Get ready for a summer of adventure with this 2D-pixel art action-adventure packed with 80s nostalgia and mystery
Limassol, Cyprus – 27 June, 2024. Publisher ESDigital Games is thrilled to announce that a major content update for Unusual Findings, the rad 2-D pixel art action-adventure game packed with 80s nostalgia and pop culture, will be coming this summer! The Vinny’s Diary Update will add a bunch of fresh new gameplay content as well as quality-of-life updates to the bodacious adventure from developer Epic Llama Games for free for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, PlayStation and Xbox consoles and Nintendo Switch.
Unusual Findings transports you back to the 80s and pays tribute to classic movies such as The Goonies, The Explorers, Monster Squad, The Lost Boys, They Live, Terminator, and Aliens and adds gameplay that combines mechanics of Point and Click masterpieces like Full Throttle with its own unique twist.
Details of the upcoming Unusual Findings Vinny’s Diary Update:
- With the Vinny’s Diary Update, console fans can now enjoy Unusual Findings on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. This free update improves performance on current-gen systems.
- Dive deeper into this quintessential action adventure by accessing Vinny’s Diary from the inventory. Vinny, one of the three main characters from Unusual Findings, will share hints on how to complete and solve puzzles via his thoughts in his diary as well as providing a little extra lore from the game. Players can also use the ‘give more hints’ button until the hints and advice are replaced by direct instructions for those who need a little extra help.
- Improved PC mouse controls (requested by the community),
- Various fixes and QOL improvements
- The inclusion of the final round of names for the Kickstarter backers who didn’t make it into the release version.
- Traditional Chinese localisation has been implemented.
Check out the Vinny’s Diary update teaser trailer below
Hernan Lopez, founder and game designer at developer Epic Llama Games will be at gamescom Latam from June 26-30 demoing Unusual Findings on the Nintendo Stand. Hernan will be showcasing the update and what the team has been working on since launch and will be available for interviews.
Also available to play on the Nintendo stand at gamescom Latam is Tetragon an exciting 2D puzzle game from ESDigital Games, packed with unique game mechanics, puzzles, magical mazes, and challenges!
About Unusual Findings
It’s the 80s, and Christmas is coming. Young friends, Vinny, Nick and Tony are trying out their new cable signal descrambler when trying to decrypt a pay-per-view adult channel, they pick up the distress signal of an alien spaceship crash-landed in the woods near their town… Things only get weirder as they realize that the towering alien is killing very specific members of their community!
Explore the world oozing with nostalgia, check the Video Buster Store for clues, challenge other kids at the Laser Llamas Arcades, go learn a new trick at The Emerald Sword comic store, try to get along with the punk-looking Lost Boys at their hideout or even dare to ask THE BULL, the quintessential 80s Action hero, for some help!
Your decisions do matter, and the way you make these three friends interact with each other increasingly affects their friendship and the whole story, changing the way they solve the game puzzles, the locations they visit, the answers they find, the story, everything.
Uncover the truth hidden behind the alien invasion… well sort of. Why here? Why is it killing locals? How can the boys stop it? Will they tune in to the adult channel after all? The answers to these and other questions… in Unusual Findings.
- Follow the Sci-Fi coming-of-age story. Three friends fighting together against the unknown… things (maybe against some known things too).
- See, Grab and Talk action tokens, an inventory to use and combine items and your wits it’s all you need to play.
- Stylized Pixel Art. All the charm of pixel art of the past with more colors and the new effects of the future. Some pixels look so real they can almost jump out of the screen!
- Go back to a simpler time when mix tapes were a thing, the Commodore 64 was king, kids could play outside late at night, and the only thing to worry about was THE GIANT KILLER ALIEN TRYING TO GET YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS.
- Your decisions affect the relationships between characters and, thus, the puzzles, the game progression, and the story.
- The most radical music a synthesizer can play. Cool popular Synthwave Music alongside catchy tunes made exclusively for the game to power up the 80s vibes.
Unusual Findings is out now on Steam, EGS, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and Nintendo Switch, along with a playable PC demo to try before you buy! The Vinny’s Diary Update will be available for all formats later this summer.
About ESDigital Games:
ESDigital Games is a global video games publishing company specializing in premium indie and mid-core games for both PC as well as consoles. ESDigital Games portfolio includes the 80s-themed point-and-click adventure Unusual Findings, the tactical card combat game Deck of Ashes, the Early Access release of roguelike action RPG Scholar of the Arcane Arts and the release of the action beat ‘em up 9 Monkeys of Shaolin. Their upcoming releases include twin-stick shooter REMEDIUM, RTS tower defense and match-3 mechanics title Cats on Duty, the Metroidvana inspired Awaken – Astral Blade, complex alchemy RPG Battlejuice Alchemist, and the story-driven sci-fi adventure Sky of Tides as well as new unannounced titles in development.
