Planned Release Date: 2027

About This Game

Seven days. One desk. The last TV station in the country.

By day, you run the vision desk of the last local TV station in a small country. You cut between cameras, bleep the swearing, roll the ads, and keep the picture on air while your producer shouts in your ear and a government censor watches from the booth. By night, you go home to your family and listen to your own broadcast on the kitchen radio.

Then the war starts, on air.

What you do

• Direct the live broadcast. Cut to the right camera, bleep banned words, tune out interference, and fill every second. If nothing is on screen, that's dead air.

• Decide what the country sees. When the feeds fail and the sirens start, you get seconds to choose: the official line, a frightened man telling the truth, or the canned-food jingle.

• Go home. Share a meal, talk to your daughter, pack a bag, and listen to your day's broadcast come back through the radio, with your family reacting to what you put on air.

• Live with what you aired. Every choice carries forward. The shopkeepers, the neighbours, and the people who call in remember what you did, and your family sees it too.

Features

• Seven days and seven nights of story, with several different endings

• Hand-drawn pixel art in a living, changing studio, with damage that lasts

• A broadcast desk that starts gently and gets harder as the country falls apart

A note on content

Stay Tuned deals with war, censorship, and a family in danger. Nothing violent is shown on screen, and strong language is bleeped.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Stay Tuned is set in a fictional country on the brink of war and collapse. The themes are heavy: state censorship and propaganda, civil unrest and looting, air-raid sirens and distant explosions, power and food shortages, and a family trying to survive and possibly flee. A character mentions a dead spouse, and a character's parent is taken away by officials in some endings. Nothing violent is shown on screen: no gore, no blood, and no depiction of death. Strong language appears occasionally and is bleeped. There is no sexual content, nudity, drug or alcohol abuse, self-harm, or sexual assault.