Cleaned up my desk from the recent madness that was playing Occlude

This weekend we'll be playing Amberspire, by @nictringali.bsky.social, with a touch of @hollynielsen.bsky.social for good measure. It's a dice rolling city builder with mad world-building and factional politics. And we think you'd absolute love it: store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

A couple of hours in Occlude, and what a game idea. A solitaire spin-off, where the rules of the game are hidden, to be discovered by the player each time. Occultism, conspiracies, hidden secrets, narrative weaving itself with the medium and the way we play games. Great great great so far.

New video! Solitaire is…well, it’s solitaire. But puzzle makers like @coincidence.games, @hempuli.bsky.social, and @tributarygames.bsky.social keep returning to it. Why does this weird, old game keep inspiring so much creativity?

@tributarygames.bsky.social I have acquired a fashionable pet! I wonder if I can start a new trend? King of the Castle jokes aside, this is the crab hat I made and wore to the local crab festival. I was going to add more jewels, but I ran out of time.

Last year, I had the dark and haunted pleasure of making the soundtrack for Occlude by @tributarygames.bsky.social. If you would like to use it to soundtrack your next occult ritual, you can now listen to it via this bandcamp link: vortiganking.bandcamp.com/album/occlud... Use it responsibly.

Need something to listen to while altering the fabric of reality with occult rituals? Well, good news! The Occlude soundtrack composed by the wonderful and incredibly talented @edsibley.bsky.social is now available on Bandcamp. Go download it now! vortiganking.bandcamp.com/album/occlud...

The War Of The Kings, a special KOTC event, is running at 1PM EST with four fantastic streamers. Who will you join? The proud Counts: twitch.tv/thriftytokens The zealous Grandees: twitch.tv/2slow2serioustv The strong Chiefs: twitch.tv/biowolf42 The dastardly King: twitch.tv/mrkaji

We’ve just hit 300+ Reviews for Occlude and dropped the tenth and final lore drop on the Discord. Want to read all ten? Mosey on over to the Tributary games server here: discord.gg/GcKK6AMdmX

First day back to work! And we've noticed an issue - Copies of Occlude sold on itch.io still have Steam DRM turned out. Apologies! We're resolving this right now, bear with...

A very Happy Winterfeast to you all! We hope you’re drinking with chiefs and puzzling with entities today. Both our games are in the winter sale - you can get them both for 53% off. Treat yourselves this festive season: store.steampowered.com/bundle/56371...

Fun fact, this building is weirdly important to the @tributarygames.bsky.social lore. Me and @spartridge.bsky.social basically learned to code in the Cruciform building.

Thanks to Steam Replay, you really can guess what we've been playing a lot of this year...

Since I was playing it earlier today, just a reminder that King of the Castle by @tributarygames.bsky.social is theeee best "party with friends" video game I know AND it is on a very big sale right now

Fun, top secret King of the Castle fact - We tried parallax backgrounds for the events before abandoning them. Meeting someone who works on Total War reminded me of this experiment.

Bizarrely, I just came across the animation reference video for coins flipping in Occlude. I say “video” because there’s an entire folder of these. The things you do for games

It Takes a War is OUT NOW 📶 @freeze.ltd has crafted a tactical team shooter (!?) with depth, gravity & more memorable moments than you can shake an AK47 at ICYMI, we have 5 keys to celebrate! Follow & share; we’ll pick 5 random winners on Monday store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/... #indiegames

Happy Guy Fawkes Night to those of us in the UK. We hope all your Barons roll gunpowder schemes and proceed to blow you up.

Happy Halloween! Why not pick up KOTC at a terrifying 66% off and sitting horrifyingly at 98% positive recent reviews? Or try out Occlude, our spookier Solitaire game, at 20% and a creepy 92% positive recent reviews? Or.. get both? Trick or treat yourself: store.steampowered.com/bundle/56371...

Steam Scream Fest has begun! And with it, Occlude is 20% off. It's a game with immaculate vibes - one reviewer said it's like "getting a coffee enema in a bookshop" So if you're into... that, and also want to try our free update with 24 new puzzles, go here: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...

It's Steam Scream Fest IV and we've got 20% off Occlude (which includes 24 new puzzles as part of our free Cardinals Update) to celebrate. Go get it tiger x store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...

We’ve bashed out two high speed hotfixes to our Cardinals update today - so now’s the perfect time to jump in. And with more than 4 times the content than launch? You can’t say we’re not generous with our cursed offerings. Go check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...

Our massive update to Occlude in the Cardinals is here! We've added 24 new puzzles to the game from 7 at launch, new Achievements, quality of life updates and plenty more. Oh, and did we mention it's totally free? Read more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354... #indiegames

We've just released our penultimate lore drop for Occlude on the Discord! This one talks about the difference between Obscurants and Magicians, and how the Castle uses them to suppress information. Curious? Hope over to the lore-drops channel to read it in full: discord.gg/v9yX3up39g

There's a really good curation of 2025 games up on the Ars Festival page on Steam right now. Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!

The reaction to the bugfix in King of the Castle has been genuinely overwhelming. The last time we got this many positive reviews was ten months ago - madness! We're releasing a lore drop on Arald the Great as a thank you in our Discord. Much love to you all.

We're pleased to say that we have both patched a security issue in Unity and fixed a bug where a small number of players had their saves corrupted. What's even better is, the patch should fix existing broken saves as if by magic! Read all about it here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/183...

We're nearly ready to push out a fix for King of the Castle to resolve the save bug some players have hit. Thank you all for your patience! In the meantime, we're also working on the Cardinals update to Occlude. We're adding 255% more puzzles to the game... It's been a nice chill September for us

Oh you lot really liked that sale. So let’s do another, shall we? King of the Castle is back on sale, this time it’s the superb Political Sim Fest where it’s a princely 50% off! Go check out the full fest here, there’s some cracking games included: store.steampowered.com/category/pol...

Occlude is in the Hungry Ghosts sale! You can save 15% on the base game and the Eschaton Edition right now. Go snap it up, pretty please. store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...

Our new puzzles for the Cardinals update will be even more difficult, just to cause you personally pain and sorrow. It's what we do best. If you haven't picked up a copy of Occlude yet, what are you waiting for? The end of the world? If so, even more reason to get it... bsky.app/profile/greg...

We're extremely pleased to announce the first update to King of the Castle since September 2023 is now out. Say hello to King of the Castle v1.3 "Morgrim"! This fixes the issues with Twitch Mode and resolves a ton of bugs. Go read the full patch notes here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/183...

We’ve identified the issue with King of the Castle Twitch Mode and will be pushing a fix on Wednesday 27th. It’s a little wait I know (sorry), so as a sweetener we’re also making over 100 fixes to the game! Much love and thanks to Morgrim and our community for help with tracking these down.

We're aware of some issues with King of the Castle Twitch games that started over the weekend. Please bear with us while we resolve this! Party Games are unaffected and will be working fine.

Occlude (pantaloon_io) "Occlude is an occult game of solitaire stuffed with secrets. Piece together the rules even as they resist your attempts to decipher them." Paid - Windows: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/o...

We (finally) have Steam Trading Card for Occlude! We've also got emoticons and profile backgrounds too. Good luck collecting them all! Or turning them into gems. Or printing them out and eating them, one by one, under a dank, wet bridge in Prague at midnight. Whatever you like.

We've just updated Occlude to 1.0.3 - and for those on Steam only, gone into a bit more update about our upcoming Cardinals update. Read more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...

We're extremely happy to announce that we're adding more content to Occlude! This will be a free update that will add over 20 'Cardinals', brand new puzzles based on existing Rituals, along with a reward for completing them all. More info soon - Thanks for your love & support, it's been amazing.

How many of the Found Objects have you found in Occlude? And have any of you noticed that the Found Object on the Steam page is redacted, compared to the one in the game?

We've been hard at work on another small update, along with getting our Steam Trading Cards/Badges approved and a bigger, more secret thing. We'll hopefully have some more exciting news for you all next week! In the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful weekend full of regrets and reshuffles.

[AD/gifted] We're checking out the cultist card game #Occlude before more SHODAN antics in System Shock 2 - thank you @pantaloon.io @tributarygames.bsky.social for providing code for cards :D twitch.tv/lomadiah youtube.com/live/xE5DFE_...

Le premier Summer Special des Jambes en Coton est disponible ! youtu.be/Vj4wK67oJh8 Merci encore aux viewereuses pour leur présence avec nous ce soir <3 Le reblousque est toujours apprécié !

There's nothing like the Punched Card for making you sound like you've lost your marbles. It's either that or @mrkaji.bsky.social has just forgotten how to count. Pretty fifty fifty on what's more likely.

TONIGHT, at 6.30pm ET, @katbamkapow.bsky.social and I will be returning to @tributarygames.bsky.social's legendary KING OF THE CASTLE, a large scale multiplayer game played live with the twitch chat - twitch.tv/katbamkapow

We’re on an absolutely crazy 89% Positive on Steam. Considering puzzle games tend to get lower average reviews we absolutely did not expect this. If you’d like to help us get to 90%, well, we’re not going to stop you: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...

So we release a game about playing spooky Solitaire in the rain during a historic heatwave in our country And the heatwave immediately breaks into torrential rain? Cool. Cool cool cool

We've updated Occlude to 1.0.2! This fixes a number of images, the game rules section and improves Steam Deck/controller support. And a reminder - Occlude is coming off introductory sale (very soon) so get yourself a copy at a discounted price sharpish! store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...

Figure out each Ritual's secret rules hidden within games of solitaire in Occlude! thinkygames.com/game...

Here's what Occlude looked like when we first started working on it, roughly five months ago. Thanks to a lot of hard work, extremely talented people and some great tech, it's a hell of a lot more impressive now. Go see for yourself: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/... #gamedev

What did you do on your weekend? Play Occlude? That's cool. We hope you didn't lose your mind or anything. Oh, us? Not much. Just rolled out the first update for Occlude. Yeah, no biggie. Just a few tweaks. Want to read about it? Sure, one sec... Here you go: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...