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Shut-in Studios · Published by Shut-in Studios
Very Positive — 98% positive (62 reviews) · 11 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
A Visual Novel and Dating Sim. Lead a chaotic development team through high-pressure deadlines and personal drama. Make choices to balance the demanding project, relationships, and ambitious goals, determining your team's ultimate success or failure.
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Indie, Early Access, Casual · 2026 · More £15 - £30 games
Navigate high-pressure deadlines and personal drama as you lead a development team through college chaos. Make choices that shape your team's success or failure in this unique early access experience from Shut-in Studios.
About this game
Features
Meaningful choices that affect the unfolding story and ending.
Fun, hand-drawn sprites, backgrounds, CGs, and character animations.
Heavily inspired by other fantastic projects like Snoot Game and I Wani Hug that Gator.
Side stories filled with easter eggs and rich world-building.
The Main Man
Step into the prehistoric-yet-modern halls of Cretaceous College of Computing as Dev A. Loper, the only human student among a campus of dinosaurs.
You're an outsider with one goal: turn a spark of passion into a serious, successful video game.
The Development Grind
Battle unexpected deadlines and scattered updates as you race to complete a demo for the Amberfield Demo Fair. Manage expectations and technical setbacks—the fate of your project depends on your choices, affecting the overall group dynamic and game.
College Romances
Navigate college life and love with three potential love interests, each with their own complex story arc. Grapple with the effects suffocating parental expectations, social isolation, or debilitating self-image issues depending on the route.
Multiple Endings
Your decisions have consequences. Guide your team and Dev's personal growth towards one of four dramatically different fates: from complete success to middling build failure—or even a tragic end.
Minigames & Secrets
Explore the world through Dev’s conversations, interactive moments, and a fan-inspired, in-game social media platform.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7 or higher
- Processor: 2.0 Ghz 64-bit Intel-compatible
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 or DirectX 11
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
0.6.9.2
Fixed camera going off screen in chapter 2, 3, 4, and 5. Removed ability to access Russian and Spanish translations (They were completely unfinished and broken). Fixed background not appearing in chapter 6. Fixed the cast looking like they were being hung by the neck in chapter 4. Fixed a text message image from Emily not appearing in chapter 3. Fixed various scenes where the characters where facing the wrong direction if the player clicked too fast or used skip.Read full article on Community Announcements (devlogcollegegame)Patch NotesOfficial
6.9.1
- fix an error in chapter 1 with the phone causing an exception - fixed not being able to progress when texting discussion is openedRead full article on Community Announcements (devlogcollegegame)AnnouncementsOfficial
Devlog Steam Demo Release!!!
TLDR: Game demo is out, has been massively updated, demo will always be free. Future releases will be Early Access on steam.So it’s been quite a trek, but we finally want to present to all of you the official steam release of the game and the more polished version of the demo. We all know it's been far too long but we do hope the wait was worth it, everyone on the team has put a CRAP TON of work into taking all the feedback we’ve gotten to improve the game. With all of that support, we proudly give to you the completed demo containing:All 6 of the original chapters of the main story with more refined dialogue and better scene choreography2 updated animations + 2 brand new animationsNew and updated backgroundsCountless new CGsUpdated and new live recorded musicUpdated and new sprites for existing charactersNew background characters to liven up the scenes4 new bonus chapters to expand on the relationships between the girlsA phone that allows you to see the group and others interacting between chaptersMore cheeseGoing forward all future updates will be exclusive to the steam version of the game, however this demo, which makes up nearly a ⅕ of the story, will remain free to everyone and we will be updating it with bug fixes to keep it running smoothly. Additionally, both because of how successful the previous strategy of regular updates(barring recent… delays) as well as to continue to gain feedback from our fans and critics alike, we plan to continue forward as an Early Access title. For everyone on the team, this is all of our’s first steam title, so it's very much a learning process for all of us, so we believe direct fan feedback is important to deliver the best story and game possible. Our plan is to release the game in batches, of 3-5 chapters at a time. We should be releasing more info in the next month or so.We can’t thank all of you who have supported us as well as the artists, musicians, writers, and coders that have helped us, to say none of this would have b...Read full article on Community Announcements (devlogcollegegame)
