Did you know Over the Alps is translated into 15 languages? These include: 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇹🇼 Chinese (TW) 🇨🇳 Chinese (CN) 🇷🇺 Russian 🇪🇬 🇮🇶 🇩🇿 🇸🇩 🇲🇦 🇸🇦 Arabic 🇨🇦 French (Quebec (yes, really)) With over 100k words in each! Play, jouer, 玩 or يلعب today: store.steampowered.com/app/1227400/...

Some screenshots from Over the Alps. Which Swiss holiday location suits you best?

We've been blown away by the response to Over the Alps! People are loving the new update on Steam and the free final chapter on itch is humming along nicely. If you haven't had the chance to pick it up it's on offer. Sit down this weekend with a good story about spies and Switzerland.

Wayyy back in 2020, in the midst of the lockdown, I had great fun writing this final chapter of Over the Alps which sadly never saw the light of day. Until today! Do check it out, especially if you liked Over the Alps - it’s free, a suitably poignant finale that ties the two stories together.

Six years ago a Choices Matter game called Over the Alps released. Stave was formed to make it, it became an Apple Arcade launch title, and it won a few awards. Part of that team went on to Tributary, and when Stave closed we couldn't just let it vanish. So... Re-introducing, OVER THE ALPS! 🧵

yeah no, this is a bad idea, don't do this

Remy (www.twitch.tv/pr1nc3_r3my) has made Prince Glorb on Tomodachi Life and it is most wonderful, beautiful thing ever. Behold HIM

Here's some pitches for our next game: - Spooky minesweeper - KOTC first person shooter spin-off - Instead of Twitch, make a game for Quibi. Remember Quibi? Everyone loved Quibi. - Baldur's Gate IV Drop your own great idea below

King of the Castle is in the Team17 Publisher Sale! We are a whopping 66% off, which is… well, whatever 66% off the usual price is in your country. Which is pretty cheap! Go check it out:

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Big shout out to the 2.2% of players who got the "Go West" achievement in Occlude and the 0.4% of players with "Making Notes" in King of the Castle. My question is - Does anyone have both?

HRH Elizabeth II dying on our original launch day says what

I have a printed copy of this review and keep it under my pillow

Have you checked out Boxroom yet? It's a digital space for all your Steam games and it's extremely cool. It's also got a few sneaky Occlude references in there... Give it a wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

Maffman22 has been creating a family tree of his King of the Castle monarchs. It looks very normal and not complicated at all. Why not give him a sub at www.twitch.tv/maffman22, or join in the game to add yourself to the madness?

You have 48 hours left to get the Build Shuffle Battle Humble Bundle, which Occlude is in! If you're short on pennies, we can recommend the cheapest tier which includes the fantastic Knights In Tight Spaces and three other titles. www.humblebundle.com/games/build-shuffle-battle

There's a hotfix up for Occlude 🔥 2.0.3 is out now 🔥 This includes fixes for some issues with the tutorial and the RNG system And if you want to know how Occlude shuffles cards our own @owennewburn.bsky.social has written a post all about the RNG in the game. steamcommunity.com/games/354701...

We're going live with King of the Castle in just about an hour. This is a reminder post that if you would like to see yourself with a personalized avatar, be sure to pick up the game and make one now. You need not buy the game to join, though! Purchasing just lets you control what you look like!

One continuous game of King of the Castle has been at NärCon in Linköping, Sweden, for the past 3 years! It's at the biggest nerd and pop culture con in northern Europe - and it's on again later this year, 23-26 July, with KOTC games played in person every day! Check it out: en.narcon.se

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...