Across the Grooves
Released Jun 2020
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.
92% positive · 138 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Across the Grooves launched on June 17, 2020 as a complete interactive graphic novel. The only DLC ever listed is the game's soundtrack, which was released on the same day as the game itself. No additional story content, expansions, or post-launch narrative updates have ever been announced or released for this title.
The studio's recent communications (including newsletters from late 2025 and early 2026) are focused entirely on their next game, After the Wane, with no mention of any new content planned for Across the Grooves. The September 2025 update for Across the Grooves added Remote Play Together support — a feature addition rather than any story or content expansion. A December 2023 patch addressed controller compatibility and minor bug fixes. Neither of these indicates new content is coming.
Nova-box is an actively communicating studio, posting regularly, but all forward-looking energy is directed at After the Wane. Across the Grooves appears to have shipped as a finished product and has received only maintenance and feature updates since launch, with no content roadmap ever published for it.
Evidence
Across the Grooves launched on Steam on June 17, 2020 as a complete interactive graphic novel.
The only DLC is the game's soundtrack, released on launch day. No story DLC or expansions have ever been listed.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Nova-box
Achievements
34
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Across the Grooves is an interactive graphic novel, set in a magical-realism universe. Your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.
Alice lives an uneventful life. She’s in a long term relationship, has a stable office job and a nice apartment in the center of Bordeaux. One day, Ulysse, her ex-lover, comes back into her life through an old vinyl record she receives in the mail. When she puts it for a spin on turntable, she is thrown back into her own past, forced to relive old events. When she comes back to the present, her reality has changed.
Determined to bring her life back on track, Alice packs up and embarks on a hunt across Europe, following the tracks of Ulysse while trying to uncover the origins of the record. However, her journey gradually turns into a quest of self-discovery as she explores new parallel realities each time she puts the needle in the groove.
- A hand-crafted adventure — With each playthrough, discover a novel-sized adventure and a slice of the hundreds of hand-drawn images created for the game.
- Every choice matters — Each decision you make slightly alters the personality of the main character, Alice.
- An invitation to travel — Feel the pulse of European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery, all depicted in gorgeous European comic book art style.
- Immersive and finely crafted soundtrack — The music adapts and shifts according to your choices and the mood of each scene.
- High replayability — Choose Alice’s fate and discover the outcome of your decisions through multiple story paths and endings.
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Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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