- Fun Zone Omega - 8 March 2026
I've got a new RPG coming out later this month called Fun Zone Omega! Please wishlist it!Explore, survive, and vibe in this post-apocalyptic RPG set in a vacation resort gone wrong. Choose your squad from 12 eccentric misfits, and scavenge the ruins of a hypercapitalist dystopia. Welcome to Fun Zone Omega.Build your party, explore an open world, gain mutations, scavenge ancient tech... Fun Zone Omega is strange, wacky, and full of spunk and radiation.Thanks for playing my games!Below are all the playable characters you can choose from. Wow! So crazy-looking!
- Last Chance in Xollywood Released - 7 October 2023
Last Chance in Xollywood, the new game from the creators of Alien Squatter, was just released. In this sci-fi RPG/visual novel, you are an extraterrestrial movie director at a low-budget movie studio. Struggle against capitalism, corruption, and your eccentric coworkers to get the movie done on time and under budget. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2096220/Last_Chance_in_Xollywood
- Last Chance in Xollywood Released - 7 October 2023
Last Chance in Xollywood, the new game from the creators of Alien Squatter, is now released. In this sci-fi RPG/visual novel, you are an extraterrestrial movie director at a low-budget movie studio. Struggle against capitalism, corruption, and your eccentric coworkers to get the movie done on time and under budget. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2096220/Last_Chance_in_Xollywood
- Superstorm Melon Date Out Now! - 21 January 2021
Hey people! I made a new game, and it's free! It's date night in the dystopian future. Hit the town with Mel, a melon-person with psychic powers. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1509830/Superstorm_Melon_Date/
- Xoo: Xeno Xafari Coming August 7th - 2 August 2020
Get your sleeping bag and trail mix ready. Your trip to Xoo Island starts August 7th. Wishlist it now! Xoo: Xeno Xafari on Steam What is this? It's your summer vacation on Xoo Island! This beautiful, deserted island is populated by a surreal menagerie of alien creatures. Can you find them all? While you're at it, you might as well collect a bunch of fossils, gems, eggs, merit badges, video games, and anything else that isn't nailed down. Xoo: Xeno Xafari is a new style of collecting RPG.
- Xoo: Xeno Xafari Coming Soon! - 5 June 2020
It's your summer vacation on Xoo Island! This beautiful, deserted island is populated by a surreal menagerie of alien creatures. Can you find them all? Xoo: Xeno Xafari is a new style of exploring and collecting RPG from A. Hagen, one of the creators of Alien Squatter and Void Pyramid. Check out Xoo: Xeno Xafari on Steam! Xoo: Xeno Xafari is launching on Steam next month! Please wishlist it. Wishlisting is very important for visibility on Steam and it helps me out big time! Thanks so much!
- Alien Squatter v1.05 released - 23 March 2020
Alien Squatter is constantly improving! Here's what's hot... Now runs at 60 FPS! WOW! Pets now have a Pet Love stat that raises and influences how helpful they are. Achievements earned for maxing out the Pet Love stat. Energy gains from sleeping have been increased by an average of 50 per day. The chimpchilla can be subdued with a physical or social test. The chimpchilla is less likely to appear. With a social test, the gangsters at the warehouse can be bluffed. Holovids and trading cards are 3% more likely to appear. Platinum pigeon is more likely to appear. Organleggers give somewhat better rewards when defeated. Created delay when random encounters pop up. Stops annoying cycling through box choices. Emily Erlebach now credited as a tester. Various tiny bugs have been fixed.
- Alien Squatter v1.04.1 Released - 27 February 2020
Move energy display Changed energy icon Fixed various typos and small bugs
- Disco Elysium s Hardcore Mode is just one way games can meaningfully explore poverty - 31 January 2020
Last week, the haunting and hilarious Disco Elysium added an extra difficulty setting called Hardcore True Detective Mode . On the surface, it seems like a fairly standard set of tweaked parameters. More demanding dice roles to shaft dear old Harry Du Bois at every opportunity. If you take time to read the update notes though, it becomes clear that these new changes are storytelling devices as much as adjusted sliders. Since there are no monsters to make tougher, it s your wallet and psyche that take the hits. It s had me thinking about how ZA/UM s surrealist cop odyssey, and other games, express poverty through their systems. Games that invert the traditional power curve of farmhand to godhood, or make us try twice as hard to get half as far. Far from being a detached add-on, the update is a deft application of mechanics-as-metaphor that wouldn t work if desperation, isolation, poverty…
- Alien Squatter v1.04 Released! - 15 December 2019
The newest, hottest, most awesome version of Alien Squatter is out. Check out the new in-game collectible: Celebrity Trading Cards! Complete Feature List Added celebrity trading card collectibles Added 4 new mutations: Phantasms, seizures, trance sleeper, and rapid evolution Chemical secretion mutation is more likely to trigger Chimpchilla more likely to be encountered Blue mold is more likely to cause mutations You can gain stats while sleeping in the clinic, just like the tent Crawler excretions and random mutation effects can now also be triggered indoors. Numerous minor fixes
- Alien Squatter v1.03 Released - 6 November 2019
Below is a list of major changes. There are also numerous small tweaks and fixes. Energy total is now visible at all times! FINALLY! Buster's mold now appears. What does this mean? Find out! New Achievement: Morbid Byproduct New random sleeping, waking, calorie, and pod text boxes Mutant's doctor enemies can now be beaten with physical, mental, or social stats Increased average energy gained from sleeping by 25 All pets eat 5% less calories each day, and Curry eats 17% less New sound effects for each pet and for the brain shard Slow Metabolism mutation reduces calories by 25% (not 50%)
- Alien Squatter Creator Interview - 4 November 2019
Shea Kennedy and A. Hagen, the creators of Alien Squatter get interviewed on IND13. Check out the interview here. Learn about the real tent city that inspired Alien Squatter! Learn about Shea's life in Japan! Learn how Alien Squatter got made!
- Alien Squatter v1.02 released! - 22 October 2019
The newest mini-update for Alien Squatter is here! Major changes are listed below: Windows Defender should no longer identify the game as a virus! Wow! Replaced mold enemy picture! It looks way cooler now! Increased average energy gained from sleeping by 25. This is what you people wanted! Increased maximum daily shop items from 5 to 6. More stuff, more often! Added Brain Shard and first pet tutorial text boxes Fixed bug Robokoi or Picasso duplicate purchase bug Fixed typos
- Alien Squatter v1.01 Released - 6 October 2019
Alien Squatter v1.01 is released! This is a small update to fix several bugs and add a few new tutorial messages. Added new tutorial messages to better explain how sickness works, what the fan does, and why the sewer is good. Fixed a bug related to the purchase price of organ transplants from Doc. Thanks, Jasmine! Fixed a bug that let the player buy the fake money item twice. Thanks, dehexed! Slightly reduced the likelihood of random encounters. Fixed some typos. What's next? We're working to get the Mac version up and running. We're also planning a 1.1 release with a few new secrets and features. This should be ready in early November,
- Experience cyber-destitution in oddball RPG Alien Squatter - 3 October 2019
What’s worse than being stuck on an alien planet? Being stuck on an alien planet under capitalism. That’s your plight in Alien Squatter , a new survival RPG by A. Hagen and Shea Kennedy. You’re an alien trying to make it on the streets of Earth. It’s out now and I like it. (more…)
