FINJI’s Usual June receives playable demo to celebrate the October Steam Next Fest

Finji :

Grand Rapids, Michigan - October 7th, 2024: FINJI, the award-winning development studio behind Usual June and publisher of TUNIC, Night in the Woods, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale, announced that their studio’s next internal game, Usual June, will be part of the Steam Next Fest demo selection, with a demo already available for the public.

Usual June is a new third-person action-adventure game announced last year at The Game Awards that the team at FINJI have been developing in-house.
  Watch the trailer revealed at the Game Awards here
Usual June is being led by Creative Director Adam Saltsman (Overland, Canabalt) and produced in collaboration with the narrative team at Sweet Baby Inc (Alan Wake 2,  God of War: Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2) and BAFTA-winning audio director Adam Hay (Dreams, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture). Play as June, a college student who can talk to ghosts, as you hang out with your new best friends, defend yourself against strange creatures, and try to uncover a Midwest city’s deepest secrets before it’s too late.

Players will delight in frantic, flexible combat, a witty cast (living and dead), and an original conspiracy story that is equal parts terrifying, funny, and sweet, with graphic novel-inspired storytelling in a full 3D game world.
 
Usual June is currently in development for PC for 2025, with a release date to be announced in the future. Players can wishlist the game now on Steam.

Find assets for Usual June here. More details about FINJI’s other projects here.

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About Finji
FINJI is an award-winning game studio founded by Adam and Rebekah Saltsman in 2006. FINJI is currently working Usual June, and you may know them from past titles including Overland and Canabalt. Previous publishing projects include Tunic, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Night in the Woods, and Wilmot's Warehouse. FINJI is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but works with collaborators from around the world. Follow FINJI on social media at @finjico.

About Sweet Baby Inc. 
Founded in 2018, Sweet Baby Inc. is a narrative development and consultation studio based in Montreal and working around the globe. Sweet Baby Inc. has since worked on over 70 game projects big and small, including Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake II, and Sable, acquiring a wealth of industry expertise from the best of the best. Their mission is to tell better, more empathetic stories while diversifying and enriching the video games industry. They aim to make games more engaging, more fun, more meaningful, and more inclusive, for everyone.

About Adam Hay 
Adam has described his job as ‘making the beep boops’. Adam’s very long list of audio games credits includes: Dreams, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Dear Esther: Remaster, LEGO Batman, LEGO Star Wars… and that’s not even half of them! When not behind the controls of a synth, he can usually be found daydreaming about being up a mountain with a snowboard or trying to learn jazz licks on the guitar. His website is https://www.unusualcadence.co.uk/