OBSCURA

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! I hope your Spooky Season has been a good one, full of tricks and/or treats as you see fit. October has been, as we hoped, quietly productive for us. While that doesn’t give us a ton of flashy things to announce or sh…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! Autumn is really starting to sweep in here in Sweden, lots of rain and cooler sunny days and autumn leaves and cinnamon rolls to enjoy! Spooky season is here and we are, in our own ways, thriving! Now, let’s look at w…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! Wowie did the back half of August fly by! Things are starting to stabilize here in our lovely raccoon den once again as work resumes for everyone and we settle into the final third of the year (which is full of things…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! Contra to what I've been constantly saying about July being vacation season here in Sweden, August is actually my vacation time, so you're getting this update after I finally got access to a computer once again! Still…

I did say we were going to talk about this more! Rotten Raccoons is pleased to share that we've been invited to team up with ten other gorgeous indie romance VNs for the month of July. The eleven games in the collection each explore embracing the unknown. As t…

Hello, hello to our beautiful raccoon friends! It’s been a glorious June (if a bit hot for a bit there!) with plenty to celebrate. So let’s talk about what’s happened here in the raccoon den, and what’s going to happen in the coming month! Events & Sales First…

Whew, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! We’ve all made it through May, which I would consider a massive success! What a beautiful, bananas month. I’ll be up front and say that this month’s update is very small, on account of everyone being crazy busy. Just f…

Hello, hello, my beautiful raccoon friends! It’s May, the sun is shining, the weather is warming up, and we just got off a wonderful long weekend! It’s been a busy month, though unfortunately not as much for raccoon-y reasons as we’d like. Still, let’s look at…

Hello, my beautiful raccoon friends! April is here and it is… cloudy! At least for this social media raccoon. Still, we can safely say that spring is here and it’s lovely. The update for this month is pretty short, for a couple of reasons, but there’s definite…

It’s been one heck of a February, hasn’t it? Something about it being the shortest month just makes it seem even more action-packed! So let’s talk about what happened this month, my beautiful raccoon friends! Francesco Chapter Two came out! Did you enjoy your …

Are you ready for a once-in-a-lifetime date with Francesco Sarri? Some of the fun you'll find in this new chapter of the Obscura story:34k words of new story with everyone's favourite sweetheart, Francesco4 new CGs courtesy of our master artist Mugi!More chanc…

Hello, my beautiful raccoon friends! After a relatively low-key but productive December, we started 2026 at an absolute sprint. With the script mostly complete, all four of us creatives were blasting through the last major chunk of work we needed to do at a cr…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! 2026 is here!! And while we weren’t able to accomplish everything we set out to do last year, we’re entering this new one full of ambition and optimism!December is typically a pretty quiet month for us, and this is no…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! November has been and gone and I don’t know about you, but it was a gloomy one here in Sweden. But right now the sun is shining (even if it’s gonna be setting by 16.00 🫠) and it’s a very special day for us!That’s rig…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! October was gone in an absolute flash, holy moly. I hope your season was spooky and your ween was hallowed as we barrel forward into the gloom of November! I do like the November gloom, but I am sick of the clock chan…

Hello, hello my beautiful raccoon friends! October is on us already, somehow, and we are enjoying the cooler days and opportunities to get warm and cosy. Sorry the delay on this post, for some reason the Scheduling Gods decided that everything important was go…

Hello, hello, my beautiful raccoon friends! There is a lot going on right now, so let’s chat about how August went (it was certainly a month!).More romance VN parties!Studio Élan is kindly hosting an event open to all romance-focused visual novels at the end o…

Hello, hello, my beautiful raccoon friends! I’ve said it for three July round-ups before \, and I’ll say it a fourth time: July is typically the month when Swedes take their summer vacations! But despite us getting chances for rest and relaxation, we’ve also g…

Thanks to the amazing work of Cajsa Larsson, the composer for OBSCURA, the game's soundtrack is now available to purchase here on Steam! It currently has 30 minutes of original music, arranged for the album format. Cajsa's work on OBSCURA has been invaluable f…