Slice your way through the stages of rot and search for someone lost in a world that is waiting to end.
WISHLIST ON STEAM
Slice your way through the stages of rot and search for someone lost in a world that is waiting to end.
WISHLIST ON STEAM
On Rot, Love and Places of no Return
Explore each disgusting stage of decay in this narrative RPG as you delve deep into the carcass of the world
Cut Through Rotting Flesh
Fight desperately through fast-pased nonogram puzzles to pull yourself free
To Save a Stranger
Face the fear that comes from knowing you have gone bad inside
Acknowledgement of Country
This project is made on the lands of the Wuwundjeri People who have cared for this country alongside the neighbouring Kulin Nations for over 60,000 years. We acknowledge their connection to this place and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, their continuous efforts to advocate for their land and people. Sovereignty was never seceded. Always Was, Always Will Be.
This project is made on the lands of the Wuwundjeri People who have cared for this country alongside the neighbouring Kulin Nations for over 60,000 years. We acknowledge their connection to this place and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, their continuous efforts to advocate for their land and people. Sovereignty was never seceded. Always Was, Always Will Be.
Development Team
Narrative Designer, Composer Sam Cheng (any pronouns)
Game Designer Max Elliott (he/they/it)
Background Artist Calliope Parsch (she/her)
Vocalist Friyana Madon (they/them)
Presskit
[Lead Developer]
Percy Harris
[Press Contact]
Percy Harris, unseconds@gmail.com
[Website]
putridsharp.cargo.site
[Socials]
@steam
@bluesky
@youtube
[Platforms]
Windows (Steam)
[Engine]
GameMaker Studio 2
[Key Dates]
Jan 2025 - Development Begins
July 2026 - Project Announcement at Frosty Games Festival
TBA - Game Release
[Producers & Funding]
Screen Australia Emerging Gamemakers Fund 2026
Vicscreen Victorian Production Fund 2026
[Pricing]
TBA
‘PUTRID/SHARP is an atmospheric horror/romance top-down RPG that features nonogram puzzle inspired combat.
Ode is working at a grocery store in downtown Melbourne when his co-worker, Eurydice, vanishes. Driven by a bond between them he can't yet describe, Ode finds himself traversing through a decomposing world to save him.
Meet characters grieving their own lives, cut through rotting flesh, and try to piece together what forms Ode's feverish forward momentum.’
Stages of Rot
Fresh, Bloat, Active Decay, Advanced Decay, Dry Remains.
Get intimate with the stages of rot, each their own form of warped and disgusting.
Puzzle Combat
There comes a point where it’s hard to make out what flesh is alive anymore, you’re going to need to figure out quickly through nonogram puzzle inspired combat mechanics.
On Rot, Love, and not Being Able to Look Back
PUTRID/SHARP is a linear narrative focused game, an elegy on internalized self-disgust and desire.
Project Background
Percy Harris is a game designer and illustrator with a passion for creating works about wanting to know or by known by others, having worked on a range of projects such as Who is Johnny Sixgun?, Andreas VII and Fog and Sea.
Originally conceived as a personal project, the PUTRID/SHARP team has since grown into a collaboration between a group of emerging gender-diverse creatives and game developers whose personal experiences further enrich the games story and themes of self image and identity.
PUTRID/SHARP is aproximately half-way through its development cycle having received funding for pre-production.
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