Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!
Wanderstop developer Ivy Road is shutting down
This news is a serious bummer. I really enjoyed Wanderstop, a game about stopping to smell the roses, even when life is coming at you fast and hard. It was actually in my top games for 2025. But the studio has struggled to find a publishing partner for its next game (Wanderstop’s publisher is Annapurna Interactive), Engine Angel, and no longer has the funding to continue.
According to the closure announcement, one last surprise is coming for Wanderstop; Annapurna will announce the details at a later date. The studio also wants to make it possible for future players to skip chapters if they get stuck or would like to revisit one in specific. There is a code to input that opens up a Chapter Select screen: UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, B (RMB), UP, RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT, UP, B (RMB), UP, DOWN, UP.
The development studio ends its announcement with the message at the core of Wanderstop: “drink tea, make sure to rest, and take time to pet the pluffins.”
Bluey’s Happy Snap announced for PC and consoles
Family-friendly photography game Bluey’s Happy Snap has been announced as a premium title with no in-game purchases or online play. In the game, Bluey and Bingo head off on a family trip after finding Dad’s old camera. Explore Bluey’s home and other iconic locations while snapping photos, decorating scrapbooks, and uncovering surprises. The game is set to launch digitally later this year for PC and all major consoles. Physical editions will also be available for certain consoles.
Several locations make their video game debut in Bluey’s Happy Snaps. Here is Gameloft’s description of some locales:
Hop aboard the ferry to The Park (as seen in “Spy Game”), chase cheeky bin chickens at South Bank (featured in the episode “Ice Cream”), or admire the stunning lookout view from “The Sign”, Bluey’s biggest episode ever! Each area is brimming with Australian wildlife, from colourful lorikeets to adorable koalas and many more species posing for their picture-perfect moment.
And here are the game’s key features, also via Gameloft:
- Explore beloved locations from Bluey, with debut places featured in episodes like Ice Cream and The Sign.
- Capture and collect hundreds of stickers and decorations using your camera to create a one-of-a-kind Bluey scrapbook.
- Keep the fun going into the real world through “Play for Real Life” activities, supporting well-being in digital play.
- Share the adventure (and the fun!) side-by-side in “Cooperative Play.”
Developed by Gameloft Brisbane and published by Gameloft, Bluey’s Happy Snap will be released for PC via Steam/Epic/Microsoft, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch 2, Switch, Xbox Series, and Xbox One later this year. Physical editions will be available for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, Switch, and Xbox Series.
Nippets launches via Steam next week
In hand-drawn hidden objects game Nippets, players pet cats, shake trees, peek through windows and discover a delightful world filled with secrets and stories. The game already has over 100,000 downloads via itch.io, and is set to fully launch for PC via Steam in early April.
Players explore hand-drawn 2D maps while searching for lost items and solving tiny puzzles. Everything is responsive in this living world: shake trees from side to side, startle birds from lamp-posts, beep the horn on a garbage truck, etc. Solving puzzles unlocks new areas, with each map having a few explorable places. Each solution tells a story that builds up as the game is played.
From Blink Industries, art director Frederikke Frydenlund, and development company Uwu Biz, Nippets will be released for PC via Steam on April 7.
Juufuutei Raden’s Guide for Pixel Museum and Logiart Grimoire are coming to Xbox
Jupiter Corporation is bringing two of its already-existing nonogram games to Xbox Series and Xbox One: Juufuutei Raden’s Guide for Pixel Museum and Logiart Grimoire.
Juufuutei Raden’s Guide for Pixel Museum has players solving artwork puzzles while supervised by Juufuutei Raden of the unit ReGLOSS—part of the VTuber group hololive DEV_IS under the umbrella of hololive production. The puzzles relate to themes of arts, crafts, and culture. There are also puzzles based on Juufuutei Raden.
In Logiart Grimoire, there’s more of a story. You’ve taken hold of the Logiart’s grimoire, and meet its custodian Emil. Work together to restore the magic book, solving the Logiart puzzles and fusing cleared problems to create new ones.
Developed and published by Jupiter Corporation, Juufuutei Raden’s Guide for Pixel Museum will be released for PC via Microsoft. Xbox Series, and Xbox One on April 1. Logiart Grimoire will be released for PC via Microsoft. Xbox Series, and Xbox One on April 2. Both are currently available for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.
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