Fellow Traveller hosted their inaugural Story-Rich Showcase yesterday in conjunction with Summer Game Fest 2026, offering a home for narrative-focused fans and developers alike.
The 45-minute event, hosted on the Fellow Traveller YouTube and Twitch channels, starred 26 different games including murder mysteries, cozy adventures, and rich RPGs, all with an appreciation for story.
Here’s every announcement from the Story-Rich Showcase, in one place!
A Line Held Tight
The Canary is a character in the middle of a maelstrom. Tensions are rising on the mining colony where they work, separated from the rest of society by a vast expanse of space. Step into A Line Held Tight in this newly released demo. Meet your fellow miners, form relationships, battle, and most importantly, make a choice; will you take a stand?
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Am I Nima
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must combine words together in your brain and convince your mom that you are her daughter. The game announced its release date on Steam this October 8, 2026.
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Ambrosia Sky: Act Two
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 6, 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.
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Apple Crumble
Apple Crumble is a fully-voiced interactive mystery thriller inspired by the likes of MOUTHWASHING and Knives Out. It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday and nobody is trying to murder her. Stop suspecting your family members, and don’t worry about the strange man in your bedroom. How about some pudding?
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Building Relationships
Tan Ant Games is pleased to announce that their silly dating adventure game, Building Relationships will be launching on PlayStation and Xbox later this year. Play as a building as you roll, jump, and wave-dash across a cozy 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.)
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Burn-9
14 Hours Productions reveals Burn-9, 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.
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Catechesis
Catechesis, from the creators of Yuppie Psycho, debuts 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.
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Citizen Sleeper comes to Nintendo Switch 2
Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector are coming to Nintendo Switch 2. 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.
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Danchi Days
Bring your hometown back together in a story-driven slice-of-life adventure set in 2000s Japan. Reconnect with neighbors, surf the web and play minigames in a comedic-yet-bittersweet tale about a girl and her grandma living with Alzheimer’s. Danchi Days is planned to release in October 2026 for PC and Mac on Steam.
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Demonschool gets DLC and Nintendo Switch 2 release
Demonschool, the RPG with tactical battles, is getting DLC 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.
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Desktop Explorer
Desktop Explorer revealed their first on-camera segment with 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.
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Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill
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, in a Knives Out meets The Devil Wears Prada narrative. Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill is set to release on Steam in 2027.
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Duppy Detective Tashia
Help Tashia crack the case and (more importantly) find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore. Duppy Detective Tashia is set to release on June 8, 2026.
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Grave Seasons
In this new peek behind the curtain, Perfect Garbage shares a discussion with their Narrative Team about the design and writing approach for 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 cozy and horror through a narrative-forward design.
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Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch)
RENT MONEY IS DEAD MONEY and your landlord is expecting payment IN FULL. Puzzle your way out of a maze of DEPRAVED magical appliances and the UNHINGED diaries of a DEBAUCHED faded television celebrity. Set in a crumbling Sydney terrace the Fuzzy Ghost boys rented for many years – JDM is an escape room, comedy-horror with a classic survival-horror, set camera.
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Lost in the Roots
The devs at Trioskaz are getting ready to release Lost in the Roots very soon. The events take place in the same world as No, I’m not a Human. In Lost in the Roots, we’ll also get to know a character named Jakob way better, along with his complicated relationship with a girl named Trisha. The game’s characters will also be fully voiced!
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Penguin Colony
Penguin Colony is the second game from ORIGAME DIGITAL, the developers of the acclaimed Umurangi Generation. Part adaptation, part reimagination, it expands upon H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos through a new weird-fiction story inspired by At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time.
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Servant of the Lake
Servant of the Lake is Rusty Lake’s most ambitious premium point-and-click adventure in years. The game welcomes players to the Vanderboom house, home to the infamous Vanderboom family. 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!
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SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment)
Rocket Adrift Games is pleased to announce their newest game SHE (Seraphim Helix Experiment) is coming soon to Steam. This Metal Gear-inspired survival horror game takes a modernized approach to the genre, blending tactical action with limited resources to bring a new dimension of horror.
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
Set in the year 201X at Cruston Beaux-Arts Academy (in the fictional New Zealand town of Cruston) 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.
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The Hearth and Harbour
Saltstone Studios goes deeper into the development of their adventure management game, The Hearth & Harbour. 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.
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The Mermaid Mask
Building on the acclaimed formula of the cult Detective Grimoire series, The Mermaid Mask is set aboard a strange submarine off the coast of the abandoned fishing town of Silkwirm-on-Sea, the game follows Detective Grimoire and his sharp-tongued sidekick Sally as they investigate the impossible locked-room murder of the enigmatic Captain Mortuga.
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The Telwynium
The Telwynium began as a series of free instalments, leaning heavily on our nostalgia for cheesy fantasy novels and early point ‘n clicks. It has been brought together on Steam in its final form, as a single epic adventure! Your home, the village of Willows Dene, burns at the hands of the shadowfell. Only the power of the Autumn-Aldor Dwinn stopped it from being overrun completely.
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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 is releasing on Steam in Fall 2026.
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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.
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Wicked Delights
The team behind Beacon Pines is working on a rhythm horror game! It’s the early 2010’s. 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.
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Watch the full Story-Rich Showcase here:
