Unity picks Midwest 90: Rapid City for the G-STAR 2026 Indie Showcase

Press Release  •  27 Oct 2026 20:15

Early Access on Steam November 10. Then we open a mini-diner in Busan.

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Bangkok, Thailand (October 27, 2026) | Unity has picked Midwest 90: Rapid City by Hidden Chest Studios as one of 30 indie games for its Indie Showcase at G-STAR 2026 in Busan, South Korea. Published by Rising Tide, the game opens in Early Access on Steam on November 10, 2026.

Rapid City, South Dakota, 2034. The New Great Depression gutted the town, now there are monsters, and you run a roadside diner where they're both the threat and the supply chain.

Find us in Busan

We're building a small Midwest 90 diner in the Unity Zone where you can sit down and play. Press and creators can book time with the team at justin@risingtidepublishing.com.

Where: Unity Zone, BEXCO Exhibition Center 2 (BTC Hall), BusanWhen: November 19 to 22, 10:00 to 18:00

On the menu November 10

Endless Mode, from day one Prologue and Chapter 1 Monster recipes, daily specials Dish traits and Missourite (side effects vary) Hire the crew (slapping optional) Bear traps and barricades, $10 to $150 A shotgun, for emergencies

Coming up

A surprise drop on December 31, Chapter 2 free on January 28, and the full release in March 2027, free for everyone in Early Access.

"I've had an absolute whale of a time."Orbital Potato, YouTube

Review keys on request. Stream and monetize it anywhere, no need to ask.

About Hidden Chest Studios

Hidden Chest Studios is a Malaysian developer crafting thoughtful, system-driven games, championing ethical employment and helping put the Malaysian games industry on the global stage. hiddenchest.studio

About Rising Tide

We champion games with sincerity. Based in Thailand, bringing Southeast Asia's finest indie games to the world. linktr.ee/risingtidepublishing

Press contact

Justin PaulsenRising Tide Publishingjustin@risingtidepublishing.com

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.

Get Sous Raccoon on Steam

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

MIDWEST 90: RAPID CITY OPENS IN EARLY ACCESS NOVEMBER 10

Press Release  •  30 Sep 2026 14:00

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BANGKOK, Thailand, September 30, 2026 - Hidden Chest Studios and Rising Tide Publishing today announced Midwest 90: Rapid City opens in Early Access on Steam on November 10, 2026, and there's a brand new Early Access release trailer to go with it.

Run a highway diner in a monster apocalypse, cook what crawls out of the dark, and keep the lights on as long as you can in Endless Mode. The story gets served one chapter at a time until the full release in March 2027.

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How Early Access works

November 10: Early Access drops with a deep, complex, and complete Endless Mode, where players can dive deep into the complex simulation, tower defense, and diner management gameplay elements. Players also get the opening Prologue and Chapter 1 of the story. December 31: Tons of new content. Customized Endless Mode options and scenarios. A new monster (maybe 2), and a few surprises. January 28: Chapter 2 drops in full, which is a huge amount of narrative content and where most of the twists and turns in the story happen. Anyone who bought Early Access gets it as a free update. March 2027: full release with the final chapter, including branching outcomes based on the decisions you make from a gameplay perspective. At this point 1.0 drops as well, and all Early Access players get all updates free.

About the game

Rapid City, South Dakota, in the year 2034 yet strangely reminiscent of the 1990s. Some places never do change, eh? The New Great Depression already gutted the town, and now there are monsters. You run a small roadside diner where the monsters are both the threat and the supply chain.

Between shifts, a consequence-driven story with a cast of strange regulars asks how much of the city you're willing to spend to stay in business. Those who fight monsters risk becoming one.

Features

A restaurant sim with real steaks... err, stakes: menus, staff, research and upgrades in the middle of an apocalypse Trap it, harvest it, cook it: every monster is an ingredient, every ingredient is a recipe (Tower) defend your diner against monster waves Endless Mode: a deep, replayable management sandbox with difficulty options and progression A story told chapter by chapter, where your choices shape the fate of Rapid City A 90s isometric look inspired by early Fallout, in an eerie orange-and-red glow

"I'm a big fan, I've enjoyed the absolute heck of this game. This has been really really good. I've had an absolute whale of a time."Orbital Potato, YouTube

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

About Hidden Chest Studios

Hidden Chest Studios is a Malaysian game developer dedicated to crafting thoughtful, system-driven experiences that balance creativity and technical design. The team is driven by a mission to build meaningful games while championing ethical employment practices and helping elevate the Malaysian games industry on a global stage.

Learn more about Hidden Chest Studios by following them on LinkedIn and YouTube, and by visiting their website at hiddenchest.studio.

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

SOUS RACCOON SERVES UP ITS FULL STEAM RELEASE OCTOBER 1

Press Release  •  24 Sep 2026 15:00

The adorably hardcore cooking roguelite leaves Early Access with a brand new Endless Mode and online co-op for up to four players.

BANGKOK, Thailand, September 24, 2026 | Game developer Novice Flow and Rising Tide Publishing are thrilled to announce Sous Raccoon will leave Steam Early Access on Oct 1, 2026.

Players step into the kitchen as a raccoon sous chef, juggling orders, ingredients and contending with monsters determined to interrupt dinner service. Prepare meals, serve hungry customers and fight off baddies while trying to survive another shift without getting fired by the chef!

Across four restaurant worlds, different enemies, hazards and kitchen layouts keep things unpredictable. Players earn upgrades and abilities to help handle the next rush. Take on the challenge alone or recruit friends for online co-op, with up to four playable raccoons sharing the cooking and combat bedlam. 

The game also introduces Endless Mode, giving players a way to keep the kitchen chaos going for as long as they can handle the heat. Check out the trailer below:

“The Sous Raccoon team is just like their game, adorably hardcore,” said Justin Paulsen of Rising Tide Publishing. “They’ve obsessed over every detail, from the pacing of a shift to how much trouble a raccoon can cause in a kitchen. You can feel that care when you play. Hours go by, your friends should have logged off ages ago, and someone still says, ‘One more round.’”

With one week until launch, Rising Tide Publishing is inviting press and content creators to roll up their sleeves and get hands-on with the full release ahead of Oct 1. Review and creator keys are available upon request, including extras for Twitch Drops.

Sous Raccoon Steam PageSous Raccoon/Novice Flow Press Kit

ABOUT RISING TIDE PUBLISHING

Rising Tide Publishing is a boutique publishing house focused on gaming concepts that demonstrate sincerity through a distinctive creative vision. Linktree.

ABOUT NOVICE FLOW

Novice Flow is a team of 8 students who came together to build the kind of game they'd love to play themselves. With a style that's unmistakably their own, Sous Raccoon is the game they always dreamed of making.

PRESS CONTACT

Dustin HucksPublicistRising Tide Publishingpr@risingtidepublishing.com

 

Sous Raccoon - 1.0 Launch & Multiplayer Drop

Press Release  •  03 Sep 2026 14:00

Sous Raccoon Leaves Early Access October 1 with Four-Player Co-Op 

Adorably hardcore cooking. Four stages done, co-op across the whole game, and one very angry Chef.

Bangkok, Thailand (September 3, 2026) | Developer Novice Flow and Rising Tide Publishing today announced that Sous Raccoon, a roguelite cooking game about a raccoon sous chef defending customers from monsters, leaves Early Access and launches version 1.0 on October 1, 2026 for $14.99.

1.0 finishes the Early Access roadmap. All four stages are live, the whole game has been converted to co-op, and what is left between now and launch is balance and polish. It's basically cooked.

All four stages complete. Stage 3, The Enchanted Wilds, arrived in March with new mechanics, two new assistants, and three new monsters. Stage 4, Water City, followed in June as the final chapter, adding a full weapon system, Steam Achievements, a badge system, and the biggest map in the game. Every stage runs end to end with its own handcrafted levels, hazards, and enemies.

Complete co-op conversion. The full game plays with up to four players across four playable raccoons, with co-op item and quality-of-life perks, a new Stage 3 boss, and three more monsters for a busier kitchen. Every stage, every level, start to finish.

Also... Meet Elmo! The Epic Origin Story... (Download)

Players take the paws of Elmo, a raccoon working as assistant to a short-tempered head chef. Prep, cook, serve, and protect the customers from the monsters that show up mid-service. If guests get killed or lose patience, Chef fires you. Hygiene is also Elmo's problem, which means clearing away the casualties before the other guests notice.

Each stage brings new mechanics and new monsters, and merchant upgrades between days let players rebuild their run from scratch. Help Elmo become the sous-sest of raccoons, and do not make Chef mad.

Sous Raccoon Key Features:

The complete campaign: All four stages, from the opening kitchen through the Enchanted Wilds to Water City, with handcrafted levels, escalating hazards, and a full weapon system. Four-player co-op: The whole game, playable together, with four raccoons and co-op specific perks. Adorably hardcore: Cute cooking mechanics on top of a roguelite that hits hard. The raccoons are a trap. Hilarious antics: Absurd situations and over-the-top hijinks, even while the kitchen falls apart. Replayability: Randomized merchant upgrades, badges, achievements, and four playable raccoons keep runs fresh.

Sous Raccoon started at a small university in Thailand as one developer's project, then grew into a collaboration with a team of artists who built out its characters. Cooking, time management, combat, and character upgrades all went into the same pot, and this is what came out.

Work continues after launch. The post-1.0 roadmap includes new bosses, more story, skins, and restaurant decoration.

Sous Raccoon is available now in Early Access on Steam for $9.99, with version 1.0 arriving October 1, 2026 at $14.99. Follow on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, or join the community on Discord.

Press MaterialsPress overview: https://sous-raccoon.netlify.app/Press kit, including logos, key art, screenshots, trailers, and clips: Google Drive

About Novice FlowNovice Flow is an independent game development studio in Bangkok, Thailand, formed by a team of eight students building the kind of game they wanted to play themselves. Sous Raccoon is their debut title.

About Rising Tide PublishingWe champion games with sincerity. Developers with a peculiar and singular vision. Based in Thailand, bringing Southeast Asia's finest indie experiences to the world.

To stay current with Rising Tide Publishing, follow on X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube, and visit risingtidepublishing.com.

PRESS CONTACTRising Tide PublishingJustin Paulsenjustin@risingtidepublishing.com+66 980-580-507

DEVELOPER CONTACTNovice Flowsousraccoon.game@gmail.com