Celsius Strays
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
You are the Chief of the Squealers.
It has been nine years since the coup to save your people failed, and you were banished to far corner of the Slums. Survival is a luxury here, with robotic death squads, a deadly climate, and power-hungry Slumlords all eager to snuff out the defiant remnant of rats.
Manage your team, protect your colony, be a leader. And remember: in a world set against you, not all danger comes from outside.
This is an interactive, puzzle-lite Visual Novel where the choices you make, and the relationships you build, shape the future of the story.
The demo provides the Prologue to the game, a bite-sized peek into the world, characters, and gameplay to be expanded in the full release.
Welcome to the Squealer Colony!
Celsius Strays is a new, "Premium" visual novel project, made by COWCAT Games (creator of BROK the InvestiGator) in collaboration with Austin Schmidt (Patch Works Interactive).
The goal is to make a high-quality visual novel inspired by Japanese Adventure VNs like Ace Attorney and Zero Escape, with:
- A deep, emotional story that explores the weight of leadership in a world where there are no easy answers,
- Choices that genuinely impact the story and lead to very different endings,
- A unique command system that puts you directly in charge of leading the Squealers
- Puzzles,
- Animated characters with dozens of unique expressions all fully lip-synced,
- Fully hand-painted backgrounds from artist Max Wilson,
- Voice acting,
- Brand-new soundtrack,
- Interactive environments,
- Localizations:
- Simplified Chinese
- French
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Spanish LATAM
- and more!
Support us on Patreon!
Unlike many other community-supported visual novels, this won't be a free game, as the goal is to make a high quality Premium game to sell on PC, consoles and mobile (just like our past games in the "BROK the InvestiGator" universe).
After the Prologue (demo), only subscribed players will get access to development builds.
For more info, check https://www.patreon.com/c/celsiusstrays
The entire game is developed with our own engine BROKVN, a cross platform engine spanning PC, consoles and mobile.
https://cowcat.itch.io/brokvn-engine
It is available for free on itch.io, check it out!
Download
Install instructions
Windows :
- Extract the zip file
- Launch "Celsius.exe"
- Be sure to install DirectX for shaders to work: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
Mac:
- Open the DMG file
- Drag and drop the Chief icon to your Applications folder in Finder.
Android:
- Transfer the APK file to your device (or download it directly from your device)
- Be sure to enable "Unknown sources" if not already on your device.
- Install it through a file manager app.
Linux:
- Run the "AppImage" file
- If not possible on your distribution, extract the files from it. It includes most libraries needed and is a simple zip archive.
- Installing GPU drivers instead of the default Linux ones is recommended.
- If it still doesn't run, make sure that the file is executable by using this command in a terminal: chmod a+x Celsius.AppImage
Development log
- Introducing CELSIUS STRAYS!1 day ago
Comments
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Can't wait to see the game fully finished, the way it's looking so far is great.
Just gotta wait 2 years.
As a player who has already experienced BROK, I tried out the Celsius Strays demo back when it first launched. I really loved the art style and the prologue story, and I felt the game had a great deal of potential, so that I even signed up to help with the Simplified Chinese localization. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds!
Thank you! <3