BABELOMANIA

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• Announcements·1 Oct 2026Official

  BABELOMANIA POST LAUNCH - THANK YOU!

  My day job is a good job. Still, even with a good job, I've had months where I was living paycheck to paycheck. This to say, I understand very well the value of money and how, especially nowadays, entertainment seldom comes last.This sobering preamble is to say that I'm so humbled by every single person who's chosen to buy BABELOMANIA! Spending your money on the first game of a completely original IP of an indie team, and a mystery adventure game of all things?! I'm honoured, and I can only promise that me and the team will do our utmost to keep giving you our best!What comes next?As announced in the post for the Episode 01 Release trailer, the next update on the 14th of October will be the Italian and French localization for Episode 01.I am Italian, and two members of my team are French, but the game is being written in English first. So adapting the game was a fun challenge! Especially translating the attitude of a certain character to Italian...After that, it's start to optimize Episode 02. Also, there's a couple things I want to add, after receiving some feedback from players... I realized: there are some people who have never played a mystery adventure game before. Heck, there are people who've never played a videogame before, so we shouldn't take for granted that everyone knows how to play one. Explore screens, navigate puzzles, and so on...So, we will be adding optional tutorials for those first-timers. They will be non-disruptive and, like the Gore censorship, will be completely optional. Can't wait to show you what we have in store next for BABELOMANIA! There's a whole lot of Tabitha coming your way...Ah, also:HAPPY SPOOKY MONTH!
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• Announcements·10 Sept 2026Official

  BABELOMANIA EPISODE 01 - RELEASE DATE TRAILER

  After doing fan-games for years, I thought I knew the ins and outs of Game Development pretty well... Turns out, making your own original games is a very different beast. It may seem obvious, in retrospect, but the level of obligations towards yourself, your team and people who have been looking forward to your project is quite different.You owe to yourself to make the best possible game you can but you owe it to everyone else to eventually release it. The team owes professional and high quality work, but they also owe to themselves to not ignore their health or end up burning out. Needless to say, the original plan for BABELOMANIA's development cycle fell apart due to a combination of factors. It was still going, but it wasn't going as originally planned...Then, literally in July 2026, while talking with one of the game's expecting fans who had been waiting for it since it was a SpookJam Entry in 2024, I said something along the lines of: "it's still going on, we're 75% of the way but it's still not 100% finished... And, I mean, it's not like I can release it in Episodes."\Yeah, you can probably see where this is going. It took me but a handful of seconds to realize that yes: episodic releases are a possibility. Especially in certain genres, like indie horror games, they're very much commonplace.After a check-up, refinement of the code, adding graphical updates and missing content, controller support and optimizing it for Steam Deck usage, Episode 01 of BABELOMANIA was packaged, ready for building and uploading. And thus...BABELOMANIA Episode 01, "Viva gli Sposi", will release on Steam on the 23rd of September 2026.This has been a long and winding road, but we're finally here. The content you will find in Episode 01 will cover what you've found in the Demo and then some, introducing you fully to the second main character. Then, owing its inspiration to a legendary horror visual novel, in-between Episodes you will now be unlocking particular intermezzos.Then, featur...
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• Announcements·1 Oct 2025Official

  BABELOMANIA - THE BEGINNING OF HORROR

  With a promise of commitment and reconnection concealing dark secrets and terrible violence, does the curtain rise on BABELOMANIA! With the release of this Demo, we embark on the path to full release!I'm Meinos Kaen, head of Team JPDE, and I bid you welcome to the nightmare.BABELOMANIA is a technogothic horror game, inspired by Japanese Adventure games but developed with an European point of view. Not only am I, the writer and director of the game (among the many other roles the quasi-solo dev life forces me to take) European born and raised, but so are the main concept artist -Halebob-, GUI artist -Skolaztika- and Composers - OddTillTheEnd and Nailik Noteworks-.The story takes place in a bizarre estate in post-modern France, which main character Shigeo Arata travels to in hope of reconnecting with a childhood friend. The two drifted apart in the wake of tragedy, only for Shigeo to suddenly find himself invited to his friend's wedding...The ceremony soon descends into a nightmare. To survive, Shigeo will need to use his wits, keep an open mind and be fully aware of all the attendees, especially a mysterious red Android...Demo #01 contains the prologue and first chapter of the game. It will introduce you to the characters and setting, and jumpstart the scenario. You will familiarize with the game mechanics and gameplay loop, and get a first taste of how far the game can go in its depiction of horror. As the game is still in active development, the Demo is not intended to be fully representative of the final product.BABELOMANIA is not for everyone. The disclaimer on the Store Page and contained in the game itself will be more explicative but, suffice to say, while there's an option to censor certain graphical elements the themes and events depicted in the story may not be stomachable to some.If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break from playing.BABELOMANIA's planned release date is the 14th of May 2026.Until then, here's what you can e...
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