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Beastfolk Barber

A snip here, a story there. Nowhere's more honest than the barber's chair.

Beastfolk Barber is a narrative game where every haircut is a conversation. You play as a barber running a small shop for beastfolk of all shapes and sizes. With every cut and chat, learn what your customers like, what they need, and who they want to be.

But a trim is rarely all they need. As customers return to your chair, small talk begins to reveal the city’s quiet tensions, everyday pressures, and the simple wish to be understood.

One day, a demon appears in your shop and offers to grant one wish in exchange for the perfect haircut. To fulfill the bargain, you’ll need to keep serving customers, gather resources, and find a way to cut a demon’s hair.

But with each cut, this strange bargain brings you closer to a past you’ve never been able to face.

Features

The Demon’s Mirror

This mysterious mirror projects the hairstyle in your mind, giving customers a preview before you make the first cut.

But previews are limited, so every reaction matters. Watch closely, choose carefully, and you may begin to notice the mirror reflecting something deeper than hair.

Haircuts and Conversations

Every customer brings a different challenge to the barber’s chair. Listen, observe, and find the look they’re really after.

While the scissors move, customers open up about everyday worries, relationships, workplace pressure, prejudice, questions of identity, and more. Every haircut is a chance to understand them a little better.

Life Around the Barbershop

When the day ends, review customer feedback, count your tips, and scroll through the local news. Festivals, social events, customer updates, and other small clues may all come in handy the next time someone sits in your chair.

Haircuts That Shape the Story

How well you handle each haircut affects your customers’ stories, your tips, and the path the main story takes.

A good haircut can open the door to deeper character stories and new styles. A failed one may end certain storylines sooner than expected. But these aren’t simply good endings or bad ones, only different ways life can unfold.

In this barbershop, a haircut is never just a haircut.

It’s a question:

Who do you want to be?

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About Safe Flight Games

What Safe Flight Games aims to do is create experimental narrative games. We hope to develop unique mechanics that enable players to engage emotionally with the game, making them think, 'Wow, games are wonderful.'

Awards & Recognitions

Some Goodbyes We Made

2026 - IndieCade - Narrative Award
2025 - BFI London Film Festival - Official Selection
2025 - A MAZE. Awards - Digital Moment Award
2024 - BAFTA Games Awards - Student Awards longlisted
2024 - Bahamut ACG Creative Competition - Best Creativity Award

About SIGONO

Sigono was founded in 2013 with a mission to create “unique, heartfelt experiences that bring people joy.” Their OPUS series has garnered critical acclaim and over 10 million downloads, with the second installment (Rocket of Whispers) landed in Famitsu’s coveted Platinum Hall of Fame.

Awards & Recognitions

OPUS: Echo of Starsong

2024 - Cannes Film Festival - Spotlight Asia Official Selection
2022 - The Webby Awards - Webby Winner
2022 - Independent Games Festival Awards - Excellence in Narrative Honorable Mentions
2021 - Gamescom Asia Games Award - Winner For Excellence In Audio
2021 - Gamescom Asia Games Award - Winner For Excellence In Design
2021 - Gamescom Asia Games Award - Excellence in Narrative Finallist
2021 - Devgamm Awards - Nominated for Best Desktop Game
2021 - IndiePlay Awards - Excellence in Narration
2021 - IndiePlay Awards - Excellence in Audio
2021 - IndiePlay Awards - Nominated for the Indieplay Award
2021 - Chainsaw Game&Music Festival - Best Game Narrative Winner
2021 - NYX Game Awards - Best Storytelling Gold Winner
2021 - NYX Game Awards - Best Music Grand Winner
2021 - NYX Game Awards - Indie Game Gold Winner

Praises from the Media

《OPUS：心相吾山》就像是一部遊戲版的新海誠電影，一趟充滿哲思的旅程
-電撃オンライン

希望你能觸碰這段令人心酸的旅程。
-FAMITSU

少數真正呈現吉卜力魔力的遊戲之一。
-PC GAMER

With a beautiful art style and haunting music, it's no wonder Opus has earned so much acclaim.
-Daniel Robson, IGN

OPUS remains one of those indie game series that's super popular and highly regarded everywhere but the West, and I really hope this one will be the breakthrough both in the Western media and in the region. Echo of Starsong looks incredible.
-Rami Ismail

Opus has a lot of charm.
-Gita Jackson, Kotaku

Though small in size this game is powerful in the emotion of the story it's telling so you may want to be sure there is a tissue nearby
-Lori.h, Jay is games

OPUS is a game about lighthearted space exploration and stargazing that fits this purview to a T.
-Joe Donnelly, Rock Paper Shotgun

If you like curling up with a good book as much as sitting down with a good game, Rocket of Whispers is a perfect way to spend an enjoyable afternoon.
-Morgan Sleeper, Nintendo Life

...an adventure that tugs on the heartstrings, dealing with topics as large as loss and death, and telling a story that's as intriguing as it is engaging.
-Harry Slater, Pocket Gamer

I've grown to enjoy this kind of storytelling, and it fits the medium incredibly well
-Thomas Faust, IndieGames.com

At its heart this is a simple story of love, friendship, and acceptance of impermanence, but it’s told so wonderfully that anyone can pick this up and enjoy it.
- Iain Garner, Co-Founder of Video Game Publisher Neon Doctrine

地球を探して宇宙を探索するロマンだけでなく、ストーリー面では宇宙船OPUS号に乗ったハカセとの成長の物語も魅力となっている。
-IGN Japan

愛に満ちたSFストーリーと、静けさを紡ぐサウンドが心に染みます。
-レビュアーナム子＜ファミ通 No.1513＞

ある大災害をきっかけに荒廃した世界でのストーリーも魅力のひとつだが、『OPUS 魂の架け橋』の世界観を支える美しいBGMや、効果音、そして、温かみのあるイラストにも注目したい。
-ファミ通

エンディングの味わい深さは一級品だ。
-4Gamer

映画でしたらもちろん「禁断の惑星」そして「2001年宇宙の旅」、小説でしたらアイザック・アシモフあたりを好むのでしたら、確実に心の琴線に触れることうけあいです。
-オクトバ OCTOBA

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