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Ted Litchfield

19 September 2025

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In a new trailer at the Six One Indie Showcase, Origame Digital showed off its first trailer for Penguin Colony, a horror game where you play as a little penguin, and the studio revealed that the game will be anchored by a performance from Lenval Brown, the narrator of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut.

We got the first screenshots and pitch for Penguin Colony back in June: A reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, told from the perspective of a penguin. The original story centers on the discovery of an impossible lost city in the Antarctic and, it must be said, is told from the perspective of a Miskatonic University guy who goes crazy from all the alien stuff, not a penguin. Miskatonic U. faculty were some of Howard Philips Lovecraft’s favorite guys to drive cuckoo, you see.

Penguin Colony Trailer | Six One Indie Showcase: September 2025 – YouTube

The game’s narrator, Howard Blakely, is a new character played by Brown, speaking to the penguin protagonist over vast distances⁠—though he’s still a Miskatonic man. “Our narrator is part of an expedition which has gone horribly wrong,” Penguin Colony’s Steam page explains. “Having been called by the old ones, his brain no longer experiences time linearly. Past, present and future have become one for him. The only thing who can hear his cry for help is you, a penguin awoken by a flare in the distance.”

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The end of the trailer gives us a peek at one of the unholy monstrosities we can expect to find under the ice, and while things never turn out well for ole’ HPL’s human protagonists, I’m still holding out hope that nothing bad happens to the sweet little penguins.
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Origame’s debut took home the IGF’s Excellence in Narrative and Seumas McNally Grand Prize at GDC 2021, and their future work has always been something worth keeping an eye on. Penguin Colony currently has no set release date, but you can wishlist it over on Steam. In the meantime, if you’d like to hear more of narrator Lenval Brown’s signature growl, check out PC Gamer’s documentary series Tales From the Hard Drive, which he hosted.

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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch. You can follow Ted on Bluesky.

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