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Indie team developing Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow

Wishlist our mystery visual novel on Steam and play the free demo: steampowered.com/app/2992580

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Spicy Bread Productions @spicybreadprods.bsky.social · Oct 20
👋 With so many joining Bluesky, we wanted to introduce ourselves. We're an indie team developing a mystery visual novel!

Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow grew from an original Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It's about:

🔎 Seeking truth
🙏 Embracing hope
↔️ Exploring multiple endings
🍞 Eating spicy bread
Title menu screen for game called Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Buttons for "New Game," "Settings," "Quit" Visual novel dialogue gameplay. Background is a bakery, foreground is three characters. Rondeau, a large man in a bright orange shirt, says "Blight, give 'em... The Special." Visual novel dialogue gameplay. Background is a cozy apartment. There is a creature that looks like a turtle with flowers that the player can type in a name for Illustrated map labeled "The Map of Ventreville." There's dozens of buildings, including one actively interacted with labeled "All Bread Patisseries (Main)
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Post an out of context screenshot from your indie game!

Here's one from ours.

#indiegame #gamedev #gameart
Screenshot from the demo of video game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Three characters are in a bakery at night. The character Blight says "I have never put any love in the bread. I never will."
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Sneak peek of what we're cooking up in the kitchen 🧑‍🍳

#indiegame #gameart
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Showing off some of our character sprites. Orven contains multitudes!
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Happy Halloween from Spicy Bread Productions! Looks like the Avidine family will have fun trick-or-treating 🎃
Vertical portrait of the Avidine family from the upcoming game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow dressed up as Wizard of Oz characters. The two parents and two kids are walking down from their house, which is decorated for Halloween. Landscape scene of the Avidine family from the upcoming game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow dressed up as Wizard of Oz characters. The two parents and two kids are walking down from their house, which is decorated for Halloween with jack-o'-lanterns, sparkly lights, spiders and more.
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Steam Next Fest is over but I still wanted to shoutout my two favorite demos I tried:

🌇 The Berlin Apartment
🐶 Finch & Archie

Both are worth checking out – their demos are still up!

#steamgames #newgames
Screenshot from the demo for the game The Berlin Apartment depicting a first-hand perspective of a hand with a bandaid throwing a paper airplane out a window at a building across the street Screenshot from demo for the game Finch & Archie with a duo tone comic book-like panel of detective in a hat pointing and telling a dog "He must have gone this way"
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Our first Game-A-Palooza was a blast! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to play Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow and to @igdanyc.bsky.social for hosting 🫶💜
Game-A-Palooza booth setup for Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. There is a vertical poster advertising the game and a woman standing behind a computer screen with the game Selfie from Game-A-Palooza with the developer and a playtester smiling at the computer
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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What demos are you enjoying during Steam Next Fest? Please share!
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The food art in our game makes me hungry 🤤 (also the character who cooks is lactose intolerant lol)
Collage of colorful drawn food including Parmesan, scallions, lemons, butter, eggs, shrimp
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Here are a few letters you can find and investigate in our mystery game. Each writer has their own style and signature ✒️

#visualnovel #indiedev
Typed letter from the game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. There is a letterhead to Sion Gungand and it is signed by Babinski and Throckmorton Jones. Letter from the game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow with handwriting font. Text says S, your request is being processed. Meet me at the rendezvous point at 10 Libra at dawn. M. Typed letter from the game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. There is a letterhead to Sion Gungand and it is signed by Mother Amato Akechi
September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Some behind-the-scenes peeks at the brainstorming process for our visual novel art.

Are these kinds of posts interesting to folks?
Digital art of closeup stained glass windows on top of their setting on the church wall Collage of brainstorming for Etisia art with various sketches and notes
September 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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It's been awhile since we posted, but we're still hard at work on our mystery game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow!

Here's some new art in progress for our character Etisia 😍

What mood does it give you?
Digital art for the visual novel game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow featuring a cloaked woman gazing down at a book lit by candles, while in a church setting with stained glasa
September 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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We're designing a tavern setting for our mystery visual novel. What would your tavern have?
Digital art of the colorful interior of a tavern with a music stage and plants in barrels. Two characters stand in the middle, a woman with a bright apron posing and a man opening a bottle. Digital art of the colorful interior of a tavern with a wooden bar and tables and chairs.
July 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Play as six different characters in our upcoming game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. The vibe of each character's chapter shapes the style for the background art.

This is the moodboard for Etisia's background art 🎨
Moodboard 3 by 3 grid of impressionist landscape paintings. On top of the grid is a digital drawn character portrait of a blonde woman with a veil, white cloak and serious expression.
June 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Planning the introduction to our mystery visual novel Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Play as 6 characters with their own stories to solve one central mystery. Does it look intriguing?

#indiegame #indiedev #interactivefiction
June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Happy Monday! Hope you have the best day available to you ✊
Background art from indie mystery visual novel game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow. Scene is outside a red brick factory during daytime. There is a potion bottle sign and solidarity fist poster on the wall.
June 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Team appreciation time! Elizabeth is the mastermind (and masterhands) behind all the character sprites for our indie mystery game Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow.

Get to know her and her work👇
Collage titled "Spicy Bread character artist: Elizabeth" with self-portrait sketch in the center. Surrounded by four sections with images: Creative tool of choice is Photoshop. Artistic inspirations are Yamamori Mika, Jin Kim and Studio Ghibli. Some favorites are Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice, Lady and the Tramp, and Cowboy Bebop. "Hear me out" are Bob the Tomato and General Grievous. Collage titled "Character sprites Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow" with two rows of 8 character portraits each from the game.
May 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Happy mother's day to our game character Flaire Avidine! (And also to our irl moms 😉🫶)
Illustrated family portrait of characters from the game Ventreville: A Cute for Sorrow. Father, mother, young boy and girl. Text says: "happy mother's day. Flaire Avidine loves being a mom, a regular at the local tavern, skilled flautist, puts the effort in effortlessly beautiful"
May 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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LudoNarraCon hosted an impressive slate of games. Let us know what you bought or if you tried any demos!
Photo of stuffed animal Blastoise next to a Steam Deck showing the LudoNarraCon page on the Steam store
May 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Three favorite demos from #LudoNarraCon, the celebration of narrative games by @fellowtraveller.games 🧵

Battle Suit Aces (@team.trinketstudios.com)

Great voice acting and fun music. Bright sci-fi world. Immersive tutorial. Runs smoothly on Steam Deck.

store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...
Battle Suit Aces on Steam
Battle Suit Aces is a charming narrative deckbuilder. You'll recruit, befriend, and upgrade your mech pilots on a heartfelt hunt for fabled alien superweapons: the Relic Suits. Command them across mon...
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May 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Art in progress from our mystery game 👀

#indiegames
Digital sketch of young woman in grayscale holding a bloody knife with an expression of horror. In the background is a mirrored version where she is surrounded by rabbits.
May 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Peek into the art direction process for our visual novel 😄
Collage of Darth Vader looming and looking at clipart open book and candles. Caption says "Lol def not menacing like vader, but i like this angle" collage of sketched portrait of woman looking down at an open book and candles amid a room with stained glass. caption says "low shot looking up at the character. stained glass windows light the back wall. expression: eyebrows furrowed, mixed feelings"
April 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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“Gusace Gumane! My name is my brand”

Working on character expressions for our mystery adventure game
Collage of character sketches of woman with high heels, dress apron and different smiles and frowns Two line drawings of the same character. One is a pensive expression and the other is outraged
March 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Working on our controls screen. Which one do you like best?
Four different options for the colors of an Esc button on a controls screen in a game
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Our demo is part of the Steam Visual Novel Fest ✨

Take a look if you like the idea of collecting clues across different player characters to solve a murder mystery 🕵️‍♀️

store.steampowered.com/app/3176370/...
Side by side posters. Left is game key art that says the title "Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow." Right is promotion with text "Steam Visual Novel Fest, March 3-10"
March 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow is part of the Women’s Day Sale on Steam! Thanks to @wingsfund.me for hosting 🪽

We have a demo to check out, and there's so many other games to browse 👇
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Side by side posters. Left is promotion with text "Women's Day Sale, games by women-led studios, hosted on Steam Feb 28-Mar 9." Right is game key art that says the title "Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow"
March 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM