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ORIGAME DIGITAL's Penguin Colony Reframes Lovecraftian Horror Through Indigenous Lens

ORIGAME DIGITAL founder Naphtali Faulkner discusses Penguin Colony, a Lovecraftian horror game that examines colonial themes through the perspective of an Antarctic penguin. The solo-developed title, publishing via Fellow Traveller, arrives on PC and Switch 2 in 2026 as a follow-up to the award-winning Umurangi Generation.

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When a penguin becomes an unlikely narrator for cosmic horror icture this: you're waddling across Antarctic ice, sliding on your belly through a landscape that's equal parts serene and deeply wrong. Somewhere in the distance, something ancient stirs. The expedition humans nearby — they don't know what they've awakened. But you? You're just a penguin. Neutral. Watching. That's the pitch for Penguin Colony, the next project from ORIGAME DIGITAL, the studio behind 2020's dystopian photography sim Umurangi Generation. Founder Naphtali Faulkner describes it as a

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