hmblgrv
@humblegrove.bsky.social
A storytelling co-op based in the UK. Currently working on A Line Held Tight 🛰 Creator of No Longer Home 🍃 Support us @ patreon.com/humblegrove
Hello, I wrote about intriguing space mining visual novel A Line Held Tight from Humble Grove and spoke to the team about games, unions and folk music www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
A Line Held Tight – miners, mechs and mismanagement on a distant planet
Deep underground the player joins a colony of ruthlessly exploited pit workers who could be taking on the bosses. How things play out will depend on you
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Very cool to have A Line Held Tight in the Nonbinary Coded Games event! As well as having two nonbinary developers A Line Held Tight also has two nonbinary characters: The Hare and our player character, The Canary. You can play the demo now! #NonbinaryCodedGames
kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE!@npckc.net · 3w ago💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames
💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames
Thanks so much to everyone who played A Line Held Tight this weekend! And thank you to @glasgowindiegamesfest.org for having us! What a wonderful festival, and what a wonderful time we had x
The Steam Sale ends 8am Monday (that’s tomorrow!!!) so if you’ve had your eye on anything, now is the time to wishlist or buy! Let’s support these incredible devs <3 Sale 🔗: store.steampowered.com/curator/4607...
Glasgow Indie Games Festival 2026
Held in Glasgow, Scotland - We pride ourselves in showing the most interesting, the most moving and the most unconventional games from Scotland and around the world!
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Glasgow Independent Games Festival@glasgowindiegamesfest.org · 4w agoThe GIGF Steam Sale 👾 Celebrate the talent behind this year's festival by buying or adding games to your wishlist, it helps support indie creators 🤝 The sale runs from now until 8am Monday, so don't miss out! ⏰ Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/curator/4607... #GIGF26 #indiegames
Just played a demo for the best mech game I've played in ages, a game I think everyone will be talking about when it comes out, A Line Held Tight by @humblegrove.bsky.social
"This interactive fiction exists in a tradition of games like Slay the Princess, If Found and even Dordogne to some extent." @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social plays the demo for the visual novel A Line Held Tight:
Canary in the Charcoal Mine: Early Impressions of A Line Held Tight - Unwinnable
There’s an aesthetic emphasis on hand-wrought analog work.
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Thank you to Cel and @humblegrove.bsky.social for letting me write early impressions of this game! A Line Held Tight is the kind of game we need more of right now and moving forward.
Unwinnable@unwinnable.com · 4w ago"This interactive fiction exists in a tradition of games like Slay the Princess, If Found and even Dordogne to some extent." @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social plays the demo for the visual novel A Line Held Tight:
Don't forget, we'll be at Glasgow Indie Games Fest this weekend with A Line Held Tight. Make sure you come and say hi!
Have you met all of the characters in A Line Held Tight's demo? store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
Have you met all of the characters in A Line Held Tight's demo? store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
I did early impressions of @humblegrove.bsky.social's "A Line Held Tight"!
Unwinnable@unwinnable.com · last mo.Don't leave your pies unsupervised during this season of the vulture. Feast your eyes on Unwinnable Monthly Issue 200, featuring @gottsdamn.bsky.social on Okami and our usual cabal of contributors. Buy: buff.ly/jlKvwGN Subscribe: buff.ly/wd5q5n6
if you haven't yet, please buy poppy and my latest game, HUNGERWINTER. its a game about starving to death which we are both currently doing. support us here: das-kunstkollektiv.itch.io/hungerwinter
HUNGERWINTER by Das Kunstkollektiv, Mia Cain, Digital Poppy
The hunger. The hunger...
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📖 A Line Held Tight is a branching visual novel. 🛠 Far from earth, your only weapons are your work mechs, your only support your fellow miners. When tensions boil over, will you take a stand? 💫 Demo avaliable now: store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
Perfect appetite-whetter of a demo. Play this and you'll immediately want to check out the full game
hmblgrv@humblegrove.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe demo for A Line Held Tight has been out for a few days! Have you played it? What did you think? If you’ve not yet, why not give it a play now? :o) store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
“A Line Held Tight” by @humblegrove.bsky.social is a charcoal-art sci-fi visual novel about labour mechs and miners' strikes, wrapped in an evocative folk soundtrack ⛏️ Your choices will have outcomes small, large, and unpredictable. Will you choose to make a stand at GIGF26? 🪨 #GIGF26 #indiegames
The demo for A Line Held Tight has been out for a few days! Have you played it? What did you think? If you’ve not yet, why not give it a play now? :o) store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
it all started with the thought: “what would it look like if Arthur Miller wrote a Gundam?” in case you missed it here's my viddy on why we're making A Line Held Tight, and how
hmblgrv@humblegrove.bsky.social · 3mo agoA Line Held Tight is a game about miners strike, capitalism and labour mechs. You can learn more about how and why were making it in our latest video or free Patreon post 📖 Read: www.patreon.com/posts/introd... 📼 Watch: youtu.be/l7-dNVSrot8
📣 A Line Held Tight s'offre un nouveau trailer et une démo sur Steam. 📝 Des tensions politiques et personnelles s'élèvent au sein de la colonie minière de Brightworld. Vous devrez choisir vers qui vont votre cœur et votre loyauté pour bâtir l'avenir et vous sauver. ⬇️ Liens
My pals are making something really rather special here, please do give it a look.
hmblgrv@humblegrove.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe've just launched the demo for A Line Held Tight!!! ⛏️ Get to know some of the characters, pilot your rig, get caught in a skirmish.🔧 Play it NOW on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
Take a look at these fresh demos, out now on Steam! 👾 ⛏️ @humblegrove.bsky.social - A Line Held Tight ✝️ @baroquedecay.bsky.social - Catechesis 🎒 @fnifegames.bsky.social - ShelfLife: Art School Detective 📓 @insertdisc5.com - Truth Scrapper
We've just launched the demo for A Line Held Tight!!! ⛏️ Get to know some of the characters, pilot your rig, get caught in a skirmish.🔧 Play it NOW on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...
A Line Held Tight update incoming! make sure to check out the Story-Rich Showcase today that's 6PM BST for the UK peeps
Fellow Traveller@fellowtraveller.games · 2mo agoThe Story-Rich Showcase premieres TOMORROW 📚 Watch our first-ever showcase, featuring outstanding narrative-driven games from some of the best developers across the world 🌎 Tune in tomorrow at 10AM Pacific! 🔴 youtu.be/dRVeYxwjuiI?... 🟣 twitch.tv/fellowtravellergames ⚫ bit.ly/FellowTravel...
It's the @fellowtraveller.games #storyrichshowcase tomorrow! Make sure you tune in (and say some nice things in chat too!) 10am PST / 6pm BST 📺 twitch.tv/fellowtravellergames 📺 youtube.com/@FellowTraveller
The exciting news keeps on coming: A Line Held Tight will be part of Fellow Traveller's #storyrichshowcase on June the 6th! We'll be in great company with a load of proper awesome narrative-focused games. Come and check it out on the @fellowtraveller.games Youtube or Twitch channels at 6pm BST.
Wooohoo here's some fun news: We'll be showing A Line Held Tight at Glasgow Indie Games Fest in July!! glasgowindiegamesfest.org/games/a-line...
A Line Held Tight | Glasgow Indie Games Fest
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thank you to everyone who submitted games to our nonbinary coded games event!! we now have a form for streamers & press who want to play/review games & be notified when the event goes live. if that's you, fill out the form here! 👇 forms.gle/4wx8bLegx9YT...
Nonbinary Coded Games - Streamer & Press Form
This form is for streamers & press who are interested in the Nonbinary Coded Games Steam event being run by nomnomnami & npckc that will take place from July 13 to July 20. The event showcases games ...
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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE!@npckc.net · 3mo ago📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!
You really should check out this showcase, we guarantee there'll be loads of very cool games in it!
Fellow Traveller@fellowtraveller.games · 3mo agoBehind every story-rich game is a team that cares deeply about what they’re making. The Story-Rich Showcase puts those developers front and center, because the people behind the stories matter too ❤️ 📋 storyrich.games
