Games by Secret Mode
Secret Mode / Cosmonaut Studios
- 23rd May 2024 (UK/EU)
- 23rd May 2024 (NA)
Reviews of Secret Mode Games
Review Loddlenaut (Switch) - A Stress-Free, Subaquatic Escape For PowerWash Lovers
Come get some jetsam
Anyone who’s played PowerWash Simulator for too long while in a feverish state from having eaten too many fish fingers knows the feeling. You cease being a sanitary entrepreneur and find yourself submerged in the water, wearing a spacesuit, shooting the dirt off with a laser in a Zen-like trance while you nurture sea...
Mini Review A Little To The Left (Switch) - An Evocative, Imaginative Tidy 'Em Up
How’s it hanging?
Trailers, screenshots, and previews of A Little to the Left paint a picture of a tidying game about making things neat – and a cat interferes and cats are nice. That’s not inaccurate, but there’s a lot more going on in Max Inferno’s first game. Presenting you with one-screen scenes of real-life objects like books,...
Mini Review Penko Park (Switch) - A Worthy Spiritual Successor To Pokémon Snap
“We’re going to make a fortune with this place”
There has never been a better time to be a Pokémon Snap fan than during the Switch era. From the excellent New Pokémon Snap delivering a sequel over 20 years in the making to the long-awaited rerelease of the original Pokémon Snap on the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, it seems like the...
Mini Review Little Orpheus (Switch) - A Whimsical Tale That Left Us Wanting
Absurd tales straight from the centre of the Earth
Developed by The Chinese Room of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture fame, Little Orpheus sheds some – but not all – of the studio’s reputation for making games with a focus on engaging stories rather than gameplay. Fear not, the studio's flair for an intriguing setup remains...
Latest Secret Mode News
Tuesday4th Mar 2025
News Indie Publisher Secret Mode Is Going Solo Following Sumo Group Split
Keeping a Secret
Investment firm Emona Capital LLP announced today that it has completed the successful buyout of Secret Mode — the publisher behind the likes of A Little To The Left, Wobbledogs, Loddlenaut, and more — from Sumo Group, a Tencent subsidiary. This isn't the firm's first foray into the gaming biz, either. Emona Capital currently...
Wednesday9th Nov 2022
Exclusive "There's Always A New Mess!" - Turning Real Life (And A Real Cat) Into A Tidying Up Game
An interview with developers Max Inferno
It's not often we get to do in-person interviews these days. It's even less frequent that we get to travel to a game studio to do them. But this might be a first, because for this interview, we actually got to go to a developer's house. It turns out that Max Inferno, the two-person studio making upcoming...
Tuesday20th Sep 2022
Exclusive 'Penko Park' Combines Pokémon Snap's Cuteness With Majora's Mask Creepiness
Coming to Switch soon!
Do you love Pokémon Snap, but hate waiting 20 years for new instalments? Do you wish that Pokémon would lean way more into its darker side, like all the ghost Pokémon that steal children? Do you enjoy Take a good look at Penko Park, an upcoming Switch game that draws its inspiration from the animal photography gameplay of...
Thursday14th Apr 2022
News 'Eternal Threads' Asks You To Manipulate Time To Save Lives On Switch Later This Year
More than just a stitch in time
Secret Mode is a pretty apt name for a publisher, isn't it? Especially today, as they've been keeping a pretty big secret from us. The studio has announced that it will be bringing Liverpool-based Cosmonaut Studios' Eternal Threads to Switch sometime this year. The game was announced last year, but until today, we...
Wednesday6th Apr 2022
News Cosy Organisation Game 'A Little To The Left' Is Shuffling Onto Switch This Summer
Everything in its right place
Anyone remember the Cha Cha Slide? Of course you do. You are old, like me. There's an iconic quote from Cha Cha Slide, that goes a little something like this: "Right foot, two stomps. Left foot, two stomps. Slide to the left. Slide to the right." I like to think that this line is about overcoming obstacles and...
Tuesday14th Dec 2021
News 'A Little To The Left' Brings Wholesome Organisation To Nintendo Switch In 2022
A little to the right
Some people are content to let chaos rule their lives, and that's fine. But for people like us — people who want their pens to be in rainbow order, and their pencils organised by length — the world can be frustrating. So many things at imperfect angles! Too many illogically-designed items of furniture! But A Little To The...
