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The inaugural Cozy After Dark Showcase will premiere on October 12, 2026, at 2 p.m. ET on YouTube and Twitch with a weeklong Steam event to follow.

This showcase will celebrate games that are cozy but with strange or unsettling themes underneath.

This new showcase is presented by nonprofit Dames 4 Games, Draknek &Friends and CONTINUE and will feature more than 50 trailers and developer spotlights. Except demo drops and announcements from studios like Raw Fury, Devolver Digital and Balor Games and other independent developer all over the world.

Executive Director at Dames 4 Games, Destinee Cleveland said, I’m excited about Cozy After Dark because it celebrates games that can be cozy, strange, dark, and a little scary all at once. I wanted to create a space for games that live somewhere in between, because apparently I like my cozy games with a slight chance of something going horribly wrong.”

The Cozy After Dark Steam event will run from October 12 through October 19. People can discover new featured games, try new and updated demos, special discounts and viewer will have the chance to wishlist upcoming titles shown during the show.

Check out the Cozy After Dark Hype Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI_DZohlf0Y and for more information visit CozyAfterDark.io and share with others who cozy and scary together.

And we will be co-streaming the event over on my channel, twitch.tv/ladymalicysin. Please stop by while we watch so amazing trailers.

Asfalia: Panic at the Mansion
Genre: Point and Click, Adventure
Developer: Funomata
Publisher: Funomata
Release Date: September 9, 2024
Playtime:About 3 hours
Difficulty Level: No difficulty level
Platform: Switch, Steam

I’m always looking for new game for my Switch.

This is mostly due to the fact that while accessible they weren’t always intuitive. Which leads me to another area the game struggled a bit and that was controls. So, on the Switch, you moved the character of Charlie using the left joystick. To interactive with items in the game you must first use the right joystick which then actually show the cursor of the screen. It was just frustrating mechanic.

Then there was also the issue of it not always being clear what you had to do to move the story. Yes, solve the puzzle but where is the puzzle. If you missed one part of it, you were stuck until you either figured it out or you look up the solution. Again, there were a few that stumped me but once I know the starting part it was pretty easy to solve after that.

Asfalia did also offer a mini game that you could play that was fun and remind my a lot of the Space Invaders.

There were a lot fun characters, but I found that Lily was my favorite. Lily is small flame that accompanies Charlie on his adventure offer encouragement, companionship and a way to scare away way the darkness when it way too close. There is was fun little mini game with her too. When Lily need to the banished the darkness you had make sure the temperature gauge was in a certain zone the that would the make it go up and as it did go up Lily would grow brighter.

Once you get deeper in the game there were couple puzzles that if didn’t do the right you were stuck and you couldn’t reset them. The only way to proceed was to quit the game entirely and then start the game back up. Which could make you loss some of the progress that you made. But there was no loading issues and other the a few things I mentioned before the game control were pretty smooth.

I would rate this game 3.5 🍿. It was fun little distraction and perfect for those afternoons when you want a challenge but just a tiny one.

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