Dionous Games Announces Overtime at Holiday’s

PARIS — Combining classic cinematic premises into video game form is an age-old indie tradition. But mixing Weekend at Bernie’s with Groundhog Day inside a retro pixel-art point-and-click adventure is a uniquely twisted elevator pitch.

Independent publisher Dionous Games and developer Animatic Vision officially announced Overtime at Holiday’s, bringing a heavy dose of dark humor and logic puzzles to PC players in 2027.

Key Takeaways

• High-Concept Premise: Players control Bill and Jules, two general cleaners who find their wealthy employer dead in his pool and get trapped in an endless time loop.
• Classic Mechanics: The title relies on traditional point-and-click mechanics—examining objects, picking up inventory items, talking to eccentric NPCs, and solving balanced puzzles.
• Cross-Platform Steam Release: Developed by the creators of Not Another Weekend, the game is scheduled for a 2027 release across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The story kicks off when general cleaners Bill and Jules land a high-paying weekend gig at billionaire Max Holiday’s sprawling mansion. The easy money evaporates the second they discover Max floating lifeless in his pool. Instead of calling the authorities and finishing their shift, the duo triggers a supernatural glitch, plunging them into an endless overtime loop where they must lug the corpse around the estate, evade suspicious security guards, and figure out how to break free.

Animatic Vision built the project around hand-drawn pixel graphics and classic inventory puzzles. As players guide Bill and Jules through the mansion, they’ll interact with a cast of eccentric, filty-rich guests while dodging detection.

Dionous Games, known for publishing narrative-driven mysteries and horror-tinged adventures with strong authorial voices, believes the dark comedic timing will resonate with classic adventure fans.

Key Features and Localization

For players eager to inspect the pixel work before launch, the official Steam store page is live now with screenshots and wishlist options.

Key features:

• Hand-drawn pixel art graphics
• Classic point-and-click gameplay: look, pick up, use, talk
• Blaack humour and quirky, eccentric characters (most of them filthy rich)
• Funny situations and dialogue
• A unique story with plenty of twists, turns and flips
• Well-balanced puzzles
• Original soundtrack

To ensure a broad international rollout, the publisher confirmed the game will launch with text localization spanning English (GB), French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Point-and-click adventures live or die by the quality of their writing and puzzle logic.

If Animatic Vision can deliver well-balanced inventory puzzles paired with genuinely funny dialogue that keeps the time-loop fresh, hauling a dead billionaire around a mansion might just become one of 2027’s standout indie surprises.