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FEEDSTOCK Reveals Its Steam Store Page: The More You Carry, the Bigger Your Partner Gets—and the Harder It Is to Retreat (translated)

Player agency: how policy constrains it, how the industry shapes it, how narrative design realizes it.

4Gamer.net Original language: 日本語

Ahaha studio revealed FEEDSTOCK’s Steam store page on September 6, with a planned release in October 2026. It is a first-person cooperative horror game for up to four players. Players feed recovered items to their companion, Tally, in exchange for materials, which can then be sold to expand their equipment; but the more Tally eats, the larger it becomes, so a door it could pass through on the way in may be impossible to pass through on the way back. Making it spit out some of the items also costs corresponding resources. The game supports proximity voice chat and requires a microphone because Tally follows players who are speaking. There are four types of enemies inside, each responding to a different noise threshold. The game provides no weapons, and enemies cannot be knocked down.

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戦利品は胃袋で運べ。回収するほど“インベントリ役”の相棒が巨大化し,撤退に制限がかかる4人協力ホラー「FEEDSTOCK」,Steamページを公開

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This design turns the desire to take “just one more” into a risk the whole team has to share. Players can gamble for more resources, while still retaining the right to leave. The cost stays inside the game world instead of being imposed through an external notification telling players to come back.

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Correction FEEDSTOCK Reveals Its Steam Store Page: The More You Carry, the Bigger Your Partner Gets—and the Harder It Is to Retreat (translated)

更正:原摘要把已確認支援的近距離語音寫成預計支援,並稱來源尚未交代關卡、資源或撤離規則,實際上來源已載明發售期、開發商、素材與裝備循環、吐出物品的代價、四種敵人與無武器設計。

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