Geared Games Studio news

Did You Submit a Ticket? Simulator: trailer, Steam page and a Monday-only demo

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Steam page for Did You Submit a Ticket? Simulator is live, and you can wishlist it now.

What it is

It is a comedy office sim about a disgruntled IT admin whose only metric is portal compliance. Coworkers DM you increasingly unhinged emergencies. You stonewall them with canned policy until their Willpower breaks and they submit a formal ticket. Push too hard and their Rage hits 100%, and the IT Director joins the chat.

Trailer and screenshots

The trailer is on the game page, along with six screenshots captured from the game.

16 achievements

The first set of achievements is written and drawn. A few examples:

Ticket Received: make a coworker submit their first ticket.
Case of the Mondays: survive Monday.
Zero Escalations: finish a shift with 100% compliance and no escalations.
Probation Period: survive a full week of Endless mode.

Three are hidden, and we are not going to spoil those.

A Monday-only demo

The demo covers Monday. It is coming soon, and the demo page on Steam is already up if you want to follow it.

There is no release date yet.

Bound By Blood: a first look at our co-op horror game

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Bound By Blood is a dark, flashlight-focused co-op horror game about a cursed family estate.

You are hired to purify a property inherited by the last members of a doomed bloodline. Explore light-and-shadow environments, solve puzzles, find cursed artifacts, purify them through rituals, ward off a relentless demon and escape. We are starting with the family manor.

How it plays

Explore. Search the house, open drawers, find keys and solve the puzzles that lead to the artifacts.
Collect and purify. Carry cursed artifacts to their ritual sites. Each one is unique, with its own buffs and drawbacks.
Stay lucid. Lucidity drains under demonic influence. Lit candles create zones where it recovers.
Hide. Break line of sight and stay out of reach of what hunts you.
Play with friends. One to four players, through Steam. If you die, you continue as a ghost and keep helping the team.

Where it stands

The game is in development and has no release date yet. There is no Steam page yet, and a closed playtest will come before launch. Join the Discord to hear first.

Welcome to Geared Games

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

This is the new home of Geared Games.

We are an independent studio. Right now we are making these games:

Bound By Blood, a co-op horror game for one to four players.
Deadline, a puzzle-platformer where every move becomes permanent ink. It is out now on Steam.
Did You Submit a Ticket? Simulator, a comedy about working the help desk.
A Cap For That, a cozy gathering RPG where your hat is your class.
Divine Reliquary: Pudding’s Outrageous Tantrum, an isometric RPG.

What to expect here

We will post devlogs on this page whenever we have something worth showing. Each post is tagged with the game it is about, and every game page shows its own feed.

You can also follow along by RSS. The press kit is on the Press page.

Deadline: The Harvest Page, a free Friendsgiving update

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Deadline has a free update called The Harvest Page. It is our Friendsgiving event, and it is live now.

Twenty new pages

The update adds two new chapters and twenty new pages. Ten open on day one. The other ten open one a day, from November 17 to Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2026.

Six Harvest inks

Turkey, Pumpkin Pie, Cranberry, Maple, Acorn and Maize. Each one moves the same way as the other inks, so only the look changes. There are also eight Harvest accessories.

New rule twists

The weekly rule twists include Quick Dry, Night Shift, Moon Gravity and Short Supply.

Bring something to the table.

Deadline is out now on Steam for $6.99, and there is a free demo if you want to try it first.

Deadline: The Midnight Page

The Midnight Page is a free seasonal event for Deadline, and it is in every copy of the game.

Chapters VI and VII wait after the campaign. They add twenty pages of cobwebs, candy corn and jack-o'-lanterns on midnight paper, and a very small wisp that needs carrying home.

The two chapters are Trick or Treat and The Littlest Wisp.

The Corrections Update

The Editor has gone over every page. The big strokes:

The well is finite now. Past par you are drawing from a red reserve. Run it dry and the draft crumples. A bottomless-inkwell assist lives in Options.
Un-draw, rewritten. Hold to rewind: your character glides back, the line unwinds, and the ink flows back into the well. Three charges per page, now visible on the HUD.
Chapter one teaches. There is on-screen guidance across the first ten pages, a clearer ink and par readout, and medal targets you can actually see.
Midnight page. A dark theme for the menus, plus a paper-brightness slider for tired eyes.
Accessibility. Hazard color options (red, orange, violet, blue), reduced flashing, and a letter-spacing assist. Assisted runs keep your records but stay off the leaderboards, so the boards stay honest.
Cutscenes at reading speed. Captions hold long enough to read, and every scene can be skipped.
Faster to the ink. A Continue button on the shelf, snappier retries, and a victory screen that shows how you did against your best.
The Pen Case mirror. Watch your character idle in its ink, style and accessory as you pick.
Versus, kinder. Rematches work properly, a leaver sends you back to the lobby instead of the shelf, ping and match stats show on screen, and there is an invite button at the table.
The editor forgives. Undo and redo, autosave recovery, and overwrite protection. Community pages now carry ▲ upvotes and ✓ cleared stamps.

Every word of it, in all nine languages.

— The Editor

The Weekly Page

The leaderboards now turn a fresh page every week.

Every page has an all-time board and a This Week board. The This Week board is wiped clean every Monday at 03:00 UTC. First line on the page owns the week.

— The Editor