Ultra-Indie Daily Dose: Off-Peak Is Off-Kilter But On-Point
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Who doesn’t enjoy a good fever dream now and then? Today’s Daily Dose leans a bit more weird and uncanny rather than overtly scary, but I still felt it was cool enough to share. Off-Peak is a strange little game by Cosmo D. In it, you play a person stranded at an unusual train station, looking for a ticket out.
To describe the station as “unusual” is actually a massive understatement. The setting of Off-Peak is good and truly bizarre. Structured like a fantastical futuristic art gallery, you explore the halls of this maybe-cyberpunk world and talk to its various denizens. All is not well in the world of Off-Peak, and though your goal is to simply find pieces of a ticket to get the hell out of there, observing the relationships and hierarchy of the train station creates a fascinating vignette.
The reason I chose Off-Peak is because it’s free for you (but especially me) to try. Originally, I wanted to try either Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 or The Norwood Suite, two more of Cosmo D’s games that take place in the same universe. You can try out Off-Peak on Steam by clicking here or on itch.io by clicking here. And for the full Cosmo D library, which looks fascinating, you can see their other stuff here.
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