Last Updated on Sep 24, 2025 @ 14:40:46 PM.
Clockwork Bird, the studio behind Silicon Dreams, has surprised us with a shock announcement of their new game. The new game, Duskpunk, is ‘inspired by tabletop RPGs and narrative adventure games like Citizen Sleeper‘, but it attempts to walk its own path with unique mechanics in a steampunk world consumed by war, ready for a revolution.
Straight from Clockwork Bird:
Inspired by tabletop RPGs and narrative adventure games like Citizen Sleeper, Duskpunk is a game of hope, grit and survival. You are an ex-soldier, mistaken for dead and shipped back to the city of Dredgeport to be processed into fuel. After a narrow escape, you find yourself alone with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge.
Carefully manage your health, energy and stress levels as you try to make a new start in a world consumed by war. Explore Dredgeport, from the slums to the palaces. Develop skills to distinguish yourself in your chosen field of work. Find friends among the downtrodden. Make lasting choices that will determine the city’s fate – and your own.
Features:
- Choice-driven gameplay inspired by TTRPGs
- A gritty, sprawling Steampunk city to explore
- 2D oil-painting aesthetic, with gorgeous character and background art.
- Fascinating characters with murky motivations
- A branching narrative shaped around your decisions
As with any tabletop RPG, the choices you make in Duskpunk can have long-reaching and even longer-lasting consequences. From picking the wrong friends to making the wrong daily decisions, your adventure could be over in the blink of an eye, so make sure you’re certain before getting close to anyone or making any decision.
Duskpunk doesn’t have a release date as of yet, but is tentatively slated for a launch on Steam later this year.
For more Thumb Wars, check out our Borderlands 4 review or the dark and gritty take on Dying Light: The Beast.
Luke Addison is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Thumb Wars. Having previously been a part of multiple outlets over the years, including building an entire gaming team from nothing to something, he thought it best to forge his own path and answer only to himself. As likely to be found playing the latest game as he is in the kitchen relaxing (by cooking), he always brings the same bold and brash attitude to everything he does, with a heavy leaning on sarcasm and dry wit!
