Ric Cowley
@riccowley.bsky.social
PR Manager @ Secret Mode (Still Wakes the Deep & Siren's Rest, A Little to the Left, much more). Game writer (Idol Manager, Lovingly Evil). Bi. Wife guy. He/him.
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Your #CozyQuest2025 schedule is here!
We kick off with the Opening Showcase on Monday, followed by three days of the coziest games around— developer interviews, playthroughs, panels and more!
And then to cap it all off...
We kick off with the Opening Showcase on Monday, followed by three days of the coziest games around— developer interviews, playthroughs, panels and more!
And then to cap it all off...
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your #CozyQuest2025 schedule is here!
We kick off with the Opening Showcase on Monday, followed by three days of the coziest games around— developer interviews, playthroughs, panels and more!
And then to cap it all off...
We kick off with the Opening Showcase on Monday, followed by three days of the coziest games around— developer interviews, playthroughs, panels and more!
And then to cap it all off...
Why is everyone talking about a Daft Punk album track
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Why is everyone talking about a Daft Punk album track
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It's getting colder but never fear... the coziest event of the year is almost here! ✨
Cozy Quest returns for 2025 on November 17, bringing you discounts, reveals, developer interviews, the Cozy Quest awards and more! And with almost 300 games taking part, it's the biggest one yet!
#CozyQuest2025
Cozy Quest returns for 2025 on November 17, bringing you discounts, reveals, developer interviews, the Cozy Quest awards and more! And with almost 300 games taking part, it's the biggest one yet!
#CozyQuest2025
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's getting colder but never fear... the coziest event of the year is almost here! ✨
Cozy Quest returns for 2025 on November 17, bringing you discounts, reveals, developer interviews, the Cozy Quest awards and more! And with almost 300 games taking part, it's the biggest one yet!
#CozyQuest2025
Cozy Quest returns for 2025 on November 17, bringing you discounts, reveals, developer interviews, the Cozy Quest awards and more! And with almost 300 games taking part, it's the biggest one yet!
#CozyQuest2025
In case anyone has ever doubted my credentials as a fan of Island Saver by Natwest
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In case anyone has ever doubted my credentials as a fan of Island Saver by Natwest
Come one come all and work within my team (two days a week in Leamington required)
Let's kick off the week with something exciting: another open role at Secret Mode!
We're looking for a Social Media & Community Manager to strategise and deliver social content, and forge and oversee the community for a single, major project.
Apply here:
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
#GameJobs
We're looking for a Social Media & Community Manager to strategise and deliver social content, and forge and oversee the community for a single, major project.
Apply here:
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
#GameJobs
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Come one come all and work within my team (two days a week in Leamington required)
We're hiring for a fuckload of jobs at the mo. There's a Social Media job open as well. Could be a cool time to join. Idk I've been on holiday for a week.
We have another two new open roles at Secret Mode, and these are for the creatives out there!
We're looking for a...
Graphic Designer: hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
and a Video Editor: hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
#GameJobs
We're looking for a...
Graphic Designer: hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
and a Video Editor: hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
#GameJobs
September 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We're hiring for a fuckload of jobs at the mo. There's a Social Media job open as well. Could be a cool time to join. Idk I've been on holiday for a week.
Job job job (hybrid in Leamington Spa only)
What's that? *Another* new role open at Secret Mode?!
We're on the hunt for a Senior Product Marketing Manager to lead the strategic marketing direction for our games, acting as the central force behind their success and impact.
Apply at the link 👇
zurl.co/MH0sO
#GameJobs
We're on the hunt for a Senior Product Marketing Manager to lead the strategic marketing direction for our games, acting as the central force behind their success and impact.
Apply at the link 👇
zurl.co/MH0sO
#GameJobs
September 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Job job job (hybrid in Leamington Spa only)
You can now get Make Way for the low low price of zero monies and play forever on the Epic Games Store. And it has cross-platform multiplayer so you can play with your friends if they've already got it on literally any other console or Steam. Go play it!! It's absolutely phenomenal good fun!!!!
🚗 BEEP BEEP 🚗
Make Way is OUT NOW on the Epic Games Store and you can claim it for FREE for the next week (until 4th September)!
Speed, dart, drift, loop-de-loop, and unleash wacky weaponry in this top-down multiplayer racing game where *you* build the track. 👇
store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/...
Make Way is OUT NOW on the Epic Games Store and you can claim it for FREE for the next week (until 4th September)!
Speed, dart, drift, loop-de-loop, and unleash wacky weaponry in this top-down multiplayer racing game where *you* build the track. 👇
store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/...
August 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You can now get Make Way for the low low price of zero monies and play forever on the Epic Games Store. And it has cross-platform multiplayer so you can play with your friends if they've already got it on literally any other console or Steam. Go play it!! It's absolutely phenomenal good fun!!!!
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On the lookout for people familiar with moderating on Discord servers.
Bonus props if you’re also relatively au fait with back end functions too.
Hit me up with suggestions plz 🙏🏻
Bonus props if you’re also relatively au fait with back end functions too.
Hit me up with suggestions plz 🙏🏻
August 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
On the lookout for people familiar with moderating on Discord servers.
Bonus props if you’re also relatively au fait with back end functions too.
Hit me up with suggestions plz 🙏🏻
Bonus props if you’re also relatively au fait with back end functions too.
Hit me up with suggestions plz 🙏🏻
Come produce games with us. You. Yes, you! In the hat! Get over here!!
We're hiring for another role at Secret Mode! A Senior Producer vacancy is now live 🤝
Want to help lead and co-ordinate multiple exciting video game projects? Check out the link below for more details and how to apply.
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
#GameJobs
Want to help lead and co-ordinate multiple exciting video game projects? Check out the link below for more details and how to apply.
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment...
#GameJobs
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Come produce games with us. You. Yes, you! In the hat! Get over here!!
Reverse Unpacking x Resi 4 item management x Madlibs. You're going to fucking love it.
How would you like to be remembered?
In A Storied Life: Tabitha, you arrive at the house of someone close after they've passed away. Picking through the items that made up their life, you'll choose what stories you want to tell from their past.
Coming to PC in 2026 from @lab42games.bsky.social
In A Storied Life: Tabitha, you arrive at the house of someone close after they've passed away. Picking through the items that made up their life, you'll choose what stories you want to tell from their past.
Coming to PC in 2026 from @lab42games.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reverse Unpacking x Resi 4 item management x Madlibs. You're going to fucking love it.
I am, of course, at Gamescom. Come by the Ukie booth some time in the next four days for an ass kicking (pleasant bit of awkward chat and maybe hands-on time with an upcoming Secret Mode video game)
August 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I am, of course, at Gamescom. Come by the Ukie booth some time in the next four days for an ass kicking (pleasant bit of awkward chat and maybe hands-on time with an upcoming Secret Mode video game)
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Wishlist NUTMEG! on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3...
Apply for the NUTMEG! VIP Playtest Program: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Apply for the NUTMEG! VIP Playtest Program: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wishlist NUTMEG! on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3...
Apply for the NUTMEG! VIP Playtest Program: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Apply for the NUTMEG! VIP Playtest Program: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Lads done good 'ere. It's a game of two halves - football team management and card-based matches. Keepy-uppy with the news by following Secret Mode
Reshape English football history in NUTMEG!
Take a step back in time to manage your favourite teams through twenty years of the beautiful game, starting in Division Four and taking them to the top of the table.
Coming to PC via Steam in 2026, from Sumo Sheffield.
Take a step back in time to manage your favourite teams through twenty years of the beautiful game, starting in Division Four and taking them to the top of the table.
Coming to PC via Steam in 2026, from Sumo Sheffield.
August 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lads done good 'ere. It's a game of two halves - football team management and card-based matches. Keepy-uppy with the news by following Secret Mode
Posting this as a remainder that even as a balding man creeping further into his 30s I'm actually still cool as fuck because I have a small bit Incredible cassette collection
July 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Posting this as a remainder that even as a balding man creeping further into his 30s I'm actually still cool as fuck because I have a small bit Incredible cassette collection
We need a new QA Tester and a new Influencer Relations Manager to join us. Genuinely some super cool stuff coming up, and both QA and Comms teams are absolutely brilliant.
It's hybrid ONLY with two days a week in Leamington Spa.
I'm not involved in hiring but will happily answer any Qs!
It's hybrid ONLY with two days a week in Leamington Spa.
I'm not involved in hiring but will happily answer any Qs!
Secret Mode is hiring!
We're on the hunt for a QA Tester and an Influencer Relations Manager to join the team and help us build to become the best indie games publisher in the business.
For more details and to apply, head to wearesecretmode.com/join-us/
#GamesJobs
We're on the hunt for a QA Tester and an Influencer Relations Manager to join the team and help us build to become the best indie games publisher in the business.
For more details and to apply, head to wearesecretmode.com/join-us/
#GamesJobs
July 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We need a new QA Tester and a new Influencer Relations Manager to join us. Genuinely some super cool stuff coming up, and both QA and Comms teams are absolutely brilliant.
It's hybrid ONLY with two days a week in Leamington Spa.
I'm not involved in hiring but will happily answer any Qs!
It's hybrid ONLY with two days a week in Leamington Spa.
I'm not involved in hiring but will happily answer any Qs!
Drank a can of barley wine and played chess with a friend at midnight and you know what, finding time to enjoy life and the people you share it with is fucking great
July 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Drank a can of barley wine and played chess with a friend at midnight and you know what, finding time to enjoy life and the people you share it with is fucking great
Currently moving house and almost immediately ran out of packing tape. Well, except one roll... Thank you to the marketing person on Moving Out 2 for this genius bit of merch I've had kicking around for two years
July 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Currently moving house and almost immediately ran out of packing tape. Well, except one roll... Thank you to the marketing person on Moving Out 2 for this genius bit of merch I've had kicking around for two years
Watch this for a surprise (it's me I'm the surprise)
The Steam Summer Sale is in full swing, so we figured we should do something big to promote it...
Check out our publisher page over on Steam and save up to 80% on our entire games catalogue like A Little To The Left, Still Wakes The Deep, and Wobbledogs!
store.steampowered.com/publi...
Check out our publisher page over on Steam and save up to 80% on our entire games catalogue like A Little To The Left, Still Wakes The Deep, and Wobbledogs!
store.steampowered.com/publi...
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Watch this for a surprise (it's me I'm the surprise)
Did something I never thought I'd do today and completed a No Mercy run of Undertale. The relief when I beat Sans was honestly unparalleled.
June 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Did something I never thought I'd do today and completed a No Mercy run of Undertale. The relief when I beat Sans was honestly unparalleled.
We done did add another very awesome game to our catalogue
It's a sandbox destruct-'em-up from the Lead Technical Designer of Red Faction: Guerrilla and, no exaggeration, it feels fucking great to play
Steam now, PS5 and Xbox Series at some point this year, check it the fuck out
It's a sandbox destruct-'em-up from the Lead Technical Designer of Red Faction: Guerrilla and, no exaggeration, it feels fucking great to play
Steam now, PS5 and Xbox Series at some point this year, check it the fuck out
Instruments of Destruction is smashing into the Secret Mode catalogue from today! 💥
The explosive physics playground from legendary one-person developer Radiangames is out on PC now and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S later this year.
Find out more 👇
The explosive physics playground from legendary one-person developer Radiangames is out on PC now and will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S later this year.
Find out more 👇
June 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We done did add another very awesome game to our catalogue
It's a sandbox destruct-'em-up from the Lead Technical Designer of Red Faction: Guerrilla and, no exaggeration, it feels fucking great to play
Steam now, PS5 and Xbox Series at some point this year, check it the fuck out
It's a sandbox destruct-'em-up from the Lead Technical Designer of Red Faction: Guerrilla and, no exaggeration, it feels fucking great to play
Steam now, PS5 and Xbox Series at some point this year, check it the fuck out
Just came home ready to witter on at my wife and she said she needed to "lock in" because she was about to finish a route in her otome game
June 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Just came home ready to witter on at my wife and she said she needed to "lock in" because she was about to finish a route in her otome game
It's my favourite time of year: Sheffield DocFest
Time to spend the next four days learning about weird little folks (complimentary) all over the world and the fascinating lives they have
Time to spend the next four days learning about weird little folks (complimentary) all over the world and the fascinating lives they have
June 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It's my favourite time of year: Sheffield DocFest
Time to spend the next four days learning about weird little folks (complimentary) all over the world and the fascinating lives they have
Time to spend the next four days learning about weird little folks (complimentary) all over the world and the fascinating lives they have
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What really happened when the Beira D oil rig sank without a trace?
Dive into the depths of the North Sea, and explore the wreck to uncover the truth.
But something still lurks in the darkness...
Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest is out now on PC, Xbox Series S|X and PS5.
Dive into the depths of the North Sea, and explore the wreck to uncover the truth.
But something still lurks in the darkness...
Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest is out now on PC, Xbox Series S|X and PS5.
June 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
What really happened when the Beira D oil rig sank without a trace?
Dive into the depths of the North Sea, and explore the wreck to uncover the truth.
But something still lurks in the darkness...
Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest is out now on PC, Xbox Series S|X and PS5.
Dive into the depths of the North Sea, and explore the wreck to uncover the truth.
But something still lurks in the darkness...
Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest is out now on PC, Xbox Series S|X and PS5.
Christ this came around so quick. Looking forward to seeing what folks think tomorrow
June 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Christ this came around so quick. Looking forward to seeing what folks think tomorrow