Hello and without further ado–This is a new game announcement!

Do you know Melisa, Mak, Anna and Zeina? Soon you’ll meet them all!

Because we are just so thrilled to finally show you what we have been working on for considerable time. We Grew Up in War (wishlistable on Steam) is our upcoming narrative adventure centering child’s experiences during war. It is inspired (as is usual with our games) by real testimonies of kids from Bosnia, Syria and Ukraine. The game full of boxed memories you’ll be unpacking and reconstructing the timeline of these kids’ lives is being created in cooperation with renowned War Childhood Museum.

Coming Q1 2026 to desktop and mobile.

But I bet you’d like to see what I am talking about. Take look at the teaser:

(it really helps us)

We’ll have more than 20 interactive vignettes, ranging from sorting food supplies and battling imaginary monsters to overcoming phobias or securing a hiding shelter. Scenes both realistic and a little magic as kids grapple with the realities around them.

We wanted to show an underrepresented perspective on armed conflicts, one underpinned by long-term historical research by our partners at WCM. And provide players with emotionally complex story and an opportunity to reflect on conflicts that shape the present.

And that’s it for now. Head over to Steam for more info and screenshots and expect to see more We Grew Up in War info coming your way. And let us know what you think!

Speaking of new games, Velvet 89 is just round the corner – releasing October 17th. We are putting finishing touches. And you can now preregister the game on App Store (and it downloads automatically upon release), too!

There will be 50 characters for you to find across five scenes and four cities! Not only students and actors, but miners, clerks, cloakroom attendants and factory workers as well. Because Velvet 89 is all about how ordinary people made Velvet Revolution happen.

Check out some (still a bit WIP) bird-eye views of demonstrations from the game:

We have a quite a lot on hour hands, as you can see, so no tip today! But our own games, I hope, should be enough.

Happy playing soon and, as always, thank you for being our fans.

Ondřej
Charles Games