MASK IT is a point-and-click adventure about a rookie editor who creates sensational fake news, and it is being shown at the SELECTED INDIE 80 booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. A Steam store page is open, but the release date is undecided.
MASK IT is a point-and-click adventure from White Babel Studio. The player is a rookie editor at an online news outlet who applies mosaic processing to ordinary photos to make them sensational and rack up page views. The game has exploration segments in Huiguang City, where players can see how their crafted stories affect society. The Steam store page opened in August 2026, and the release date is undecided.
The game was planned and developed at Global Game Jam 2026 in January. It is now being shown at the SELECTED INDIE 80 corner at Tokyo Game Show 2026. The booth gathered 80 titles chosen from more than 1,500 applications, and MASK IT is one of them. The player masks parts of photos to change what they appear to show: hiding a glove can change what a worker appears to carry, and hiding a celebrity's hands can change a peace sign into a vulgar gesture.
Coverage of MASK IT is split across two announcements. The first is the opening of the Steam page, which established the developer, the format, the mosaic mechanic, the setting, and the undecided release date. The second is the game's presence at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which added the Global Game Jam origin and specific examples of how masking alters a photo's meaning. No story gives a release window or a price.
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Tokyo Game Show 2026 ran at Makuhari Messe from September 17 to 20, and the SELECTED INDIE 80 booth in Hall 9 gathered 80 titles chosen from more than 1,500 applications. Game Spark's three-part feature covers 13 of them. Part 1 leads with SHIBUYA SUSHI MASTER, a cyberpunk sushi-serving adventure set in a flooded Shibuya in the year 2688, and Maestro, an orchestra-conducting rhythm game now out on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch for 4,980 yen. Part 2 adds five more, among them ANRI, a hand-tracking light action game playable only at the event, Go Slimey Go! with 25 stages, and Invisible Room, an audio-only mystery puzzle. Part 3 closes on Sayonara Backup, a collection of 11 minigames built around farewells.
Sep 19
At the SELECTED INDIE 80 corner at Tokyo Game Show 2026, LudenArts is showing MASK IT, an adventure game planned and developed at Global Game Jam 2026 in January. The player is a rookie editor at an online news outlet who masks parts of photos to make them sensational and racks up page views. Hiding a glove can change what a worker appears to carry; hiding a celebrity's hands can change a peace sign into a vulgar gesture.
Aug 21
Indie developer White Babel Studio has opened the Steam store page for MASK IT, a point-and-click adventure about news reporting. As a rookie editor, players apply mosaic processing to ordinary photos to create eye-catching fake news. Exploration segments in Huiguang City let players see how their crafted stories affect society. The release date is undecided.