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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Dear #PitchYaGame, HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream, made by a tiny team of 4 passionate devs. You can already enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams in Early Access 🩶➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

UPDATE 4 IS ONLINE ✨ • The tutorial was revamped with a new layout, pacing and level art. • The teleportation sigils changed for a much more visible look. • Adjustments were made to the level art, collision & textures. Will you / Re: DO? ▶️ store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Sometimes you just want to lose yourself in wondrous landscapes and wander in oneiric exploration. Step foot into HYPNOS. The Dreamlands awaits you... #WishlistWednesday #Lovecraftian #indiegame

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

First reviews coming in and we are delighted by everything we read, thank you so much to everyone who took the time to write one 🩶 Leaving reviews tremendously helps indie teams!

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

HYPNOS is officially out in Early Access! An exploration game set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream... Are you ready to walk the path to the Nameless City? store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/... Music by the legends @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social 🩶

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

HYPNOS is coming TODAY! Wishlist now to get lost in the Dreamlands tonight 🩶 🐈 store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/... #WishlistWednesday

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We (a 4 persons team) are making an exploration game inspired by Lovecraft's Dream Cycle where you wander through the Nameless City in search of the young boy haunting your dreams. ... And it releases in EA TOMORROW! Wishlists & reposts much appreciated 🩶 #indiegame

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Well hello 👋 HYPNOS is releasing into Early Access this Wednesday, in case you need inspiration for your next indie game 🩶 store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

HYPNOS is coming in Early Access May 6th!✨ A mysterious boy haunting your dreams. An eerie Nameless City taking shape before your eyes. .. We crafted an exploration adventure game set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. You coming? Music @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social 🩶

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dear #WishlistWednesday, we're a tiny team of 4 indie devs making a megastructure lovecraftian fever dream called HYPNOS. There's a demo available and if you'd like to see where this is going, please give us a wishlist 🖤 #SteamNextFest 🪨 store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

✨ HYPNOS' DEMO IS OUT ✨ The #SteamNextFest has come... Time to enter our lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Embrace your destiny. 🪨 store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Explore a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream... We've been working on it for a while, but HYPNOS - The Maze Chronicles is finally coming to PC and consoles this year! Wishlists and shares appreciated 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

BLACKSHARD's OST is available on Steam for less than 3€ 🥳 Made by our dear @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social, it's a huge part of our game's identity that you can now discover outside of the labyrinth... Enjoy 🩶 🎼 store.steampowered.com/app/3762090/…

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We've made a special place in our website for our favorite player reviews. Might add (a lot) more in the future. Many thanks to all the wanderers who took the time to leave one on Steam, this is the best help for indie games like ours 🖤 → www.blackshard-game.com 👀

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We didn't say it, @pernelle.bsky.social did 🖤 → store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The ingredients to our game: - A base of walking sim - Lots of brutalism & impossible architectures - Some cryptic meta narrative - The biggest MEGASTRUCTURE you can find - An epic soundtrack - Pieces of dreams - A pinch of Lovecraft & a dash of Tsutomu Nihei 👁️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"L'idée première était un musée virtuel..." Mille mercis à @jeuxvideomagazine.bsky.social de nous avoir fait l'honneur d'une double page dans l'édition de mai pour raconter l'origine & les inspirations de BLACKSHARD 🖤 @raphaellucas.bsky.social @alt236.bsky.social @al9000music.bsky.social

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"There’s nothing more relaxing after a long day than wandering through an infinite, sterile, and liminal labyrinth and giving yourself a metaphysical breakthrough of cosmic dread" Thanks a lot @kepler-interactive.bsky.social for this extremely accurate review of BLACKSHARD 🖤

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How do people describe our game: - "Like if NaissanceE and Blame! had an eldritch baby" - "A visual feast that does not lie about the space you navigate" - "A megastructure exploration game on steroids" store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"One of the most beautiful games I have ever played. The art direction is out of this world" "One of the most unique games I've played" "OPEN YOUR WALLET // EMBRACE THE TYRANNY OF FATE" What players say about BLACKSHARD 🖤 (We're "very positive" on Steam!!) store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

4 hours left to enjoy 10% off of BLACKSHARD! Calling to all surrealism enthusiasts, cryptic lore diggers, brutalism fans, maze wanderers and dreamers of all kind... The labyrinth awaits 👁️‍ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Already 32 reviews and more than 90% positive: THANK YOU SO MUCH 🤍🖤 Writing reviews is the most efficient way to help the games you love, and make the devs happy ✨ We're really grateful. To all the people who took the time to leave one: the labyrinth will remember!

Image shows the Positive ratio of Steam reviews, with 32 reviews!

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

BLACKSHARD IS OUT! 🥳🥳🥳 A dreamlike journey into uncharted liminal spaces awaits. You will roam strange places, endless corridors and unreal architectures... Are you ready to cross the threshold? ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/... OST by @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social 🤍

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

BLACKSHARD IS COMING TOMORROW! Get ready for a dreamlike experience in the depths of a strange megastructure, coming tomorrow. (haha 🐟) 👀

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Any streamer / journalist / content creator interested in weird walking simulators, liminal spaces and brutalist megastructures around here? Asking for a friend 👀 (please contact us)

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Is 'brutalist megastructure' an art style?

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Dear #wishlistwednesday, our explorative walking sim BLACKSHARD is getting closer to release. If you like brutalism, dreamlike journeys into liminal spaces and cosmic mysteries, you might want to have a look... 🌠 To wishlist (and even play the demo!) ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Our walking sim BLACKSHARD is coming very soon... Ready to cross the threshold? 🪨Find your own way through the Labyrinth 🪶Collect shards of memory from those who came before 📐Transform the Labyrinth ⌛Accept the order of things... Or choose a different path. store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Messages from our players... Seems like the labyrinth began to find its wanderers - we couldn't be happier 🖤 (You can't put a Steam review on BLACKSHARD yet, but you can join our discord server to share your thoughts! 🗝️ discord.gg/redlockstudio )

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We heard it's #wishlistwednesday, so here we go 👀 BLACKSHARD is an explorative walking sim in a labyrinthine megastructure. A demo is available, but it may have side effects like dizziness or a striking Stendhal Syndrome. Proceed at your own risk ⬇️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Retrouvez nous à 21h sur la chaîne de @alt236.bsky.social pour un live de la démo de BLACKSHARD 🖤 On va discuter du jeu, de l'OST, du lore... Et tâcher de répondre à toutes les questions 👀 www.twitch.tv/whatisalt236

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Dear #FollowFriday, We're making an exploration walking sim in the depths of a quantic megastructure. If you're into liminal spaces and metaphysical mysteries, you might like the experience 🖤 Wishlist to support us, or even try the demo! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

(we mean our game BLACKSHARD is absolutely a love letter to @limassefive.bsky.social's NaissanceE, yes, as you can see)

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our walking sim BLACKSHARD is participating in this #SteamNextFest! Come get lost in the labyrinth, roam forgotten liminal spaces and uncover metaphysical mysteries... Demo available now 🖤🚪 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Ｄｏｎｏｔｃｏｕｎｔｔｈｅｕｎｃｌｅａｎｎｕｍｂｅｒｓ ... Or do? Our walking simulator based on exploring liminal spaces & roaming a virtual labyrinth might cause side effects like dizziness or metaphysical breakthroughs. It's called BLACKSHARD and the demo is available now 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Accurate representation of our team releasing BLACKSHARD's demo to the world 👇 (comic by @aude-javel.bsky.social, more on encl4ve.tumblr.com 🖤)

Our artist tells our dev that the demo is completed. Our dev answers that with all the lessons he learned from our last game Shattered, there's no way the demo breaks or crashes whatsoever.
Then we see our artist giving the demo to QA testers.
They look at it and immediately say in chorus: "It broke." - "Mine crashed." - "And I found like 40 bugs!"
The last strip shows our artist wheezing in laughter and our dev, jaded with a nosebleed.

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The #SteamNextFest is on, and BLACKSHARD's demo is LIVE 🌠 Come get lost in our metaphysical walking sim made by 2 devs, and uncover the mysteries of forgotten liminal spaces... Ready to enter the labyrinth? 🚪 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The demo of BLACKSHARD will be available during this #SteamNextFest! If you're into liminal spaces, walkin sims and metaphysical mysteries, you may want to cross the threshold... 🚪 store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/...

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Enclave Collective is the creative team behind BLACKSHARD. Some members of both Redlock & Enclave had this nagging vision of a virtual labyrinth… So we made it together, taking advantage of Redlock's experience to bring it to the world. Get to know the team! 👉 www.encl4ve.tumblr.com

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We're making a walking simulator based on exploring liminal spaces, roaming a virtual labyrinth and having metaphysical breakthrough. It's called BLACKSHARD, and you can wishlist it if you'd like 🖤 ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/... #screenshotsaturday

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hey fellow indie game devs! We're building a website for our game BLACKSHARD - besides trailer & steam page links, is there something we shouldn't forget to include? Thanks for your help 🖤

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Can you guess which architectural style is our main source of inspiration for the sets of BLACKSHARD? 👀 (That you can already wishlist here btw ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/BL… 🩶)

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

So @thmastrupin.bsky.social has been playing around with a new area title display... Any thought? 👀 #indiedev #WIP

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hello #WishlistWednesday! We're a tiny team making an exploration walking sim in the depths of a strange labyrinth. You can already wishlist on Steam → store.steampowered.com/app/3223390/... Or join us on Discord ♥ discord.gg/redlockstudio

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Redlock Studio @redlockstudio.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Oh hey #PortfolioDay We're a 2 devs team making BLACKSHARD, a exploration walking sim in the depths of a strange labyrinth. If you like brutalism & liminal spaces, you might like what we do! (also we're new here & we'd like to follow lots of new people!)

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