- New Bundle! - 17 August 2026
"Please... touch the artwork."A quote from renowned game-artist Thomas Waterzooi that shook the very foundations of the artworld.Now, 4 years later, many have followed the movement and that's why we proudly present this bundle today featuring:The Master's PupilLost in Art: A Miniature RealmPlease, Touch The Artwork 1 & 2 (support DLC)Art isn't just something to admire from a distance. It can be explored, questioned, and even played. Each of these games invites you into a different artistic world, where masterpieces become places to explore, mysteries to solve, and adventures to remember. Museums say: "Do not touch the artwork." We say: have fun with it!Cheers, Thomas
- Exclusive First Look: 'Please, Watch The Artwork' Live at Tiny Teams - 12 August 2025
Dear lovers of art-touching and/or -watching,I have some news for you!Spin-offAs some of you might know, before continuing my journey on 'Please, Touch The Artwork 3' I am first exploring a spin-off game 'Please, Watch The Artwork', a casual psychological observation game where you'll have to spot differences in paintings, as a night-watch at The Museum of Animated Modern Art (MaMA).Edward Hopper The game uses paintings of American realist painter Edward Hopper There are no jump scares or monsters, but there are sad clowns and the game might make you a bit paranoid at times.However, I'm 100% sure a lot of you will like it!!!And there will be a cozy mode for those who don't like pressure.Premiere SpotlightI'm happy to announce the first gameplay will be live-streamed by the people at The Yogscast during their Tiny Teams event.When?Thursday August 14th at 6AM Pacific Time, 9AM Eastern Tim…
- [New Game] Night Watch at the Museum, but the Paintings Are Alive - 7 June 2025
Hey everybody!I'm happy to introduce my new art-inspired spin-off game: Please, Watch The ArtworkPitch:Night surveillance at the museum but the paintings are alive. Watch, listen and report all changes. A lonely clown roams the canvases. Eerie. Weird. Melancholic. Relaxing? No jump scares or monsters, but the game can feel oppressive at times. And there's a cozy mode!Day Of The DevsIt was announced yesterday during the Summer Game Fest : Day Of The Devs livestream, together with the launch of the Steam-page.You can all enjoy my ASMR middle-of-the-night recorded introduction here 😊 :Thanks to the lovely people at Iam8bit and Double Fine Productions who are doing this as an all-volunteer non-profit to celebrate the magic of videogames!What about Please, Touch The Artwork 3?'Please, Watch The Artwork' is a spin-off from the 'Please, Touch The Artwork'-series, but NO WORRIES: 'Please, Touc…
- New Game Announcement Tonight during Summer Game Fest livestream - 6 June 2025
Hey touchers-of-art! Today/tonight I'm revealing my new art-based game 'Please, Watch The Artwork' during the Day Of The Devs stream, part of Summer Game Fest. 'Please, Watch The Artwork' is a spin-off from the 'Please, Touch The Artwork'-series, but NO WORRIES: 'Please, Touch The Artwork 3' is also in the making! I will give a small introduction on why/how I made the game and you'll get to see the world premier of the trailer! Tune in Friday June 6th (today) at 4pm Pacific Time, 7pm Eastern Time, 1am CEST, right after the official livestream of Summer Game Fest. Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hr6Q2hln_M&ab_channel=thegameawards Link to the steam-page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3542500/Please_Watch_The_Artwork/ I'm excited, hope you are too! Thomas
- Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Discount - 30 May 2025
Hey art-touchers! To celebrate being part of the Cerebral Puzzle showcase which has an amazing amount of cool and new puzzle games to offer, I'm re-doing ... ! MY DEEPEST DISCOUNT ! %%%%%%%%%-70%%%%%%%%% Great time for gifting your art-loving friend(s) a copy ;) Have a nice weekend and keep on touching that art! Thomas
- Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Stream - 24 May 2024
To celebrate Please, Touch The Artwork taking part in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, Thomas (the solo-developer of this game) is playing the game. Hope you enjoy! Thomas
- Chinese (Traditional + Simplified), Japanese, Korean glyphs fixed - 22 May 2024
Heyhey art-lovers! After a localization QA it turned out some glyphs were missing for several languages such as Chinese (simplified + traditional), Korean and Japanese. This was due to a recent retranslation of the game in these languages and not updating the fonts. My apologies! However, this should all be fixed now. Hope you enjoy the art-touching! Thomas
- The StoryTeller's Festival 2024 broadcast (prerecorded) - 2 February 2024
Welcome to The Storyteller's Festival 2024! Watch a developer playthrough of my game that is now in discount. Also be sure to check out the page for my upcoming (free!) sequel 'Please, Touch The Artwork 2' based on works of James Ensor https://store.steampowered.com/app/2600140/Please_Touch_The_Artwork_2/ Hope you enjoy the festival, Thomas
- Linux + Steam OS Version Available Now! - 17 May 2023
Hey there art-touchers! I finally took the time to build the Linux version of the game and properly test it in a (virtual) Linux environment (Ubuntu 22 LTS). Sorry it took so long! Hope you enjoy! Thomas
- Update Notes Jan 27 - 27 January 2023
The Style: Fix for day 7 museum visit Aliasing fix on arm cursor UI glitching fixes Bugfixes and general improvements
- IndieCade 2022 - 5 November 2022
It's IndieCade again! Only the best cross-Atlantic indie-festival in the world. As an IndieCade alumni (I was nominated in 2018) I'm featured on their event page and I'm doing a discount and streaming the game, to celebrate their existence! Take a look at all the demo's, I'm sure you'll find some future gems in there. Cheers, Thomas
- Guerrilla Collective Stream - 13 June 2022
Streaming live during Guerrilla Collective to show the directors cut of the game!
- Classic videogame designs meet modern art in Please, Touch the Artwork - 13 February 2022
The appeal of Thomas Waterzooi's debut game Please, Touch the Artwork is more than just its white-walled art gallery set dressing. It's one part psychogeography and one part "zen" art puzzle collection, but also a full-fledged descendant of classic videogames like Snake and Pong... Read more.
- Chinese Translations (Simplified + Traditional) - 5 February 2022
Nǐ hǎo! Nǐ hǎo ma? You can now enjoy all galleries & stories in Simplified & Traditional Chinese. Xièxiè nǐ lái wán! Thomas
- Update 1.1 - 4 February 2022
Additions Added Chinese translations (Simplified & Traditional) Added volume sliders for music and sound (replaces on & off toggles) Memory optimizations Changed Boogie Woogie & New York City icons to be more easily distinguishable Fixes Added missing Japanese characters in intro. level 24 was bugged on some resolutions Fixed 'Changing Perspective' for real this time Made hints visible on black planes
- Japanese + Korean translations are live - 30 January 2022
Language Update You can now enjoy all the galleries, puzzles and stories in beautifully written Japanese and Korean. ! Coming later this week ! Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) Arabic https://media.giphy.com/media/OKMgJjr8wM2VapP2TE/giphy.gif
- Update 1.0 - 30 January 2022
Bug fixes & improvements Windowed mode Resolution dropdown Achievement fix for *Changing Perspectives* Level 46 fix for The Style (some black lines were hidden behind black planes) Cursor behind exit game's "Are you sure?" message box fix
- Japanse & Korean coming this weekend! - 28 January 2022
By the end of this weekend you will be able to enjoy all the stories in all galleries in beautiful Japanese & Korean. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Arabic are following soon after. https://media.giphy.com/media/NyMiDSUjDwamrJPSri/giphy.gifhttps://media.giphy.com/media/tiCGYDM3ublLv5GOXF/giphy.gif Happy touching! Thomas
- Please, Touch The Artwork is out now ! 🟦🟨🟥 - 26 January 2022
Hey art-touchers! It's done. You can finally touch the untouchable. Please, Touch The Artwork is out now on Steam! What happens if you DO touch the artwork? In this relaxing narrative zen puzzler you'll unravel the secret world behind some of the most iconic abstract paintings made in the 20th century. There are 3 games in this game, each based on a different artwork. Each game has it's own original puzzly-mechanics and a story driving the gameplay. After 4 years of iteration after iteration I'm so excited to finally share this cozy game with you! I took the time to carefully craft every experience and make it the most relaxing experience possible. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. https://media.giphy.com/media/braGIZRBn3cPlJwRbI/giphy.gif I'm just a solo-developer working on this project so I would be super grateful if you could help me with: Spreading the word about…
