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Press release:
Fellow Traveller and Gareth Damian Martin, creator of Citizen Sleeper and In Other Waters, have officially revealed Signet City, a first-person fungalpunk narrative RPG, during the PC Gaming Show.

Signet City is a first-person RPG about a coastal city in decline, in a world where the biological computer outgrew the silicon chip. You are a parasite, born in the brackish waters of the city’s bay, with the ability to inhabit human minds. Guide your hosts, and the city itself, in its final season. From the stained wallpaper of the squats to the towering monuments that dot its skyline, grow through and into this strange city, changing it forever.

Blending first-person exploration with tabletop-inspired narrative RPG design, Signet City offers a unique and rich new world, where the player lives inside the mind of their characters, guiding and feeding-off their emotions and experiences. Inspired by post-punk, 1980s Britain, and weird fiction, this first-person fever-dream is a radically distinct vision for the narrative RPG genre.

Unlike traditional RPG protagonists, players in Signet City exist as a parasite moving through the city’s social body, shaping conversations, influencing inhabitants, and navigating the games beautifully crafted locations. This allows the game to dig deep into the interior lives of the parasite’s hosts, in powerful, affecting prose that has become the signature of Jump Over the Age’s games.

The reveal trailer introduces players to Signet City’s stark black-and-white visual identity, brutalist architecture and post-punk inspirations. The trailer is set to Abandon from Irish garage punk band SPRINTS, the trailer track is rooted in the same underground culture inspiring the game.

While Signet City builds on the authored storytelling, thematic depth, and emotional complexity players connected with in Citizen Sleeper, it also represents a major evolution for Jump Over the Age. The move into first-person exploration, fungalpunk worldbuilding, and a more socially and politically volatile setting creates a distinctly different experience while retaining the deeply human storytelling Gareth Damian Martin’s work has become known for.

Signet City is currently in development for PC via Steam. Fans will be able to follow development through Gareth Damian Martin’s Bluesky and Instagram, or sign up to the Jump Over the Age email, or follow Fellow Traveller on Bluesky, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, or join the official Fellow Traveller Discord.

About Jump Over the Age

Jump Over the Age is a one-person game development studio founded by Gareth Damian Martin (they/them). Gareth is a writer, designer and artist.

Their first game, In Other Waters won the Jury Prix at IndieCade Europe, and was widely praised by critics for its “hypnotic art, otherworldly audio and captivating writing” (Eurogamer). Their second, Citizen Sleeper was equally critically acclaimed, and its prose was named “some of the best in all of video games” (Waypoint). In 2025 Gareth released Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to wide critical acclaim, with PCGamesN calling it “the perfect sequel.”

Gareth is the winner of a GDCA award and has been nominated for a Games Award, multiple IGF Awards, a GDC Award, and six BAFTAs, and has been described as “An accomplished world builder” (Edge Magazine), “An immense talent” (Polygon), and “one of the most exciting indie talents around” (Eurogamer).

Website: jumpovertheage.com

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/JOTA-Newsletter

Instagram: @garethdamianmartin

Bluesky: @jumpovertheage.bsky.social

About Fellow Traveller Games

Fellow Traveller is an indie games publishing label exploring the possibility space of what narrative games can be. Since our founding in 2012, we have sought out and partnered with pioneering game developers working on unusual games with narrative at their core.

You may know us from the tabletop-inspired RPG set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism (Citizen Sleeper), the polar exploration survival story riddled with life or death decisions (The Pale Beyond), the noir adventure set before, during, and after the Big Bang (Genesis Noir), or the murder mystery with a cast of otherworldly suspects (Paradise Killer).

Join us on a journey into a world of surprising games and unusual stories.

Website: fellowtraveller.games

Bluesky: @fellowtraveller.games

Instagram: @fellowtravellergames

Threads: @fellowtravellergames

TikTok: @fellowtravellergames