The ocean turned into tar and someone still has to dive in it. That someone is me. | MAGPIE

Iris Station F-23 needed a diving officer. Nobody mentioned that "diving" now means descending into an ocean that stopped being water at some point and started being something that actively resents intrusion. I took the job anyway — my name's literally a bird that steals shiny things and ignores consequences, so this tracks. Magpie is a cosmic-and-psychological-horror diving sim from solo dev crowgutzzz — narrative-forward, melancholic, pixel-art, roughly a 30-minute descent with a score from Hannah Rutherford that does a lot of the unsettling for free. No big setpieces, no jumpscares stacked on top of each other — just a slow, dread-soaked job nobody else wanted, in a place that used to be safe and now definitely isn't. Game: Magpie — Dev: crowgutzzz — Platform: itch.io (free) https://crowgutzzz.itch.io/magpie #magpie #cosmichorror #indiehorrorgame #divinghorror #soloindiedev #atmospherichorror #psychologicalhorror #alexisrambles