Pudim Studios ElMequetrefe
The ensemble cast of El Mequetrefe across Puerto Bonanza

Timeline Edition Puerto Bonanza · 1976

Your life arrives as posts.Every answer becomes tomorrow’s paper.

Inherit a bankrupt family newspaper. Choose what to publish. Read the island, protect the people you love, and survive long enough to print your version of the truth.

See how one day works
02 volatile stats 23 characters 120 achievements 09 languages
Salud & PlataCharacter affinitiesConsequential eventsPublish for profit Salud & PlataCharacter affinitiesConsequential eventsPublish for profit

Two numbers.
Both are bleeding.

You inherit a newspaper, a body under pressure, and debt that already knows your name.

Resource 01Signed debt / cash
−3,000

Plata

Negative is normal. Every peso buys time. Reach P$0 at Editorial Close and the paper survives its inherited debt.

Resource 02Your remaining health
70/100

Salud

Deadlines, enemies, isolation, and deep debt wear you down. Low Salud makes mortality part of the feed.

Choose Every answer can move Salud or Plata. Endure Debt pressure can drain both at once. Recover Relief exists, but never without a price.

The island remembers
your name.

Every resident has a 0–100 affinity with you. All begin at 50. What you do next decides who answers the phone.

María de los Ángeles

01 · Family anchor

María de los Ángeles

Affinity with you50

Your ex-wife has boundaries the newsroom cannot edit.

Esperanza Salcedo

02 · Daughter

Esperanza Salcedo

Affinity with you50

She reads more closely than the adults—and chooses her own last line.

El Diablo

03 · Family Chihuahua

El Diablo

Affinity with you50

The smallest member of the family may know the road home.

Tía Nena

04 · Permanent secretary

Tía Nena

Affinity with you50

She knows every caller, keeps the black book, and cannot be fired.

Domingo Cienfuegos

05 · Mayor

Domingo Cienfuegos

Affinity with you50

Puerto Bonanza smiles from his balcony. The paper decides what the smile means.

Cándido Bravo

06 · Photographer

Cándido Bravo

Affinity with you50

He brings photographs powerful people would rather leave undeveloped.

The island never sends
just news.

Calls, messages, official orders, accidents, and threats arrive as authored events. Each can hit your stats, your people, or tomorrow’s edition.

LlamadaFamily calls

“Esperanza’s tuition is due Friday.”

Plata −140 · Salud +3 · María +10
AccidenteLife interrupts

“It’s the third night you haven’t come home.”

Salud +9 · Esperanza +10
OficialPower writes back

“A routine review of your books.”

Plata −200 · or publish the summons
AmenazaDebt comes walking

“I came for the paper rolls. No hurry.”

Plata −170 · Salud +4
Cándido Bravo

Cándido BravoPhotographer · Mensaje

Cándido Bravo holding evidence from the cane field Investigative event · Authored game content

Incoming evidence

“I have the photographs from the cane field. Fourteen.”

Fourteen bodies among the cane. Cándido brings names, photographs, and two witnesses who will not sleep at home tonight.

Close one day.
Print the consequences.

At 18:00, stories stop being promises. Choose the page, run the press, and wake to the street’s verdict.

Actual El Mequetrefe Editorial Close interface with the newspaper composed and ready to print
Actual game capture · Compose the edition · Run the press
  1. 01Compose

    Place real stories, ads, or filler. The front-page lead carries extra weight.

  2. 02Print

    Lock every space. Anything left behind can change relationships and future events.

  3. 03Profit

    Sales + ads − print and distribution costs become Plata the next morning.

Every ending leaves
a receipt.

One hundred and twenty hidden Steam achievements across five story series. The game records what you became without spoiling what you could still become.

María and the House Esperanza’s Byline El Diablo Returns the Glove Tía Nena’s Last Version The Man at the Gate

Nine complete languages.
Not nine partial menus.

The press room under pressure

There is still time before 18:00.

What will
you print?

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