

Bilge Junction
Bilge Rats · December 21, 2024 · Life Sim, 2.5D, Supernatural, Simulation, Lovecraftian
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Bilge Junction is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About Bilge Junction
Bilge Junction is a survival adventure where you're trapped in a dying arctic town for three days as a mysterious force emerges from the pipeline beneath it. Navigate the townspeople's interconnected routines, earn their trust through conversation, and keep the town's fire burning while uncovering what lurks in the frozen darkness.
until I felt nothing.
When I opened my eyes,
I was back where I started…
Welcome to Bilge Junction, population 8: a dying town on the arctic highway. With the promise of a cheap roof over your head, you ran from your problems and wound up here.But winter's setting in, and the fire keeps burning. A storm is on its way. There's something lurking in the pipeline that built the town. In three days' time, it's bound to escape.
- Enter a world with a life of its own.
The townsfolk of Bilge Junction follow their own routines from day to day. The town works on its own rules. As the storm draws closer, Bilge Junction grows more erratic with each passing hour.
- Survive. Explore. Earn the townsfolks' respect.
Weather the harsh climate and earn your keep, learning what makes each person here tick. Hear out their stories, gain their trust, and survive together.
- Discover what lies beneath the surface of Bilge Junction.
Bilge Junction was initially developed over a span of 5 weeks for IndieCade's Climate Jam 2024. The premise was meant to express several experiences I personally had when returning to my hometown, as well as confront the destructive, extractive, colonial past and present of Alaska. Inspirations include ThreeStep, Pathologic, Chulip, and Paper Mario.
Credits
Gage Tilly - DirectorWill B. Francis - Narrative Designer, EngineerJorge Zamora Salguero - Composer, Sound DesignerLuke Cravey - ArtistDavid Norton - Narrative Designer
Bilge Junction — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀6 found this helpful
Welcome to a tiny town where everyone’s weird, the snow never stops, and something definitely isn’t right. You ran from your problems—congrats! Now you have new ones. Your main goal? Survive three days, keep the fire going, and try not to freeze to death while the locals drop cryptic hints like it's their job. The vibe? Think Twin Peaks meets “Oops, I moved to a haunted town”. I would panic over firewood and questionable neighbors again.6 found this helpful
Several Bugs. Most of which are not a big deal. However, there is a bug that makes it so I can't get past day 3. I found out if I sleep in the big building night of Day 2 that I will get trapped in there for Day 3 and not able to leave to add wood to burn pit. Invisible force keeps me from leaving both exits; I believe it is the same snow that traps you in from the day before, but now it is invisible so you can't clear it. Tried sleeping in the small cabin on Day 2. Seemed like it was a work around but then when my Day 3 Started time was not going forward. Just added wood to the fire pit with no end in sight because it continually say 8 somethin in the morning. Tried loading the current day dozens of times. Tried resetting the save several times. Good luck to everyone else but I am done trying. My curiosity has been exhausted by the frustration of not being able to continue. Can't recommend until bugs are fixed.4 found this helpful
Here I will leave the cat, whoever pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up (I'm trying to get award) Have a nice day :3 /> フ | _ _ l /` ミ_xノ / | / ヽ ノ │ | | | / ̄| | | | | ( ̄ヽ__ヽ_)__) \二つ2 found this helpful
"Bilge Junction" is a weird, narrative heavy (read: More e-book than game) survival "experience". What do you do in the game? Survive bad writing and bad game design for three days. The graphics aren't great. That's understandably be turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you mi…1 found this helpful
Nice art stile.......... Thats all I wrote.
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