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Dan Marshall
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Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games

EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage

www.sizefivegames.com
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The Omnicron Conspiracy
Omnicron Conspiracy box art Omnicron Conspiracy screenshot
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Hey! It's Bozz Liteyear! And Mariop!
Weird knock-off wooden Buzz Lightyear/ Mario figures
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Google just threw up this photo of a toy I took ten years ago

I can see why I took a photo of this toy, it's pretty vile
A kids farmyard jigsaw puzzle The animals and tractors and shit all appear to be fucking in a big long sex conga
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'

After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social

Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!

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November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I mentioned this before back at the bad place, but at the start of the movie Earl is in a sleeping bag the exact same colours inside and out as a Graboid, and tumbles out the back of the truck to the floor like he's bursting out of a cliff edge and it took me like 30 years to notice. Amazing, 10/10.
Earl in a sleeping bag, Tremors Earl in a sleeping bag, Tremors Earl in a sleeping bag, Tremors Graboid not in a sleeping bag, Tremors
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Rewatched 'Tremors' with my kid. I've said it before, but that film is magnificent and an absolute fucking masterclass in foreshadowing. Deeply satisfying, not a second wasted. Shame it gets dismissed as a 'monster movie' because it is a solid Top 5 film of all time. Perfection.
Earl Bass, smiling smugly
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Halloween latest, it's all kicking off
A dog with a bloody knife in its mouth
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Ray getting a blowjob from a ghost
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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When people mention Ozymandias honestly this is all I think of.
The alien squid from Watchmen
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Highly confident that trying to use AI for QA is the 'putting the rope on Buckaroo and watching it all fly apart' moment.
Buckaroo box
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Same energy.
The Son of Man by Magritte. An apple in front of a man's face.
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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This kind of vibe
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Fiiiiinally finished @danharmon.bsky.social 's HarmonQuest, which is incredible work throughout and the best possible explainer of why D&D is amazing that you'll ever get.

Find it and enjoy. 10/10
Image from HarmonQuest
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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An all-new EXCLUSIVE clip from

EARTH
MUST
DIE.

Wishlist *immediately* and share, please.

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October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Worked out what I'm going as for Halloween this year
Stay Puft costume (child)
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This song keeps popping up on the radio and all I can hear is
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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EARTH
MUST
DIE.

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October 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Okay so look, don't send emails like this. I do get that this approach probably sounded funny in their head, but please realise when it lands cold in my inbox it just sounds very very rude.
An angry email from Mac user
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Noticing a certain recurring theme to the Earth Must Die Demo reviews
Steam review: "If they tried to get this game to ooze more charm they'd need to give it new orifices"
October 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Can anyone explain to me why they're making me do maths on the front of this box instead of just writing 7?
Box of ear plugs. It says "6+1 pairs" on the front
October 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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AMAZING, the demo has hit 50 reviews just in time for Next Fest. Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who helped out with that, you're brilliant.
Earth Must Die info from the Steam Page. 50 reviews, Very Positive.
October 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

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Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs. It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires. And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.
October 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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A brilliant RealBirdFakeBird.com today, and a tense, harrowing 6 for me.

Disgusted in myself.
Real bird fake bird score card, 6/7
October 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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How you know it's a Size Five Games game

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Steam review: "An incredible cast, great script, lovely art and animation, and an alien sex shop within 15 minutes of starting the game. Take my money."
October 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Jesus Christ, the dog treat industry. I've seen some macabre puns in my time, but this one is harrowingly cutthroat.
Packaging for dog treat "ONE ANIMAL'S TRACHEA IS ANOTHER ONE'S TREASURE"
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM