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The Funnel

Assemble gear boxes, meet your crew, escape the factory. The Funnel is a short and replayable narrative puzzle game where you may help or betray any of the people you meet. But be careful, the Funnel is watching...

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Developer
Bronzeman Studio
Publisher
Bronzeman Studio
Release
April 23, 2026
100 days ago
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About the Game

The Funnel is a short and replayable narrative game, mixing branching dialogue and puzzle minigames. You are a gear assembler in a world where humanity has fled into a system of underground factories. Will you be a good worker and get promoted or will you try and escape?

Features:

  • A 3-5 hour story

  • 20+ ways to reach the end

  • 9 puzzle minigames

  • 60k+ words of dialogue

Who do you trust

Choose who to work with or who to betray. Every crew mate you meet has their own plan for the future of the factory, leading to different endings with entirely different minigames.

Minigames are choices

Just like your dialogue choices, succeeding or failing in a minigame will change the outcome of your story. If someone asks you to attach a timer to a bomb and you fail, that character might sacrifice themselves since the bomb no longer has a delay.

Discover the mysteries that underpin this strange world

Experience The Funnel’s unique world, diverging from our own timeline in the 1900s when a group of scientists in Old Philadelphia created the Funnel, a giant robotic structure that supposedly can average out the collective will of humanity.

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