Q4 2026
Ethral
Explore the land of Ethral, conquer nine dark dungeons and collect the shards that restore the Ethral Pendant, the only thing that can end the Pirate King.
Independent game studio
Worlds worth
getting lost in.
We build retro-rooted adventures with hand-drawn pixel art, original scores and systems deep enough to reward a second playthrough. Four games in development. One of them is on Steam right now.
- In development
- Four titlesAcross three genres
- On Steam
- EthralWishlist now, Q4 2026
- Playable today
- Bone Warrior's OathFree alpha demo
- Built with
- GameMaker & CPlus our own raylib engine
On Steam, coming Q4 2026
Restore the Pendant.
End the Pirate King.
Play as a young hero in a retro pixel top-down adventure: explore the land of Ethral, find secrets, conquer dark dungeons, and collect shards to restore the Ethral Pendant to defeat the Pirate King.
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The catalogue
Four games, four different problems
An item-gated overworld adventure, a compact Metroidvania, a real-time strategy game and a step-based party crawler. They share an art discipline, not a template.
Demo out now
The Bone Warrior's Oath
The ancient protector of Hallowtown is called from his slumber. A compact Metroidvania of melee, archery and unlockable skills, playable right now.
In development
Kingdom Shields
Hold the Graymarch. A compact real-time strategy game of workers, knights and keeps, with a fully voiced cast of very small people.
In development
Vharaduun
Nine nations, four centuries of enforced peace, and sixty-six people who feel every wound. A step-based party crawler with Active Time Battle combat, playable flat or in VR.
Status board
Where everything stands
Title
Genre
Platform
Status
How we work
Small studio, deliberate choices
01
Hand-made, frame by frame
Every sprite, tile, portrait and animation in these games was drawn for them. Nothing is bought in off a shelf, which is slower and is the entire point.
02
Original music and voice
Each game gets its own score. Kingdom Shields goes further: every unit in it answers back, across more than eighty recorded lines.
03
Our own tech, where it matters
Two of the four run on GameMaker. Vharaduun runs on an engine written from scratch in C on raylib, because a step-based VR crawler wanted its own foundation.
04
Systems before spectacle
Item-gated worlds, fog of war, Active Time Battle, a treaty that does its own accounting. The mechanics carry the story rather than decorating it.
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