Esports11 Jun 2025Our new card puzzle game Playing Prague is out! 🌞Hello and happy last weeks of springs, we have an big announcement: a new game! It’s called Playing Prague and design-wise, it follows in Beecarbonize’s footsteps. Playing Prague is a cozy puzzler, where you build your own bohemian city by placing cards with symbols from historical houses of Prague. It’s a challenge for both casual and experienced puzzle fans and during gameplay, you’ll also le…
Our dearest Beecarbonize players and emission mitigators, We are so excited to announce that our new game Velvet 89 is finally out and for free! Velvet 89 takes you on a trip across the revolting country – from cautious ecology-themed protests to huge crowds. Investigate the moments before police brutally attacked a peaceful demonstration and unveil the stories of those who decided to speak up.…
Our very dear Playing Kafka players, I am so happy to announce a new game by Charles Games coming in October 2024! Velvet 89 is a free game that will take you to the streets of several Czechoslovak cities, full of people who decided to speak up against an unjust regime – and a title attentive to some of the overlooked aspects of it all. It’s twice a first for Charles Games – a hidden-object gam…
Hello, hi and thank you very much – our game hits 350 000 players on all platforms with more than 200 000 on Steam! In our wildest dreams we never would have guessed we’ll hit this number. Thank you for being along for the ride! A lot of you keep asking us how you can support our game. The best thing to do is to sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop, check out our newest game and talk…
Hi everybody! I am so happy to let you know our new, free game Playing Kafka out now! It’s an adventure that adapts three works by Kafka, was made with Kafka experts, is fully voiced and takes about 1.5 hour to finish. A game full of impenetrable schemes, based on Kafka’s work and life. We can’t wait to hear what you think! Play now: Thanks a lot for your continued support! Ondřej Charles Games
Hi! It might not be a historical game per se, but it still very much has the Charles Games DNA it it: Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure based on the work of life of the famous absurdist writer. It comes out May 21 here, on Steam, 100% free. The fully-voiced game (in English, German and Czech) was developed with Kafka experts. We poured our hearts (and evenings reading The Castle, The Trial…
Hi everybody! We are so excited we can show you our next game: narrative adventure Playing Kafka! To keep things short, let me just say that it will have three chapters, will adapt three works of Franz Kafka and it’s gonna be free and fully voiced in three languages! Welcome to Playing Kafka, an adventure about the alienation of modern society as well as unresolved family issues. Created with l…
Hello everyone ! In March, Beecarbonize turned one, so we figured we might make something special. And now, it’s here – a free anniversary digital artbook! You can now download it here. It includes 32 pages with highly detailed illustrations found on cards and elsewhere in the game. Perhaps you were too busy saving the world for check them out in detail. Now you can :) For the sake of size, we…
Your interest in Beecarbonize has been both exceedingly heartwarming and higher than we anticipated – especially true here on Steam, where it’s been a joy to watch you discuss our game, reverse-engineer its systems, race to be the fastest player to save the Earth. Yet, in our case, a single game does not make a studio. So, while Beecarbonize has kept us busy for a considerable while, there are…
Hi everybody! Hope you had a great start of the year. I spend the first weeks digging into some Beecarbonize numbers and I can show you now! So, if you are interested in some statistics about playtimes, players and devices, read on! I decided to check on some non-Steam stats as well. So first up, a general platform breakdown: Again, thank you so much our Steam players here as you make the bigge…
Dear players! First of all thanks so much as this year was such a joyride thanks to your overwhelming support and nice feedback. To recap all that, I have gathered some numbers from Steam, run them through our proprietary data analysis (me and Excel) and now I have some nice charts to show you. So without further ado... region breakdown! Asia was going strong particularly thanks to China. Thank…
Hello! To be completely honest, we think we did something interesting with Beecarbonize. We reached 200k players with a game about climate crisis, in a genre that managed to entice so many of you. We did not plan on Beecarbonize getting so big, but thanks to you, here we are! 💚 And what is also upon us are the Steam Awards. This year, you can nominate US , if you like what we’re doing. Most in…
Hello and hi! Quick happy announcement: Beecarbonize got nominated at a beloved and mayor festival of independent games IndieCade! We are competing in Impact Spotlight and Grand Jury award, so let’s see how we’ll fare :) Keep your fingers crossed as the ceremony takes place on November 4th! IndieCade is just great with interesting games nominated alongside with us - including our personal favor…
Hi to all, hope your summer concluded in the best possible way. Ours sure did – the past month at the office was so much fun due to all the fanart you sent us and all the debates we had about who should win. In the end, it was tough, but we decided. Let's take a look! FAN ART CONTEST WINNERS ARE HERE! About a month ago we asked you to make any art inspired by the world of Beecarbonize and boy o…
Hello and what a great day! Thanks to a valiant effort of you , our community, Beecarbonize is now more accessible to more than a billion people 😲 💚 That hopefully means more climate awareness, richer community and possibly even more saved bees ( the right ones ) and sequestered carbon. The update is now live on Mac, PC as well as iOS. Android is coming a bit later. And we’d be grateful if yo…
It is like the title says: we have surpassed a number we did not imagine when starting this project: TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND of you decided to save the planet in Beecarbonize! That`s 200 000! Amazing. Just amazing. And Steam accounts for more than 50% of players so that’s a big bow to everybody here, keeping Beecarbonize alive and well. Thank you and we are off to celebrate... after we give the la…
Hello, I will be nice and short: THANK YOU SO MUCH. The support, the offers to translate, all your engagement is much more than we’d hoped for in our wildest dreams when preparing for the Steam release. We are also closing in on a 200K mark across all platforms (meaning you, dear Steam players, make more than 50% of our playerbase!) and I personally would not have guessed it. Blown aback, simpl…
Your interest has been overwhelming and heartwarming! So we have to close the offers for now, but thank you so so so much! Looking forward to sharing the new Beecarbonize translations with you! From the start we wanted to make Beecarbonize as accessible as possible to people all around the world, so it can keep on spreading the climate message, opening eyes of players to solutions to our ecolog…
Quick additional fix to cloud saves: it should now work on Mac and you should be able to freely switch between Windows and Mac and Steam will keep it all synced. Happy saving the planet!
Hi - a new patch is here. Apart from the achievements and volume sliders you all asked for, we have also fixed a bug with the board card displacement and an error that caused win streak to be broken. If you started playing before this patch and have trouble with the achievements, there’s a little thing you have to do make them work properly - deleting your save data, switch off Steam Cloud save…
Hello all! We are quite happy with what our illustrator Jitka done with Beecarbonize (check her other work, too!), but you know - why stop there! That’s why we are opening the very first Beecarbonize fan art contest for submissions! It will run starting today for two weeks, until August 28th. Send your drawings, pantings, origamis, screen printed fabrics, sculptures and anything else over at in…
The much asked for update is here, thanks for your patience! Make sure you update Beecarbonize as there are many things we have improved and fixed. What's changed: · All the achievements work! · Hold to pay is now faster · Info button now works properly (links to encyclopedia entry of a given card) · Bug that made cards appear off-grid when dragging is now fixed · Genetical modifications achiev…
We were not sure what to expect in terms of numbers in a fierce competition on Steam, but you made us quickly readjust our assumptions. We now have over 60 000 players just on Steam! That accounts for around 40% of all players which is a great number! It is not all about numbers, though. We - and I personally - appreciate all your feedback, your ideas, discussions, community activities here on…
We have a milestone to share. Let’s be quick: That includes a lot of you here, on Steam. We are truly amazed by the reception our game got here. So thanks so much! We are grateful for all the feedback you have given as so far and we’ll be sure to take it into account for future updates. One is coming real soon! See you in the, hopefully, greener world. Ondrej Charles Games
Tune in this Wednesday August 2nd at 16:30 CET, Prague (10:30 New York Time) to learn more about our journey to releasing Beecarbonize, design principles and insights, riveting questions from you as well as an opportunity to look under the hood of our award-nominated climate card strategy. Participating: Ondrej Paska, CTO, programmer and designer Alex Petrova, programmer and designer Ondrej Trh…
Hi, the long-awaited day is here! 🐝🐝🐝 Beecarbonize is now released! 🐝🐝🐝 So hop in, play it, save the planet, try hardcore mode, finish all the challenges and discover all the cards. We will be keeping an eye out for those global statistics! 👀 We can’t wait to see what Steam players are up to. And if you like what you play, leave a review, tell your friends about our game. We poured our h…
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