With a 99% positive rating and over a thousand reviews! SIGONO announces that their narrative adventure game "Beast Barber," which they assisted in developing and publishing, has officially launched on the Steam Next Fest. Within seven days of the demo's release, it surpassed 100,000 wishlists. For this event, the team has thoroughly polished the text, refined interactive details, and added and optimized multiple localization languages, inviting more players to step into this barbershop.
About "Beast Barber"
"Beast Barber" is a narrative-driven adventure game. Players take on the role of Fidi, a barber in an animal city's barbershop, serving a diverse array of beastman customers. The game intersperses haircut interactions with character dialogue and plot progression, focusing on listening to and understanding guests, turning every haircut into an opportunity to get closer to their stories.
Get to know every customer between haircuts and conversations
A single word or reaction from a customer may reveal their expectations for their hairstyle, as well as thoughts they don't easily express.
Through haircuts and conversations, players will gradually get to know each customer and delve into their individual stories.
Text and performance optimizations make character personalities more distinct
This demo update polishes the game's text and adds certain performance and interaction details, making conversations smoother and highlighting the customers' personalities and reactions during haircuts. Players can pay attention to customers' responses during story progression and haircut interactions to experience the daily life within this barbershop.
The demo has currently accumulated over 1,000 Steam player reviews, achieving an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating with a 99% approval rate.
"Beast Barber" is developed by Manzo Games, with development and publishing support from SIGONO, the team behind "OPUS: Echo of Starsong" and "OPUS: Prism Peak." Manzo Games excels at conveying emotions through unique interactive mechanics. Their works have won the IndieCade 2025 Narrative Award and the Berlin A MAZE. 2025 Digital Moment Award, and were longlisted for the 2024 BAFTA Student Awards in the Games category.
The collaboration stems from a shared commitment to storytelling. Years of experience developing the OPUS series have made SIGONO acutely aware of how difficult it is for narrative games to gain visibility. Therefore, they decided to share resources and development expertise, applying the same quality standards as their own titles to jointly polish "Beast Barber" with Manzo Games.
Demo available during Steam Next Fest
This Steam Next Fest runs from October 20 at 01:00 to October 27 at 01:00 (Beijing Time). The "Beast Barber" demo is now available for download on Steam. Feel free to try it out, add the game to your wishlist, and stay tuned for future updates.