We started as four friends in a drafty attic flat over a bakery in Bristol, tired of game worlds engineered purely to hold attention captive rather than leave a lasting impression.
Current Operating Scale
Eighteen craftspeople. Zero pitch decks.
In an era where every interactive title smooths down every edge for immediate dopamine loops, we build games with tangible weight. Buttons resist, physics carries momentum, and decisions demand consideration. If an action feels effortless, it rarely feels memorable.
We believe silence and atmospheric stillness are just as crucial as the climactic crescendos. Room to breathe gives tension its teeth.
We avoid design by committee. Each world is shepherded by small, obsessive teams with clear individual creative visions.
No glass towers or venture milestones. Our workshop is an old converted timber yard with sawdust in the floor cracks, two espresso machines that make terrifying noises, and whiteboards covered in level topographies and dialogue branches.
“If players aren’t still thinking about the town’s harbor bells two days after turning off the display, we haven’t finished the build.”
Elena Linnea
Co-founder & World Director
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