Keep the crew small
Fewer hands, fewer leaks. We'd rather pull one strange job clean than botch ten safe ones.
Independent game studio · Richmond, VA · operating since 2023
A small outfit dealing in strange, hand-built pixel games. Masks stay on.
Current job
What we're pulling right now.
Job in progress
4 Towers of Nerdstorm
goes by 4 TONS
A 2D spell-slinging roguelike with puzzle elements. Stack the falling blocks, sling whatever you're holding, and force your way up a haunted tower that fully intends to bury you in it.
Play on itch.io
Steam — coming soon
House rules
Three rules we don't break.
Everything by hand
No shortcuts, no filler. Every sprite and every sound has somebody's fingerprints on it.
Nothing sits level
We take the jobs nobody else wants — the mechanic that shouldn't work, and works anyway.
The outfit
Who you're dealing with.
Crooked Studio is an independent game studio working out of Richmond, Virginia. We wanted games we couldn't find on the shelf, so we went and took matters into our own hands — short, hand-shaped, and a few degrees off level.
No publisher, no committee, nobody upstairs telling us to make something normal. If that sounds like your kind of operation, the door's open.
Richmond, Virginia · operating since 2023