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The free demo of Give Him a Break! is out on Steam. You hold the laser pointer; the cat does the rest. Left: the room at $0. Right: the same room with 35 seconds still on the clock. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Before. Every priced thing in the room is already on the receipt, and the total is $0. The camera on the shelf is $700, the camcorder $600, and the $4,000 grand piano only goes down with a superpower. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

The yarn tree: 25 powers on four branches, paid in yarn balls found around each room. Superhero ends in BIG TROUBLE, Cat Business climbs from a puddle to ACID VOMIT, and the Passive ones need no card: purring, fleas and gas are always on. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

BLUE LASER: for ten seconds you don't need the cat at all. The pointer turns blue, anything small under the dot breaks on its own, and the furniture it sweeps across just gets scorched. #indiegames #gamedev #cats

BIG TROUBLE: for ten seconds he's eight times his size. He stops walking around the furniture and walks straight at the dot - anything in the way ends up under him. The camera has to back out just to fit him in. #indiegames #gamedev #cats

9 LIVES: for ten seconds, all nine of his lives show up at once. Three seconds left on the clock, $27,370 on the receipt, and every one of them is still looking for something to knock over. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiegames #cats #gamedev

The receipt lists every priced thing in the room, and anything greyed out is already gone. Thirty seconds left, $4,059 so far, and the cat is still on fire. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiegames #cats #gamedev

Here's the games I'll be playing: Monster Chef @studiopizzagames.bsky.social Give Him a Break @acorbinelli.bsky.social Dino Cleanup @dinosire.com Muri Wildwoods Apple Crumble @happybroccoligames.bsky.social

74 people have Give Him a Break! on their Steam wishlist (75 added, one removed). A streamer gave the demo a slot in their Sunday show, and today two more found it on their own and played it live. Small numbers, real people. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #indiegames

57 wishlists on Steam for Give Him a Break! - 56 still there. Another streamer played the demo this week and took to it so naturally. Watching someone play your game that well is a pure dopamine rush. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Lesson from watching people stream our demo: the cat only chases the laser dot if he can see it. Two players in a row didn't know that and wondered why he ignored the dot. That one's on us, not them - the game has to show it better. #gamedev #indiedev

50 wishlists on Steam for Give Him a Break! - 49 still there. The page went public a little over two weeks ago with none. Small numbers, but every one is a real person who wants to watch a cat wreck a house. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Six streamers played the Give Him a Break! demo in a week, and two more say they're next. Watching a stranger meet your game for the first time never gets old - every stream shows us something we would never have caught ourselves. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #twitch

@mayworlddream.bsky.social played the Give Him a Break! demo on her Pick'n'Mix weekend stream. Thank you, May - watching the VOD made our day, and your reactions taught us a lot. VOD: twitch.tv/videos/2896978179 Cozy games and Sims builds: twitch.tv/mayworlddream #indiedev #twitch

The cabinet is on fire, the cat is on fire, and he is still chasing the dot. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev #cats

44 wishlists on Steam for Give Him a Break! - 43 still there. Last night two streamers played the free demo: one for almost 50 minutes, one who ended by recommending it to everyone watching. Thank you to everyone who added it. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

devs happened to reach out and i had a free friday so let's check out various game demos! i will quote post as we change games but we'll be starting with the demo of Give Him a Break by @acorbinelli.bsky.social ! let's unleash some chaos >:3 { #sxkyuLive | #vSky | #vTuber | #ENVTuber | #VTLive }

Eleven seconds left and the receipt already says $13,495. The cat spent them on POOP SPRAY. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

The kitchen is already on fire and the cat just racked up ten more breaks, so it's card time: 20 seconds driving the cat yourself, or 2 seconds of lasers from his eyes? Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Demo update 0.4.7 is out, built from watching people play: the yarn tree is now one click from the end screen, a quick how-to before the first round, WASD camera controls and longer powers. Free on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev

Somewhere between the bowl and the chairs, the dining table caught fire. $565 on the receipt before, $1,453 twenty-five seconds later. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Watched a player spend half an hour in our demo and never find the yarn tree, where yarn buys new powers between runs. Every round on the starter powers - no wonder it got old. We're making it impossible to miss. If a feature lives behind a menu, nobody opens the menu. #indiedev #gamedesign

Give Him a Break! has a home of its own now: corbygamesstudio.com Trailer, screenshots, a press kit for streamers and writers, and the free Steam demo, all on one page. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Point the laser at a full bookshelf and wait. $2,045 on the receipt before the jump, $3,292 eight seconds later. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Some rooms survive a round. This one did not: $4,117 when the fire starts, $9,083 when it runs out of things to burn. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

40 wishlists for Give Him a Break! on Steam - 39 still there, one person moved on. The free demo has been out for five days, and one streamer has already played it for two hours. Thank you to everyone who added it. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

The coffee table catches fire at $4,245. Twenty-four seconds later the receipt on the right says $8,440 and the walls have cracks in them. The cat is fine, thanks for asking. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

@shellsmiley.bsky.social streamed the Give Him a Break! demo last night - about two hours of it. Thank you, Shell! VOD: twitch.tv/videos/2891335708 Cozy, upbeat streams with retro games and art: twitch.tv/shellsmiley #indiedev #twitch

POOP SPRAY only runs for a few seconds. Long enough to take the receipt from $238 to $1,269 - and the wall behind the desk is not coming back from this. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

BLUE LASER: for a few seconds the dot itself burns through whatever it crosses, so you stop leading the cat and start drawing across the kitchen. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Today is Oct 3, 2026. Worth your evening: You hold the laser pointer, the cat does the damage. The dev posts the running count himself: 37 people wishlisted it, one changed their mind, which is fair. @acorbinelli.bsky.social

Every ten things the cat breaks, you pick a card. ANTIGRAVITY switches gravity off for five seconds; ACID VOMIT melts whatever it touches. Neither one helps the owner. Free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev

36 people have Give Him a Break! on their Steam wishlist - 37 added it, one changed their mind, which is fair. The free demo has been out since Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who tried it, shared it or wishlisted it. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

31 wishlists for Give Him a Break!, and not one removed. Eight came in after the free demo went live yesterday. Small numbers, but each one is someone who watched a cat wreck a house and wanted more of it. Thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

One card, four seconds: BIG TROUBLE made him the size of a sofa and the dining table went on the receipt with everything on it. $5,957. The demo is free on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Forty-five seconds left and he's up on the kitchen counter, shoving the toaster off the edge. One of the green chairs is already on its side. The coffee machine is probably next. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev #cats

18 wishlists for Give Him a Break!, six more since last night. Small, but every one is someone who wants to watch a cat take a house apart, and that still feels a bit unreal. The Steam demo is next, as soon as Valve clears it. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev

The dot is on the coffee table next to the laptop, and he's already mid-leap behind the sofa. Fifty seconds left. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 · free demo: corbygamesstudio.itch.io/give-him-a-break #indiedev #gamedev #cats

Twelve wishlists now, double this morning's six. Still a small number, but every one is a real person who liked a cat breaking things enough to click. Thank you, and thanks to everyone who shared the page today. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev

Back on the main menu after a round: the owner stares down at the cat, the cat walks off like it wasn't him, and the house behind them is in pieces. #indiedev #gamedev #cats store.steampowered.com/app/5313430

The calm before: one cat, an empty test room, and a laser pointer that isn't pointed at anything yet. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/5313430

Two weeks of showing a small cat game around: 180 on X, 109 of you here, 15 on YouTube, 7 on TikTok. Not big numbers, but every one is a real person who chose to follow along, and we're thankful. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev

Our Steam page went public yesterday and six people have already wishlisted Give Him a Break! The Steam demo comes next, once Valve finishes reviewing the build. Thank you, all six of you. store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 #indiedev #gamedev

What players said about our free demo this week, plus a few numbers we're proud of: five stars on itch, 170 upvotes on r/gamedesign, 710 likes on TikTok. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5313430 · demo: corbygamesstudio.itch.io/give-him-a-break #indiedev #gamedev