Today Fellow Traveller hosted the inaugural Story-Rich Showcase, offering a home for narrative-focused fans and developers alike. The 45-minute event, hosted on the Fellow Traveller YouTube and Twitch channels, starred 26 different games including murder mysteries, cozy adventures, and rich RPGs, all with an appreciation for story.
The showcase was also supported by a number of hosts and media partners, such as: documentarians and indie game supporters No Clip, multi-award-winning reader-funded editorial publication This Week in Videogames, queer and women-owned independent publication Mothership, and cozy content creator MadMorph, as they hosted segments, and interviewed developers throughout the showcase.
Below you’ll find a full list of all 26 reveals, for your convenience.
A Line Held Tight | Humble Grove | New Demo
Trailer: youtu.be/J9zzZaD6sMw
The Canary is a character in the middle of a maelstrom. Tensions are rising on the mining colony where they work, separated from the rest of society by a vast expanse of space.
Step into A Line Held Tight in this newly released demo. Meet your fellow miners, form relationships, battle, and most importantly, make a choice; will you take a stand?
Am I Nima | HO! Games | Release Date
Trailer: youtu.be/ofMQRPVOJnU
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must combine words together in your brain and convince your mom that you are her daughter.
Releasing on Steam on October 8, 2026.
Ambrosia Sky: Act Two | Soft Rains | Release Date
Trailer: youtu.be/VzFWc-sCTzM
Ambrosia Sky is a first-person immersive sim about cleaning up after a deadly alien fungi that has killed almost everyone you know.
Releasing on August 6, Act Two will serve as the climactic and final chapter of Dalia’s journey, delivering the complete conclusion to the story, and will be released as a free update to the base game.
Apple Crumble | Happy Broccoli Games | Game Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/ckrIJKYFsjM
Apple Crumble is a fully-voiced interactive mystery thriller inspired by the likes of MOUTHWASHING and Knives Out. It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday and nobody is trying to murder her. Stop suspecting your family members, and don’t worry about the strange man in your bedroom. How about some pudding?
Building Relationships | Tan Ant Games | Console Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/az94psL547A
Tan Ant Games is pleased to announce that their silly dating adventure game, Building Relationships will be launching on PlayStation and Xbox later this year!
Burn-9 | 11 Hours Productions | Game Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/8lA-yEeqXW4
14 Hours Productions reveals Burn-9, a political spy thriller in the tradition of Hideo Kojima and Tom Clancy, but you are not the soldier on the ground. Instead, you’re the one in the chair, coordinating the mission from afar.
Catechesis | Baroque Decay | New Demo
Trailer: youtu.be/Chams71d_ZI
Catechesis, from the creators of Yuppie Psycho, debuts its demo with a new trailer packed with exclusive gameplay and content.
Explore the city, battle demons, upgrade your weapons, and embark on an unforgettable journey with unique characters and anime-style cutscenes. Embrace the darkness as a demon-possessed altar boy in this Horror RPG.
Citizen Sleeper universe | Jump Over the Age | Console Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/dE4StXft4H4
Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector are coming to Nintendo Switch 2. Experience these award-winning titles in 4K.
Both games will be available from June 25th, and existing owners can upgrade to the Switch 2 editions for free.
Citizen Sleeper: Nintendo Store Page | Press Kit
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector: Nintendo Store Page | Press Kit
Danchi Days | gingham games | Release Window
Trailer: youtu.be/sxrpYN3HZaY
Bring your hometown back together in a story-driven slice-of-life adventure set in 2000s Japan. Reconnect with neighbors, surf the web and play minigames in a comedic-yet-bittersweet tale about a girl and her grandma living with Alzheimer's.
Danchi Days is planned to release in October 2026 for PC and Mac on Steam.
Demonschool | Necrosoft Games | DLC Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/-eGsADKXGcU
Demonschool, the RPG with tactical battles, is getting DLC with a focus on puzzle battles. These are battles in which the player must "solve" a board by clearing it of enemies using the characters given, within one turn. Each puzzle is carefully set up to have one solution.
The game is also coming to Switch 2 with mouse support, improved framerate, and more graphical elements.
Desktop Explorer | Recurring Dream | New Trailer
Trailer: youtu.be/RwXgYjekrks
Desktop Explorer revealed their first on-camera segment with never before seen footage from the game's second and third chapters and focusing on how gameplay evolves as the game progresses, and revealing new narrative details as you learn more about how Desktop Explorer torments the computer's previous users.
Desktop Explorer is releasing on Steam on July 17, 2026.
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill | ALL DAY ALL NIGHT | Game Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/emCNXTpvD6U
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is a text-driven murder mystery set in the cutthroat world of high fashion, the game casts players as an old-school detective investigating the death of a powerful magazine editor; Knives Out meets The Devil Wears Prada.
If Looks Could Kill features a striking, high-contrast graphic novel-inspired visual style and a distinctive text-first approach to investigation. Players uncover the truth by discovering hidden clues within the narrative that is written across floors, walls, and evidence.
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is set to release on Steam in 2027.
Duppy Detective Tashia | Spritewrench | Release Date
Trailer: youtu.be/lhHXyEAIdwg
Help Tashia crack the case and (more importantly) find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore.
Duppy Detective Tashia is set to release on June 8, 2026.
Grave Seasons | Perfect Garbage | Developer Spotlight
Trailer: youtu.be/_uIQ7pBIGEE
In this new peek behind the curtain, Perfect Garbage shares a discussion with their Narrative Team about the design and writing approach for Grave Seasons.
They talk about choices behind the killers, the victims and the potential romance. Emmett Nahil and Luca Azenaro-Acero break down characters and how they approached blending cozy and horror through a narrative-forward design.
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) | Fuzzy Ghost | Release Date and Platform Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/tY7yC3L1n5w
RENT MONEY IS DEAD MONEY and your landlord is expecting payment IN FULL. Puzzle your way out of a maze of DEPRAVED magical appliances and the UNHINGED diaries of a DEBAUCHED faded television celebrity. Set in a crumbling Sydney terrace the Fuzzy Ghost boys rented for many years - JDM is an escape room, comedy-horror with a classic survival-horror, set camera.
Inspired by films Beetlejuice and Poltergeist, and games like Resident Evil 2 (without the zombies), it’s a ridiculous but horrifyingly relevant story about found-family, queer lives, landlord overreach, and television shopping network divas.
Escape room comedy-horror Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) is coming in 2026, to PC, Mac, and PlayStation 5!
Lost in the Roots | Trioskaz | New Trailer
Trailer: youtu.be/sbYqkqfy2Kg
The devs at Trioskaz are getting ready to release Lost in the Roots very soon. The events take place in the same world as No, I'm not a Human. In Lost in the Roots, we'll also get to know a character named Jakob way better, along with his complicated relationship with a girl named Trisha.
The game's characters will be fully voiced! Listen to the whisper of the forest and uncover the secrets that hide the truth of this world.
Penguin Colony | ORIGAME Digital | New Trailer
Trailer: youtu.be/14mEZjkixKw
Set in 1939, two years after Lovecraft’s death, the game asks who his protagonists might have been during that era, following a colony of penguins as they observe the horrors uncovered by Nazi scientists searching Antarctica for the architects of mankind. Opposing them are the Indigenous Kaitiaki, who seek to return this ancient power to its slumber before it can be exploited.
Players embody one of the local penguins, wandering the frozen landscape, following the humans in their discoveries, and witnessing their minds collapse under the strain.
Penguin Colony is the second game from ORIGAME DIGITAL, the developers of the acclaimed Umurangi Generation. Part adaptation, part reimagination, it expands upon H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos through a new weird-fiction story inspired by At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time.
Servant of the Lake | Rusty Lake | Release Date
Trailer: youtu.be/M2K0o6Axz-k
Servant of the Lake is Rusty Lake’s most ambitious premium point-and-click adventure in years. From the creators of the Cube Escape series, The Past Within, and Underground Blossom.
Welcome to the Vanderboom house, home to the infamous Vanderboom family! Visitors are arriving soon, and you are meant to start your housekeeping duties immediately! Solve the puzzles needed to fulfil your daily tasks, look after the household, welcome the visitor and ensure their comfort while helping the family achieve their alchemical ambitions!
SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment) | Rocket Adrift Games | Game Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/mkKX8XJl1mU
Rocket Adrift Games is pleased to announce their newest game SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment) is coming soon to Steam. This Metal Gear-inspired survival horror game takes a modernized approach to the genre, blending tactical action with limited resources to bring a new dimension of horror.
SHE will be the fourth commercial release for the 3-person Toronto-based studio, and their sophomore installment to the psychological horror genre, after Psychroma (2024).
ShelfLife: Art School Detective | Fnife Games | New Demo
Trailer: youtu.be/BmHIAzg9t3k
Set in the year 201X at Cruston Beaux-Arts Academy (in the fictional New Zealand town of Cruston) ShelfLife is a goofy, nostalgic exploration of art school life, queerness, romance and the paranormal. ShelfLife features relationship-building, branching story routes, mixed-media graphics and 2.5D pixel art. The game is currently in development towards a 2027 PC release.
The new 50-minute demo gives players a glimpse into ShelfLife's 'Mystery Adventure' meets 'Detective Dating Sim' gameplay. There'll be clue-collecting, mixed-media Art Worlds, psychic powers, logic puzzles... PLUS, a cast of charming art school weirdos to Investi-DATE!
ShelfLife: Art School Detective will also be coming to Xbox, PlayStation and Switch.
The Hearth & Harbour | Humble Grove | New Trailer
Trailer: youtu.be/5c_umb2muvQ
Saltstone Studios goes deeper into the development of their adventure management game, The Hearth & Harbour. Discover more about how Kit Purcell goes about his day in Lewthport, as well as how to bond with the citizens to forge relationships that will gain their trust and earn you new recipes and gifts.
The Mermaid Mask | SFB Games | Release Date
Trailer: youtu.be/Al0fXcTHhAA
Set aboard a strange submarine off the coast of the abandoned fishing town of Silkwirm-on-Sea, the game follows Detective Grimoire and his sharp-tongued sidekick Sally as they investigate the impossible locked-room murder of the enigmatic Captain Mortuga.
Building on the acclaimed formula of the cult Detective Grimoire series, The Mermaid Mask blends puzzle-solving, a crew of fully voice-acted, hand-animated suspects, and trademark light-hearted British humour with stunning environments by Catherine Unger and a cinematic score by Raphael Benjamin Meyer performed by the Budapest Art Orchestra.
SFB Games, the BAFTA-nominated studio behind Tangle Tower and fan-favourites including Crow Country and Snipperclips, has announced that The Mermaid Mask, a stylish new detective adventure, is launching July 16, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2.
A playable demo is available on Steam.
The Telwynium | Dave Lloyd / Powerhoof | New Demo
Trailer: youtu.be/l1hdkOKdjD8
The Telwynium began as a series of free instalments, leaning heavily on our nostalgia for cheesy fantasy novels and early point 'n clicks. It has been brought together on Steam in its final form, as a single epic adventure!
Your home, the village of Willows Dene, burns at the hands of the shadowfell.
Only the power of the Autumn-Aldor Dwinn stopped it from being overrun completely. Now, led by the Aldor, you flee to the west for the White City, Aldarris. With you are your childhood friends Tani and Witt, the irritable Uplander Otarr Stronghorn, and a colossal gohl'en of mud and stone, summoned by the Aldor as the shadowfell attacked.
It is your first night away from Willows Dene, and you have first watch.
Powerhoof's fantasy adventure epic The Telwynium is coming to Steam. Book One “Winter's Dawn” is available right now on Steam as a free playable demo.
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists | A Sharp | Release Window
Trailer: youtu.be/8jIWrYkOzJw
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a tactical narrative game from developer A Sharp and publisher Kitfox Games. Form a team and face the trials of hell in an anthology of Underworld stories with over 200 unique dynamic narrative encounters and hundreds of hand-painted illustrations.
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is releasing on Steam in Fall 2026.
Truth Scrapper | insertdisc5 | New Demo
Trailer: youtu.be/qG5MJjg2h4c
Truth Scrapper is a romantic mystery visual novel with a branching story, the next game from insertdisc5, award-winning developer of In Stars and Time. When memories are more precious than gold, what - and who - will you choose to remember as you set out to investigate a series of attacks in a remote town?
A new demo is available now on Steam.
Wicked Delights | Hiding Spot Games | Game Announcement
Trailer: youtu.be/R99V1WqtrOE
The team behind Beacon Pines is working on a rhythm horror game! It's the early 2010's. Ander and her dad Marcel run a struggling video shop. To make matters worse, characters from an old re-used VHS tape are breaking out into their world. What unfolds is a frightening supernatural mystery that can only be solved through epic rhythm games.
Anime battles, sitcom coffee shop shenanigans, retro sci-fi adventures, and campy horror gore. Rhythm your way through them all and you might just save the world.
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You may know us from the tabletop-inspired RPG set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism (Citizen Sleeper), the polar exploration survival story riddled with life or death decisions (The Pale Beyond), the noir adventure set before, during, and after the Big Bang (Genesis Noir), or the murder mystery with a cast of otherworldly suspects (Paradise Killer).
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