#game dev update

The Hungry Horrors free demo is out now on Steam!

It’s our first ever Steam release – and we’re nervous, excited, and very sleep-deprived.

We’d love for you to check it out.

Hungry Horrors is a pixel art roguelite deckbuilder where you feed legendary monsters from British and Irish folklore instead of fighting them. Build your deck with traditional dishes like Yorkshire Pudding, Boxty, and Bara Brith. Each card is a meal, and every monster has their own taste.

Get it right? They let you pass.

Get it wrong? You become the next meal.

If you’re into:

• roguelites with actual strategy

• folklore, fairytales, and mythological creatures

• games like Slay the Spire or Hades

• cooking mechanics that aren’t just minigames

• grim but whimsical pixel art

…then you might just enjoy this.

The demo includes:

• 2 full biomes

• 6 unique monsters and 2 bosses

• over 20 traditional dishes

• deckbuilding, buffs, and branching paths

• and a really grumpy Buggane that hates potatoes

We’ve made everything in Godot, drawn every pixel in Aseprite, and poured our hearts (and stress) into getting this playable on Steam – including Mac, Linux, and Steam Deck.

If you give it a try, let us know what you think! Reviews help us so much with visibility right now, especially as a 2-person team self-funding everything.

Thanks for being part of this weird little cooking horror journey.

Lil Man update.

Testing fog and stuff for lvl 2.

I FUCKING LOVE HEATHERS i recently watched the musical and i cannot listen. to any song that isn't Candystore, dead girl walking, beautiful or big fun.

I'll be real with you guys. Progress has been a bit slow, as I'm still writing The Beast's route. Initially with this update I was gonna touch on some mildly depressing stuff like not having as much time to write HB as I did for BCB, being more critical of my work and questioning things more than I did before, etc. etc. but who wants to hear all that? Instead, I'm going to use this update to CELEBRATE the milestones we met in 2025 and as usual, give you fun little sneak peeks.

Here's everything we accomplished in 2025!

Yes that feels WAY better than lamenting over other things. POSITIVITY.

This year, I plan to finish The Beast's route, hopefully within this quarter or the next. Alex has been laying the groundwork for future routes and is planning to get started on the soundtrack this year. We're aiming to be a bit more disciplined in 2026 and will be blocking off Sunday mornings for more collaboration.

Only once the writing is done do we plan to start commissioning art, starting with the backgrounds. Once we have all the assets, I'm hopeful that we will program the demo quickly since there won't be as much of a learning curve this time!

Now for the fun stuff. Today, I'm pulling a little excerpt from the common route. It's from the first battle scene where you face off with the four handsome heroes on a cruise ship!

I can't wait for the day this scene finally comes to life!

As for today's song, I'm going to pull from Heartbreaker's playlist. I have a LOT of good songs on her playlist...it was a tough choice, but I'm going to go with...How to Be a Heartbreaker by Marina and the Diamonds, because her name is right in the title!

Finally, I leave you with this doodle I did of The Beast in his cat form, scared of a cucumber:

try our fun lil arcade game we made for a game jam... can you beat our score?

Hi everyone! Hope you've all been having a wonderful September! 

This month, CT:OS passed the 5,000 Tumblr supporter mark! I'm so honored and grateful for you guys's support. It has been such a wonderful journey so far and I cannot emphasize enough how much you all mean to me.