2024
Hollow Signal
A relay-station mystery about memory, isolation, and a voice that won't stop talking.
Independent Game Development Studio
We build worlds worth losing sleep over.
Nightframe is a small team of designers, engineers, and composers making narrative-driven games that stay with players long after the credits roll.
2016
Studio Founded
12
Games Shipped
3
Award Wins
42
People on the Team
The Studio
Small team. Obsessive craft.
Nightframe started in a spare bedroom in 2016 with three people and one shared conviction: games hit harder when every system serves the story. Nine years later we're still small on purpose — 42 people across design, engineering, art, and audio, all working on the same handful of worlds at once.
We don't chase trends or ship yearly sequels. Each project gets the time it needs, and every person on the team has a hand in shaping the games we release. That's slower. It's also the only way we know how to make something worth remembering.
Meet the Team
Featured Release
Hollow Signal
A lone signal officer wakes up on an abandoned relay station with no memory of the last six months — and a voice on the radio that insists she never left.
91
Metacritic
1.8M
Players
4
Platforms
Our Games
A growing catalogue of worlds
2022
Emberfall Chronicles
A tactics RPG set across a continent slowly being reclaimed by wildfire and myth.
2018
Static Choir
Our debut: a radio-drama puzzle game about tuning into the wrong frequency.
2020
Last Light Ferry
A quiet, narrative ferry-crossing sim about carrying strangers to where they need to be.
2021
Paperclip Requiem
An office-horror short about a spreadsheet that remembers more than it should.
2026
Marrow & Moss
Our next project: a co-op survival game set in a forest that's still deciding if you're welcome.
Our Journey
Nine years, one studio
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2016
Founded in a spare bedroom
Three people, one laptop, and a shared game design document that became Static Choir.
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2018
Static Choir ships
Our debut title launches on PC, picked up by press for its sound-driven puzzle design.
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2020
First award, first hires
Last Light Ferry wins Best Narrative at the Indie Vault Awards. The team grows to 14.
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2022
Emberfall Chronicles crosses 1M downloads
Our first tactics RPG becomes the studio's biggest release to date.
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2024
Hollow Signal launches
Our most ambitious game yet, built with a team of 42 across four disciplines.
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2026
Marrow & Moss enters production
Our first co-op title, and the biggest team we've ever put on one game.
Our Toolkit
Built with tools we trust
- Unreal Engine 5
- Unity
- Wwise
- FMOD
- Perforce
- Jira
- Blender
- Substance 3D
- Houdini
- AWS
- PlayFab
- Steamworks
The People
Meet the team behind the worlds
Adaeze Okoro
Founder & Creative Director
Marcus Lindqvist
Lead Engineer
Priya Nair
Art Director
Tomas Reyes
Composer & Sound Director
Hana Kobayashi
Narrative Designer
Daniel Kim
Producer
What People Say
Press and players, in their own words
Hollow Signal is the rare mystery game that trusts its players to sit with the discomfort instead of rushing to explain it away.
Every Nightframe game feels handmade, even the ones with forty people behind them. That's a hard thing to hold onto.
I finished Emberfall Chronicles at 2am and immediately started a second playthrough. That hasn't happened to me in years.GameSpotter
FAQ
Common questions
Can't find what you're looking for? Reach out through the contact section below.
What platforms do you develop for?
PC and console first, always. Most of our games launch on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox simultaneously, with Nintendo Switch ports following where the hardware allows.
Are you hiring remote roles?
Yes. Most of the studio works remotely across time zones, with the option to work from our physical studio space for those nearby.
Can I pitch a collaboration?
We read every pitch that comes through our contact form. We can't respond to all of them, but we do read them all.
Do you publish other studios' games?
Not currently. We're focused entirely on our own catalogue, though that may change as the studio grows.
Where can I wishlist your games?
Every announced title has a Steam page linked from its entry in the Games section above.
Get In Touch
Got a project in mind?
Whether it's press, collaboration, or just to say hello — we'd like to hear from you.
hello@nightframestudio.com