Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
Released May 2020
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
98% positive · 604 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Evaluation
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 launched on May 15, 2020 and received one substantial free content update (v1.1) on July 20, 2020, which added a new pizza delivery, new characters, two photo filters, two music tracks, and an enhanced finale. No further content updates have been released for this game since then.
The store description explicitly frames this as "Volume 1" and "the first game of many in the anthology of Tales," with each volume being a self-contained story. However, Cosmo D has moved on to subsequent projects — first Betrayal at Club Low (announced June 2022), and then Moves of the Diamond Hand (announced February 2025, with a series of dev diaries through December 2025). All post-2020 developer communications from this game's news feed are announcements about these separate successor titles, not about additional content for Vol. 1 itself.
While the "Vol. 1" branding hints at a broader series, Cosmo D has not made any developer statement committing to a Vol. 2 release, and the developer's focus has clearly shifted to other projects. Vol. 1 functions as a complete, self-contained experience. With the v1.1 update as the last content shipped in July 2020 and no outstanding commitments for this title, the game is content-complete.
Evidence
Free v1.1 content update released, adding a new pizza delivery, new characters, photo filters, music tracks, and an enhanced finale. Update notes mention the new characters 'point towards where we'll be heading in Volume 2.'
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 launched on Steam on May 15, 2020.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Cosmo D Studios LLC
Achievements
41
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 is set in the same universe as both The Norwood Suite and Off-Peak, Cosmo D’s previous games.
It’s a hazy Sunday morning on the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street. Caetano Grosso, a former saxophone player and longtime pizza-maker, is just getting his pizza oven warmed up. Orders are trickling in, and he needs someone to help with the deliveries. You sense an opportunity, but unbeknownst to him, what you’re really after is his old saxophone, and you’re going to get it one way or another. Your pursuit will set off a chain of events across the neighborhood, taking you deep into the hidden worlds and private lives of the people living there.
Tales From Off-Peak City is a first-person adventure game series, all set on, around, and under a single street corner. Filled with memorable characters and the spaces they inhabit, the game provides an open-ended world full of secrets and hidden agendas. Building on the gameplay foundations of Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite, players will explore the streets and its surroundings, make pizzas, take photos, push buttons, open drawers they’re not supposed to, and lose themselves inside the atmospheric musical score that integrates itself directly into the game world.
Volume 1: Caetano’s Slice is the first game of many in the anthology of Tales. While each ‘Volume’ is its own self-contained story and experience, taken together, they build towards the larger over-arching narrative of what’s really going on at the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street and what role you ultimately play in its fate.
It’s a hazy Sunday morning on the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street. Caetano Grosso, a former saxophone player and longtime pizza-maker, is just getting his pizza oven warmed up. Orders are trickling in, and he needs someone to help with the deliveries. You sense an opportunity, but unbeknownst to him, what you’re really after is his old saxophone, and you’re going to get it one way or another. Your pursuit will set off a chain of events across the neighborhood, taking you deep into the hidden worlds and private lives of the people living there.
Tales From Off-Peak City is a first-person adventure game series, all set on, around, and under a single street corner. Filled with memorable characters and the spaces they inhabit, the game provides an open-ended world full of secrets and hidden agendas. Building on the gameplay foundations of Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite, players will explore the streets and its surroundings, make pizzas, take photos, push buttons, open drawers they’re not supposed to, and lose themselves inside the atmospheric musical score that integrates itself directly into the game world.
Volume 1: Caetano’s Slice is the first game of many in the anthology of Tales. While each ‘Volume’ is its own self-contained story and experience, taken together, they build towards the larger over-arching narrative of what’s really going on at the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street and what role you ultimately play in its fate.
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Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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