- Tiny Teams & FINAL DEMO's playtests - 6 August 2026
Hello there! We hope you're enjoying your summer as much as you can. We're coming with 2 news!DOLOS in Tiny Teams 2026 Tiny Teams, the festival which celebrates small gamedev teams, is kicking off on Steam and DOLOS is part of it! š We thank the members of The Yogscast for their trust, it's such an honor to be part of the famous tiny adventure! Starting today until August 13, you can check out the Tiny Teams festivalon Steam, featuring more than 100 selected games, demos, discounts and announcements.on Yogscast's Youtube or Yogscast's Twitch for livestreams of Tiny Teams' selected games. The playtests are coming (really) I know we talked about it many times but we can assure you: THE PLAYTESTS ARE COMING. We wanted to launch it for Tiny Teams but we don't want to rush development and give you a āsloppyā version of the FINAL DEMO. This time we want to give you a complete and beautiful sā¦
- Second Demo - Patch #7 - 27 April 2026
š±ļøš„ļø Launch of InterfaceX26The InterfaceX26 festival has just kicked off on Steam! As a reminder, more than 150 fake OS games are on display for a week, and a trailer showcase livestream scheduled for Saturday, May 2, on YouTube and Twitch.--- \ā ļøUPDATEā ļø] ---The live stream will begin at 10 AM (PDT) / 7 PM (CEST - French time).On the agenda: all kinds of announcements about InterfaceX games, including trailers, new demos, and even game releases!The stream will be hosted by Kurt Indovina and Lucy James from Gamespot, but theyāll also be joined by streamers and youtubers Jesse Cox, Dodger, Nookrium and Stormfall33. ------------------------ Here are the important links :Official websiteInterfaceX26 Steam pageYouTube channel for Saturday's livestream: Twitch channel for Saturday's livestream: Weāre taking this opportunity to release a patchāthe latest in the series! š š Patch #7 For thā¦
- InterfaceX26 š„ļø announcement - 14 April 2026
Hey everyone in the DOLOS community! Hope you're doing well! InterfaceX26 š„ļøWeāre thrilled to announce our participation in InterfaceX26, the first interface game festival on Steam! It will take place from April 27th to May 4th. Hereās whatās on the agenda: š“ A trailer showcase livestream on May 2nd on Twitch and YouTube, hosted by Lucy and Kurt from Gamespot. š² 151 games featured on Steam, including DOLOS: Your Best Future. There will be both released titlesālike the excellent Her Story, The Operator, or Orwellāand plenty of upcoming games. A special shoutout to Your Forever Friend, created by Le Clown De La Classe, who comes from the same training and the same publisher as us! š Official website to stay updated: https://interfaceX.net Weāre so happy such an event existsāitās probably one of the most relevant festivals for our game. And weād like to give a huge thank you š to theā¦
- DOLOS at Rogue Bots 2026 š¤ - 1 March 2026
Hi! Hope you're alright! Starting today until March 9, DOLOS is being featured in the Rogue Bots festival on Steam! š¤ Discover over 200 games featuring all kinds of robots and rogue-like game systems. š¤ Unfortunately, the tradition of releasing a patch at every festival will not be upheld today. But we are working hard on the next patch, which is actually making a lot of progress towards the final demo. See you next time! The Playing Paradigms team
- First Gameplay Trailer! - 10 December 2025
It's been in the works for a while but now it's finally here: the first gameplay trailer of DOLOS Your Best Future! If you would like to help us promote the trailer on our socials, here are the links to our posts: Bluesky ā¢ Instagram ā¢ Twitter ā¢ Threads ā¢ LinkedIn ā¢ Facebook ā¢ Youtube We take this opportunity to announce that we've just surpassed 4,000 wishlists on Steam! A big thank you to everyone for your valuable support. 2026 promises to be a year full of new developments! Also don't forget to join our Discord to give us your feedback or get more news from us! We'll see you soon for a final patch for the 2nd Demo and a roadmap for 2026. The Playing Paradigms team
- DOLOS at Choose Wisely Festival - 8 December 2025
We are pleased to announce that DOLOS: Your Best Future is part of the Choose Wisely Festival, a festival on Steam to celebrate branching narrative games! More than 390 games are featured for the first edition. We would like to thank Ephua Studio for including us in the event. From newly released games to demos and even announced games, there's something for everyone! Check it out! Also, see you tomorrow for a very special announcement...
- 2nd Demo playthrough - AdventureX 2025 - 25 November 2025
As part of our participation in AdventureX 2025, discover the latest version of the 2nd demo of DOLOS: Your Best Future, a sci-fi political thriller between Orwell and Papers Please. As the operator of a global social regulation AI, your job is to play some games so that applicants have a place for life in the perfectly efficient society of DOLOS. The 2nd demo introduces you into an advanced point in the story. Here, you are faced with the game's core dilemma: place your applicants where they are supposed to work their entire lives or where they wish to go. In short: embrace the system or fight it from within. The 2nd demo includes the 6th patch, which adds new visual improvements. Try the demo on our Steam page and wishlist the game if you like it, that would really help us!
- Second Demo - Patch #6 - 19 November 2025
The narrative game festival AdventureX 2025 is kicking off on Steam! It's a great honor to be able to participate in such an event, which features around thirty narrative games, each one as incredible as the next. Come and discover all those games! Another opportunity to update the second demo of DOLOS: Your Best Future! The main new feature of this patch is that all DOLOS interfaces are now translucent, revealing Capekoid's animated background. No more static white that hurts your eyes! Capekoid's background animates on its own. DOLOS' background becomes translucent in high-performance mode. Phase 1: added a sticker button when you over an applicant in the list. Phase 1: added particle animation when adding a sticker to an applicant. Phase 1: added help bubbles to help you familiarize yourself with the gameplay. Phase 1: improved visibility of complementary files. Concord: various corrā¦
- Second Demo - Patch #5 - 23 October 2025
The Indie X Awards 2025 on Twitch have just come to an end and the event now has a Steam page featuring all the finalists. It is a real honor to have been nominated in the most innovative games category. A big thanks to the organizers for this recognition! It's now a tradition: when we're at a festival, we update the demo! And this time there are lots of visual and ergonomic improvements! DOLOS' stickers A feature that assigns an icon and a banner to each applicant to recognize them more easily in DOLOS. You are free to use this feature the way you want ... like ... I don't know ... highlighting applicants from EXODOLOS? :D 12 different stickers, available in the applicants list in DOLOS phase 1, the deck view in DOLOS phase 2, the influences tab in EXODOLOS. Left-click on an applicant's name to put the next sticker. Hold left-click on an applicant's name to display the sticker wheel. Iā¦
- DOLOS: upcoming events - 18 October 2025
You may have already seen it on our socials: within the next month, we will be attending three events, two of which will be in person! Indie X 2025 A Portuguese independent video game festival that will take place on Twitch and Steam. It brings together a selection of 50 finalist games for the Indie X Award competition. DOLOS is nominated in the most innovative games category! The event will take place in two stages: Monday, October 20 at 4 p.m. (CET) we will be live on the RTP Arena Twitch channel. We will be joining an Indie X streamer who will be discovering the demo of DOLOS: Your Best Future! The live stream will be entirely in English and will last about an hour. From October 23 to 26, you can visit a dedicated Steam page featuring all the nominated games. Stunfest 2025 The famous French independent video game festival is back! It will take place from October 24 to 26, in Rennes,ā¦
- Second Demo - Patch #4 - 25 August 2025
Hello everyone, I hope you had a relaxing summer! Back to School 2025 To start the new school year, DOLOS is being part of the Back To School Games Celebration, which showcases educational and brain-teasing games, as well as games about school itself! That's where DOLOS comes in :) The event is taking place on Steam from August 25 to September 1. All kinds of games await you, so don't hesitate to check it out! We thank Mooncube Games for their invitation, as well as the game Spirit City Lofi and Lofi Girl for co-hosting this 2025 edition! Health is important We'd like to take this opportunity to give you some news. One of the development team members experienced health issues over the summer. Nothing serious, but it needs to be taken care of. This has caused delays in development, which has forced us to change our short-term plans, particularly for the Back To School festival. Since weā¦
- Second Demo - Patch #3 - 28 May 2025
DOLOS: Your Best Future is exhibited for AG French Direct 2025, an annual event celebrating French video games organized by ActuGaming. We're thrilled to be back since our first appearance in 2023. To discover: May 28 at 6pm (CEST) on Youtube: a live showcase of trailers, interviews and mashups on the ActuGaming channel. VOD will be available later. From May 28 to June 2 on Steam: a Steam page featuring some fifty games, including 25 exclusive demos! What about DOLOS? :o What better way to mark the occasion than with a major patch to the second DOLOS: Your Best Future demo! Card game: new look and difficulty Among the fixes and modifications: New look for the 2 central gauges: the bonus gauge and the external gauge. The segments of the 2 gauges are called bonus points (BP) and external points (EP). Assign an applicant gives 5 possible results: perfect (+2 BP) good (+1 BP) mediocre (+1 Bā¦
- Second Demo - Patch #2 - 20 March 2025
Hello DOLOS operators! A series of fixes have just been added to the demo of DOLOS: Your Best Future! Among the bug fixes: EXP can now be spent to block the pro training during the sold out turn, no more bugs on the last applicants drawn in PHASE 2, the āHit the nail on the headā challenge from PHASE 1 works normally, no more āblack trainingā bug, a bug that appeared when PHASE 2 offered at least 10 university trainings. Visual improvements have also been added: in PHASE 2, the deck gauges (bonus and external cards) animate at each progression, in PHASE 2, each applicant's recommendations and wishes appear directly on the trainings through animated and dynamic icons, DOLOS challenge animation no longer shakes like before. The next demo patch will bring 3 important strategic features to PHASE 2, one of which many of you have been asking for! The DOLOS PHASE 2 playtest will start right afā¦
- Second Demo - Patch #1 - 22 February 2025
Since last Thursday we've fixed a series of bugs in the narrative progression of the 2nd DEMO of DOLOS: Your Best Future! Among the bugs fixed: the destinies of Samantha, Nabil and Sophie update in EXODOLOS when they are selected or oriented, the loss of money caused by retro-control in the final ranking only applies if you have helped Samantha, Nabil or Sophie, the ending cutscene varies correctly according to Nabil's destiny, the list of priority applicants on EXODOLOS updates correctly during DOLOS' phase 2, EXODOLOS continues to display correctly after the final ranking of DOLOS' operators, messages from Marie regarding your choices on the destinies of Samantha, Nabil and Sophie are not missing anymore, returning to the main menu from the pause menu works. See you next week for a patch dedicated only to DOLOS' phase 2!
- THE 2nd DEMO IS OUT NOW! - 17 February 2025
Hello operators! Today is a big day for us! On the occasion of our participation in the Storyteller's Festival 2025 on Steam, we are happy to announce that a brand new demo is available on the DOLOS: Your Best Future Steam page! ā¢ A complete game level We invite you to dive back into the third level of the adventure, this time fully available! You'll discover Enhanced content of the first demo like better feedbacks, new complementary files in DOLOS' PHASE 1, DOLOS' PHASE 2, a card game in which you must quickly assign your applicants to trainings, more dialog choices and more advanced conversations on the Concord application, optional press articles on the News application, and much more! ā¢ Regular updates We plan to regularly update the demo content in order to refine the vanilla gaming experience as much as possible! A number of fixes are already in the pipeline for both phases of DOLā¦
- The Storyteller's Festival 2025 Showcase - 16 February 2025
Hello dear DOLOS' operators! DOLOS: Your Best Future is gonna be showcased at The Storyteller's Festival 2025, a celebration of narrative games on Steam! It runs from February 18 to 25! We thank Two And A Half Studio for this huge opportunity! š«¶ See you TOMORROW at the festival launch for A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!šŖ
- Opening of the 2nd Playtest session - 23 September 2024
Hello dear operators! We're searching for testers to play a gameplay demo of DOLOS: Your Best Future! Let's remember that playtesting a game means to accept playing an experimental, unfinished version of the game, being spoiled of some elements (mechanical or narrative), answering questions on an online form after playing the game. If, after all that, you're still interested in giving us that little helping hand, you can join our Discord server where everything is very well explained. Some useful information about this playtest session : Duration: 50 minutes (play game and fill the form) Playtest availability : 1 month starting today Machine and system: PC, Windows Languages: English and French Subject: testing 10 different complementary files (PHASE 1 of DOLOS) Specificity: short gameplay demo without narration It is recommended that you have already played the game at least once (Steaā¦
- DEVLOG #1 : a look back at the demo and LudoNarraCon - 19 May 2024
LudoNarraCon & Greetings! Many of you discovered DOLOS: Your Best Future during LudoNarraCon. More than 2,000 users wishlisted the game and around 600 played the demo! Many thanks for this! PHASE 1 of DOLOS PHASE 1 is a management game in which you have to increase applicants' potential in order to reach a required average. In the game world, this is the phase in which you feed DOLOS with data, the complementary files. Applicants' scores are, according to DOLOS, their chances of succeeding in a given course (in the demo, Law). New data will come into play as you progress through the game's story. The heart of the game is these complementary files: you have to guess which ones are likely to increase the potential. Each type of file has its own way of working which you need to understand by observing all its variations: variable values (3 or 0 subscription(s)), variable words (of good orā¦
- DOLOS at LNC 2024: Livestream replay - 14 May 2024
LudoNarraCon ended yesterday, but we haven't finished telling you about it yet! Today we'd like to take a look back at our livestream, which was broadcast throughout the event. On the livrestream program: an interview with the game designers of DOLOS: Your Best Future, Dimitri Balzan and Julien VERGNE, hosted by Farah AJILI, also known as Fahrenheit. the first trailer of DOLOS: Your Best Future, also available here. demo's gameplay with Farah's commentary, available for free on our Steam page. We can't end this news item without thanking Guillaume LAURENT (Ours Productions), who played a huge part in producing both the livestream and the trailer. . Don't miss our first devlog coming tomorrow, featuring LudoNarraCon 2024, the demo and more!
- DOLOS at LNC24: Livestream 10th May at 11am PDT - 9 May 2024
Hello everyone! We're very pleased to announce that we'll be holding our first stream on 10th may 2024 at 11am pdt dedicated to our first game: DOLOS! We'll be playing and commenting on the DOLOS public demo, then chatting with you and answering a few questions. It's with great excitement that we look forward to sharing the results of so many years' work with you, so save the date and see you soon! To keep up with the latest news on DOLOS, follow us on X and join our discord. Finally, for more information on LuddoNarraCon go to here.
