RIFTROOT
Keep the Heart beating. An incremental tower defense about a dead tree that refuses to die: 7 towers, 2 bosses, a tide that never stops, and a 61-node passive tree to spend your amber on.
Indie game studio
DEF4ULT STUDIO
We make pixel art games: small worlds, tight rules, and systems you can learn in a minute and keep breaking for hundreds of runs.
Our first game, OVERSTACK, is a relaxing falling-block roguelike, out now on Steam. Or play the free demos of RIFTROOT, Welcome Back, Hero and Deadletter Delivery right in your browser.
Games
What we're building
Three free demos you can play right now, one game out now on Steam. Everything we make is pixel art.
Welcome Back, Hero
One room. One hero at a time. Build a room of traps and monsters to stop a hero who learns from every run and comes back wearing the answer to your last build.
Deadletter Delivery
One letter. A dangerous route. No easy deliveries. Dash a courier past saws, spikes, fire cannons and ice across six handcrafted rooms, then face The Postmaster.
OVERSTACK
A falling-block roguelike where every piece, line clear and decision can become part of your build. 59 unique pieces, dozens of buffs, and synergies that change the way you play. Easy to learn, difficult to master.
About
Pixel art, deep systems
DEF4ULT STUDIO is an indie game studio. We make games in pixel art, because a grid of pixels forces every choice to matter, and we build them around rules that are simple to read and satisfying to bend.
Our debut, OVERSTACK, takes the most familiar puzzle there is, blocks falling into a well, and turns every run into a build: pieces, buffs and modifiers that stack into combos you didn't plan for.
We develop in the open. Follow @DEF4ULTSTUDIO for devlogs, GIFs and release dates, or find us on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
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Pixel art first
Every game we ship is drawn on the grid. Readable at a glance, crisp at any size.
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Easy in, hard to master
You should get it in one run and still be finding new tricks on run one hundred.
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Built for replay
Roguelike structure, synergies and modifiers, so no two sessions play the same.
Stay in the loop
Play. Review. Follow.
OVERSTACK is out on Steam. If you play it, a review is the single best way to support an indie game: it tells Steam to show the game to more players.
Press, business, bug reports or just saying hi: contact@def4ultstudio.com