The End of... The End of Ember! Playtest closes December 6

Press Release  •  26 Oct 2026 17:00

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Playtest. The end of the playtest, celebrating right through Steam Scream V.

BANGKOK, Thailand, October 27, 2026 - Bad Plan Studios and Rising Tide today announced the End of Ember playtest closes on December 6, 2026, and Ember is celebrating right through Steam Scream V Fest, October 26 to November 2.

Bad Plan Studios has taken the chainsaw to the old build. From the gory remains, the team is sewing together what will be Ember's Final Form!

Which is to say that the current End of Ember playtest closes on December 6, 2026. It's time to say farewell to the old playtest, the old build and the old ways. Doors must close for others to open.

Last call for the old build

The playtest is free on Steam for Windows PC. Jump in during Scream Fest and you have until December 6 to fight through Hell with the current build before it's gone for good.

Obviously, follow us for more professional professionalisms, future builds and explosive announcements. Such as the new demo coming out in Q1... ahem. Can't speak around this gag.

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How it plays

Ember is sent to Hell by mistake on her birthday. Her ally is Abe, a talking chainsaw-gun powered by hatred. Clear rooms of demons, collect teeth to spend at the shop, and use hatred to turn Abe into other weapons. Cursed items upgrade your guns and bombs before the next boss fight.

Twin-stick combat through rooms of demons and traps. Weapon mutation: spend hatred at a Mutator to change Abe's weapon form. Cursed items that upgrade guns and bombs. Teeth to spend on weapons, bombs and items. Grotesque bosses and graphic cartoon gore.

Stream it, record it, monetize it

You may stream, record and monetize End of Ember gameplay on any platform. The press kit and Creator Kit assets are yours to use in coverage, thumbnails, videos, streams and overlays. No advance permission needed. No embargo.

Wishlist End of Ember on Steam and follow Bad Plan Studios and Rising Tide for updates.

About End of Ember

Super cute, super gory, and totally unhinged: End of Ember is a horror-inspired twin-stick roguelite that will make you spew chunks of happiness all over your dad. Ember fights through Hell with Abe, a talking chainsaw-gun powered by hatred, and cursed items that modify her guns and bombs. The game is coming to Windows PC on Steam. The full-game release date is to be announced.

About Bad Plan Studios

Bad Plan Studios is Daniel McGuiness, Chad Habel and a ragtag bunch of technical wizards. They love horror films and chips. Follow them at Bad Plan Studios.

About Rising Tide

We champion games with sincerity. Developers with a peculiar and singular vision. Follow Rising Tide.

Press contact

Justin Paulsen, Rising Tidejustin@risingtidepublishing.com

Press kit: End of Ember press kit

Sous Raccoon 1.0 is out now, and Chef still hasn't fired the raccoon

Press Release  •  01 Oct 2026 16:00

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BANGKOK, Thailand, October 1, 2026 - Novice Flow and Rising Tide Publishing today released Sous Raccoon 1.0 on Steam. The adorably hardcore cooking roguelite is out of Early Access with Endless Mode, a final boss, a brand new bar with three minigames, 13 new skins and online co-op for up to four raccoons.

You're Elmo, a raccoon thief turned sous chef, working for a Chef with a very short fuse. Cook the orders, serve the customers and keep the monsters off them long enough to finish the shift. Drop the ball and Chef fires you. Every run changes the restaurant, the upgrades and the kind of chaos walking through the door.

Sous Raccoon 1.0 is out now on Steam for $14.99.

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What's new in 1.0

Endless Mode: keep the restaurant open for as long as you can take it. Every day brings more customers and more monsters. When the run ends you get a score summary and a spot on the Steam Leaderboards, so you can settle who really runs the better kitchen. The final boss: kept under wraps the whole way through Early Access. It's waiting at Stage 4. That's all we're saying. The bar: a new bar in the Lobby with three minigames, solo or in co-op. Mix Food, Tower Stack and Barrel Blast each have their own leaderboard and save your best. 13 new skins: 21 in total, and some of them only unlock through Steam Achievements. Your own room: buy furniture and swap styles and colors, with a preview before you spend. In co-op every raccoon keeps their own room. A new soundtrack: music for every stage that shifts with the mood in the restaurant, from easy service all the way to the moment Chef loses it. Controller and co-op polish: menus on the D-pad or stick, Steam On-Screen Keyboard support, a new co-op tutorial and a long list of fixes from Early Access players.

Online co-op

Online co-op takes up to four raccoons into the same kitchen. Split the cooking, split the fighting, and argue about whose fault it was when the customers got eaten.

About the game

Sous Raccoon is an adorably hardcore cooking roguelite set across four restaurant worlds, each with its own enemies, hazards and kitchen layout. Earn upgrades and abilities between shifts, build a run that can handle the next rush, and prove to Chef that hiring a raccoon wasn't a terrible mistake.

Press quotes

"There is a surprisingly enjoyable little game hiding underneath all the shouting."James Luff, LadiesGamers

"Sous Raccoon looks ready to turn ordinary dinner service into complete mayhem."Deepak Chongtham, COGconnected

Review keys and interviews with the team are available on request.

About Novice Flow

Novice Flow is a team of eight students in Bangkok who came together to build the kind of game they'd love to play themselves. Sous Raccoon is the game they always dreamed of making.

About Rising Tide Publishing

We champion games with sincerity. Developers with a peculiar and singular vision. risingtidepublishing.com

Press contact: Justin Paulsen, justin@risingtidepublishing.com

Burning Sword: Death Sun drops its new demo on Steam

Press Release  •  30 Sep 2026 16:30

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BANGKOK, Thailand, September 30, 2026 - Nomadic Games and Rising Tide Publishing today released a brand new demo for Burning Sword: Death Sun, the wuxia hack and slash made in Bangkok. It's free on Steam right now.

This demo is recut from the ground up to put the sword in your hand fast and emphsize combat, feel, and replayability of the fast, precise swordplay inspired by classic wuxia film.

This new demo brings light roguelite elements to the gameplay, allowing players to lean into different playstyles on each attempt without disrupting the difficulty, skill, and core combat mechanics that define the game.

You play Zhang Yixian, leader of the Crimson Dust Demon Sect, back from the edge of death with one name left on his list: Gao Tianqi, master of the Death Sun poison and the most powerful man in the martial world. Every master standing between them has to be cut down first.

Play the demo on Steam

Combat

The Burning Sword: build it up, release it, and every strike hits harder. The whole fight turns on it. Qi: power your skills and fire Qi blasts at range. Run dry and it starts eating your health. Qi Drain: a forbidden technique that steals life and Qi from your enemies. Rebound: launch objects in the arena into your enemies to open them up. Qinggong: run up walls and float through the air to reach places ordinary people can't. Skill tree: unlock combos and heavy techniques, some fueled by Qi. Masters who show no mercy: boss duels against the martial world's best, from chain fighters to masked assassins.

About the game

The martial sects have carved up the kingdom and the masters kill anyone in their way. Burning Sword: Death Sun is a revenge story told through swordplay, palm strikes and Qi, and the blade catches fire once you earn it. Built in Unreal Engine 5 by a 25-person team in Bangkok.

Review builds and interviews with the team are available on request.

Quotes from the previous demo

"This game is so stylish."MakeItLook EZ, YouTube

"From what I can see, this is a more fast-paced game than your typical Souls-like games."John Papadopoulos, DSOGaming

"The combat itself is just great."ChaosDTV, YouTube

Development update

The tide is rising in Bangkok this week. Parts of the city are flooding and a few of the Nomadic team pushed the final demo build with water in their homes, but they ain't stopping the schedule. Here are some photos from the crew.

About Nomadic Games

Nomadic Games is an independent studio in Bangkok, founded in 2020 to put gameplay at the core of every adventure. With Burning Sword: Death Sun, the team is out to build a top-tier martial arts game, with deep, distinct systems. nomadic-games.com

About Rising Tide Publishing

We champion games with sincerity. Developers with a peculiar and singular vision. risingtidepublishing.com

Press contact: Justin Paulsen, justin@risingtidepublishing.com

EARTH ATLANTIS ABYSS ANNOUNCED: A SHOOT 'EM UP ROGUELIKE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

Press Release  •  28 Sep 2026 15:00

Pixel Perfex and Eccentrix Studios just announced Earth Atlantis Abyss, a shoot 'em up roguelike set in the flooded world of the Earth Atlantis series. Rising Tide Publishing is bringing it to PC on Steam, with launch planned for Q1 2027.

Build your sub piece by piece, ration your light, and dive through seven layers of a drowned world.

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About the game

You play as Pypher, a seventeen-year-old captain who takes her grandfather's old submarine down into the abyss to find out what happened to him. Three years ago he dove to the same spot and never came back. Hero, rebel, traitor: everyone tells a different story. The only way to learn the truth is to keep going down.

The abyss has seven layers and each one is darker than the last. Light is a resource. The sub's spotlight is how you see what's coming, and every layer asks you to trade a little more safety for answers. Every layer ends in a boss fight, eight bosses in all, built in the bullet-hell style the series is known for.

Between fights, the game turns into a packing puzzle. Weapons, engines, drones and hull modules come in different shapes and all of them fit onto one small grid inside your ship. Merge matching parts to level them up, fuse two different weapons into a hybrid with a Dwarf Star torn from a boss, and keep an eye on heat and power so your guns don't jam mid-fight. No two runs build the same ship.

Features:

A shoot 'em up roguelike set in the Earth Atlantis universe Seven layers of the abyss and eight bosses Grid-based ship building: place, merge and fuse weapons, engines, drones and hull modules Light as a resource: the deeper you go, the less you see Co-op, local shared-screen and online A story that unfolds as you dive: each layer uncovers more of what happened to Pypher's grandfather Detailed pixel art and a dark, deep-sea atmosphere

"This is a collaboration between two really talented studios. Pixel Perfex has a deep, beautifully aesthetic, and carefully-crafted franchise universe. Eccentrix integrates intense, claustrophobic, and deep gameplay mechanics with remarkable build variety and replayability. I should be objectively working when I playtest the game, but instead I just want another run for the fun of it." said Justin Paulsen, Founder of Rising Tide Publishing.

Links:

Steam page Announcement trailer Press kit (trailer, GIFs, screenshots, key art, logos)

Review keys and interviews with the team are available on request.

About Pixel Perfex

Pixel Perfex is an independent game studio in Bangkok, Thailand, and the team behind the Earth Atlantis series. Pixel Perfex prizes small indie projects that deliver perfect bug-free builds. Old school in all the right ways. pixel-perfex.com

About Eccentrix Studios

Eccentrix is a new entry in the indie gaming scene, with three original IPs currently in development. Founded by a team passionate about creating games, we aim to build experiences that players can truly connect with and return to again and again.

We believe great games come from bold and unusual design choices. Our mission is to create fun, addictive, and deeply engaging gameplay experiences that respect players' time while keeping them excited for what comes next.

About Rising Tide Publishing

We champion games with sincerity. Developers with a peculiar and singular vision. risingtidepublishing.com