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Cozy After Dark? You could be doing that while you play Usual June ✅2026-10-13Usual June certainly isn't a "cozy" game, but we firmly believe that you should be making yourself cozy while you play it. Which is why we are so excited to be included in this year's Cozy After Dark showcase! Cozy After Dark celebrates games that live somewhere between comforting and unsettling.We revealed an exclusive trailer during the showcase! You can catch the video here: Did you get a peek at that enemy creature we revealed in the trailer? There are so many more beautiful games included in the showcase that we can't wait cozy up with. You should really check out the whole thing! Don't forget to check out the Cozy After Dark Steam page
Launch Date Update2026-10-12If you're 🪦 dying 🪦 for more Usual June stuff in the mean time, check out our video about creating the game's environments that aired in last week's Unmistakable Fest. We've got so many more things to share with you as we finish up the last bits of the game!Thank you, as always, for your support and understanding! 💜 👻 🪦
Usual June Dev Diary: Designing the Combat System2026-10-01From Finji Co-founder and Director Adam Saltsman:All the way from the earliest versions of Usual June’s combat system, we’ve had this goal or guiding light concept of “low floor, high ceiling” that I’ve been striving to hit in different ways. When we say the floor is low and the ceiling is high, what we mean is that it’s easy to get into the combat system and easy to participate in fights that look cool and feel good right away, but for more dexterous players or players who want to play more creatively or more expressively, there are paths and trailheads for that too. So the barrier to entry is quite low, but we also aren’t going to close off
Usual June Dev Diary: All About the Sound Design!2026-09-09Social Media & Community Director Aster Wright had a chat with Usual June Audio Designer Adam Hay! They talk about his process for creating the voices in Usual June, inspirations for the music in the game, and more!ASTER: Can you walk us through the process of creating the voices in Usual June? What inspired you? How did you make them come to life? What challenges did you face? ADAM: Making the voices for Usual June has been an incredibly complicated process! When I started on the project, one of my first tasks was to figure out how to represent the characters with sound, as we weren’t planning to do voice recordings. After some initial exper
Usual June ✨ Launch Date Announcement2026-08-28Usual June is launching on October 28th, 2026! It's going to be out, like, really soon. Get ready to join June and her pals (alive & dead) as they explore secret labs, buried tunnels, haunted observatories, abandoned train stations, fight weird crab-like things, chat with loads of ghosts, and meet eccentric Fen Harbor townies! Don't forget you can still try out the new demo, too! Come talk with our kind community on the Finji Discord anytime! Stayed tuned here, on Discord, or on socials as we ramp into launch.
Play the FREE, brand new Usual June demo!2026-08-26OPE! June, Sunny, Max, and Frankie got themselves trapped in a mausoleum. Well, technically not Frankie because she can phase through walls on account of being a dead ghost who can do that sort of thing and -- Oh, you just want to try the demo?Play the brand new Usual June demo right now!Why don't ya go play it? Right now maybe? Later's fine too but not TOO much later because it's not going to be around forever. And unlike the ghosts in this game, it may not return someday...🪦🥀😈You're welcome to come talk about the demo on the Finji Discord anytime! And hey, stayed tuned here, on Discord, or on socials because there's even MORE cool news c
Brand new demo OUT NOW! Watch the Lead Writer play!2026-08-26Check out the brand new Usual June demo with Lead Writer David Pinckney! This is a previously recorded broadcast.
Usual June is bringing a BRAND NEW DEMO to Gamescom!2026-08-18Get ready to help June and her friends out of a dodgy situation! There will be a brand new Usual June demo coming to the show floor at Gamescom and on Steam starting next week, once Gamescom officially kicks off. Explore a never before seen dungeon, fight mysterious enemies, and try to make sense of what might be going on in Fen Harbor. Huge thanks to the hardworking folks at Indie Arena Booth for helping us make this possible. If you plan to be at Gamescom, find us at Indie Arena Booth in hall 10, floor 2! Keep an eye out for the new demo, and tell your friends it's coming. Wishlist and follow Usual June to stay updated on what's coming up!
Usual June Dev Diary: Meet Max!2026-07-31Meet Max!If you've been paying close attention, you've probably seen Max before: he's been in the key art since we announced the game! 🔎 Max is one of the main characters in Usual June, and he's besties with June and Sunny. You'll get to know him really well in your adventures! We thought you might like to hear a bit about how we've gone about creating him, so we asked Laura Beach, 3D Character Artist, and David Pinckney, Lead Writer, to talk about their work developing the Usual June character with the biggest delts (this might not be true, but please don't tell him that).Designing MaxLaura Beach, 3D Character ArtistIn the concepts, Max com
✨Usual June Dev Diary✨ Designing the weirder places2026-06-30Some of you may have seen the, well, weirder areas of Usual June in our early demo, but the team has been working on them a lot since then! Part of that work was bringing on the incredibly talented Concept and 3D Environmental Artist Beatriz de Abreu. Social Media & Community Director Aster Wright had a chat with Bea about her work on Usual June:ASTER: Since joining Finji, you’ve been working on both concept art and level design for the weirder areas of Usual June. Can you talk about what first drew you to the project and how your work has evolved since your earliest sketches?BEA: On a personal level, I always wanted to work with an indie stu
✨Usual June Dev Diary✨ Making Usual June feel realistically midwestern2026-03-27Last month we mentioned that the Usual June team has been focusing a lot on building Fen Harbor, the fictional town where the game takes place, and that means it’s time for you to meet Cameron Bragg, Level Artist for Usual June! Social Media & Community Director Aster Wright had a chat with Cameron about his work bringing Fen Harbor to life.Aster: Fen Harbor is a fictional midwest city. What kinds of things go into making the town feel realistically midwestern?Cameron: Other than the wacky stuff, Usual June is really meant to capture life in a Midwestern, Michigan, Everytown. A big part of that is featuring not just big, historic buildings, b
✨ Usual June 💜s Dames 4 Games ✨2026-03-11We were given the opportunity to participate in this year's Dames 4 Games showcase, and we were excited to feature just some of the extremely talented women involved in making Usual June! We even premiered a new enemy and showed off some environment art concepts. You can check out our Developer Spotlight right here, but there are so many cool games in the show. You should really check out the whole thing! This event is happening in tandem with the Women's Day Sale, where hundreds of incredible games are on sale and showing off their demos. You can check our the Usual June demo for the duration of the sale, as well! We're sure you'll find some
✨Usual June Dev Diary✨ Creating a Fictional Midwest Town2026-02-27Lately, the Usual June team has been focusing a lot on building Fen Harbor, the fictional town where the game takes place. Fen Harbor is heavily inspired by the midwest, so we asked Finji Co-founders Bekah and Adam Saltsman to tell us why they wanted to place Usual June in a midwest town. Bekah: I wanted to tell a story about my home and the people who live here. So many of the movies and books in the US take place on the coasts, in cities like Los Angeles or New York, and the culture and stories of the flyover states is largely unrepresented. Our towns, though, have layered histories that were (and still are) colored by hundreds of years of
Usual June Dev Diary: Creating Ghost VFX!2025-12-03Now that we've shown off our newest ghost character, Frankie, let’s dive into one of the most striking features of ghosts in Usual June: their hair plumes! That means it’s time to talk about the work of our talented VFX Artist, Eduardo Noé.When crafting effects for various ghost characters, Eduardo faces the challenge of making them look cohesive, yet distinct from other effects in the game. For example, the team largely avoids using transparent effects in Usual June, so it is ghost characters alone that utilize a low-opacity material to achieve an ominous and smooth appearance. “For the hair plumes,” Eduardo says, “we aimed for a blend of sm
Usual June Update: Meet Frankie!2025-11-12We recently introduced a new Usual June character in our newsletter and our socials! Frankie is a ghost, and she’s an important part of June’s adventures. Read on to learn more about her design!Now that you’ve met Frankie, we can finally talk a bit about how we’ve been making ghosts for Usual June! Without saying too much, ghosts in Usual June serve as key historical resources, so making Frankie appear believably from another time was very important to us! We also wanted her to look really really cool.Art Director Amelia Herman did a lot of research to make Frankie’s design historically accurate: “Design-wise, the goal was to tease apart the
🗣️ Try out the Usual June demo and scream at your friends about it!2025-10-27Steam Scream Fest is upon us once again and so is the Usual June demo! Now is the perfect time to be talking to ghosts and June knows it! You can try out our Usual June demo now through November 3rd. Don't forget to try out some of the other scary games in this year's fest. They're all bound to get you in the Halloween Spirit! 👻If you like what you see, wishlist Usual June today! We're so thankful to everyone who has done it already. 💜 You're helping our small team tremendously. We're working on some creepy cool stuff and we can't wait to show you more! LOOKING FOR CREEPY ACCESSORIES?Check out our Limited Edition Usual June Pin! This little
Usual June Update: New Enemy Creatures Incoming!2025-10-21We've been designing all of the more "advanced" creatures that you'll encounter and fight as you progress further in Usual June. The design process has been challenging but fun, since we are trying to balance and include a lot of different considerations.First, the way these creatures have evolved has to make sense in the story and the background lore, and they need to fit into the game environments. We also wanted to find a balance between them looking new and exciting to the player, but also reminiscent of the more "basic" early-game creature from which they evolved. Finally, we wanted them to start creating a visual path toward the boss de
🪦 Check out the Usual June demo, if you DARE 👻🎃 (it's actually quite nice)2025-10-06When we say we love indies, that extends to games AND films! Which is why we are so excited that Haunted House Fear Fest has chosen Usual June to be part of their line up this year! As part of the fest, you can play the Usual June demo through October! We highly suggest you also check out some of the other games included in the event, such as: And that's not even close to all the games in HHFF! We can't wait to dig into them! We'll also be spending our off time watching some of the indie films in the fest! If you like what you see and want to stay up to date on development, please add Usual June to your wishlist, and consider following Finji
👻 BOO! Play our FREE DEMO now! ✨2025-09-06We're so grateful to be included in the Hungry Ghost Festival this year! They have graciously decided to platform the Usual June demo from now until September 13th! However, this opportunity goes beyond Steam. For those that don't know, the Hungry Ghost Festival is a real life festival celebrated each year by Buddhist and Taoist people in order to honor the memories of the dead. Usually people will make offerings of food or other amenities to ghosts so that they will be able to use them in the afterlife. Some people even put on shows and leave the front row seats open for visitors that have passed on! Please enjoy the demo and consider pullin
Usual June DEV UPDATE2025-08-05We've got more ghosts, more mysteries, and horrifying new boss monsters getting ready to infest this unsuspecting college town. We're staying very busy creating new environments, using our new animation tools to beef up our NPCs, and diving deep into the weird realities and urban legends of midwestern cities. We all know truth is stranger than fiction, but it's extra strange in the flyover states. Above you can see our Animator Mike showing off Sunny's expressions! With this rig and our new animation tools, she can respond to every situation her adventure might throw at her. What do you think she's saying in that gif? We sent this update in o
Free Usual June Demo - Available Now! 👻2025-06-16Ah SHOOT!! Did we miss the Steam Next Fest? Well, if you're looking for something to fill the void from all those absolutely incredible free demos, you can play this one! Hop through the portal into Fen Harbor, where June, her friend Sunny (alive), and her new friend(?) Teddy (dead) are exploring an abandoned building. Who used to occupy this mysterious space? And why is there a portal into a dimension filled with monsters? And WHY does Teddy know where to go in there? AND WHAT'S ON HIS HEAD?Since this demo came out last summer, we've been working hard on more friends, more locations in June and Sunny's college town, and more glowy enemies! W
Play the Usual June Demo for Free Until May 5th!2025-05-01We couldn't be more excited that the folks at LudoNarraCon added Usual June to their brilliant line up of Official Selection games! That means our demo has returned from the dead, only until May 5th! Tell your friends to give it a try, too! There are 49 other games that are chock-full of hilarious/terrifying/emotional narrative in LudoNarraCon, too. We highly recommend that you set aside some time for every single one! Don't forget to wishlist them while you're at it! It's one of the most helpful things you can do for indie developers. And that's not all you can do at LudoNarraCon! They're also hosting discounts galore, plus panels and firesi
Watch The Usual June Art Director Talk Art!2025-04-04Finji Community Manager Aster Wright gathered some of our artistic powerhouses to talk about how they make art, why they make art, and how it fits into their games. Witness the ever-so-charming Richard Hogg (Wilmot’s Warehouse, Wilmot Works It Out), the intelligence of Amelia Herman (Usual June), and the subtle charisma of Andrew Shouldice (TUNIC) in this stream. If you’re interested in seeing more dev chats, Aster Wright gets devs together on a fairly regular basis over on Twitch! Follow for notifications when we go live.
✨ Check Out the Usual June Demo! ✨2024-11-22Thanks to Indie Arena Booth's Recap event, the Usual June demo is available one more time! We premiered this pre-alpha demo at IAB during Gamescom this year, and we had such a lovely time. Talking to people face-to-face about what more we have coming for the game was so fun. It's nice to relive those memories with this recap event. 🥹 So try it out! Talk to some ghosts, good luck fighting those crabs, and wishlist the game if you want to stay up-to-date on development!
AHHH! USUAL JUNE IS IN THE STEAM SCREAM FEST!2024-10-28AHHHHHHH! This game is full of g-g-ghosts!??! The one in the Usual June demo isn't too scary though, don't worry! Go on, play it and find out for yourself! The demo is available NOW through November 2! If you find yourself screaming, it might be from how much fun you're having and how beautiful the art is! Wishlist Usual June for more updates on development, and don't forget to follow us on socials! You can follow us on the Finji page for updates about our other games too!
Usual June 👻 Steam Next Fest2024-10-14This Halloween season, you can catch us talking to ghosts in the Usual June demo! Specifically, one little weird, but sweet, ghost boy named Teddy! You can play the Usual June demo now through October 21st! Go fight some glowy crab things, investigate the dark secrets of Fen Harbor, and get to know June, Sunny, and Teddy! Don't forget to wishlist the game for updates throughout its development and come hang out with us in the Finji discord! 💀 Brand New Usual June Pins! 💀 Make no bones about it, you're going to look very fun with this pin on a jacket! We premiered our brand new Usual June skull pins at PAX West last month, but you can grab o
Designing Combat - Usual June Devlog #12024-10-11We're so excited to show you our first devlog for Usual June! In this one, our Community & Social Media Manager Aster spoke with Finji Creative Director Adam Saltsman, Usual June VFX Artist Eduardo Noé, and Animator Mike Kersey about the some of the thought process and work that goes into creating "crabs" and helping June fight them! Check it out now! See it in action by playing the Usual June demo now! Let us know if there's another subject you'd like to hear the devs talk about! If you want to keep seeing updates on the game's development, throw Usual June on your wishlist and maybe give us a follow on socials!
Watch the developer play! (pre-recorded)2024-08-30Watch the full Usual June demo! (pre-recorded)
Play the Usual June Demo today!2024-08-21The Usual June demo is now playable on Steam through September 2nd! This one goes out to everyone who can't be at PAX West or Gamescom, to the people who won't have time to sit down at our booth and try out the game, and to the people who just want to try whaling on some multi-dimensional creatures again and again! So grab your controller, get comfy, and go meet a couple of June's friends! And don't forget to wishlist the game so you can keep track of our updates and announcements. We're so excited to be getting to see people at our live events, but if you can be there, make sure to check in with us on Discord. We'd love to hear from you!
Usual June is Going on Tour!2024-08-14June is packing her bags and preparing for takeoff! We're going to be at TWO conventions in the next month! First, we're honored to have been selected for the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom from August 21 - August 25! We'll be sharing the space with 50+ incredible indies, so be sure to swing by if you find yourself there! Not planning to be in Germany for that? Don't worry, we're sharing some love with the USA too. We'll be haunting PAX West from August 30 - September 2 with some of Usual June's developers! Find us at booth #803 with some new merch and good vibes! If you want to see updates from our travels, make sure to follow us on socials.