VOIDRUNNER GP
Anti-grav racing at 900 km/h through collapsing wormhole circuits. 12-player grid, zero rubber-banding, one very angry announcer AI.
Released 2024 · Overwhelmingly Positive
An independent game studio — American Fork, Utah
NETHER FORGE
We forge worlds you can fall into. Ruthless roguelites, stubborn craftsmanship, and a little bit of the void.
Flagship title · Early Access
EMBERFALL
Roguelite of the Deep
Descend into a collapsing mega-forge at the bottom of the world. Every run, the Depths rearrange themselves — and every death feeds the anvil. Emberfall is a run-based action roguelite about smithing your own arsenal mid-fight, then dying gloriously anyway.
- Procedural forges. Biomes, bosses, and smithing recipes reshuffle every descent. No two anvils ring the same.
- 120+ forgeable weapons. Quench a blade in voidlight or ember-oil and it changes movesets, not just stats.
- 4-player online co-op. Shared forge economy, separate death counters. Friendships tested nightly.
- Built in Unreal Engine 5. Nanite-dense caverns, Lumen-lit lava, 120 fps performance mode on console.
- Steam
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X|S
- Nintendo Switch
The catalog
FROM THE FORGE
Three shipped worlds. Zero live-service regrets.
HEXWEAVER
A tactics deckbuilder where the battlefield is your deck. Weave hexes, splice spells mid-turn, and out-think a coven of very rude witches.
Released 2023 · 1.2M copies sold
STARLING & RUST
A cozy salvage sim about a farm girl and the derelict war-mech she refuses to give up on. Grow moonwheat. Fix the big robot. Cry a little.
In production · Unity · Announce 2027
The forge behind the games
WHO STOKES THE FIRE
Twenty-eight developers. One shared obsession with the feel of a perfect dodge-roll.
Ex-AAA, post-crunch
Our leads shipped franchises you have on your shelf — then left to build a studio where nobody sleeps under a desk. Forty-hour weeks are a design constraint, not a slogan.
Fully remote, forged in Utah
Headquartered in American Fork with teammates across nine states. Twice a year the whole crew descends on the Wasatch Front for playtest week and questionable karaoke.
Powered by Unreal 5
Emberfall runs on a heavily customized UE5 pipeline — procedural level assembly, in-house netcode for 4-player rollback co-op, and a smithing system we probably over-engineered.
Players in the room
Every feature ships through our 12,000-strong playtester ring first. If the Discord riots, we listen. If the Discord riots twice, we buff the hammer.
Devlog · straight from the anvil
PATCH NOTES
We ship a build every other Thursday. We write about it like adults who love changelogs.
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The Cinder Court opens
New Depth-7 biome with the Ashen Magistrate boss fight, 14 new forgeable weapon cores, and a rework of quench timing windows. Also: the dog in the hub can now be pet. You asked. Repeatedly.
Content drop -
Co-op rollback netcode, explained badly
A 4,000-word engineering devlog on how we got 4-player rollback working in UE5 without setting the office on fire. Includes the graph where everything went wrong for six weeks.
Engineering -
Early Access launch retrospective
Week one by the numbers: 41,000 concurrent smiths, one emergency hotfix, and the community speedrun that broke our economy in 19 minutes. We kept the exploit. It rules.
Milestone -
Balance pass: the Greathammer question
Yes, we nerfed it. No, not by that much. A design deep-dive into why one weapon held a 61% pick rate and what "fun-per-swing" means as an actual internal metric.
Design
Community numbers
0 Steam wishlists
0 Discord members
0 Active playtesters
0 Positive EA reviews
Join the crew
FORGE WITH US
Remote-first, salary bands published, shipped-game royalties for everyone on the credits. We hire for craft and kindness, in that order. Currently reading portfolios for:
- Senior Combat DesignerRemote (US)
- UE5 Gameplay EngineerRemote (US)
- Environment Artist — StylizedRemote / AF, Utah
- Community ManagerAmerican Fork, UT
Insert coin
THE DEPTHS ARE WAITING
Wishlist Emberfall, jump into the playtest ring, or just come watch us break the build live every Friday.