We build the games we want to play.

Standard Studios is a small studio of people who love getting lost in games. We love building a settlement and becoming far too attached to the people in it, raising an army, building a civilisation and conquering the world, or starting an adventure with absolutely no idea how it will end.

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The games

Our games in development

Derelict Stars

Colony survival sim · Windows PC

Survive the unknown universe.

You’ve crash-landed on an unknown planet. Survive it, build a home and rebuild your ship, then explore a never-ending universe. Choose a new planet to live on, become a pirate or a trader, or just explore. Interact with civilisations, factions, aliens and the unknown.

BuildA home from the wreck
SurviveAn unknown planet
ExploreA never-ending universe

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Infinite Stick

Permadeath D20 roguelite · Desktop

Infinite realities. One soul. Who will you become?

A king commanding armies as his kingdom falls apart. A detective following an occult trail through a rain-soaked city. A university janitor discovering why one classroom never appears on the floor plans. Infinite Stick is a D&D-inspired, text-based RPG that finds you a universe and drops you into a life within it. Not every adventure starts with saving the world. Sometimes it starts with your night shift.

WorldsInfinite realities
LivesA crown, a case file, or a mop
DiceTake your chances and roll

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EON

Evolution and creature-building sim · Windows PC

Life starts small. Yours won’t stay that way.

It begins in a drop of water. You are a single cell: hungry, hunted and determined to divide. Grow jaws. Sprout legs. Crawl onto the shore and find out what your body can really do. Befriend the wildlife or eat it. Raise young, found a tribe, build a civilisation and aim it at the stars. Evolution took four billion years. You can do it in a week.

DesignEvery jaw, leg and wing
SurviveEat, bond or be eaten
EvolveFrom cell to civilisation

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Deity

The Good, the Bad and the Godly

God simulator game · Windows PC

Become a god. Rule a civilisation. Raise a creature.

Have you ever wondered what kind of god you would be? Good, bad, or something in between? In this game you become a god in a universe of gods, and you must fight for your right to receive prayers from its people. Build magnificent towers, destroy armies with fireballs, fight other gods, and battle with your creatures. The world is yours for the taking, if you are worthy.

RaiseA creature that learns from you
RuleAny way you want
RivalFight other gods for dominance

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The games that stay with us are the ones we make our own.

The studio

We’ve spent years talking about our dream games. Now we’re making them.

There’s a particular kind of conversation that happens between people who love games. What if you could keep going after your colony left the planet? What if the creature you raised really felt like yours? What if an RPG let you try the idea in your head and then made you live with the result?

Standard Studios grew out of conversations like those. We love games that give us room to experiment, make mistakes and develop our own way of playing. Games where a plan can go spectacularly wrong and become the best part of the evening. Where a character, a place or a ridiculous little creature starts to mean something to us.

Those are the experiences we want to make. We have big ambitions for these games because we care about playing them ourselves, right down to the small details that make a world enjoyable to spend time in.

Room to make it yours

We want players to bring their own ideas. Build differently, try an unusual approach, get attached to an unlikely character. A good system should give you something interesting to do with your curiosity.

Reasons to care

A settlement becomes more interesting when you know who lives there. A decision carries more weight when you care about its consequences. We want the people and creatures in our games to earn that attachment.

Depth worth returning to

We love the feeling of knowing a game well and still discovering something new. That comes from systems that interact, choices that open different possibilities, and worlds that can keep surprising you.

How we build

Big ideas. Hands-on development. Plenty of playing.

We use AI tools throughout development, including coding, prototyping and parts of our art workflow. They help our small team explore ideas and tackle ambitious systems. We decide what we’re making, how it should feel and whether it’s good enough. That means playing, questioning our own decisions and spending time on the things that only become obvious with the game in your hands.

Imagine

Start with something we want to do as players. Work out what would make it exciting, satisfying or memorable.

Build

Get the idea into a playable form. Find out how it behaves when it meets the rest of the game.

Play

Try it properly. Follow our curiosity, push at the edges and pay attention to the moments that feel awkward, confusing or fun.

Refine

Improve the controls, the feedback, the pacing and the details. Keep working towards the experience that made us want to build it.

What drives us

A love of these genres
Strong opinions about how they should feel
The ambition to build something we’ll want to keep playing

How we work

A small team using modern tools
Playable prototypes and automated checks
Hands-on playtesting to turn those ideas into games

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Contact

Love these kinds of games? Say hello.

We’d love to hear what caught your eye. If you’re a player, a potential collaborator, or someone interested in helping these games reach an audience, get in touch.

hellothere@standardstudios.co.uk