Mayo on lasagne: yes or no? // April Future Friends Newsletter!
new friends, gambling, and strange food combos
Hello friends,
Welcome to our not really new and maybe hopefully improved ✨ Future Friends Games Newsletter ✨
What a year it’s been already with uh… all of the things. How are you? Is your nervous system regulated? We’ve decided to add to the overwhelming weight of existence by dropping a monthly round up of all the very serious business things we do here at Future Friends, straight into your inbox! Wow information!
🎰 JACKPOT!!! LET’S G-G-GO…. 🎰
The biggest secret we’ve been keeping was finally revealed last Thursday night in the Triple-i showcase. CloverPit, the demonic lovechild of Balatro and Buckshot Roulette from indie studio Panik Arcade (of Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom fame), was officially announced, and now we no longer have to hide the reason why we are all distracted at work!
Watch the real nice Triple-i trailer here 👀
Oh and have we mentioned that CloverPit has reached 100k wishlists AND demo downloads in just one week?! No? Well we have now 🙂 Expect a hellish escape room atmosphere, lucky charms, poop jars, big combos, and a sinister tale of addiction and escape…
Future Friends Roundup!
🔥HAWT upcoming releases:
Lo-fi island builder Tranquil Isle launches TOMORROW on April 18th! It’s all about vibing on an island that is, you guessed it, tranquil!
Kooky personality test adventure FREERIDE is launching May 1st! So much can be said about FREERIDE but I’ll leave you with this: crab nipples.
🌲🏰 NEW GAMES ALERT:
We announced recently that we are publishing Treeplanter, an upcoming peaceful woodland game. The lovely dev, Henry Driver, will plant a tree on his farm for every copy sold! Wow! Wishlist to help us combat climate change, or if you wanna be freaky you can also wishlist and exhaust a poor English lad’s little planting arms… I guess that’s fun too.
We also announced the stylish 1v1 card battler Castle V Castle, which is being developed by one-person indie studio nopopo, the creator of mobile sensation Devolver Tumble Time and funded by Casey Yano via Outersloth (you know, the guy who made Slay the Spire and the creators of Among Us 🤯). Talk about indie game royalty.
🐸 Team update: A lovely new friend has joined the team!!! Everyone say hi to Louisa!!!!
Louisa joined us in the week leading up to Mudborne’s launch last month, churning out as many Tiktok’s as if it was magic (it’s not, she’s a very hard worker and we like her a lot). The game is all about being a frog and breeding little frogs so she quickly gained the title of ‘Frog Pimp’ and well… we’ll let this video speak for itself.
Louisa Lore!
She’s a video extraordinaire who lives and breathes socials (very cool, very impressive)
Her hair is rad
Has never EVER closed a safari tab on her phone
Accidentally incited a prison riot (don’t worry about it)
A peregrine falcon enjoyer but also, maybe secretly a bird?🥚🥚🥚
💔 The great mayo rift that tore us apart 🥚
Future Friends has never recovered from this revelation…
🌸 Friends of Future Friends 🌸
We’ve tried to narrow down all the exciting things going on for the games we help with, which was super hard because they are all doing the absolute most…
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is out now on Mobile (iOS & Android)!!
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, a cozy, story-driven adventure game, is now available on iOS and Android! Now you can crack the case with the help of your supreme powers of deduc(k)tion on the go, on the toilet, and/or sitting beside a pond with real ducks.
iOS store page // Android store page // Steam page
Sacre Bleu launches on 17th April
Ready up your blunderbuss and fake French accent (oui oui) for April 17th and the launch of Sacre Bleu! Coming to PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch. It’s a hack’n’slash musketeer adventure where you bust out of prison with a blunderbuss, ‘cause what more do you need?
Lonely Mountains new free update
On Wednesday, indie team Megagon released their first free content update (new mountain! Challenges!! leaderboards!!!) for their indie hit Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders. Since its launch on Game Pass, PC via Steam, and Xbox, it has topped 900k players! That’s a lot of people skiing down the slopes which renders the ‘lonely’ part of the title as an erroneous lie… really makes you think.
Vampire Survivors - big triple-i news
The BIGGEST Vampire Survivors free content update is here! Containing a FREE DLC based on Square Enix’s fantasy RPG franchise SaGa called “Emerald Diorama”, and some other surprises launched this week. The team also just won a BAFTA for best ‘Evolving Game’!!! clap!!!!
Steam link
Necesse big update from triple-i
Sandbox adventure game Necesse has released its next major update. Ahead of the anticipated 1.0 launch later this year, the update brings an array of new content for players to enjoy (as well as some bug fixes!).
WHAT THE!? Triband Updates!!!
Broker of buffoonery Triband is BACK with a brand new game: Goofy PvP battler WHAT THE CLASH?! Launching on 1st May as an Apple Arcade exclusive! You may know the team from the indie hits WHAT THE GOLF? (golf gone terribly wrong) WHAT THE BAT? (POV you have bats for hands) and WHAT THE CAR? (POV you’re a car with legs).
Speaking of a car with legs, there’s a new update for WHAT THE CAR? which sees the crewmates from deduction sensation Among Us enter the fray… with predictably disastrous results. The update includes a new overworld, Among Us style ‘minigames’, impostors, asteroids, racing, and more!!
And that’s it for now! ✨
Listen, we know the world is a pretty difficult place to be in right now. Get through the day however you can. But for all that is just and true, pls do not do the chicken jockey challenge. We beg you. The movie theatre employee population is rapidly facing extinction. Resist the temptation to chicken jockey.
See ya next month (if we’re organised enough)!
Future Friends Team 🧡