Team Lore, Pomodoros and Nutella // November Future Friends Newsletter
The calendar is lying to you… this was totally done on time.
Hey friends,
We hope this email finds you on a wonderful day full of sunshine and flowers and dreams come true. Which by the way is a direct quote from our Abi’s neighbour, Sue. Sue if you’re reading this, we love you ♥️
This edition is as wholesome as it gets, between the loveliest gaming news we want to shout about and the Future Friends reunion of dreams, there is just so much to cover. Let’s dive right in!
It’s nearly time to LOCK IN! 2026 is looking productive 👀
On-Together: Virtual Coworking has officially got a release date which means we can all get our FF’s virtual party in the calendar 📅 Join us on the 19th of January 2026 (how is that just around the corner…) to celebrate the cutest coworking space out there.
Not only did we get to announce the news in Cozy Quest, On-Together also got featured by PC Gamer!! They said it was “... like going to the office in Animal Crossing…” among many other lovely things, which is pretty cool if we do say so ourselves! ✨ On-Together also went viral on TikTok a few times and we’re super happy to be reaching this lovely game’s community 🥰
Future Friends Roundup!
🐸 Tiny Aquarium dropped their BIGGEST EVER update! New fish, decorations, fishing regions, and more are available in the ‘Swamplands’ update!
It’s called ‘Swamplands’ because there’s sick new swampy frogs and turtles but also Laura C’s beloved non-swamp Baby King Crab finally made it into the game (thank you devs!) and that’s super important. You are welcome, fellow crab fans 🦀
Secret Mode also announced that Tiny Aquarium won the award for ‘Coziest Idler’! Thank you Cozy Quest 2025! 🏆
🎰 CloverPit surprise launched on Xbox and Game Pass! It was hard to keep it a secret but we are very excited that many more people can enjoy this slot-machine roguelike nightmare fun time! But that’s not all:
We officially sold +1 million copies!!!! 🤯
We teased the upcoming Unholy Fusion DLC that is coming soon.. 👀
Happy Future Friendsgiving!
Team Future Friends met up in person for their annual Christmas party! So many shenanigans happened and so little business occurred but it sure was so nice to see each other in person to celebrate this wild year!
What exactly did we get up to? Well, the team went to an all encompassing interactive experience and what a bonding experience it was. There were puzzles, crash outs, a robot funeral, heart rate monitors going off, and maybe a platypus. Laura C’s beloved and yet slightly cursed Yoda Balloon came back from the dead, and just in time for the first ever ‘Future Friends has 5 mins to present a topic of their choice’ Competition!! It’s safe to say that we all learned a lot about each other.
Emma, Louisa, and Adam met everyone for the first time in person (and didn’t get scared off, hopefully!). And Laura C, yet again, had flight trouble… Anyway, it was a really fun time! Some extra unexplainable highlights:
The Great Wet Debate: Is soup wet?
Nutella Gate: The waitress (allegedly) tried to poison Adam
Groan tubes: awooooaahhhhhw
The phantom poo: Don’t ask
Bonus Team Lore
🍀 Thomas visited Dublin this month looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Not only did he find it, but he got a sick new outfit while at it!
🧠 Team socials work really hard and if you are wondering how that looks behind the scenes, well… we can’t say that context really helps their cases here.
👑 Paul did an interview talking all fun things about CloverPit for Indie Spotlight, a lovely event hosted by the Yogscast. You can watch the interview and catch a glimpse of the man, the myth, the legend over on Twitch!
🍎 Alex ate copious amounts of fruitcake this month to the detriment of railway workers everywhere.
Friends of Future Friends
NEW GAMES AVAILABLE NOW!
☃️ The highly-anticipated cozy woodland survival adventure Winter Burrow is out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox/Game Pass!! Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals as a big-city mouse on a quest to fix up their childhood burrow.
🎋 Tiny, dreamy worlds await you in Dream Garden, the new cozy simulation game from indie duo Campfire Studio. Relax and build yourself perfect little garden dioramas with a wide selection of plants, decorations, and landscaping tools! Nurture your perfect zen garden retreat now on PC via Steam!
🐍 Award winning arcade odyssey game THRASHER is out now on Steam! Previously only available for Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, THRASHER is a mesmerising game where you control a space eel through psychedelic alien worlds. Sound wild? Just wait until you see the cool cosmic baby gods…
💊 Side Effects, the “Buckshot Roulette”-like medical horror game, is out now! It’s a twisted trial of pill roulette for up to 4 players. Pick your poison and hope you outlive the others. You may know the indie hit studio Free Lives behind the title for their other cool games: Terra Nil; Broforce; Gorn; Stick it to the Stickman; and Angerfoot. Very cool!
🔴 “A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad” is, well, a pinball game that makes you mad. And it’s out now! One button. One ball. Hours and hours of utter agony. If you are a fan of Foddian/”rage” games, then this is one for you!
COOL DEMOS TO TRY
🏝️ There’s a brand new public demo for the Islanders x Balatro citybuilding roguelike Islantiles! Unlock powerful technology cards, craft game-breaking combos, and grow your settlements to glory!
🧸 The first ever public demo for the sentimentally charming game Momento here! It’s a cozy room decorator with a twist: decorate your room, choose which items are important to you, and discover how the objects you choose will alter the course of the story, in a winding ode to the power of everyday things. Very sweet!
🦇 The survivor-lik adventure game Night Swam had a nice update to their demo but that’s not all! Developer Fubu Games announced the game will launch on December 4th on Steam! Not long now until you can experience this cool adaptation of the survivor-like, with deep world-building, meaningful quests, and a living castle environment that evolves with your choices.
PREPARE YOUR HEADSETS FOR THESE VR ANNOUNCEMENTS
🤖 Indie VR studio Salmi Games launched their frenetic roguelike shooter Sweet Surrender on PSVR2 last week! This launch includes fourteen updates released over the last four years of development from the META and Steam version, plus plenty of PlayStation exclusive content: adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, 90fps and more!
🪩 Dance, dodge, and crawl your way to victory in Laser Dance, the intuitive party game that’s out now in Early Access on Meta Quest! This Mixed Reality game turns your living room (or any room!) into a laser obstacle course so that you can finally put your spy flexes to the test.
♾️ It’s time to check into Hotel Infinity, a mind-bending VR puzzle game, out now on PSVR2 and Meta Quest! Walk the winding halls and grand ballrooms of a mysterious hotel using your own two feet without the need of controller-based movement or teleportation. Every corridor leads somewhere you’ve never been, and no room is ever quite the same…
📦 Indie team Flat Head Studio (We Are One) and publishing label Creature (Maestro, Prison Boss Prohibition, THRASHER) have announced that their upcoming VR horror co-op Deadly Delivery is launching on Meta Quest and SteamVR on December 4th! Avoid monsters, drop off packages, and pray you reach the quota!
We did it besties, that’s November done totally on time! How did we end up here though for real? Less than a month until Christmas??? Wild times. We look forward to seeing you again soon for a very festive Future Friends’ send-off, but in the meantime, stay warm, play games and remember to have a day full of sunshine, flowers and dreams coming true (again, Sue, we love you ♥️)
See you next later this month!!!
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