CR Unveils Two More Bizarre Titles That Hook You Instantly

CRITICAL REFLEX has added two new games to its CR Channel label today: Dopamine TV and Unhearable, both now live on Steam with store pages. The first comes from INFINITE ANIMAL, the second from Ducktopus Games, and both join the publisher’s growing horror lineup alongside Mouthwashing and That’s Not My Neighbor. Release dates and platform details have not been announced yet.

Dopamine TV is the one that immediately stands out for its movement. Developed by INFINITE ANIMAL, it’s an open-world first-person speedrunning platformer aimed squarely at players who like stranger, more offbeat games. Its setting is Saint-Love Port, a city where religious fanaticism and capitalist exploitation have fused into a horrifying corporate machine. Your job, at least on paper, is simple: deliver packages.

What makes it interesting is not the delivery premise itself, but whether the world actually lets you break it open through movement. Dopamine TV promises rail grinding, dashing, ground pounds, a grappling hook, and slide moves, all built around high-speed traversal through a densely interconnected open world full of what it calls movement puzzles. That matters. Good exploration is rarely about stuffing a map with icons; it’s about seeing a rooftop, a pipe, or an elevated track and instantly wondering whether you can cut through that way instead.

The game also folds in speedrunning, global leaderboard competition, NPC quests, hidden secrets, and surreal sequences. The clear pitch is that traversal itself is the content, not a chore between the real attractions.

Unhearable, meanwhile, goes in a completely different direction. Developed by Ducktopus Games, it is a grotesque body-horror game built around ear cleaning. The setting is the small town of Velviano, where disappearances and strange phenomena have unsettled the community. Residents suffer from tinnitus and the sensation that something is scratching beneath their skin.

In Unhearable, players descend into patients’ ear canals to remove rotten growths, crawling insects, and other foreign objects that should never be found inside a human ear. It is an aggressively uncomfortable hook, but that is also what makes the game distinctive.

What gives Unhearable more than simple gross-out value is the way it connects an ordinary act of personal care with a Lovecraftian strain of weird mystery. Rather than relying on blunt jump scares, it seems more interested in slowly tightening dread, with each cleaning session potentially exposing another layer of the town’s buried secrets. If you are drawn to unusual horror setups and can tolerate bodily discomfort, this feels like the kind of game that may linger longer than a standard scream-at-the-screen shocker.

From a label strategy standpoint, CRITICAL REFLEX is clearly still expanding its indie horror slate. After Mouthwashing and That’s Not My Neighbor, it now has one project leaning into open-world parkour and another into bodily unease and occult suspense. For players, the split is pretty straightforward: if freeform shortcuts, layered spaces, and rooftop route-finding are your thing, Dopamine TV is the one to wishlist on Steam first. If you would rather try a rarer concept and can handle ear-cleaning body horror, keep an eye on Unhearable.

For now, both games remain without confirmed release dates or platform announcements beyond their Steam pages. Still, based on this reveal alone, CR Channel just added two more horror projects worth tracking.