
- The final round of Kickstarter backer names
- Traditional Chinese localisation
- Additional lore and expanded accessibility for puzzle solving
Since launch, Unusual Findings has attracted attention from major content creators and built a strong community, earning an 87% “Very Positive” rating and more than 1,000 user reviews across all platforms.
The game has also received recognition from multiple festivals and award programmes for its narrative, puzzles, art direction, soundtrack, and overall indie-game quality. Unusual Findings was named Best Hardcore Game at Game Connection America 2023, won Best Puzzles at the AGOTY Awards 2022, and received the Best Story and Narrativeaward at ExpoVit 2021. It was also selected for the Retro Roots Featured Selection at The Big Adventure Event 2022 and received several nominations at the Vit Awards and DevGAMM Awards, including Best Soundtrack, Best Art Direction, Best Game from Overseas, Best Indie Game, Excellence in Narrative, and Excellence in Audio.
Media and content creators who missed the game at launch are warmly invited to discover it now, as the Vinny’s Diary Update makes this the perfect time to jump in. The update introduces new content, improved controls, expanded hint options, performance enhancements, and a range of quality-of-life improvements designed to make the adventure more accessible and enjoyable than ever.
With the new trailer now live and review codes available on request for all platforms, Unusual Findings is ready for fresh coverage, reviews, streams, interviews, and video content.
ABOUT UNUSUAL FINDINGS
It’s the 80s, Christmas is coming, and three young friends — Vinny, Nick and Tony — are trying out their new cable signal descrambler when they accidentally pick up the distress signal of an alien spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods near their town.
What begins as a strange night soon turns into a full-blown sci-fi mystery, as the boys discover that something dangerous is hunting specific members of their community.
Inspired by classic 80s films and adventure games, Unusual Findings blends point-and-click mechanics, branching choices, puzzle-solving and stylized pixel art with a warm, funny and mysterious coming-of-age story.
Players can explore nostalgic locations including the Video Buster Store, Laser Llamas Arcades, The Emerald Sword comic store, the hideout of the punk-looking Lost Boys, and more. Player choices affect the friendship between the three main characters, changing how they solve puzzles, which locations they visit and how the story unfolds.
Key Features
- A nostalgic 80s sci-fi coming-of-age story
- Stylized pixel art with modern lighting and visual effects
- Branching choices that affect character relationships, puzzles and story progression
- Point-and-click inspired mechanics with “See, Grab and Talk” action tokens
- Synthwave soundtrack and original music
- Multiple endings and replayability
- Free Vinny’s Diary Update launching July 10 on all platforms
- Available with interface and subtitle support in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish (Spain), Italian, French, and German. Full audio is available in English and Russian.
Now available on Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch.
Media Contact:
Head of Marketing | ESDigital Games
Ilia Svanidze
About ESDigital Games
ESDigital Games is a global video game publishing company specializing to bring high-quality games for both PC and consoles. ESDigital Games has published and distributed original titles, including Redeemer, 9 Monkeys of Shaolin, Steel Seed, Machine Gun Fury, AWAKEN - Astral Blade, Memory Lost, Unusual Findings, Cats on Duty, Deck of Ashes, and much more. The publisher's catalog will get even richer in the coming months and years with eagerly awaited games such as Sky of Tides, Island of Winds, and, as well as future updates of REMEDIUM, Battlejuice Alchemist.