The year is 1939, and the Nazis and Kaitiaki are making their way into the deep Antarctic to answer the call of an impossibly ancient being. One group seeks to extract this inconceivable power for its own destructive means. The other, as it has been doing for generations, hopes to return it to its slumber for another hundred years.

A faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft through the eyes of a penguin. Developed by Origame Digital, creators of Umurangi Generation, published by Fellow Traveller (1000xRESIST), and narrated by Lenval Brown.

(that would be the narrator of disco elysium, by the way).

hopefully i don't have to pitch it more than this - you have played umurangi generation, right? the game that won awards for "best narrative", despite not having a single spoken word of dialogue?

do you like h.p. lovecraft adaptations? how about ones that reckon with the fact he was a racist shithead? what about john carpenter's the thing? what about games where you get to be a cute little penguin running around the antarctic and nothing bad happens ever?

penguin colony has a demo, and it's short (i think it took us about an hour, but you can explore or not explore to your hearts content).

please. please give it a shot. you have no fucking idea how excited i am for this game (if you played umurangi, especially it's DLC, then you can understand why). don't even watch the trailers, seriously - just check out the demo first.

And how like a week before that, a refugee ship sank off the coast of Greece, whose officials knew this was happening and had ships within reach, but intentionally did nothing.

And how there was like the most expansive manhunt in recent history to find a suspect in the UHC shooting. In a city known for its unsolved crimes. How Briana Boston was arrested for a vaguely perceived threat to a CEO she wasn't even speaking to nor mentioned, while internet stalkers are never addressed unless they hurt someone, and then it's a maybe

And just how there is always money to perform for the rich, even when they can't actually be helped. And there is never money to help the poor, no matter how easy they would be to save.

$6/$165

thank you all so much, every dollar is a weight lifted from our mind. please keep this circulating and if you are able to donate please do. your support through this health ordeal means the world.

And it pissed me off that they censored it so I put it all back