The Stone of Madness, the upcoming RTS adventure from Teku Studios and The Game Kitchen, has already bagged a release date.
The Spanish monastery-set stealth adventure was re-revealed at Gamescom 2024, four years after Teku Studios originally announced the title. But now the game is set to launch on Switch and other consoles on 28th January 2024.
Plus, if you've got a Steam account, you can actually check out a "multi-hour prologue experience" — basically, a demo for the beginning of the game.

In the full game, you'll be able to control a group of characters who have been imprisoned within the walls of a Spanish madhouse, tucked away inside a monastery. You not only need to escape the monastery, but also preserve each person's sanity by managing their individual traumas and phobias.
There are two unique escape plans, and each "campaign" will deliver different objectives and stories. You've also got to deal with a day and night cycle, and while you'll be doing most of the work during the day, the night will also allow you to experiment and play with some risk and reward opportunities.
Sporting an incredibly unique art style, The Stone of Madness immediately caught our eye back at Gamescom, and we were extremely lucky to sit down with the director and lead level designer of the game to talk about what made The Game Kitchen pivot to something so different from its acclaimed Metroidvania Souls-like series, Blasphemous.
What do you think of The Stone of Madness? Will you be grabbing the game next January? Go mad in the comments.
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What? No!
Why is the demo not on the switch what a bummer.
Anyway this looks terrific and I'm keeping my eyes on it and can't wait to see how it goes.
Still not sure if it is for me considering the disturbing parts shown in this very trailer but regardless, this game keeps on looking quite promising and it's great to hear it's coming relatively soon (although luckily not too soon since there are way too many games these months as is)!
So like a cross between Eternal Darkness and Abbey of Crime? That sounds like an amazing concept!
I'm terrible at these kinds of games, so I'm not sure if this one will be for me, but the idea is so cool!
@mlt This is one of the reasons I ended up grabbing a Steam Deck OLED this year. I love my Switch and Deck combo - I get all the Nintendo games, most of the Xbox games, and a large portion of PlayStation games all portable. So sweet! Highly suggest grabbing one if you can afford it.
It’s not quite as simple as Switch in terms of plug in, update and play, but it’s pretty dang close and you do get to fiddle with being able to adjust for performance or visual fidelity if you want.
@Dm9982 I have the same setup, Switch and Deck... albeit I pulled the trigger on the 256 LCD - just 1 month before OLED was announced! (woe is me...)
LCD Deck is still a powerhouse, albeit battery life is pretty shocking. But I agree, those 2 handhelds give me access to pretty much all I'd want to play.
If Switch2 is basically similar (or higher?) power to SD I'd be thrilled
@CJD87 Same! I’m hoping for a similar to power with Switch 2. I’m guessing they’ll pull the old Nintendo magic and give us a system that’s slightly less powerful, but more capable due to more modern hardware and a trimmed svelte OS per usual. I’d take a 40% power increase over Switch 1 and full Backwards Compatibility and be a happy camper to be completely honest. Just want more modern multiplat titles to come to it like BG3, Elden and Cyber Punk, plus the ability to run my old library in a smoother / better visual fashion like Witcher 3 or Borderlands 3.
If they exceed that I’m giddy. If they manage to charm MS/Bethesda into bringing the Fallout franchise over then I’m so far past giddy, I couldn’t begin to describe it. 😂 Just want Fallout series and the HD ports of Wind Waker and Twilight dang it!
@Dm9982 100% agree...
If Switch 2 can match SD power (or even slightly less) and be able to run the likes of Elden Ring, CP77, Baldurs 3 etc.... I'd bite Nintendo's hand off!
I think if Nintendo just pushed for as much 'oomph' as possible, it could pave the way for some great porting opportunities.... and might make developers consider back-catalogue transfers (Dark Souls trilogy? Fallout series? RRDR 2? GTAV?...)
I'll likely still keep my deck though, as the sale prices for games are insane... and you see £££ drops that you would never find in Nintendo lol.
But yeah, plan is to keep the deck and get Switch2 day1... assuming it meets the criteria. Full back catalogue support with S1 should really be mandatory also, same as PS4/5 etc
@CJD87 Yeah I think it’ll come in slight under the deck in terms of power. Nintendo will want to try to hit a 4-5 hour play time on the battery most likely. But, Nintendo knows how to make great gaming OSs and it’ll be much slimmer than SteamOS leaving more room for processing to be solely for gaming. It wouldn’t surprise me if they left out voice chat again honestly. Most gamers I know use WhatsApp or discord anyways to chat with friends, and Nintendo probably sees the same.
And even if it’s lighter than SD in terms of power, it’ll likely hit the exact same or higher levels of visual fidelity and fps. It also wouldn’t surprise me if they had a “Pro Dock” that had an external gpu for higher processing while docked giving people the ability to hit 4k/30-60fps.
I’m pretty sure Nintendo has some Demonic Pact in place for their hardware and software engineers at this point…. They tend to work incredible magic with the least amount of tech. Still amazes me that we’re playing PS4/Xb1 games in portable fashion…. Granted with much less visual fidelity, but still…. Witcher 3, Hogwarts, Doom and Borderlands 3? Holy crap…. We live in a an awesome and crazy time for gaming
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