MyDear.exe, a two-hour story game set inside the folders of an old family computer, releases November 2, 2026, Falling Leaves Studio announced in a new trailer. It is coming to Steam for Windows and macOS, and a free demo is up there now. No price has been posted yet.
You play Ellie, whose husband Lucien has made her a game on the family PC to mark their 57 years together. You dig through it the way you would dig through a relative’s old desktop. There are photos, notes, souvenirs and small narrative mini-games, and the clues to its puzzles sit in the computer’s folders. The store screenshots show a Minesweeper look-alike, a side-scrolling paperboy game and a cat photo, each in its own little window. Two cats, Clochette and Hoshisan, are part of the cast.
The team is the story for me. Falling Leaves is two people in Bordeaux, working with a few freelance friends, and this is their first game as an independent studio. One founder, Lucie Dewagnier, was lead programmer and game director on The Rogue Prince of Persia at Evil Empire. The other, Jolan, was senior producer on the same game. That roguelite won best debut game at France’s Pégases awards this year. Two people from that team now make a short, quiet love story about a couple married for 57 years.
That is a bigger swing than it looks. Rogue Prince is a fast action game about dying and running again, and the studio pitches MyDear.exe as a game for a hot drink on a rainy afternoon. If you want to see what a team with that background makes when nobody needs it to be big, this is where to look.
It also lands in a familiar format. Fake-desktop and fake-phone games are a small genre of their own, and most of them, the Simulacra series included, hide something sinister in the files. This one hides a marriage.
It has full voice audio in English, French, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The studio also states on its store page that no AI-generated assets were used.
The demo is the quickest way in, and you will want MyDear.exe on your wishlist before November 2.
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