Timeline
The history of Yarn Spinner - releases, games, and milestones.
Yarn Spinner v0.9
First public release
Night in the Woods
A narrative adventure about a college dropout returning to her rust belt hometown
Frog Detective
A comedy adventure about a detective who is a frog, solving mysteries with charm and wit
Yarn Spinner v1.0
Major stable release
Robot Island
A visual novella about accompanying a lonely spaceship captain on a solo voyage
Welcome to Elk
A narrative adventure game blending true stories told by real people with inventive gameplay on a fictional island
CRASH: Autodrive
A hit-and-run mystery where you're the driver and everyone's a suspect, including your car
Greak: Memories of Azur
A puzzle platformer where you play three characters with synergistic abilities
Button City
A colorful adventure about a group of friends trying to save their community arcade
Yarn Spinner v2.0
Complete rewrite with new features
Yarn Spinner v2.1
NORCO
A sci-fi Southern Gothic point-and-click exploring sinking suburbs and industrial swamps
Yarn Spinner v2.2
South of the Circle
An emotional narrative experience with a deep multi-layered cinematic story
Outcore: Desktop Adventure
An adventure game about befriending a lost girl who lives on your desktop
Yarn Spinner v2.3
Venba
A narrative cooking game about family, love, and loss told through South Indian cuisine
Yarn Spinner v2.4
Lil' Guardsman
A narrative deduction adventure where a 12-year-old guards the castle gate
Neo Harbor Rescue Squad
A paramedic action drama with frantic minigames and a wild, funny story
Yarn Spinner v2.5
Rift of the NecroDancer
A rhythm-based action game where you battle monsters through musical combat
Afterlove EP
A slice-of-life adventure about love, loss and finding your own way forward
Cabernet
A 2D narrative about a vampire living in a 19th-century Eastern European-inspired world
Merchants of Rosewall
A shopkeeper sim in a fantasy world where weapons and war are a thing of the past
A Dream About Parking Lots
An interactive short story about trying to make sense of the unreal
ENA: Dream BBQ
An episodic adventure guiding a two-sided protagonist through surreal environments
Yarn Spinner v3.0
Next generation release
Breadleg
An absurdist comedy game about running round a scottish village as a piece of bread with legs
Panta Rhei - Guardian of Time
An adventure rogue-lite where you bend time to defeat chaos creatures
Tiny Bookshop
An ambient narrative management game about running a tiny bookshop by the sea
The Rogue Prince of Persia
A roguelite platformer where every death is a unique chance to rewrite fate, save Persia or die trying
Letters to Arralla
A mail delivery adventure through a whimsical world inspired by the Victorian coast
Goodnight Universe
A narrative adventure about a psychic baby navigating family woes and corporate evil
Yes, My Queen
A chess roguelite where you must play cards, bend rules, and save your Queen
Sweet Leaves
An animated novel that tells a queer slice-of-life story about found family
Yarn Spinner v3.1
Skate Story
A skateboarding game where you are a demon in the Underworld, made out of glass and pain
Cozy Caravan
A gentle journey crafting meals and goods to help prepare for the annual Fair
Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim
A feminist, management-lite narrative game about a struggling punk rock band
Polyarmory: High Calibre Love
A dating sim about a prepper who can suddenly talk to (and flirt with) his guns
Yarn Spinner v3.2
Descriptive line IDs, escaped colons, enum parameters, editor overhaul
Star Trek: Infection
A VR survival horror adventure aboard the U.S.S. Lumen where you face an otherworldly threat
Burger Bois
A food truck simulator focused on creative burger design, where you craft custom sandwiches based on customer preferences
Capy Castaway
A cozy adventure about a capybara pup and a clever crow working together after a devastating flood
Dead Watch
A time-loop murder mystery where you use remembered knowledge to alter the timeline
Doggy Don't Care
A cute mischief sim where you play a naughty pug and trash your house
Dunderbeck
An inventory management battler where you can weaponize, grind up, or eat anything
GO PHISH
A roguelite card battler about phishing strangers via online cards to pay your bills
Heretic Red
A card-based murder mystery about a monk-turned-detective in an isolated snowy village
How Was Your Day?
A supernatural point-and-click thriller about a teen in a town full of secrets
I Feel Fine
The meteorite will hit your space station in 3 days, and you're bolted to the floor. Can you convince someone to free you?
Imprinted
A psychological fakeOS thriller where you restore corrupted cassette tapes from a mysterious 1970s musician
Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch)
An escape room puzzler about a renter at the mercy of a domineering landlord
Mayor May Knott
A creepy-cozy 3D adventure about a shy girl who accidentally becomes mayor of a haunted ghost town
My Arms Are Longer Now
A 2D stealth-comedy game where you play as a long-armed thief completing heists
Nullstar Solus
A precision 2D platformer where you pilot a drone through meticulously designed sci-fi challenges
Project Lexa
A sci-fi language mystery about deciphering an alien glyph language to uncover the fate of a missing colony
ShelfLife: Art School Detective
A detective dating sim where you investigate art theft while building relationships with the suspects
Slumbering Woods
A cosy exploration adventure where you grow plants to solve puzzles