Fellow Travellers’ first Story-Rich Showcase has just wrapped up, and what a show. Carrying on their strong reputation for publishing well-made narrative games, the showcase was full of intriguing and creative games, set to give us a range of different story-led games.
The showcase featured creators introducing us to the games, just like in the Wholesome Direct, and was full of reveals, release date announcements and even a sneaky shadow drop. From murder mysteries to management RPGs and from psychological thrillers to relaxed and cosy adventures, the 45-minute event had something for story-loving fans of all kinds.
Here we recap the showcase, with links to their respective trailers and Steam pages. So without further ado let’s dig in!
A Line Held Tight
A Line Held Tight is a dynamic sci-fi visual novel where you work in a miners’ colony. Meet your fellow miners, form relationships, battle, and most importantly, make a choice; will you take a stand?
A demo was revealed during the showcase, which is available to play on Steam right now.
Am I Nima
Am I Nima gained its release date during the show. This is a psychological-horror game where you must combine words together in your brain and convince your mum that you are her daughter.
Am I Nina is releasing on Steam on October 8, 2026.
Ambrosia Sky: Act 2
Also picking up its release date, Ambrosia Sky is a first-person immersive sim about cleaning up after a deadly alien fungi that has killed almost everyone you know.
Releasing on August 6th, Act Two will serve as the climactic and final chapter of Dalia’s journey, delivering the complete conclusion to the story, and will be released as a free update to the base game.
Apple Crumble
Coming from the Duck Detective developers, Apple Crumble is a fully voiced interactive mystery thriller inspired by the likes of MOUTHWASHING and Knives Out.
Apple Crumble is a suspenseful interactive mystery set during your grandma’s 84th birthday party. One of the guests is out to knife your Nan, but the question is – who?
It’s down to you to uncover the truth. Explore your childhood home, reconnect with your dysfunctional family, and work out who you can trust before it’s time for tea in this short, twisty thriller.
Building Relationships
It’s felt like an age since we first saw this revealed, but Building Relationships will be releasing this year on PlayStation and Xbox.
If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you play as a building that can roll, jump, and wave-dash across a cosy island. Meet eligible structures, romance them, and experience a bizarre, yet oddly familiar story… or go fishing instead (though we replaced fish with cars to make more sense).
Burn-9
Announced during the showcase, Burn-9 is a political spy thriller in the tradition of Hideo Kojima and Tom Clancy, but you are not the soldier on the ground.
Instead, you’re the one in the chair, coordinating the mission from afar. It wears its Metal Gear Solid influences clearly on its sleeves, but it still has much originality on show for this to be one of our favourite reveals so far.
Catechesis
Catechesis debuted its demo with a new trailer packed with exclusive gameplay and content.
Explore the city, battle demons, upgrade your weapons, and embark on an unforgettable journey with unique characters and anime-style cutscenes. Embrace the darkness as a demon-possessed altar boy in this horror RPG.
Citizen Sleeper Universe
Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector are coming to Nintendo Switch 2, in which you’ll be able to experience these award-winning titles in 4K.
Both games will be available from June 25th, and existing owners can upgrade to the Switch 2 editions for free. Very excited to see these games running at such high resolutions!
Danchi Days
Danchi Days revealed its launch window of October 2026 for PC and Mac on Steam.
Bring your hometown back together in a story-driven slice-of-life adventure set in 2000s Japan. Reconnect with neighbours, surf the web and play minigames in a comedic-yet-bittersweet tale about a girl and her grandma living with Alzheimer’s.
Demonschool
Necrosoft Games revealed DLC is coming to Demonschool with a focus on puzzle battles.
These are battles in which the player must “solve” a board by clearing it of enemies using the characters given, within one turn. Each puzzle is carefully set up to have one solution.
The game is also coming to Switch 2 with mouse support, improved framerate, and more graphical elements.
Desktop Explorer
A new trailer revealed more on the game, including never-before-seen footage from the game’s second and third chapters and focusing on how gameplay evolves as the game progresses and revealing new narrative details as you learn more about how Desktop Explorer torments the computer’s previous users.
Desktop Explorer is releasing on Steam on July 17, 2026.
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill
Another new game announcement. Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is a text-driven murder mystery set in the cutthroat world of high fashion. The game casts players as an old-school detective investigating the death of a powerful magazine editor; it’s Knives Out meets The Devil Wears Prada.
The game features a striking, high-contrast graphic novel-inspired visual style and a distinctive text-first approach to investigation. Players uncover the truth by discovering hidden clues within the narrative that is written across floors, walls, and evidence.
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is set to release on Steam in 2027.
Duppy Detective Tashia
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
This received its release date of June 8th, 2026!! So it’s literally just round the corner.
(Look out for a review from us in the very near future!)
Grave Seasons
The Perfect Garbage narrative team appeared during the showcase to give a new peek behind the curtains on Grave Seasons.
They talk about choices behind the killers, the victims and the potential romance. Emmett Nahil and Luca Azenaro-Acero break down characters and how they approached blending cosy and horror through a narrative-forward design.
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch)
Gaining its release date and platform announcement, escape room comedy horror Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) is coming in 2026 to PC, Mac, and PlayStation 5.
Inspired by films Beetlejuice and Poltergeist and games like Resident Evil 2 (without the zombies), it’s a ridiculous but horrifyingly relevant story about found family, queer lives, landlord overreach, and television shopping network divas.
Lost in the Roots
A 2D adventure with psychological thriller elements exploring guilt and fear. A young girl wakes in a stranger’s attic, lost in the middle of nowhere. Who took her—and why? With no way out and something lurking in the shadows, escape may be just an illusion.
We learn much more from the game in a new trailer, including a full voice cast!
Penguin Colony
We get a better look at this very original game in a new trailer.
Set in 1939, two years after Lovecraft’s death, the game asks who his protagonists might have been during that era, following a colony of penguins as they observe the horrors uncovered by Nazi scientists searching Antarctica for the architects of mankind.
Players embody one of the local penguins, wandering the frozen landscape, following the humans in their discoveries, and witnessing their minds collapse under the strain.
Servant of the Lake
Welcome to the Vanderboom house, home to the infamous Vanderboom family! Visitors are arriving soon, and you are meant to start your housekeeping duties immediately! Solve the puzzles needed to fulfil your daily tasks, look after the household, welcome the visitor and ensure their comfort while helping the family achieve their alchemical ambitions!
This point-and-click adventure gained its release date of August 13th, 2026.
SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment)
Announced during the showcase, SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment) is a Metal Gear-inspired survival horror game that takes a modernised approach to the genre, blending tactical action with limited resources to bring a new dimension of horror.
SHE will be the fourth commercial release for Toronto-based Rocket Adrift Games and their sophomore instalment in the psychological horror genre, after Psychroma (2024).
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
ShelfLife is a goofy, nostalgic exploration of art school life, queerness, romance and the paranormal. ShelfLife features relationship-building, branching story routes, mixed-media graphics and 2.5D pixel art. The game is currently in development towards a 2027 PC release.
The new 50-minute demo that was debuted gives players a glimpse into ShelfLife‘s ‘Mystery Adventure’ meets ‘Detective Dating Sim’ gameplay.
The Hearth & Harbour
Saltstone Studios goes deeper into the development of their adventure management game, The Hearth & Harbour, in a new demo exclusively revealed during the showcase.
Discover more about how Kit Purcell goes about his day in Lewthport, as well as how to bond with the citizens to forge relationships that will gain their trust and earn you new recipes and gifts.
The Mermaid Mask
Building on the acclaimed formula of the cult Detective Grimoire series, The Mermaid Mask blends puzzle-solving, a crew of fully voice-acted, hand-animated suspects, and trademark light-hearted British humour with stunning environments by Catherine Unger and a cinematic score by Raphael Benjamin Meyer performed by the Budapest Art Orchestra.
It was one of the showcase’s best moments as a release date was revealed, and we don’t have long to wait, as The Mermaid Mask is releasing on July 17th, 2026.
The Telwynium
From the developers of The Drifter, The Telwynium began as a series of free instalments, leaning heavily on our nostalgia for cheesy fantasy novels and early point-and-clicks. It has been brought together on Steam in its final form, as a single epic adventure!
Powerhoof’s fantasy adventure epic is coming soon to Steam. Book One, “Winter’s Dawn”, is available right now on Steam as a free playable demo.
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a tactical narrative game from developer A Sharp and publisher Kitfox Games. Form a team and face the trials of hell in an anthology of Underworld stories with over 200 unique dynamic narrative encounters and hundreds of hand-painted illustrations.
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists received its release window, as it is releasing on Steam in autumn 2026.
Truth Scrapper
Truth Scrapper is a romantic mystery visual novel with a branching story, the next game from insertdisc5, award-winning developer of In Stars and Time. When memories are more precious than gold, what – and who – will you choose to remember as you set out to investigate a series of attacks in a remote town?
A new demo is available now on Steam.
Wicked Delights
Ending on a high, the team behind Beacon Pines is working on a rhythm-horror game!
It’s the early 2010s. Ander and her dad Marcel run a struggling video shop. To make matters worse, characters from an old, re-used VHS tape are breaking out into their world. What unfolds is a frightening supernatural mystery that can only be solved through epic rhythm games.
Anime battles, sitcom coffee shop shenanigans, retro sci-fi adventures, and campy horror gore. Rhythm your way through them all and you might just save the world.
If you would like to watch the full showcase, you can catch it here.
Also, many thanks to Felicia and Jasmine from the PR company for giving us permission to use some wording from the press email in this article.
