The year’s best puzzle game just landed on Switch, so you have no excuse to skip it TR-49's code-cracking deduction will keep you up at night

TR-49's code-cracking deduction will keep you up at night

TR-49 for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Buy TR-49 and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

Our acclaimed narrative deduction / audio drama, TR-49, is out now on Nintendo Switch!

Sadly, some performance issues have been found in the later part of the game that weren't evident on the dev hardware we used for testing. We've submitted an expedited patch to fix it. Blasted vacuum tubes!

We got an opportunity to speak with @skunkapegames.com about their remake of Poker Night at the Inventory (which comes out tomorrow!). We also go deep into the history of the original game's development and Telltale as a whole. Check it out!
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Thank you for having us on! It was fun chatting with you. ❤️

Narrative game devs & marketers! I want to talk to you about marketing narrative games for a video. I've already set up a couple of chats, but would love to hear from a few more ppl.

If you're down to answer a few questions, on-cam or otherwise, DMs are open! So is my email exalclaw[at]gmail.com!

(Sorry I just "well actually"-ed you on Bluesky. 😂)

70¢ more expensive, actually. Someone can find this much in their couch cushions.

My literal favourite thing about running a small studio: we can make things better overnight.

- If you found the TR-49 screen uncomfortable to read / focus-on, try the new Reduce Glitches setting; it's significantly crisper / easier to read.

- And if you hate helpful games, try Reduce Hints mode.

Fake news and podcast drama led to one of 2026's first great games What started as a library card mystery ended up being Inkle's best game launch yet

TR-49 is Inkle's best launch ever. Insightful commentary on the power of words. And proof that big budgets aren't what make games good

Not bad for a project that started life as a throwaway idea Inkle never planned to sell

www.polygon.com/inkle-tr-49-...

Can't remember the exact phrase, but there was a line about how the soldier shot Liam and some of his blood might have gotten into Abbi's hair.

This 96%-rated WW2 game is perfect for Steam Deck, so why isn't it verified? I played the entirety of Alan Turing-inspired, enigma-cracking war game TR-49 on my Steam Deck, but it's not verified for some reason.

Does TR-49 work on Steam Deck? Here's an entire article about how, yes, it does work on Steam Deck, via @pcgamesn.com

Go play TR-49, it's a crunchy little treat that will unfurl inside your brain with the vibes of a mandela effect you invited in.
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I don't understand what Emily means. It's all true.

And then @jon.inkle.co took that idea and ran with it -- to be honest I still don't know how much of it is true and what he made up. 😅

For me, one thing that made this a great launch was how we teased it, blurring the lines of reality and fiction in the marketing.

I'd spent the summer going down the rabbit hole of My Chemical Romance's Black Parade tour & loved the idea of creating a sort of ARG around the game launch.

TR-49 is a harrowing deduction game for a harrowing moment It's all about cracking codes and unraveling a political mystery.

In TR-49, a record of history is so distorted and revised by language that figuring out the truth becomes a puzzle. Will historians be able to figure out what is happening to us today when we’ve trained ourselves to speak in careful codes? My review. www.polygon.com/tr-49-review/

TR-49 - Official Trailer YouTube video by inkleStudios

TR-49: OUT NOW

Narrative deduction / audio drama

"Outstanding" - PC Gamer
"Politically fierce" - Polygon
"One of the best" - Thinky Games
"I wanted to know everything" - RPS
"Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer

$6.99 / ~6 hours

Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk
iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7

The embargo on TR-49 reviews lifted 30 minutes ago and I'm sitting here reading the first reviews thinking, "I can't wait until @inkle.co wakes up."

24 hours from now we will release the works of Pemberton, Kendrick, Silverton and the rest into the world. We have no idea what the consequences will be.

We have every reason to believe that when this happened before, it was seismic.

Good luck.

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Expelled! is one of the @theguardian.com top 15 switch games to play this year. Or now. You could also play it, right now. (and it’s on sale on steam for another few hours)

for normal, not-sad reasons, it would be cool to hear if anyone is looking for freelance coverage of games like TR-49, Cairn, or Perfect Tides: Station to Station when they're out!

Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or luke@aftermath.site, thank you!

btw indies, you should really hire @thisisstar.bsky.social if you can for trailers - her trailer for TR-49 is up on GameTrailers where it has 10x the views of anything released around the same time (except, I think, Warhammer). And for a game which is *really* hard to trailer too...

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En streaming gratuit sur France Télévisions jusqu’au 10 janvier : "Jordan, itinéraire d’un pionnier du jeu vidéo", documentaire de 52 minutes.📽Il retrace mon parcours de la création de jeux vidéo dans les 1980 à mes BD en France aujourd’hui. www.france.tv/documentaire...

Hi Amanda, I actually sent you one yesterday! Check your spam folder? If it's not there, shoot an email to pr@inklestudios.com and we'll get it figured out.

TR-49 - Official Trailer YouTube video by inkleStudios

🚨⚠️ Release Date Disclosure! ⚠️🚨

TRAILER: VIDEO EVIDENCE, see below. Please watch, assimilate and share.

DESIGNATION: TR-49
GENRE: NARRATIVE DEDUCTION / AUDIO_DRAMA
DATE: 21st JANUARY
PLATFORMS: iOS / PC / Mac / Deck

This is what we know, so far.

Just in: we've received the necessary declassification paperwork related to the more sensitive materials we're in possession of.

We should be able to show more details of the TR-49 device as soon as tomorrow.

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Hello to all my new followers! I am Harrison, a Narrative Designer & Writer who has worked on a bunch of things across my career including The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, Diablo IV and the Rime update for Myst (2020). I'm currently looking for work so DM me if you'd like to chat!

i just tried the machine we built and out of nowhere it did this