OneShot developer’s next game is a ‘gardening-themed mystery adventure’

Future Cat Games, the developer behind 2016 puzzle-adventure OneShot, has officially revealed its new project. Next up is Margin of the Strange, which is set to make its full trailer debut along with a Kickstarter campaign on May 21.

Ahead of that full trailer reveal, Future Cat Games shared a fittingly enigmatic teaser: 

Steam wishlisting has yet to go live at the time of this writing, but we at least know a little about the story and style thanks to the official website. Margin of the Strange follows a young man named Ling who is, for all intents and purposes, a first-time dreamer. As he ventures into this dreamworld, he discovers a unique alien ecosystem with its own physical laws. It’s here that he must explore the mysteries within and, over the next six weeks, learn more about his life and death. 

Future Cat bills Margin of the Strange as a “gardening-themed mystery exploration game,” which sounds about right given that brief story description. Ling is a moth-like character, and as such one of the things you can do in the game is “stare at lamps and drink sugar water (moth things).” You can also make friends to gather further information and grow plants to “reverse local entropy.”

Developed in GameMaker, Margin of the Strange currently has no release date in place. According to the site’s history section, it all started as NightMargin’s personal project that was first conceived over 10 years ago. This version of the game has been in the works since 2021, and will be able to enter full-time development if the crowdfunding is successful. We should learn more once the Kickstarter goes live, so keep an eye on the page if you want to further explore this particular moth garden mystery.