Occlude

Occlude

Released Jul 2025

Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.

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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

Occlude launched on July 10, 2025 with seven Rituals playable across Story Mode and Classic Mode. Shortly after launch, on August 11, 2025, the developer announced a free update called the Cardinals update, which shipped on October 22, 2025. This update added 24 new puzzles — expanding the game from 7 to 31 total puzzles — along with new Archive Documents, unlockable Objects, and quality-of-life improvements. Since the Cardinals update, developer activity has consisted solely of maintenance: a security patch in October 2025 and a hotfix in May 2026 addressing tutorial and card-shuffling bugs. No new content has been announced, no unreleased DLC exists (the only DLC is a Supporter Pack that released on launch day), and the developer has made no statements indicating further content is planned. The Cardinals update appears to represent the completion of the game's post-launch content additions.
Evidence
Cardinals free update launched, adding 24 new puzzles, new Objects, Archive Documents, and quality-of-life improvements — expanding the game from 7 to 31 total puzzles.
news post · Oct 22, 2025 source content shipped
high
Cardinals update announced as a major free upcoming update, confirming post-launch content plans.
news post · Aug 11, 2025 source content planned
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Released
Jul 2025

Media

Details

Publisher
Pantaloon
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

You thought you knew the rules. You don't.

Have you ever done something you regret? What if I told you there was a way to fix it? Make it so that something never happened at all; or perhaps, just happened differently. What if I told you it was as simple as a game of solitaire? 

What if I told you that the game’s name was Occlude?

The game’s not simple. The rules are hidden, and you find them by playing and experimenting. Make sure you have some coins - the coins will show when you’re on the right path. There are seven Rituals, each their own puzzle, increasing in difficulty. 

There are seven Entities, and they know you’re playing. Don’t worry about them. Worrying doesn’t do anything. I shouldn’t have mentioned them at all.

Occlude is an occult game of solitaire stuffed with secrets. Piece together the rules even as they resist your attempts to decipher them.

Uncover the brain-melting story behind the game that was never a game as you chip away at reality one card at a time. Develop your mastery of each Ritual to gain access to even deeper, forbidden lore in the Archives.

  • Solitaire: but not as you know it.

  • Seven Rituals: progress through increasingly complex card puzzles with unique hidden rulesets.

  • Twenty-four Cardinals: unlock Cardinals, variations of Rituals that stand as unique puzzles in their own right.

  • Two modes: The fiendishly difficult Classic Mode and our new, pleasantly vexing Story Mode with less punishing RNG, a second free cell and unlimited Undo.

  • Reality-bending narrative: uncover a cosmic horror story about a world broken by countless attempts to fix it.

  • Atmospheric sound design: immersive audio cues that shift based on your closeness to solving each puzzle.

  • Secret documents: discover fragments of forbidden texts that provide clues about Occlude's origins.

  • Terrible secrets: for those foolish enough to look for them.

Last evaluated Jun 18, 2026
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