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Tales From OffPeak City Vol 1

 
The RPS Game Club pick for April is Betrayal At Club LowApr 5, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunA new month means it's time for the RPS Game Club to pick its next game, and I thought, you know what, let's do Betrayal At Club Low, the surreal nightclub RPG from Cosmo D Studios. Not only did we give it a Bestest Best when it came out in September last year, but just last month it was freshly annointed as the IGF Grand Prize winner, making it an excellent time to revisit this latest slice of Off-Peak City madness. Read more Betrayal At Club Low - DEMO AvailableJun 13, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHello! Today I'm pleased to announce that you can play a Demo of my next game, Betrayal At Club Low, right here and now on its Steam Store page. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885750/Betrayal_At_Club_Low/ Betrayal At Club Low is a departure in gameplay from my previous titles. It primarily draws inspiration from modern tabletop RPGs. And in this game, your stats are all represented by dice, all customizable, all determining the various decisions and outcomes you'll make on your perilous mission into a dangerous nightclub. This, combined with the exploration, dialog and the surreal vibe rooted in my previous games, gives players a sense that I'm looking at an established world through a new lens. The full game will be out later this year, but in the meantime, try the demo and let me know what you think!The next weird journey into Off-Peak City is an RPGMar 16, 2022 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunCosmo D will this summer invite us back to his weird and wonderful world of Off-Peak City for another strange caper. With Betrayal At Club Low, the surreal adventure game series will grow into a bit of a mini-RPG, complete with stats and dice—including a Pizza Dice. This time we're an undercover agent trying to rescue a fellow operative from a nightclub in a former coffin factory, and oh I'm excited for more of Cosmo D's strange sights and excellent music. Read more Our favourite games of 2020Jan 19, 2021 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun What’s up gamers? It’s 2021 and that means it’s time to round up the team’s favourite games of 2020. You’ll already know our selections if you read our annual Advent Calendar, but this post gathers all those words and games together in one convenient package. (more…) Hotfix - "Calzone"Dec 21, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone. This fix addresses an issue that had come up recently due to Steam changing the way they handle cloud saves. The issue: If you took a picture with your camera, it would get stuck in picture-taking mode and soft-lock the game. I patched that up, so your picture taking should be good to go. That said, if you do find a bug, email me at support-at-cosmod.net or post it on the community forums or @cosmoddd on my Discord server. Cheers! -Cosmo Dv1.1 Content Update is LiveJul 20, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone, I’m pleased to announce that Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 has received a substantial content update. This content includes: A new pizza delivery, which takes you into an as-yet unexplored apartment literally dripping with atmosphere. All the moody lighting, absorbing sound design, and environmental detail are here and in full effect. New characters introduced - key players in the world of Off-Peak City. Their roles fold seamlessly into the wider narrative tapestry of the game, and point towards where we’ll be heading in Volume 2. Two new photo filters, giving budding photographers further visual options to explore their photography skills in the world (and display them in Caetano’s pizza joint!) Two additional music tracks, one for pizza making and one soundtracking your latest pizza delivery. An enhanced finale encompasses the new content, offering new surprises for players already familiar with the game’s ending. This content is free for all current and future owners of Tales From Off-Peak City. How do I access this new content? The content appears as a new delivery on your computer screen. To access it, pick up the eyeball on the table in Caetano’s upstairs apartment testing area. What if I’ve already beaten the game? You can replay the game to access the content (it is not optional), or you can download these savegame files which bring you directly to the point where you’d access the new content. Saves here. Note: In order for these savegame files to work, disable Steam Cloud for this game, or it will overwrite these files. What if something is not working? I’ve re-balanced some of the prices of items in the game to account for the new delivery. They’ve been tested to work, but in case you run into any trouble, email me with your saves at [email protected]. These saves are located at: I hope you enjoy playing this new content as I did making it! Our 15 favourite PC games of 2020 so farJul 16, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Halloo, gentle reader. Since we’re half way through the entire year of 2020 (yet somehow it is also still March?), we decided to run down, lasso and tie up some of our favourite games from the last six months, and force them into a nice list for you. 2020 still has plenty of new PC games to come, of course, but these are the ones closest to our little hearts so far. We’ve got strategy, we’ve got card games, we’ve got systematic reclamation of scraped spaceships. And, since Nate Crowley is one of the contributors to this list, we’ve got fish. Statistically speaking, there’s bound to be at least one game on here that you’ll ruddy bloody love too! (more…) Hotfix - "Cinnamon Toast"May 17, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone. Thanks for the amazing support and response for Tales From Off-Peak City thus far. This fix restores a collision in the stairwell behind the overturned mail-truck. In the release build you could clip through it. Now you can climb the stairs, like everywhere else. I want to give a shout-out to rigorous beta-testing by the community ahead of launch. Compared to Norwood's release, there's been a lot less here to 'fix,' by and large. That said, if you do find a bug, email me at support-at-cosmod.net or post it on the community forums or @me on my Discord server. And if you find something that broke that wasn't broken before, you can roll back to the previous build here: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36008681/95027c7ad24193e82d23767507c5735a97364fe6.jpg Cheers! -Cosmo DTales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 is OUT NOW on Steam.May 15, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHere it is, folks. My latest game in the Off-Peak odyssey. Dive in! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129920/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1/ And the standalone soundtrack is available, too! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1288050/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1_Soundtrack/ On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate? Thank you to all the fans who have been enjoying my work all this time. Hope you enjoy the new one!Surreal adventure game Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 is out nowMay 15, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunYou can get yer mitts on this wacko adventure game Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 now that it’s fully released on PC. It was a Humble Choice subscriber exclusive previously when RPS review slinger Nate took a crack at it. Fortunate for me, as I’m not sure I could explain the surrealist jazz romp without his assistance. It’s out on Itch and Steam now, so you can snap it up if it’s your brand of odd. (more…) Tales From Off-Peak City's eccentric first volume hits Steam and Itch next monthApr 18, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Cosmo D’s Tales From Off-Peak City Volume 1 might as well be a dream. None of the lines make sense, voices are disembodied and audible only as music, with a general sense of being neither somewhere nor elsewhere. The pizza toppings look gross. But even if the developer’s world seems pieced together from half-forgotten memories, it’s all quite real and – as a new trailer this week attests – available to buy come May 17th. (more…) Wot I Think: Tales From Off-Peak City Volume 1Feb 11, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Developer: Cosmo D Publisher: Cosmo D Release: Out now On: Windows From: Humble Choice Price: Available for all Humble Choice subscribers. Coming to other platforms in Spring. So, let s be real up front: I was dreading playing Tales From Off-Peak City Volume 1.. For whatever reason, my brain has barely any appetite for unlocking locked doors, solving mysteries, unravelling conspiracies or piecing together intricately implied backstories. A lot of adventure games just ain t for me, because I m a brute and a philistine. Added to that, I ve got an abiding fear of being outed as intellectually inferior, and nothing makes that anxiety tingle like high-brow stories about music, a subject that makes me feel like a complete, trudging dunce. And here was this first-person point and click game, set in an intellectually formidable surrealist landscape, about stealing a famous jazzman s saxophone and getting sucked into a shadowy world where all was not as it seemed. Our Adam Smith described Off-Peak s predecessor, The Norwood Suite, as being about discovering the secrets behind a hotel, but really being about learning about music and the creative process . I knew I was going to hate it, not because it was going to be bad, but because it was going to expose me for the idiot I was. And if you can t already tell by how heavily I ve set this up, I ended up loving it. (more…) Take me down to Off-Peak City, where the canal is clean and the pizza's pithyOct 14, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Yes, the next game from Cosmo D looks just as surreal and musical as Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite. Today he formally announced the first volume of Tales From Off-Peak City, a series of stories set on the same city block in his wonderful world. I am particularly taken with a city canal apparently being clean enough to swim in. If Cosmo D’s games weren’t already set in the sort of dreamy spaces my mind idly wanders to, that would seal it. That and the pizza. Here, watch the trailer. (more…)

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