As I get ready to release a few games this year, while I may remain in obscurity forever, my request if a game of mine does ever blow up is to not gatekeep the Yai community. No elitism, let people in, let them theorize, no wrong answers.

Unless they're a bigot, then kill them.

(3/3) alarming signals, which leads them down a rabbit hole of conspiracy & terror.

Having over 50 endings (as the game changes as you collect more), interactive detailed environments w/hidden stuff to do, ranging from signal decoding, cleaning, to a vast array of varied threats, & many surprises.

(2/3) Play as Scyne, a signal processing engineer who decodes & maintains the technology alone high up in the Himalayas, working with a cutting edge AI named N.O.A.H. to maintain operations, & otherwise only occasionally gets in contact with their higher ups. They begin to decode

(1/3) Static Haze, Yai Gameworks biggest game to date, & collaboration between @grcnexe.bsky.social & myself, enters full production this year. A twisted 2D horror game set at a fictional isolated Chinese satellite ground station in the Himalaya mountains, loosely based on, "The Ugly Duckling."

Eating Fast Food in a Dream
A Decrepit Cemetery Haunting
Attending Your Own Funeral
Exhaling in a Vacuum Tube
A Lonely Princess's Castle
A Dungeon That Laughs At you
Reflection of Meat in a Mirror
Crispy Hot Metal Cathedral
The Heart of Darkness Awaits

Girls Graveyard, February 2026

(6/6) extensions to Gretta's Chapter 1 & a new Chapter 2 being added free of charge.
-"Red Haze Together", which is an online co-op spin on RH. It's not the same game & has a different story, made with a co-op experience in mind. 1st experimental co-op game.

All will be out by the end of March 2026

(5/6) -Close Your Eyes: Twisted Puzzle DLC for Close Your Eyes [Original Version] will get a 10-year anniversary update, adding the previous "remixed" version from the Remake into the free DLC.

-Red Haze: Bruises Glimmer in Starlight DLC extension. Adds new stuff in the form of

(4/6) no longer purchasable & theDLC content will be put in the main game after you beat the game once (users who bought it get to keep the soundtrack & get a exclusive new costume as thanks for supporting). Additionally, over 25+ new random events are being put into Close Me.

(3/6) other surprises.

-The final update for Red Haze is being worked on. I want to keep most of the update a surprise, but if you don't mind a small sneak peak of a creature from it, here it is:

-Close Me is getting a 10-year anniversary update which will make the New Game+ DLC

(2/6) previous areas in Close Your Eyes, Girl's Graveyard, My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt, Girl's Graveyard Mystery, & A Ghastly Tale. The update will bif visual overhauls to some maps, several new locations in previous spots in these games, new cutscenes, implementing full voice acting, &

(1/6) Just to be transparent with what Yai Gameworks is up to:

-Working on a new game called Pale Sugar. This is the main character art and sprite from the game, far more info on it soon.

-Working on a big overhaul update for Close Your Eyes Remake, doing a final pass over

All of my horror games, like my twisted dark fairytale take on a drug addicted Red Riding Hood in an abandoned apartment complex with 27 endings & the game changing after each ending, Red Haze, are on sale as part of the Steam Scream Halloween Sale:
store.steampowered.com/bundle/4193/...

In the future when Red Haze 2 comes out, & I talk about inspirations for the game (outside of personal things), it's going to be a weird experience since they're all things most people have never heard of, & half of them are Gmod maps.

But I have a direction I'm in love with.

Right now working hard on updates for Close Your Eyes Remake, Red Haze, Feast Your Eyes, & Close Me.

Here's a small sample of the intro cutscene before the title screen for Close Your Eyes Remake on Steam, done by @grcnexe.bsky.social exe & I. See the full thing when the next update hits:

YouTube video by AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem Yai Gameworks 10-Year Anniversary Developer Stream

Tomorrow, August 22nd, at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST, I'll be holding a 10-year anniversary developer stream for Yai Gameworks, giving history, developer insight, fun facts & other surprises for the whole history of my horror games so far: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xBi...

Inferbito on Steam A girl named Hailey struggles to remember the face of her dead sister for a paintings as a suicidal bunny plush & a shadowy hare monster infiltrate her life.

(6/6) titled "Inferbito" onto Steam on October 14th/15th. I'll have a LOT more to talk about on this one starting in September, for now can find the store page for it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1624490/...

Red Haze's final update will also be hitting in December. More on that soon!

(5/6) including a huge art overhaul, new areas, new story, new horrors. Steam achievements will be added, & Chapter 3 will finally be released to conclude the story. I hope people love the finished Feast Your Eyes, I really do!

Then finally, FIFTH, I'll be releasing a brand new game

Feast Your Eyes on Steam A surreal and quiet horror tale about a murderous little marshmallow who's escaped death row. A mysterious plague that makes people stare at dirt... Creepy love letters trying to win your affection......

(4/6) FOURTH, on August 31st "Feast Your Eyes" will be fully completed & released! Releasing on the 10-year anniversary of the freeware Close Your Eyes release on Steam, this is a direct sequel story. The release will add MAJOR new content to Chapters 1 & 2,
store.steampowered.com/app/712260/F...

Close Me on Steam You start the game, you wake up, and eventually you will close the game. One day, you may even start the game again. That's the game.

(3/6) THIRD, Close Me is getting the Yai Gameworks 10-year anniversary update somewhere in September. The New Game+ DLC content will be added to the core game, plus several new random events new to the game, a new secret, & Steam Achievements will be added.
store.steampowered.com/app/671980/C...

Close Me - New Game+ & OST Selection Soundtrack on Steam New Game+ adds new areas, events, and secrets to the game once you've beaten the game once. The OST Selection Soundtrack is the official album for the game's music.

(2/6) this the cheapest they'll be in years, so best time to pick them up.

SECOND, Close Me's New Game+ DLC will be delisted after the sale too. Be the last time to pick it up for those who want an exclusive costume for owners of the DLC as thanks for buying. store.steampowered.com/app/700290/C...

(1/6) I've got 5 updates to share for Yai Gameworks that should be pretty concrete.

FIRST, Aug 18th-Sep 1st there will be a BIG Yai Gameworks sale, all games at the cheapest they've ever been. Feast Your Eyes & Decaying Delicacy will be getting a price increase immediately after,

Working hard with @grcnexe.bsky.social on Inferbito right now. "A girl named Hailey struggles to remember the face of her dead sister for one of her paintings as a suicidal bunny plush & a shadowy hare monster infiltrate her life."
Share more on my little horror game as it comes along.

(3/3) one a cute plush bunny who can't stand her own intrusive thoughts, the other a shadowy hare who won't stop growing & becoming a problem. Both want something from Hailey that's impossible for her to give. And so, Hailey struggles to preserve."

Hope you have the Steam page up soon.

(2/2) Determined not to let her sisters memory die with her, she desperately tries to find any remnant to surface memories to remember what she looked like. As she pushes against her laughably finite and fragile human condition, two mysterious rabbits enter her life;

(1/3) Working on Inferbito, hoping to have the game out by August 26th, but may end up a bit later depending on how everything goes. A basic synopsis of the game:
"A girl named Hailey tries to paint a portait of her long dead sister, but she can't seem to remember her facial features correctly.

(4/4) made these visible shaky "sound lines" which physically emit from the enemy with the lines getting thicker the closer it is to you.

Been interesting to work on, honestly.

(3/4) where sound plays a crucial role, so making atmosphere fitting captions as the form of overlay pictures to direct where they play on screen & time them has been fun. But also been coming up with creative solutions to certain segments. Like in the tunnel section with the slow crying enemies,

(2/4) someone with different types of color blindness may be hampered by things.

By far the most challenging but interesting to work on feature I've been adding is a "Deaf" or audio captions option, but that actually understates what I've been doing. There's a lot of moments in Close Your Eyes

(1/4) So I've been slowly trying to put accessibility features into Close Your Eyes Remake, like the screen brightness option last update. Right now doing a "color blindness" test run through the game & modifying stuff where seeing color would limit playability, making conscious decisions of how

(3/3) Though filtered through my own lens & ideas.

Inferbito is one of my longest conceived projects, the original idea I came up with in 2015 after Close Your Eyes. it's changed forms several times. I hope people end up loving it, something been stirring in my psyche for years.