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Press release:
April 4th, 2024.
The Austin-based (Texas, the US) indie games publisher Devolver Digital and London-based (the UK) indie games developer Nerial , are today super excited and happy to announce that their darkly comic thirst-person shooter “The Crush House.” is coming to PC (via Steam) in 2024.

The year is 1999, and the hottest reality show on TV, The Crush House, has just hired a new producer: you!

Play as Jae, who has scored the gig of her dreams. But the demands are high and the stakes are even higher! She must cast, film, and produce each season of The Crush House, capturing all the drama, fighting, tension, and romance in the show’s iconic Malibu mansion. But remember: no matter what, the demands of your audience must be met. If not, you run the risk of cancellation.

The Crush House is developed by Nerial (Reigns, Card Shark) and published by Devolver Digital, and will be released on PC later this year.

Key features:

Choose your cast
Choose between twelve eccentric personalities and find your four-person cast for each season’s run. Mix and match conflicting personalities or complementary attractions and watch as tensions run and sparks fly. Catch the best stuff on camera and watch your ratings soar.

Keep the audience happy
Everyone with a TV watches The Crush House, from Foodies and Divorced Dads to Butt Guys and… Pharologists? With dozens of micro-audiences to keep entertained, you’ll have to be strategic to capture them all. You can’t please all the people all of the time, but you’ll have to try.

Earn money
Entertainment this good isn’t free, so put down the camera and pull up some tasteful TV ads to keep the cash flowing in. You might lose a few viewers, but you can use the extra revenue generated to furnish the house and mix things up for both the audience and the cast.

Uncover the mystery
There’s more to The Crush House than meets the eye, and a sinister mystery to uncover. Jae can explore the mansion at night when the show goes off-air, engaging in forbidden conversations with the cast to figure out the many dark and twisted secrets of The Crush House.

Check out https://thecrush.house for more information.

About Devolver Digital:

We are
Devolver Digital
purveyors of fine digital entertainment wares from independent artists worldwide.

A boutique game label
Owned and operated by
a team that replies to Slack threads with a non-stop deluge of hilarious gifs and passive aggressive shots at one another.

Despite our Differences
A collection of Individuals
works with independent developers from all over the world to produce and promote some of the most original, eccentric, and beloved games of the past decade.

About Nerial:
Nerial started making games in 2013, starting with small projects including ‘Singular’, a mobile bubble popping adventure, ‘Magic Shot’, a hypnotic french billiards game and ‘Devouring Stars’, a star-eating epic, the company had its first commercial success in 2016 with the release of ‘Reigns’.
Since then, Nerial has released various sequels to the original as well as the critically acclaimed ‘Card Shark’ in 2022.
The team is currently working on multiple secret projects. Nerial has been part of Devolver Digital since 2021.