Hi everyone,

What a year it's been for our little studio. We continue to be blown away by the reception for Phoenix Springs. It was always going to be an experiment and the results and your praise have convinced us that we might be building in the right direction.

From the bottom of our hearts, a huge thank you to everyone who has played, streamed, written about and thought about our game ❤️.

Here are a few selected appearances on Best Games of 2024 lists.

The mystery of Phoenix Springs is a haunted illusion. Calligram Studio has made a poetic dreamscape disguised as an adventure game.

PopMatters – The 24 Best Video Games of 2024

The result is a supple, modern take on the genre governed by a free-associative dream logic. Like an arthouse movie, don’t expect this unsettlingly beautiful game to answer every one of its tantalizing questions.

Vulture – The Best Video Games of 2024

I’ve never encountered a game quite like Phoenix Springs. I’ve played point-and-click adventures, sci-fi mysteries and narrative games, but I’ve never seen one that sounds this luscious, looks this dramatic or plays this hypnotically.

Engadget's Games of the Year 2024

Proof that the point and click genre is alive and well in 2024, Phoenix Springs offers a sleek, modern mystery for puzzle fans to sink their teeth into.

Game Of The Year Editor’s Pick, 2024 - Meg Pelliccio

It’s surreal, stylistically unique, excellently voice acted, and plays with conventions of the genre.

Game Of The Year Editor's Pick, 2024 - Tessa Kaur

Over the years, I’ve found that ‘Lynchian’ is often used by critics as shorthand for ‘a bit weird’ and maybe also ‘I didn’t fully understand it’. In any case, this is one of the few games that properly earns that descriptor.

Chris Schilling – My Top Video Games of 2024

Calligram Studio’s noir-soaked adventure is one of at least two games I’ve played this year (the other being the deservedly award-winning detective visual novella No Case Should Remain Unsolved) that understand that the inner workings of the human brain are really fucking weird.

Start Menu – Chris Schilling's Favourite Things From The Year

But it’s up to you to join the dots: much like David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, nothing is spelt out here, and the appeal comes from pondering what it all means.

The Guardian – The video games you may have missed in 2024

See you again with a new game in 2025?

Calligram x