LOS ANGELES, CA - September 8, 2025 - Akupara Games is delighted to announce its collaboration with the cynical, satirical, comedic pointing-and-clicking adventure games by the ever-talented Joe Richardson. Met with critical acclaim, Akupara brings The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything, Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate to its catalog and inflate Joe's ever-growing ego. Players and peasants alike will experience biblical blasphemy however they choose in these four illogically-logical stories. What are you waiting for? Vivaldi, Handel, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo await you in the mighty, the holy, the Joe Richardson Collection.
Purchase the Joe Richardson Collection now on Steam!
Akupara Games, seeing the enticing yet perplexing collection Joe had grown, thought it quite rude that Joe hadn’t invited them into his assortment of digital tomfoolery. Despite no supper, Akupara Games humbly offered its sacred offering of backend assistance and revenue sharing. Joe, who had been busy arguing with a particularly stubborn pixel, looked up and inquired, “Publisher? What could a publisher possibly do for ME?”
“Turtle Gang!” Akupara declared, for reasons that remain unclear to this day, and slowly waddled back into the forest. Joe, being confused yet intrigued, (as one often is when confronted by entrepreneurial reptiles), haphazardly followed the tortoise into its slightly moist yet surprisingly well-appointed business lair.
The Joe Richardson Collection is a pythonesque-puzzle-adventure that brings players through a satirical, comedic world all wrapped in a Renaissance-esque aesthetic bow. Through four separate stories, players will traverse biblical blasphemy, solving puzzles, building rockets, punching peasants, and yapping with eunuchs. The heart of the Joe Richardson Collection lies in its humor, its historical aesthetic, and its whimsical cast of characters.
Features:
- Pointing and Clicking - A traditional point and click interface, with a 'verb coin' interaction menu and a simple inventory from which you can drag and drop your preciously hoarded items.
- Renaissance Artwork - Renaissance, Rococo and even a hint of Romanticism, to be a little more precise. Hundreds of paintings, spanning hundreds of years, are all brought together into one consistent world.
- Classical Music - Music from classics such as Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and performed by Eduardo Antonello. Period appropriate music that adapts as the story progresses, recorded using real medieval/renaissance instruments.
- Standalone Story - Four Last Things,The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate are set in the same tantalizing world each with their own respective story that features recurring characters/themes, but can be played independently.
- Nonsensical Buffoonery - Lofty subject matter is treated with gleeful flippancy. Gags about butts are taken very seriously. But rest assured, while some of the jokes may be ridiculous, the puzzles make perfect sense! (or at least adhere to a consistent internal logic)
About Joe Richardson
Joe Richardson makes small logic-driven worlds because the overwhelming chaotic disgusting beautiful unfathomable mess of the real world scares the shit out of him. He calls his worlds “games” and you can play with them and you might have fun. Wouldn't that be nice?
For more information, visit: JoeRichardson.games
About Akupara Games
Akupara Games is an indie game publisher based in Los Angeles, California. Using extensive knowledge and experience in development, they support their developers through an involved and personalized pipeline to bring games to communities of players who are looking for their next enveloping experience. Their vision is to help bring stories to life and usher in the next line of gaming classics. For more information, visit: AkuparaGames.com