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Steam News13 January 20265mo ago

Finch & Archie Early Access!!!

It’s finally time - Finch & Archie is officially being released into Early Access! The release is NOW LIVE for the last half of Steam's Detective Fest!!! Shout out to Steam for such a good opportunity!

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addedAs stated on our store page, we’ll be in Early Access for about a year while we work on adding more story content. This will include two brand new cases to solve, each with their own unique crime scene to investigate and cast of characters to interrogate! We’ll also be further developing Finch & Archie’s relationship while advancing the overarching narrative involving The Jackal.
addedEach new case will be released as and when it is ready, so you won’t be waiting an entire year for new content. In the meantime, enjoy the current Early Access content, and help us out by giving us your honest feedback so that we can continue to refine the gameplay experience for your enjoyment!

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addedAs stated on our store page, we’ll be in Early Access for about a year while we work on adding more story content. This will include two brand new cases to solve, each with their own unique crime scene to investigate and cast of characters to interrogate! We’ll also be further developing Finch & Archie’s relationship while advancing the overarching narrative involving The Jackal.
addedEach new case will be released as and when it is ready, so you won’t be waiting an entire year for new content. In the meantime, enjoy the current Early Access content, and help us out by giving us your honest feedback so that we can continue to refine the gameplay experience for your enjoyment!

It’s finally time - Finch & Archie is officially being released into Early Access!

The release is NOW LIVE for the last half of Steam's Detective Fest!!! Shout out to Steam for such a good opportunity!

Also, the game will be available at a 15% discount for the first week!

As stated on our store page, we’ll be in Early Access for about a year while we work on adding more story content. This will include two brand new cases to solve, each with their own unique crime scene to investigate and cast of characters to interrogate! We’ll also be further developing Finch & Archie’s relationship while advancing the overarching narrative involving The Jackal.

Each new case will be released as and when it is ready, so you won’t be waiting an entire year for new content. In the meantime, enjoy the current Early Access content, and help us out by giving us your honest feedback so that we can continue to refine the gameplay experience for your enjoyment!

Early Access will include the Prologue, “Barking Up the Wrong Alley”, as well as Episode 1, “A Shot in the Bark”. Round up your partner and play as either Finch or Archie to solve these mysteries together!

We are beyond excited to have reached this point, and can’t wait to see what everyone thinks. It’s been an incredible journey developing our first serious game - to all our supporters and playtesters, if you’re reading this, we couldn’t have made it here without you. Thank you so much!!

If you want to be part of our community and keep up to date with what’s going on with Finch & Archie’s development, as well as Octarine Arts in general, you can:

Your support and feedback are invaluable to us. It’s how we stay motivated and how understand what we are doing right or wrong. Please don’t hesitate to jump in somewhere and say hey! We would love to hear from you.

Thanks for reading, and we hope you are as excited for Early Access as we are. Now let’s go solve some murders!

-The Octarine Arts team ⋮3

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Steam News / 13 January 2026

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