Games with soul, carved by hand.
We're a three-person game design studio building worlds that remember how you live in them. Our first title, Sowur Shield, is playable in your browser right now.
02Now growing · playable in your browser
Sowur Shield
Somewhere past the last lamppost, an old world is deciding what it wants to be. Machines hum on one side of the valley; the forest whispers on the other. You arrive with nothing but a patch of soil and a friend with a story fate hasn't told you yet.
Plant something. Name the animal that wanders into your yard. Learn who in the village can't sleep at night and why. And when you're ready, walk into the trees with the creatures who now trust you, because out there, the thing that cares for you is what you've cared for.
The way you live determines what the world becomes.
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The Farm
"Build your life."
Your safe home. Every seed, every animal, every quiet morning is a promise you make to the world before venturing out.
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The Village
"Build your community."
Not a row of shops but a living place. Friendships, romance and old grudges, and a future the whole village is drifting toward with or without you.
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The Forest
"Adventure into the unknown."
Enchanted, hungry, generous. Secrets and rare creatures wait in the deep, and the animals you raised with love fight harder for you there.
03The Studio
Small team, kept spark
SOVL Studios is an independent game design company run by three people who do everything: design, code, story and the arguments in between. Our mark is a hatched V cradling a spark: the soul we try to keep lit in everything we ship.
We believe in games where
- 01the systems talk to each other,
- 02the world talks back,
- 03and farming, friendship and fighting aren't separate modes but one life, lived by the player.
04The Team
Three of us. Five on paper.
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Panta
Owner · Developer · DevOps Engineer
Founder of SOVL Studios. Builds the systems, steers the vision, and keeps the spark from leaving the page.
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Noodle
Owner · Lead Developer · Staff Engineer
Founder and lead developer. Turns design dreams into running code and keeps the world of Sowur Shield alive.
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Mairu
Owner · Story · Creative Director
Story and creative director. Writes the people of Sowur, their secrets, and the tales the forest refuses to give up.
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+2On paper: the board
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Monsieur Panteaux
CFO · Chief Financial Officer · Budget Sommelier
Says non and oui to bullshit. Has never been seen in the same room as Panta.
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Il Tagliatelle
CTO · Chief Technical Officer · Architecture Enforcer
Let him cook. Has never been seen in the same room as Noodle.