Independent game studio
Shadow Development
Deep, fair, handcrafted games for your phone and your PC. Rich worlds, real stories, and no ads chasing you around.
01 / GAMES
Worlds in the forge
Every game we make is built to be played for months, not minutes, on whatever screen suits it. Here's what we're working on.
The Great Expanse
You wake on a trash heap at the bottom of a megacity with no memory, a junk pistol and a voice in your skull. Fight, loot, craft and recruit your way out, while the story rides alongside the action.
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Project Teleran
You wake in a ring of standing stones with no memory and a rusty sword in the grass. A voxel fantasy RPG with real-time d20 fights, crafting and a world that turns from sunrise to storm. Play alone, with friends, or on your own server.
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One dragon. No shortcuts.
Shadow Development is an independent game studio in Australia. Design, code and story are all done in-house, and every system is planned on paper before a line of code is written.
We make the kind of games we want to play: deep enough to think about on the train or sink an evening into with friends, readable at a glance, and fair to the people who play them.
Respect the player's time
Depth without busywork, and progress that respects the evening you have, not the one a game wants from you.
Fair by design
No ads, no paid loot boxes and no dark patterns. If something costs money, you know exactly what you're getting.
Story that rides alongside
Stories you want to read, told without stopping the game to tell them.
Built for every screen
From small phones and foldables to tablets and a desktop monitor, every game laid out properly and tuned to run smooth.
Press, partners, or just saying hi?
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