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Next up on Stadia: Indie open-world adventures Calico & Lake coming soon

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We love open-world games, which give players the opportunity to explore at their own pace and choose the type of adventure they want to have. Some good news – two indie open-world adventures from the team at Whitethorn Games are coming soon to the Stadia store!

In Calico, you’re trusted with an important task – rebuilding the town’s cat café and filling it with adorable creatures. Once you’ve befriended an animal in the wild, you can name them, add them to your party, or send them to their new home at the café.

Set in the picturesque town of Providence Oaks, Oregon, Lake is a retreat for players to explore a beautiful, rustic world where your choices and actions matter. Determine your own story - will you return to the big city or stay in your hometown?

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See below for more details on both titles from Whitethorn Games and stay tuned for their arrivals on the Stadia store.

Calico
Developer: Peachy Keen Games
Publisher: Whitethorn Games
Release Date: Coming Soon

In Calico, your only limitation is your imagination. Build the cat cafe of your dreams while uncovering magical potions and collecting cuddly animals from the nearby village!

Fill your cat cafe with cats, deer, raccoons, dogs, red pandas—everything cute and fluffy! Befriend the forest animals while designing your cafe from top to bottom. Select the perfect combination of furniture and develop the best drinks and pastries for your furry patrons.

Outside of your bustling business, discover an impossible world. Travel through the forest to discover new creatures, magical girls, witches, and townspeople. Make new friends at every turn and transform the forest into a pet-friendly paradise!

Features:

  • Character Creator - The Calico character creator will allow players to create their own magical person to experience the world through. There will also be plenty of clothing to choose from and collect throughout the game!

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  • All Animals are Interactive! - The player will encounter many animals in the world of Calico. Once befriended, you can name them, add them to your party, or send them to their new home at the café. Animals in your party will follow you everywhere you go and listen to your commands. The animals in your café will relax and play with any customers that pop in for a visit.

  • Café Decoration - Your task in Calico is to bring the town's café back to life again. This isn’t just achieved by bringing in cats and animals alone, however – you can also decorate your café with furniture of different styles to create the perfect cozy home for you and your animals!

  • Cooking Minigame - Create a wonderful café by making yummy baked goods and drinks for the townspeople! Learn about your fellow villagers to pick and choose their favorite foods to sell!

  • Magic of Calico - We wanted there to be no limits to how you could find happiness in Calico. Magic potions are a system that allow us to break the rules of what is possible and to find what would be most fun. Example: the More-to-pet Potion allows the player to magically turn a single animal giant-sized! You can hang out with a giant animal, or even ride a giant cat!

Lake
Developer: Gamious
Publisher: Whitethorn Games, Gamious
Release Date: Coming Soon

Lake is a unique game experience: a fusion of traditional story-driven point & click adventure, free-roaming driving sim and modern narrative adventure.

It's September 1, 1986. You take on the role of forty-something Meredith Weiss, who returns from the big city to her quiet hometown. She exchanges her busy career at a software company to fill in for her dad, the local mail carrier.

During her two-week stay in beautiful Providence Oaks, Oregon, she runs into a few familiar faces as well as plenty of new folk. As Meredith, you get to decide who to talk to, who to befriend and perhaps even start a romantic relationship with.

Whatever happens, at the end of her stint she'll have to make up her mind: return to her demanding job in the big city, or stay in the town she grew up in?

Features:

  • Escape to a beautiful, rustic environment without cellphones and the Internet.
  • Drive around the lake in your dad's trusty mail truck, or let the auto-pilot do the work.
  • Talk to a range of engaging characters, each with their own personalities and quirks.
  • Choose after-work activities: hang out with your friends, help out your neighbors or stay home and read a book.
  • Experience two weeks of branching story that doesn't shy away from slice-of-life themes.
  • Determine your own story: there are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers or endings, simply what you want to happen.

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These are just some of the 100+ games expected to arrive on the Stadia store in 2022. Find 200+ titles now available on the Stadia store today, including Rainbow Six Extraction, Far Cry 6 and Life is Strange: True Colors, plus First on Stadia titles like Wavetale, Hello Engineer and Young Souls.

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25 Comments
OriginaIPenguin
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Let's go Penguinos!!! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

OriginalPenguin
Founder
Founder

That feeling when you used the wrong account :thinking_face:

SteamedHaams
Founder
Founder

More games is always a good thing. Keep it up :cat_face:

LukeySixx
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

nice one Stadia :thumbs_up:

jdeslip
Founder
Founder

Awesome! Definitely looking forward to these two!

LovecraftTapes
Founder
Founder

Cat cafe? Sign me up!

SRBearcubJeff
Founder
Founder

As always, you never fail to deliver!


As always, keep up the amazing work!!!

4ScarrsGaming
Founder
Founder

Love it, love it, love it! Keep adding more diverse games such as these to gems. While they might not be for everybody there are certainly many who will enjoy!

TheArkhamKnight
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

When are you going to release Batman Arkham Knight?

HelixPlaysGames
Founder
Founder

Love us some 'NUOS' :clapping_hands: 

HashTagMediaGuy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

These both look excellent but first day buyer of CALICO

SqueezyDonutz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Just happy to get a post on an off day. Keep the updates coming please.

SQUiDzzz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Wowie! 2 More titles being added to Stadia this year! OMG Can't wait to play both! Keep on doing the great work! Been enjoying the free games as well recently! Do more of that please... :slightly_smiling_face: - zzz

Noizemancer
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

These look lovely

lordkensal
Founder
Founder

Loving the change of pace with these games. Stadia defo broadening the range of game types/genres - just as they said they would at the end of last year ?

a2zKiller
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Moaaar...need moaaaaarrr!! 

iDrinkWasabi
Founder
Founder

Now can we get Elden Ring please :loudly_crying_face:

Hollymood
Founder
Founder

Elden Ring pleaseeee

JI
Founder
Founder

Great to see relaxing Indie Games! I hope they support direct touch so I can play easier on my phone!

WireSpy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It’s apparent that the top results from your latest ‘survey’ seem to be, 1) Less AAA games that people actually want to play, 2) Keep announcing games with no launch date, and finally 3) Continue to ignore customers asking for more interaction. Well done, keep up the poor work. 

NyteRazor
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Darksiders Genesis Pro game was a pleasant surprise.  Thank  you!

Twdmnd
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Indies games are great, but we want Elden Ring :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

OGElijah
Founder
Founder

I want big AAA-titles to come to stadia as much as the next fan.. but these games look adorable and I can't wait to play them 

WatermelonLove
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@StadiaTeam Thank you for your continued good news!

I'm up to just shy of having 200 games since launch. What a journey!

Thank you for getting me back into gaming, even if my playing time is very limited.

Keep up your super work!

Get ready for watermelon in a few months! :watermelon:

Siegedelayed666
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hi k