Backyard Zoo | Wishlist Mayfly on Steam

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Solo indie game dev Currently working on my first game ‘Mayfly’, a story-rich psychological horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Wishlist now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4057470/Mayfly Lancashire, UK

An initially bright and airy narrowboat undergoes a reality collapse to a darker realm with a myserious metal wheel appearing above the bed
A dark narrowboat interior with a rusty metal wheel on the wall
A very low viewpoint video scanning a narrowboat at ground level.
Three photos on a damp wall. One is crooked the words Mayfly 1994 show in the subtitles
A story-rich quiet horror game set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Mayfly. Demo release 15 April
A log menu showing the new filters and sorting options
A Controls menu for Mayfly showing the PlayStation button mappings
A bare narrowboat interior model with purple walls and the word 'Dickhead' written on the wall for some reason
An early development shot showing the Mayfly main menu before proper lighting was added. Also shows an older narrowboat model
A very early build progress screenshot showing a bare narrowboat interior
A settings menu showing customisable options for screen resolution, v-sync, windowed mode, text size, crosshair size and different audio level sliders
A long dark tunnel leading off from a narrowboat
Mayfly Developer: Backyard Zoo Publisher: Backyard Zoo Release: Q3 2026 A short story-led quiet horror set entirely on a narrowboat in Northern England. Experience Caroline Miller's slow descent into a dark and twisted reality as she attempts to locate her missing husband
A startled dog looking at some shocking Unity statistics showing 3 million tris and 3.8 million verts rendered
A main menu screen for Mayfly showing a narrowboat sitting under a bridge
The Mayfly title screen showing a narrowboat under a railway bridge
A half-textured Mayfly boat modal
A music box with five wires trailing off in different directions
A screenshot from Mayfly showing dodgy pixelated lighting
A TV emitting static on a dark narrowboat