Still a few more days to catch Mysteries of Old Tokyo in the Steam Summer Sale! Dive head-first into the real history of Tokyo, from prehistory to present, in this delightful detective puzzle adventure with over 40 real-life landmarks. #steam #steamsummersale #indiegames

The Steam Summer Sale is here, and it's coming for Mysteries of Old Tokyo! Enjoy a 16% discount until July 9. #indiegames #steam #steamsummersale

You have just under an hour to buy your very own Mysteries of Old Tokyo with the 10% launch discount! 27 reviews, 100% positive. Now Verified on Steam Deck!

Massive first day for Mysteries of Old Tokyo on Steam ... broke through my goals in about 5 hours which is amazing. Thank you to everyone who has bought it and played it! #indiegames #steam

Today's the day! MYSTERIES OF OLD TOKYO is out right now! Explore the real history of Tokyo across 30 real-life landmarks in a new detective adventure puzzler, available on Steam. #indiegames #steam

We have a release date! And a new demo version. Beta testing is proceeding smoothly and the game build has been approved by Steam. If all goes well, Mysteries of Old Tokyo should be available on Steam on May 14. #steam #indiegames #solodev

Update on Steam Deck compatibility! (It's compatible) store.steampowered.com/news/app/378...

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Built from the start with Steam Deck in mind

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Demo v3.0 for Mysteries of Old Tokyo is now live! The demo returns to Steam with a new office, auto-save, and a much-improved UI. #indiegames #demos #steam

This mention from @buliaros.bsky.social really made my day. Thank you so much, I'm so happy you liked the demo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u21t...

Sixteen NEXTfest demos that are worth your time | Static Canvas

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So, Next Fest is off to a good start. See, Steam algorithm, if you actually show my game to people, they may actually have a chance to wishlist it! #gamedev #indiedev #nextfest #steam

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

Mysteries of Old Tokyo, my debut game, is in Steam Next Fest, starting right now! It's a detective adventure puzzler set in Tokyo, with reams of historical research. Add to your wishlist! Try the demo! #indiegames #steam #demos

I think devs care about bugs way more than players. People are quite forgiving of demos, at least. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Made my Next Fest graphic! It's so tough to like ... sell my entire game with one image. Constantly questioning if I should add more, or less. I tried a split-screen then/now effect, but it just didn't work. Anyway, play the demo! And wishlist! #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Deployed a tiny (2 line) hotfix for the demo. Stupid oversight, but the "evidence at station" trigger wouldn't trigger if you arrived by train (which you would, it being a train station and all!). Apologies for the error. #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

Hopefully the real last update before Next Fest next week. store.steampowered.com/news/app/378...

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New game on-boarding for Next Fest

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It's kinda funny (but not funny) that every time I think my game is feature complete, I decide to add more features, and hence more bugs. I think I need to be pretty strict from now on, especially with Next Fest rapidly approaching. Ideally this should be the last demo release. #gamedev #indiedev

The all-new release trailer for MYSTERIES OF OLD TOKYO! Available April 2026 on Steam. Try the demo today. #indiegames #solodev #indiedev youtu.be/7nkPYb_s0G8

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After 248 days on the store, I've reached my pre-Next Fest target of 3,000 Steam wishlists. Hard to believe I'm at this point. I remember when 300 wishlists was a crazy number. To once again quote LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy: "Thanks for supporting this weird thing!" #indiedev #gamedev

It's surprisingly hard to make a satisfying tutorial. You have to teach the player without them catching on. You have to give them freedom to do what they want, but also steer them away from anything they're not ready for. #gamedev #indiedev

I'm thinking I need to rework the tutorial for my demo before Next Fest. Needs more of a hook. At the moment it's a bit "ugh, first day at a new job, gotta do all this paperwork", which in retrospect is not the best way to keep players engaged. #gamedev #indiedev

MY GAME IN 4 WORDS: Acid Fantasy Barbarian Slasher #indiedev #indiegame #indiedrop

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MY GAME IN 4 WORDS: Dark Catholic Guilty Simulator #indiedrop #Nechromia #indiegame #gamedev

In the run-up to Next Fest, there's a new pre-release demo for MYSTERIES OF OLD TOKYO! V2.1.0 totally changes the way you explore new locations and discover evidence with an improved map of Tokyo. #indiegames #demos #steam #nextfest

New menu. I love this thing. I don't know why. It feels very personal to me. Like, years of messing around in image editors and learning to code and thinking about design have created this, #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

All agents: Our equipment request dated July 1998 has been processed by Procurement and approved by Finance. Please look out for your updated CluesPDA in the next release. Additionally, we are excited to issue the new CluesPAGR to selected agents. #indiegames #gamedev

So I loaded a build of the finished game on my Steam Deck yesterday, and played about halfway. It works great. Easy to play on Steam Deck, and only minor bugs. But what's interesting is that the full game gets a bit repetitive in a way that the (short) demo doesn't. #gamedev #indiedev #steamdeck

New demo! New hint system! New satisfying little "plip" sound when you add a word! Play v2.0.3 right now! #indiegames #demos #steam store.steampowered.com/news/app/378...

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The long awaited hint system!

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Probably the most requested feature from ̷i̷n̷v̷e̷s̷t̷o̷r̷s̷ players of MYSTERIES OF OLD TOKYO is a hint system. So we've invested $10 million of vendor finance capital into Ria, our new AI assistant running on an enormous underwater datacenter in the Sargasso Sea. Coming soon to the demo! #indiegames

The game's finished! Well, the alpha version. Or maybe beta. Or somewhere in between. But in theory you can now load up the game, complete the tutorial, solve all puzzles across all ten chapters, finish the final chapter, and see this glorious end screen. (End screen WIP) #gamedev #indiedev

The death poem of Asano Naganori, the "villain" of the 47 Ronin story. (Translation by me) #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev