From Press Release:
Brooklyn, NYC, United States – October 26, 2026 – Award-winning indie dev Cosmo D Studios is today pleased to announce that Chapter 3 of its dice-rolling, urban, narrative RPG Moves of the Diamond Hand is now available via Steam Early Access.
The first major content update to the game since its launch into Early Access, Chapter 3 adds hours of new gameplay and narrative to the jazz-soaked streets of Off-Peak City. Players can now explore the vast, dilapidated Building 18. Within these liminal walls and halls, they’ll meet a fresh cast of characters, which society chose to forget; quickly becoming entangled in a tale of kafkaseque-dread and deadpan surrealness.
The game-changing update also introduces a new Moves system, which brings a new, turn-based flow to dice-duals, in which every round breaks the rules to deliver a heightened sense of pace and push-pull tension.
Moves of the Diamond Hand Features
A Full Embrace of the Spirit of Tabletop RPG Gaming – Your stats are all represented as dice. These dice offer opportunities for drama and strategy. Items are dice. Conditions are dice. Disguises are dice. These dice are all customizable in a myriad of different ways.
A Tight Narrative Full of Twists and Turns – Explore a dubby jazz noir mystery. You, along with your dice, will determine how it all plays out, right up to the very end.
Choices and Consequences Aplenty – Three very different mayoral candidates offer stark points of view and personality. But their race for The Key to the City is as close as it gets.
A City of Personalities – Odd characters, each with their own agendas, perspectives, and secrets, await your arrival. Some of them might have connections to previous Cosmo D games, but knowledge of those games is not required.
A Vibe Like No Other – Cosmo D games put a premium on head-nodding music and thick atmosphere. Moves of the Diamond Hand continues to elevate this approach.
A Collaborative, Transparent Approach to Release – Starting with Chapter One, all players will have access to a bug reporting and feedback menu in-game. Bug fixes, balance adjustments and quality of life improvements will be ongoing and continuous.
Moves of the Diamond Hand is now available in Steam Early Access, featuring the first three chapters of the game. Additional content will be added as part of the Early Access roadmap, which can be found here.
For more information on Cosmo D Studios and Moves of the Diamond Hand, please visit the official website, or follow on Bluesky and X.
About Cosmo D Studios
Cosmo D is a game designer based in New York City, with a background in cello performance and music composition. One rainy night in June 2013, he was struck by a car while crossing the street and found himself unable to play or make music for several months.
While convalescing, he took it upon himself to learn the Unity Engine. The result was Off-Peak, released in 2015. A homage to Cosmo D’s home city of New York, as well as a commentary on the commodification of art and music in the urban space, Off-Peak gained a cult following, with hordes of press nods, let’s plays on YouTube, and a fanbase eagerly awaiting the follow-up.
With assistance from NYU Game Center’s Incubator program, publisher Alliance Digital Media, as well as the New York game development scene at large, Cosmo D released a sequel, The Norwood Suite, in October 2017. Building on the momentum from this release Cosmo D released Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 in Spring of 2020, the award-winning Betrayal at Club Low in Fall 2022, and is now developing Moves of the Diamond Hand – his biggest project to date.
For more information on the weird and wonderful work of Cosmo D, please head over to the official website at cosmod.net.
