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Press release:
Austin, Texas – 16 November 2023.
The UK/US & EU-based indie games publisher and developer Secret Mode and Austin-based (Texas, the US) indie games developer Moon Lagoon, are today very glad and excited to announce that their cozy creature-raising and pollution-cleaning game “Loddlenaut“, is now available for PC (Windows and MAC) via Steam.

Early adopters can take advantage of a 10% launch discount during its first five days on-sale.

Loddlenaut has players dive deep into the underwater world of GUP-14, where they must clean up after an intergalactic megacorporation and its polluting ways. On their quest for cleanliness, players will meet, feed, and care for axolotl-like creatures known as loddles, helping them grow and evolve into special new forms.

As announced earlier this week, Secret Mode will donate 0.05GBP per sale of Loddlenaut to WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity no. 1014705. This pledge covers all net game sales over the next three years.

Loddlenaut’s launch also coincides with Cozy Quest 2023, the Steam festival dedicated to the coziest and most wholesome games on Steam.

For further enquiries about Loddlenaut or Cozy Quest 2023:

About Loddlenaut
Loddlenaut is a creature-raising survival game that takes place on an ocean planet. Play as an interstellar custodian who is sent to clean up an abandoned planet polluted by a mega-corporation. Befriend local axolotl-like creatures and explore sunken corporate ruins as you revive the planet’s lush ecosystems.

🚀 Explore an open-world alien planet

🐠 Raise aquatic critters called “loddles” that grow based on what they eat

🔫 Clean up icky goop and floating debris with your bubble gun

🌟 Unlock special gadgets to clean different types of ocean pollution

🛠️ Recycle collected trash to craft useful items and upgrades

About Secret Mode
Greetings from The Bunker! Secret Mode is the publishing wing of the award-winning Sumo Group Ltd. Our goal is to publish internally developed projects from any of our 18 game development studios across the UK, US, Europe, and India, as well as third party independent game developers. We believe that games are for everyone, and that creativity has no limits. We believe quality and fun are everything.

About Moon Lagoon
Moon Lagoon is a two-person indie game studio based in Austin, TX.

Loddlenaut began as a NYU Game Center thesis project by Ricardo Escobar and Jin-Young Sohn in August 2019. After graduating in May 2020 and with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, they formed Moon Lagoon, LLC to transform their student project into a full commercial release.

About Whale and Dolphin Conservation
WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins. Whales and dolphins are our allies in the fight against the climate and biodiversity crises and WDC works across the globe to protect these intelligent and sentient creatures from the many threats they face like hunting and whaling, pollution, accidental entanglement and captivity. WDC’s mission is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.