Hi friends! What do you think?

Shop Crush is a mysterious shop simulator with psychological horror elements, set in the early 2000s.

In this hybrid visual novel, you run a small thrift shop, get to know your customers, figure out what they really want, and decide what to put in front of them. Every customer has their own personality, preferences, and hidden motives - and it’s up to you to figure them out.

Behind each customer is a small psychological mystery waiting to be uncovered. Read their behavior, make the right calls, and balance profit against customer trust as you try to keep the shop running for one more day.

Just came across this raw, gritty interactive psychological horror book on Amazon and wanted to share it here. It's a choice-driven slasher story with multiple paths and 10 different endings depending on what decisions you make to survive.

If you're looking for a new text-based horror nightmare to dive into, check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHFCXD7K

Hello, I’m a graduate student conducting research on the impact of design on player immersion in video games—my study is “Familiar and Strange: Defamiliarization’s Impact on Immersion in Experiences with Non-Human Player Characters.” I’m looking for a few people to play through short game segments and then take an online survey – it should take about 30 minutes. Participants can also sign up for a brief (15 minutes or so) interview about their experience.

Specifically, I am looking for people 18-49 years old who play games moderately to frequently. Those under 18, 50+ or those who play games infrequently are excluded from this study.

This study has been approved by Ball State University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB-FY2026-317).

If you are interested in participating, please use this link! https://bsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bxSzsAcVPaYl9To

If you have any questions, please reach out to me, June Fields, student Co-PI, at [june.fields@bsu.edu](mailto:june.fields@bsu.edu), or to the PI and Associate Professor at the Ball State School of Journalism and Strategic Communications Joshua Fisher at joshua.fisher@bsu.edu.

Hey everyone! I'm working on a prototype and would love to get people's feedback on what I have so far. It's a cozy murder mystery in the same vein as Nancy Drew and Danganronpa.

Happy Sleuthing!

Game:

The Midnight Muse - Visual Novel by tomwilhelm

password: gumshoe

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Hi! If you have time to kill some feedback on this would be really appreciated!

Genre: Psychological thriller/gothic/drama

Setting: A very loose depiction of Victorian London

Format: Kinetic Novel

Content Warnings: Domestic Violence, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Ambiguous Consent

Brief pitch: In Late Victorian London, a broke barmaid and her con artist friend make a plan to rob a wealthy and reclusive nobleman. Little do they know their target is far stranger and more dangerous than they could've ever imagined.

The story is partially coded but I'd rather get the script fully locked down before I start commissioning artists and finalising it into an actual game. The dialogue is far from historically accurate but the setting isn't all that exaggerated (who knew the late victorian cigarette had mass produced cigarettes?). If you do read thank you! I'd love to hear what you think good or bad.

Once the first episode is done and has all the art together it'll be released for free on Steam and itch.io. Thanks again :)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTJvcqA9cIl9EkhASnuMpUd0TCDV0cjiYHpIZf8C9C0sTYix30LaRddwXG97Yogsi68oQNbfvHS5N8R/pub