The festive season is upon us! The good people of Matryoshka celebrate the end of the year with pierogi, uplifting songs and lots of hot beverages that warm their hearts as much as the love for the Leader.
Now we want to share this warm, red joy with our Western friends! Since there are no established economic relations between Matryoshka and the rest of the world the only thing that’s left is to share some of this festive spirit through a video.
We would like to present you the original recipe for borsch, one of the celebratory dishes from Matryoshka. It is the traditional way of making this delicious beetroot soup. Eat the true experience. Enjoy!
Apart from that our development team prepared some special wishes for our present and future fans in a form of a video.
Let your Xmass be white, your table full of delicious food, your friends and family always with you, your presents as huge as the Christmas tree, but most of all – your Steam library full of awesome adventure games (with Irony Curtain among them, too!).
https://youtu.be/Bq9QqzJwNP8
We wishlist you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The past and present of Irony Curtain + Steam contest!
Dear Comrades!
We'd like to show you the past and present of our upcoming point and click game Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love! Below you'll have the opportunity to witness how much has changed and how far we have come from the original idea that we presented at Polish festivals a while ago.
What you see before you is the prototype of Irony Curtain, which back then was called simply 'Matryoshka'. It was always our dream to make a game based on our own experiences, but also tackling the topic with humor and rowdy resistance. And since we love classic point and clicks, there wasn't much of an option but to make one!
The pictures you see is from one of the locations which remained almost the same through the evolution of the game - the 'Leader's Heart' hotel lobby, from the beginning of the game.
What's your opinion on these? Which verision do you like most? Let us know in the comments below and don't forget to Add Irony Curtain to your wishlist! We're incoming in 2019!
IRONY CURTAIN CONTEST - WIN 3 ARTIFEX MUNDI GAMES
There's also a contest on Artifex Mundi contests group that we really want you to join! You can not only contribute in the Irony Curtain's future success but also win 3 Artifex Mundi Games of your choice!
We now have our own Steam forums, where we will post all information about Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love and where you can discuss all ideas as long as they're in accordance with the ideology of the Party. No censorship.
Traverse the dream worlds to solve a frightening mystery!
Add the game to your wishlist and stay updated!
In a small tourist town a young girl, the daughter of the town’s mayor, falls in coma due to an accident. The impotence of the local physicians forces Mrs. Mayor to seek the aid of a psychiatrist, who is rumoured to possess a unique ability to traverse people’s dreams – a Dreamwalker.
Enter Drowsy Valley, a small remote tourist town located in the Alps of Austria. A place which bustles with life during summer and depopulates during winter. However, this ordinary and sometimes gloomy city harbours a secret. The people of Drowsy Valley suffer from severe sleep disorders and vivid nightmares. The local physician are powerless against this ailment and when a young girl named Sandra, the daughter of city’s mayor, falls into a coma the head of the city decides to enlist the aid of a special psychiatrist. She is rumoured to possess a unique ability to enter and traverse people’s subconscious minds – a Dreamwalker.
Step into the shoes of the paranormal psychiatrist and immerse yourself in the mystery of Drowsy Valley. Enter the subconscious of your patients, become the detective of the psyche and separate that which is real from imaginary, unravel the mystery behind Mayor’s daughter and citizen’s inexplicable condition. Dark secrets loom in the hidden corners of a human mind, will you dare to find them?
Never Fall Asleep will be available at a discount for 7 days after the launch.
MY BROTHER RABBIT NOW AVAILABLE!
TIME TO EMBARK ON A GREAT JOURNEY OF IMAGINATION!
Travel through the wondrous lands of a colorful universe where you must question everything you know about reality. Help the rabbit solve puzzles, find hidden objects, and assemble strange machinery in a world where conventional logic doesn’t apply. Remember your childhood and see the world through young eyes again. Believe in the power of imagination: it always finds a way, even in the darkest of times. Your empathy and ingenuity can save the day.
The voice of Dark Souls to sing on My Brother Rabbit!
Artifex Mundi has partnered with Emi Evans – the voice behind NieR: Automata and Dark Souls to collaborate on a song "Dreams", together with created by Arkadiusz Reikowski (Layers of Fear, Kholat, >observer_). Recently, the duo met in London to recap the project and record a brief documentary about the experience that you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBA1r5AL3o
The song Dreams is available for free on Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Youtube, soon on Spotify and iTunes.
https://youtu.be/25rsEmVhQaI
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My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination. The game will be out on September 21st on Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Humble Bundle, GOG, Windows Store and Mac Appstore.
My Brother Rabbit, the heartwarming adventure game from Artifex Mundi, invites players on an emotional trip into the dreamlands of imagination on September 21
In the siblings’ land of make-believe, a sweet little rabbit takes care of his friend flower, who recently became afflicted by a strange sickness. To reach those who can heal her, he sets out on a journey that requires both a keen eye and smart thinking. Collect hidden objects including butterflies, insectoid lightbulbs, and other items and apply them to the riddles hiding throughout the world. To learn more, please visit My Brother Rabbit’s official website or Artifex Mundi’s website.
Add the game to wishlist to make sure that you don’t miss the premiere!
It was supposed to be a simple suicide case – a quick inspection and lots of boring paperwork. But the more you delve into this secluded island and the twisted family relations of the owners, the more complicated and unclear this case becomes.
Path of Sin: Greed will be available at a discount for 7 days after the launch.
Do you want to meet the creators of your favorite games in person? Then you should definitely visit us during Gamescom in Cologne & PAX West 2018!
You will have one of a kind opportunity to play our two latest projects ahead of release:
My Brother Rabbit (release: Fall 2018) is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination. It is scheduled to release this Fall.
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love (release: 2019) is a satirical point-and-click adventure that takes you out of your bourgeoisie comfort zone and throws you right in the middle of a Cold War class struggle to the death – or until you surrender your toilet paper.
We'll be a part of big Polish Booth on both events - and we will have lots of surprises for you!
"Our glorious country of Matryoshka wishes to extend an invitation to the West, and allow them to witness the glory of communism first-hand. Visitors shall be the first outsiders to bask in the lie light of The Leader, who is the embodiment of all that is good and has the finest stash in the whole country. We welcome them with open armies arms to explore our beautiful country by solving puzzles and minigames to understand the depth of corruption surrounding the magnanimity of our fearless leader." Signed: Department of Propaganda Information
Irony Curtain is a satirical point & click adventure about a Western journalist visiting the communist regime for the first time. Immerse yourself in a slapstick humor ridiculing dictatorship with hand-drawn, stylized art and all the grandeur sharpness 4k allows! Dive into a brilliant story full of unforeseen twists and turns, taking a look behind the Iron Curtain and discovering the bizarre secrets of Matryoshka!
Irony Curtain arrives in 2019 but you can already add it to your Steam wishlist.
So, what are you waiting for, Comrade?
