Fellow Traveller, the indie publisher behind titles including 1000xRESIST, Citizen Sleeper 1 & 2, Paradise Killer, and Wander Stars, just held the inaugural Story-Rich Showcase, spotlighting over 20 story-led games. From murder mysteries to management RPGs and from psychological thrillers to relaxed and cozy adventures, the 45-minute event had something for story-loving fans of all kinds.
We’ve collated all the announcements, trailers, demo reveals, and “WORLD PREMIERES” into one place. You can watch the full show below, or you can scroll on and see each individual game announced (in the order they were announced).
Fellow Traveller’s Story-Rich Showcase
Where possible, we have included all known platforms, demo availability, release date, and most recent trailer (this may not be the one shown at the showcase).
A Line Held Tight (PC)
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.
Tensions, both political and personal, are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel, you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself. Meet your fellow miners, form relationships, battle, and most importantly, make a choice; will you take a stand?
A Line Held Tight is coming to PC, and a demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Am I Nima (PC)
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. Get her to trust you.
Am I Nima will be released on PC on October 8th, 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Ambrosia Sky: Act Two (PC)
Ambrosia Sky is a first-person immersive sim about cleaning up after a deadly alien fungi that has killed almost everyone you know.
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.
Ambrosia Sky: Act Two releases on PC on August 6th, 2026. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now on PC via Steam.
Apple Crumble (PC)
Happy Broccoli Games, the team behind the much-loved Duck Detective series (5000+ ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews on Steam) have announced their next project at today’s Story-Rich Showcase: Apple Crumble!
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?
Apple Crumble is coming to PC via Steam.
Building Relationships (PC, PS5, XBOX Series X/S)
Tan Ant Games is pleased to announce that their silly dating adventure game, Building Relationships, will be launching on PlayStation & Xbox later this year!
First announced in 2024, Building Relationships is returning to SGF with a console release trailer showcasing the romantic dating gameplay and a glimpse behind the world of building
Building Relationships is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Burn-9 (PC)
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.
You’ll guide your agent, feeding her the information she needs to survive. At the same time, you’ll report up the chain of command, receiving orders that may conflict with what’s unfolding in front of you.
Burn-9 is coming to PC in 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Catechesis (PC)
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.
Catechesis is coming to PC in 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Citizen Sleeper Series (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX One, XBOX Series X/S, Nintendo Switch & Switch 2)
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.
Danchi Days (PC)
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 be released in October 2026 for PC. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Demonschool (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX One, XBOX Series X/S, Nintendo Switch)
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.
All of this is planned to happen in 2026.
Desktop Explorer (PC)
Desktop Explorer is showcasing with their first on-camera segment, highlighting never-before-seen footage from the game’s second and third chapters and focusing on how gameplay evolves as the game progresses. New narrative details are revealed as we learn more about how Desktop Explorer torments the computer’s previous users.
Desktop Explorer is releasing on PC on July 17th, 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill (PC)
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 PC in 2027.
Duppy Detective Tashia (PC)
Help Tashia crack the case and (more importantly) find her cell phone in this point-and-click mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore.
Duppy Detective Tashia is set to release on PC on June 8th, 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
Grave Seasons (PC)
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.
Grave Seasons is set to release on PC in 2026.
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (And A Witch) (PC, PS5)
Filthy renters take note! Escape room comedy-horror Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) is coming in 2026, to PC, Mac, and PlayStation 5! 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 that 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.
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (And A Witch) is set to release on PC and PlayStation 5 in 2026.
Lost In The Roots (PC)
The devs at Trioskaz are getting ready to release their new game, Lost in the Roots, very soon. The events take place in the same world as No, I’m not a Human, the one that came out in 2025 and became super popular. 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.
A mysterious atmosphere, puzzles, an incredible vibe, and more. And as part of the event, the devs have prepared a really nice surprise for fans: the game’s characters will be fully voiced!
Lost in the Roots is coming to PC in Q3 2026.
Penguin Colony (PC)
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.
Peguin Colony is coming to PC in 2026, with a demo available now on PC via Steam.
Servant Of The Lake (PC, Mobile)
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!
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.
Servant of the Lake is releasing on PC and Mobile on August 13th, 2026. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment) (PC)
Rocket Adrift Games is pleased to announce that 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).
SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment) is coming to PC.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective (PC, PS5, XBOX Series X/S, Nintendo Switch)
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 is slated to release on PC, PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch in 2027.
The Hearth & Harbour (PC)
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 Hearth & Harbour is coming to PC via Steam.
The Mermaid Mask (PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch & Switch 2)
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.
The Mermaid Mask is launching on July 16th, 2026, on PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2. A demo is available now on PC via Steam.
The Telwynium (PC)
Powerhoof’s fantasy adventure epic The Telwynium is coming to Steam!
Your home, the village of Willows Dene, burns at the hands of the shadowfell. Only the power of the Autumn-Aldor stopped it from being overrun completely. Now, led by the Aldor, you flee to the west for the White City. 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.
The Telwynium began as a series of free instalments, leaning heavily on our nostalgia for cheesy fantasy novels and early point ‘n clicks, now brought together on Steam in its final form, as a single epic adventure!
The Telwynium is coming to PC in 2027. A demo, consisting of Book One for The Telwynium, is available now on PC via Steam.
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists (PC)
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 PC in Fall 2026.
Truth Scrapper (PC)
Truth Scrapper is a romantic mystery visual novel with a branching story, the next game from insertdisc5, the 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?
Truth Scrapper is coming to PC, with a demo available now on PC via Steam.
Wicked Delights (PC)
Hiding Spot, 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, reused 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.
Wicked Delights is coming to PC.
That was every announcement from the Fellow Traveller’s Story-Rich Showcase 2026!
Be sure to check out all of the games over on Steam as part of The Mix Summer Showcase 2026 Event.
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