Octopus Goulash

Octopus Goulash

The Night is the new day

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A city built to feed metaverses. You are the operator inside the machine.
Release by the end of January 2026.

Octopus Goulash is a holistic open-world game set in the last city left on Earth. A cold future where life is managed, measured, and constantly evaluated.

Developed in three years by one person.

Set in the last remaining city, a huge metropolis of interconnections and server farms. A massive machine designed to feed digital metaverses. Built on the remains of a hyper-capitalist civilization, now an inhospitable place for life.

Learn how to survive in an oppressive ecosystem. Build relationships and discover the lives and secrets of its inhabitants. Find your own path and search for the answer to THE QUESTION.

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Trailer

Broadcast from the grid.

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About OG

Holistic Open World game

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Octopus Goulash is a holistic open-world game set in the last city on Earth, a cold, calculating future where reality and simulation blur into the same system.

  • Choose a career and work your way up.
  • Maybe one day you will afford that apartment in The Spine.
  • Join an organization and make easy money.
  • Trade on the stock market.
  • Explore underground clubs.
  • Earn credits through illegal street races or risky side activities.
  • Recover relics for profit from the Outlands.
  • Live on almost nothing by begging on the streets.

You are placed inside the living ecosystem of Hub39, a dense vertical city built to survive at all costs. NPCs are simulated, persistent, and remember interactions, shaping relationships, opportunities, and consequences over time.

To remain operational, every operator must keep their organism in balance. Needs, habits, and mental states are fully simulated within a holistic system. NPCs have distinct personalities, services cost credits, and your condition directly affects how others react to you.

Every choice leaves a trace. There is no single way to play. No correct path.

The goal is to answer THE QUESTION.
The path that leads you to that answer depends entirely on you.

Learn more about the city

The City

Layers of control. Layers of truth.

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The Night is the new day

The city of Octopus Goulash rises from the ruins of an ultra-consumerist civilization that tried to reach the sky and collapsed under its own weight. On a planet devastated by climate collapse, where breathable air no longer exists, a sub-human society has emerged. To survive, it was forced to evolve into a biomechanical form. This city is an hub, built around total efficiency and the promise of eternal life inside digital worlds. But everything has a cost in Hub39. And when escape from reality is the goal, people are willing to do anything to achieve it.

Click the image to get some info about the HUB.

Districts 12 districts spread across the city, ranging from the most desolate outskirts to the most densely populated urban blocks.
Buildings Shops, diners, garages, museums, and many other locations can be visited, depending on your current ECO level.

Pictures

Snapshots from the game.

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About Me

Developer, Rome.

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Developer photo

Hi, I’m Alessio

I am the developer behind Octopus Goulash. My passion has always been videogame development. Alongside software development, I enjoy painting and writing. I am constantly exploring the world and its many realities. I love traveling and imagining new possibilities.

Developing this game over more than three years has been a journey across multiple layers of reality and different timelines. Along the way, I realized that everything acts as a mirror, and the game itself is one too.