Obscure Setting

Welcome to Obscure Settling 

You’ve just arrived in a quiet town where nothing quite makes sense, and that’s okay. The homes are shaped like loaves of bread, the locals include a toaster with a nightlife alter ego and a lantern haunted by past mistakes, and the town square smells vaguely of flour and static electricity. 

Obscure Settling is a narrative-driven life sim where the focus is on talking, listening, and connecting. You are the only organic being in a village of sentient objects. 

Get to know your odd neighbours, take on tasks, and uncover the town’s surprisingly emotional secrets through branching conversations and worldbuilding quirks.

 Features - A surreal but grounded life-sim world filled with sentient objects as villagers. 

- 10+ deeply designed NPCs with unique homes, personalities, and dialogue themes. 

- Slow-life gameplay centred around exploration, character relationships, and quests.

 - Obscure humour, strange world events, and narrative depth inspired by games like OMORI and Animal Crossing. 

- Distinct visual style with charming character art and surreal home environments. Development Notes This is an early-stage collaborative prototype. 

Roaster Toastinette (Toaster) By day, Roaster Toastinette is a grumbling, crusty cynic who loafs about the town square grumbling about everything from sports to doctors. But come nightfall, something changes. He becomes pensive, poetic even, obsessed with bread-making and the warm comfort it brings. His house, narrow and overflowing with flour sacks and half-eaten loaves, smells like a bakery run by someone who's never quite happy with the recipe. He despises beans with an irrational passion and insists they’re a culinary curse. Approach him carefully, but not with legumes. 

Lantorton Candlelight (Lantern) Cursed with an uncontrollable blaze of emotion, Lantorton hides away in the cliffs above town in a fortress of fireproof memorabilia and decorative deterrents. To most, he’s cold, antisocial, and intense. But his friends know better, or did, before the accidents. When his temper flares, his head ignites into a tornado of flame. He uses stoicism as a shield, but beneath it lies guilt, loneliness, and a longing for connection. Just don’t make him angry. Seriously. Don’t. 

Pixie (TV) Pixie used to be someone, or at least, someone who played someone on TV. Now, he scours the scrapyards of his past fame, building a home out of metal, reruns, and 32,456 spare parts of himself. Cheerful and quirky, Pixie masks his fragility with noise and nostalgia. He’s a one-man broadcast network obsessed with commercials, sitcoms, and the strange poetry of static. Chat with him and you might become part of the next plot twist. 

Gabbie Gloves (Game Controller) Quiet, twitchy, and misunderstood, Gabbie lives between the town square and the streaming alleyways of the metro district. Her ears, controller grips, pick up even the softest whisper, which makes socialising overwhelming. Many assume she’s aloof or unfriendly, but those who take time to know her discover a tender soul brimming with affection. A favourite guest on Wattonette Tap’s streams, she’s beloved by the internet, if not always understood in real life. 

Spring Ring (Onion) Spring Ring might look like the mascot for a flower festival, but don’t be fooled, there’s a twinkle of chaos in her eye. One moment she’s talking about kittens and teddy bears, the next she’s describing rituals involving weedkiller and retro horror films. She’s warm, yes. She’s also unpredictable, unnerving, and obsessed with the paranormal. Her minimalist wooden house smells faintly of chemicals and feels a little too clean. You might leave with goosebumps, or gardening advice. 

Pannie Sprout (Lily Pad) The sunniest villager by far, Pannie Sprout bounces through life with a cheeriness so intense it’s… suspicious. She forgives easily, forgets quickly, and never lets the mask slip, if it even is a mask. Whether she’s DJing at a town party or enthusiastically watering the same plant three times, she’s an unstoppable force of positivity. But some say they've seen her frown… once. Near the river, under the moon. She smiled again right after, though. Right? 

Wattonette Tap (Faucet) Internet famous and completely unfiltered, Wattonette Tap streams 20 hours a day and spends the other 4 sleeping under her desk. With a flying drone phone called the Rotoxphone and a tech hoard that makes gadget magazines weep, she lives for likes, views, and high frame rates. Rent? Bills? Nutrition? Not her thing. Her house is a shrine to the algorithm, loud, chaotic, and probably overheating. Say hi and you’ll likely be on her next livestream thumbnail. 

Hi Chewy Cabelino (Electric Cable) Hi Chewy is electricity incarnate, loud, crackling, and dangerously fair. To him, every favour is a contract, and every act of kindness demands payment in full. He’s not evil, just… intense. After one too many exchanges gone wrong (including a cliffside rescue gone morally sideways), he’s gained a reputation as the town's most demanding and volatile resident. His home pulses with power, and tension. Be polite, and maybe bring a gift. Just in case. 

App Len (Apple Boy) App Len is the first face you’ll see in Obscure Settling, and the one most likely to be hiding in the bushes with a slingshot. Childlike and endlessly curious, he’s the unofficial information broker of the town, though he insists he’s just helping. Known to pop balloons mid-air to retrieve mysterious gifts and eavesdrop his way into everyone’s business, App Len is a wellspring of secrets and surprises. Befriend him, and you’ll never be bored, or alone. 

Teana Boils (Teacup) Teana lives to serve, and she’ll tell you that, while balancing a tray, correcting your posture, and insisting you drink your latte with pinkies raised. Elegant to a fault and deeply obsessed with etiquette, she believes she can transform the town into a vision of high society, one refined resident at a time. Her “eyes” are rare coffee beans, and her tears are espresso-grade gifts. Don’t cross her, or you’ll be demoted to ‘instant’.

The game will be expanded and refined in future development phases. Current assets are concept-focused, feedback and support are welcome!