Hi all,

My brother and I have recently completed our long-term passion project, a game called Tales of Cosmos. It's an old-school point-and-click adventure, with gameplay similar to the Gobliiins series or Day of the Tentacle, set in an open world environment where you can fly around in a spaceship and discover various planets, moons, and other celestial objects. Of course, you can land on them and explore them too.

You control two characters, Perseus, a space dog, and Professor Gagayev, a space monkey. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and often you need to use both of their abilities to solve puzzles and find secrets.

If this sounds like a game you might be interested in, go ahead and check it out on Steam.

Unfortunately, GOG has rejected our application, which was a bit discouraging to me, because I've long known this community and what sort of games it typically likes to play, and I think our game could find a great home here.

If you would like to see Tales of Cosmos on here, please vote for it in the community wishlist: Tales of Cosmos

Thank you for your attention! Have some screenshots! :)

Looks good and interesting (it reminds me of Samorost somehow).

Anyway, if you want to provide a DRM-Free version, you can put your game on itch.io.

BTW, your link to the wishlist is broken, here's the correct one:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/tales_of_cosmos

Ah, you're right! Corrected. Thanks for the heads up.

Voted, looks very cute.

Hope your games does well:)

Voted! I hope that GOG reconsiders your game.

Looks nice. Voted!

Now crank out a Linux version and get it available outside of Steam (if not here, on Humble or itch.io), and you've got a sale too. :)

You should have made it a pixel graphics zombie survival game, then you'd get in no problem :P

Anyway, I voted for it. It looks very nice and I love point & clicks. Also, there is something about the phrase "Perseus, a space dog" that immediately made me gravitate (get it?) towards this game :D

Congrats to both you and your brother! Also, just voted on the wishlist, would love to see this come here

Thanks, everyone! It's great to feel the love. :)

Humblebundle also allows you to put drm-free builds, and I would appreciate that, as I'm starting to have quite a collection over there thanks to GOG's unpleasant curation system (or non-system). Unfortunately not many developers do it, so I end up having a big wishlist of indie games with only steam keys... that I'll never buy (I have them on the wishlist to remember the games, I to check if by any chance at some point any adds a drm-free installer). GOG has been rejecting point&click adventures (except those backed by publishers) for a long time now -the last one, Her Majesty's Spiffing, to be released on December, 7th, methinks). There were a bunch P&C accepted here around this date last year, but after that I don't remember any other featured here -with no publisher backing- apart from Dog Mendonça and maybe Kathy Rain (although that was very strongly linked to Wadjet Eye). Probably the tester that liked p&c left or something, as their turning on the genre is pretty disappointing.

And that's probably my biggest peeve right now with GOG. And it's a huge one.

It remind me of Samorost.
Voted

Btw title reminded me of a song from Rick and Morty.


The worlds can be one together
Cosmos without hatred
Stars like diamonds in your eyes
The ground can be space
With feet marching towards a peaceful sky
All the Moonmen want things their way
But we make sure they see the sun
Goodbye, Moonmen
We say goodbye, Moonmen
Goodbye, Moonmen
Goodbye, Moonmen
Oh, goodbye

We've been in talks with Humble, and we'll almost certainly get our game on there soon (no exact time table yet), and I'll be sure to upload a DRM-free build when we're there.

Ah, that's a shame. I've been wondering what their reasons were for rejecting us, as their responses were pretty vague. If they want the catalog to be less adventure-heavy, I suppose that's understandable, even if I personally don't like that decision.

Just wondering, did those vague responses include 'your game is too niche' or something to that nature?


PS: Any chance of a Linux version?

i didn't vote. i never voted for anything on this site - kinda like what the americans are saying about Donald Trump "not my president, still our nation". Trump is definitely a good man maybe your game too but i don't feel like voting ok? timppu said i'm mentally underage... :-/

They did say something along those lines in one response, as I recall. They also mentioned that they thought the production value was insufficient.
It's not currently in development, but we do plan to expand our platform options in the future. We'll look into it.