- Fishbowl is now available at a 20% discount! 🙌🏽 - 27 June 2026
Hey everyone!Fishbowl is on a 20% discount as part of Steam’s Summer Sale! It has been a joy to see so many of you play our game. Your words have left us teary-eyed and, at times, bawling. Just the fact that anybody is paying any attention to something the two of us created feels surreal. Thank you! You are making our dream of continuing to make indie games come true. If you’ve had Fishbowl wishlisted and were considering buying it, this might just be the perfect time. It is a warm and tender visual novel about grief, self-doubt, friendship and hope. If you enjoyed playing Fishbowl, this might be a good time to recommend it to a friend. The person who comes to mind right now, the one who loves a good cry? Yes! Send it to them!We’ve been a bit slow in replying to things here, there was a lot to do since launch, including but not limited to: ✨cleaning our home studio✨, which had become qu…
- Fishbowl is OUT NOW 💜 - 2 April 2026
Fishbowl is 💜 OUT NOW 💜 on PS5 & Steam (PC, Mac, Steam Deck) 🫧 Play at your own pace 🪞 No bad endings only different paths 🗓️ Do as much or as little as you are able to 🛏️ Remember, no matter what, you got through the day The two of us are in tears. Our game is out today! 🥹🥹Love,Rhea & Prateek💜 imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl releases 2nd April on Steam! 💜 - 5 March 2026
Hi everyone! 👋🏾FISHBOWL HAS A RELEASE DATE! APRIL 2! Second of April. April the second. It will be a good day. We hope all of you get to play our game! We will be releasing Fishbowl at 9.99 USD and will have regional pricing too. We hope on April 2nd all of you buy the game and dive into Alo’s story.It feels surreal to know that almost exactly five years ago, in April 2021, the two of us started making Fishbowl. Even more surreal that five years later, it is going to be in your hands. It will be yours to keep. We hope you all become good friends with Alo, Zu, Noor, Rosa, Jaja, Paplet and all of our characters. We hope the story of Fishbowl fills everyone with hope, joy and a will to keep going, no matter what. We hope you will all play our game. We have put our everything into it and to see it in your hands is going to be a dream come true for both of us.Please mark your calendars for…
- Fishbowl Demo on Steam Next Fest! 💜 - 28 February 2026
Hi everyone! The last few days of Steam Next Fest remain. So if you haven’t tried the demo yet, now is your chance! Here is what you can expect! 🗓️ play three in-game days in Alo’s home 🫧 spend some more time with our very adorable Paplet! 👀 meet four of our wonderful characters Zuari, Iris, Noor and Rosa 🎥 edit video files with the energetic Menguzonuo and a very panicked Bulbul 📦 witness a crazy amount of boxes appear in Alo’s home that you will get to unpack one day at a time in the full game! Our April release date draws closer and closer and we are still working hard everyday on Fishbowl. If you played the demo and liked it, please consider recommending Fishbowl to a friend! Every single person, wishlist, every gesture of support counts and means a LOT to us! Thank you for being here! Love, Rhea & Prateek 💜 imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl: Updated Demo Out Now! 💜 - 19 February 2026
Hi everyone! We are so happy to release an updated version of our demo today!▶️ Play the first three days in Alo’s month-long story. 💟 Get to know a few more people that make up Alo’s world. 📦 Be one with the flow of the days and get a peek at what is to come! Alongside English, our demo is now available in Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish (LATAM), Spanish (Spain), French, Italian and German. We are beyond excited to have new audiences play and discover Fishbowl!A quick reminder to wishlist our game if this is the first time you are seeing it! Every wishlist counts and helps us a whole bunch leading up to our release date in April. Counting down the days! Love, Rhea & Prateek 💜 imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl: Trailer deep dive 💜 - 31 January 2026
Hi everyone! 👋🏾2026 is here and we are one month in already?!? Fishbowl’s release day is coming closer and closer. AAHHHH!!! We have both thrown ourselves into our to-do lists and playtests and solving bugs and noting improvements and making the game as much of itself as we can possibly make it. We thought it might be fun to take you all through the latest trailer of Fishbowl. We know many of you spotted some interesting and unexpected things in there!First up! The trailer opens with a little glow around Alo. If you have played the demo, you know exactly what this leads to. For those who haven’t, we won’t spoil it for you 🙂We then give you a quick glimpse into Alo’s dream world. A dark part of Alo’s mind which holds suppressed events, overwhelming thoughts and complex feelings all tumbling out of her in her sleep. Next up, you move through Alo’s memories from when she was little. You…
- Fishbowl 💜 Releasing April 2026! 🥳 - 9 December 2025
Hey everyone! 👋🏾We are so happy to share with you that Fishbowl is going to be out on Steam and PS5 in April 2026. It was an absolute delight to announce this at Wholesome Snack with a brand new trailer! We are excited for all of you to dip your feet and hearts into the little world of Fishbowl where slice of life meets surreal. Please support our development journey! Here are some things you can do:💜 Spread the word: If you have friends who love emotional stories and narrative games, tell them about Fishbowl!✅ Wishlist the game: THE BEST way to support indie games is to have them in your wishlist! Each and every one counts!👀 Follow us on our socials: You can find us on Instagram, BlueSky, Twitter and Discord! Pick a platform of choice and come along!We are counting down the days to April and working super, super hard during this last leg of development to bring you something we are…
- Fishbowl: Logging into Alo's job as a Video Editor 💻 - 2 December 2025
Hi everyone!After a long break to focus on Fishbowl’s development we are now back with regular game updates! Having a community to come back to feels really special and we don’t ever take it for granted. Thank you for sticking along!Today we’ll give you a glimpse into the video editing mini-game in Fishbowl.Alo works as a junior video editor at Sitara LLC. It's a media company run by a big social media star named Sitara. Alo grew up watching and admiring them. When she was a kid, she’d often watch Sitara’s channel with her friends. Cut to now, having this job feels like a full circle moment for Alo. Over at Sitara LLC, they have lots of writers, graphic designers and of course, video editors working to make sure all the work that Sitara creates and uploads is perfect!Video editing in Fishbowl is a colour/symbol matching game. You move the clips to sort them into the correct track. The v…
- FISHBOWL is a Wholesome Games Presents title and we are OVER THE MOON! 😭✨ - 7 June 2025
Hi everyone!We are super, super excited to announce that we have partnered with Wholesome Games Presents! The folks at Wholesome Games have been early supporters of Fishbowl, and we are so happy we get to work with their brilliant team to bring Fishbowl to a cozy, wholesome audience that enjoys emotionally resonant and hopeful games. 👀 Watch our announcement on Wholesome Direct 2025👩🏽💻 Play the Fishbowl demo if you haven’t already✨ Make sure to wishlist Fishbowl and all other games that catch your eye in the showcaseWe are both working hard on the full game and making it with a lot of love and care. Watch this space for more and you can also follow us on our socials to stay in touch!Love,Rhea & Prateek💜 imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl Recap: 4 Years of Development - 15 April 2025
Hi everyone! 💜 Thought we’d do a little recap of our recent development journey and take you all through it! 🌟 Last year Fishbowl was announced as part of Sony’s India Hero Project. It was quite a surreal feeling to have our little game be partnered with this industry giant. As our first game, being a first time studio and a two person team, we still pinch ourselves over this. We are super grateful and we are working very hard to make a game we feel proud to send out in the world one day. 🕹 In May we launched a short demo of our game! In case you haven’t gotten to playing it yet, give it a go. In case you have played it, thank you so much for checking it out! Hope it gave you a good taste of what's to come. 🎨 We got to experience the joy of seeing Alo and Paplet in fanart! It made us bawl our eyes out! Thank you so much Louie Jams for this gift. Credit: https://ko-fi.com/louiejams �…
- Our friends made a cute, cozy idle game where pandas run a laundromat! - 6 March 2025
Our friends over at Destroyer Doggo have created an adorable and relaxing idle game, Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat. Step into the world of Bao Bao, the lovable panda, and manage a bustling laundromat with colorful washing machines, dryers, and panda helpers taking care of the shop. Customize your space with charming decorations like plants, chairs, vending machines, and even adorable cats! Streamers can engage their audience with built-in Twitch chat support, while multitaskers will love the dock mode, perfect for occasional management while working or relaxing. Check out Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat!
- Fishbowl: Trailer Tour, Beyond the Demo! - 9 August 2024
Hi everyone! Fishbowl’s trailer was released alongside our demo and we'd love to take you through it! But before that, if any of you played our demo, please take a moment to leave us a review. It would help us a LOT in continuing to make Fishbowl visible to other players on Steam. The first person you meet in the trailer is Iris. She is Alo’s manager at work and Alo directly reports to her. You will have many conversations with her about work and also life. Iris loves film making and she is also a DIY queen! We’ve made sure to have her home reflect that. There are a lot of objects that Iris has made herself. This sewing machine is inspired from the Usha sewing machines which were really popular in India at one time. We then show you a bunch of self care and home care tasks that Alo does at home. The game starts off with the home being pretty barebones and as time goes by new activities…
- Fishbowl Demo Patch Notes - 20 May 2024
Hey everyone, Thank you so much for playing the Fishbowl Demo and giving your feedback! Based on your messages we've made some updates to the demo, here are the patch notes: 🌱 Features Hint for Unpacking puzzle Improve control scheme 🐞 Bugs Remove double knocking SFX Fix soft-lock on fridge, shower and desk FIx typos We're still looking at the scaling issue that some of you have reported and also more features that have been requested. Being a two-person team we can't commit to timelines yet, but are grateful for all the feedback we've received so far. If you have any other feedback please do email us, or leave a comment here. Love, Rhea & Prateek 💜 imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl: Play the demo today! - 9 May 2024
Hi everyone! We are thrilled to share with you that the Fishbowl Demo + Trailer have released TODAY!! We can’t wait for you to finally enter Alo’s little world and 💬 stay in touch with loved ones 📦 rediscover childhood memories 💻 work from home as a video editor 💜 know yourself better one day at a time The demo is a peek into the game where you will be able to play the first day of our month-long story. We hope it gets you intrigued for what lies ahead. It’s been three years of working on Fishbowl, (two years part-time and one year of heart-pouring full-time). We couldn’t have done it without friends and family who cheered us on, helped us with play-testing and certainly did not let us miss them, while we made the game. You know who you are ^_^ It really wouldn’t have been as fun or full without all of YOU! Our Fishbowl community! Hope the experience of playing the demo stays with y…
- Fishbowl: Stories told through things left behind 📦 - 15 February 2024
Hi everyone! Today we want to tell you about the unpacking puzzles in Fishbowl and our thoughts behind them. When you solve unpacking puzzles, you will rediscover childhood memories from our main character, Alo’s, past. The puzzles require you to move objects around in order to ‘get’ the one at the bottom. These puzzles have you unpack objects belonging to Jaja, Alo’s grandma, who passed away a little while ago. They tell stories of significant moments in Alo’s life, growing up. Some of these objects will be dear to Alo, reminding her of a simpler time spent together with friends and family, while others may dive deep into some secrets. We are hoping for our Indian friends to be able to spot a lot more than catches the eye. Like the Maggi and Hot and Sweet ketchup there. IYKYK. Also, spot the box of ‘mathri’, a savoury flaky cookie or cracker from North India (Rajasthan) popularly eaten…
- Storytelling Fishbowl's journey at The Storytellers Festival - 1 February 2024
Hi everyone! It has been so much fun to be in The Storytellers festival! We’ve been ✨ wishlisting games 👾 checking out cool demos 🥰 and seeing people react to our very first broadcast! Hope you had the time to check out both the event and our broadcast which is live here on Steam! In case you haven’t, you still have time till the end of the week. It was a lot of fun to answer questions from our community across Twitter, Discord and Instagram. Hope we can do many more broadcasts in the future and tell you lots more about Fishbowl. Love, Rhea & Prateek 💜imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl in Storytellers Festival + our first AMA! - 25 January 2024
Hi everyone! Very happy to share that Fishbowl is going to be part of The Storytellers Festival, an event hosted by Two and a half Studios. If you like 📖reading 🎮playing games 👾and reading while playing games this is the event for you!! 😀 We both enjoy games with rich stories, some of our favourites which actually inspired us to make Fishbowl are To the Moon and Night in the Woods. Both these games left a lasting impression on us much after we finished playing them. Speaking of stories, here are some we are currently enjoying: Watching: Natsume’s Book of Friends Reading: The books of Earthsea Playing: Omori & Sea of Stars Excited to see narrative heavy games at this event and add them all to our wishlists! A fun thing we are planning for this event is that we are broadcasting for the first time! We are nervous and excited. We will tell you more about Fishbowl and also have an AMA at…
- Fishbowl: Meet our main character Alo! ✨ - 21 December 2023
Hi everyone! In Fishbowl, you will all play as Alo. Yay! 🌟 Alo just graduated from college and moved to a new city for her first job. A few days in, her office notifies her that they are switching to work from home. Nickname: Aloo, Alzy, Alulu Age: 21 years old Job: Junior Video Editor at Sitara LLC. Favourite snack: A tie between chocolate cupcake and cup noodles Favourite drink: Lime sherbet Fun Fact: Alo hates green peas and loves both cats & dogs equally. MBTI: INFJ The story of Alo will be told over a month. During this time, you will get to meet her mum, childhood friends and work colleagues. To know more about our characters or to ask us anything about Fishbowl, head on over to our Discord! Hope you enjoyed getting to know a little bit about Alo. Which character would you like us to share about next? Love, Rhea & Prateek 💜 imissmyfriends.studio
- Fishbowl is in Game Devs of Color Expo! - 21 September 2023
Hi folks! We are super, super excited to share that Fishbowl is part of Game Devs of Color Expo! We’ve been watching GDoC Expo for a while and all the talks have been extremely helpful for us through our dev journey. It feels quite unbelievable to be part of it this year! We are doing some fun things for GDoC! ✨ First up! If all goes well, we’re introducing a new character in the GDoC Direct! So keep your eyes peeled for Fishbowl in there. This character is somebody Alo is very close to and shares a very sweet bond with. Shh 🤫 We won’t give away more, make sure to watch to find out 😁 🎙 Second! We were interviewed by none other than Sharpie!!! We love Sharpie and all we could do was fangirl throughout the interview. She asked us some really fun questions about Fishbowl, worldbuilding, our journey so far… This interview will go live on the 29th of September at 7:45pm CEST / 10:45am PDT…
- Fishbowl at Gamescom with GameMaker! - 20 August 2023
Hello, hello! 👋🏾 Super stoked to share with you that after a beautiful time at BitSummit last month, we are bringing the prologue of Fishbowl over to Gamescom in Cologne! It's all thanks to the kindest folks at GameMaker. A big shout out to them! 💜 This will be our first time attending Gamescom as well as travelling to Germany. We have heard that it's a massive event with so, so many people, it feels both overwhelming and exciting. We will do our best to keep it together and stay hydrated! 😬 We are very much looking forward to meeting and catching up with devs and making plenty of new friends. If you are attending Gamescom and might enjoy a little preview of our coming of age story, do drop by the GameMaker Booth (Hall 10.2) We’d love to meet you and we have teeny tiny Fishbowl merch to giveaway too! Alongside Fishbowl you will also find these amazing games over there all made on Ga…
