Octopus City Blues

An octopus city simulation about everything and nothing. Check out the demo on Steam and consider adding it to your wishlist!
Brought to you by Ghost in a Bottle.

2025-06-21

8 out of 10 doctors recommend the Octopus City Blues demo to reduce stress, cure baldness, overcome arachnophobia, and learn the meaning of life in a post-tentacle world. Try it today!

itchio: ghost-in-a-bottle.itch.io/octo

GOG: gog.com/en/game/octopus_city_b

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/258

2025-06-21

Your stress level, influenced by your lifestyle and past choices, determines your options in tense situations. Be careful, though—chronic stress increases heart attack risk!

Learn to manage stress, ace job interviews and raise babies in our lengthy demo! 👇 #ScreenshotSaturday

2025-06-06

Octopus City Blues: the world's most authentic tentacle simulation software brought to you by the world's most unscrupulous corporation. Try the lengthy demo today!

itchio: ghost-in-a-bottle.itch.io/octo

GOG: gog.com/en/game/octopus_city_b

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/119

2025-06-06

Dear sir/madam/beetle at #PitchYaGame,

Regarding our upcoming shareware, we offer:

🐛Beautifully grotesque graphics
😰Rumor and stress management
🧞Unique NPCs with schedules and secrets
🤠Cowboys, spiders and slime babies

A demo is available on Steam for your consideration⬇️

2025-05-25

Octopus City Blues concept art by MarinaNT

Try the demo on Steam! (or GOG/itchio)

A painting of a weird looking character sitting on a pink tentacle and holding a flower pot with a small tentacle inside it.A painting of a bipedal "beetle" in soldier uniform and a gas mask holding a gun and leaning against a wall. There's a sign pointing to a "FACTORY" and another one in the opposite direction with the text "LOW".A painting of the main character sitting at a bar and facing a cyborg butler who is preparing a drink. There's an insect on the bar and another in one of the bottles behind the butler. One of the bottles has a ghost image on its label.A ballpoint pen drawing of a back alley area. Tentacles and a rat can be seen in the foreground. The main character is shown struggling to pull an unconscious man. There are tentacles and a building in the background, with graffiti of a cyborg and several broken windows.
2025-05-17

Try the demo! Survive a job interview! Raise a child! Fight delinquents! Crush insects! Solve a crime! Eat a burger! Explore the sewers! Learn to love yourself! Add to your wishlist!

itchio: ghost-in-a-bottle.itch.io/octo

GOG: gog.com/en/game/octopus_city_b

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/258

2025-05-17

The ingredients to our indie octo-sim:

🐙Freshly cut pixelated tentacles
🐞Seasoned cerebral ganglia
🐛 A pinch of grotesque absurdity
🐡 Stressful lies and rumors, to taste

Try the demo today, or die in obscurity!

2025-04-25

It will cost you $0 to Boost our work.🐙

A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. A dark office with a desk shaped like a game controller. A seated person is reading a newspaper across the desk, while two enforcers stand on each side. The main character faces the newspaper reader.A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character holds a knife and has their back to the viewer while challenging a clownish looking person with a slot machine on their chest.  At the top right, there are three identical faces representing the main character. A text box is shown with three choices: (the first one is selected)
"- (What do I do?)
- <Observe...>
- <Attack!>"A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. Six characters are standing a beach littered with green bugs and fortifications. There's a small steam boat on the left side. One of the characters is a beetle dressed in a purple army uniform, lying on their back. Three other beetle "soldiers" wearing a yellow/orange colored uniform, in addition to the main character, surround the one on ground. Finally, a lone beetle soldier in a cape stands apart looking at the looming towers in the reddish horizon.
2025-04-23

Solve this and other intractable dilemmas in Octopus City Blues, the authentic octopus metropolis simulation shareware. Try the demo today!
store.steampowered.com/app/119

2025-04-23

Beetles. How do they work?🪲

2025-04-18

#ConceptArt vs #PixelArt by MarinaNT86

Black and white concept art showing a giant, crowned insect in a room filled with egg sacks.A screenshot from Octopus City Blues where the main character, equipped with a baseball bat, faces a giant, angry insect.Black and white concept art showing different variations of an office room with two characters facing each other.A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character is seated in an office room, across the desk sits a bearded man wearing a green suit.
2025-04-11

How people describe our g̸a̸m̸e̸ octopus city simulation shareware:
- Who ever heard of a clownfish that does drugs?
- Sinister colors and toxic atmosphere
- If Disco Elysium and Monkey Island had a baby with Naked Lunch
- Truly unique and unlike anything I’ve played before

2025-03-31

@monilenyan That's the vibe we were going for, so I'm glad it worked. And don't worry, no real beetles were harmed in the making of this octopus city simulation!

2025-03-29

@technokrat Thanks for the kind words! It's an actual project in development. There's a demo available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/119

2025-03-29
2025-03-29

A stroll through the Robot Graveyard #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

2025-03-15

Marry tentacles. Scale tentacles. Combine tentacles. Lose tentacles. Harvest tentacles. Appease tentacles. Exploit tentacles. Defund tentacles. Tell tentacles that everything's gonna be okay #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character is examining a tentacle. The text "Daisy, my wife" is shown.A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. A large pink tentacle is shown, it has a singular eye staring at a falling child.A screenshot of the inventory screen in Octopus City Blues. The "Tentacle" item is selected. The description says "A slimy but noble appendage" and there are options to combine or drop the item.A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character is examining a poster. The following text is displayed: "Missing tentacle: Melody, age 2, purple. If found, contact Kaf Kafkaryan."
2025-02-08

Spread scandalous rumors, tell dirty lies, and become the city's ultimate gossipmonger in our weird tentacle simulation about everything and nothing! Try the demo today!

itchio: ghost-in-a-bottle.itch.io/octo
GOG: gog.com/en/game/octopus_city_b
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/258

2025-02-08

Talk to everyone to learn rumors and lies. People will remember what you share with them, and they might even tell their friends. Words have consequences, and manipulating the truth is the key to success! #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character is interacting with an NPC. The menu is open with the "Gossip" tab selected (the "Items" tab is grayed out), and a list of names are shown under "Gossip":
"Cruncher
Conman
Stinkdad
Hotmog Fan"
At the top of the screen the current date ("Cod Moon 6") and Time ("07:18 AM") are also displayed.A screenshot from the gossip menu in Octopus City Blues. The menu resembles an open book. The page on the right has a picture of a beetle in uniform with the following text under it:
"A poisoned soldier.
Garrulity: 0"

The left page is titled "KAPPA", and has the following text:
"Overview [Selected]
Evidence
Condition
Inheritance
Suspects"A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character is interacting with a clownish-looking NPC. The following text choices are displayed:
"About the chef...
The chef visits the sewers at night. [Selected]
Never mind."A screenshot from Octopus City Blues. The main character is interacting with a bartender. The following text is displayed:
"Chef
So, you're spreading some nasty rumors about me. Trust me, you'll regret this."

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