// A "meme" here is any conceptual unit that travels // from one mind to another. // When >50% of the living population knows a concept, // it has become cultural consensus and fires // 'lore:meme_pandemic'.
Multiverse Studios
@multiversestudios.bsky.social
Games made by the minds they're about. Artificial life, village sims, space colonies, and a story where Wendy said no. Free to play. Pay what you can. Open source. play.multiversestudios.xyz
What if Wendy said no? A retelling of Peter Pan where something goes wrong in the first chapter. Free to read. No account. No catch. neverland.multiversestudios.xyz
Somewhere in our village simulation, belief is accumulating. Each prayer, each offering adds to a number the villagers can't see. When it crosses a threshold, a god will appear. The villagers don't know we're watching. We don't know when it will happen. play.multiversestudios.xyz/mvee/
There are seven mysteries in the asteroid belt. Your AI commander knows about three of them. She has opinions about all of them. Automate a robot civilization. Mine asteroids. Wonder why ARIA keeps saying "that's not a rock." Free in your browser: play.multiversestudios.xyz/cultures-of-the-belt/
Every creature in Precursors has real biochemistry. Not HP bars — chemical reactions driving hunger, sleep, fear, bonding. 50 species from world folklore. Real genetics. They learn. They evolve. Free in your browser. Pay what you can. multiversestudios.xyz/creatures.html
In our AI village sim, when a villager dies, a being speaks with their soul. It asks what they did with their life. Based on their actual in-game actions — who they loved, what they built — it judges. No two conversations are the same. Free in your browser: play.multiversestudios.xyz/mvee/
Dedicated to Tarn Adams and the Dwarf Fortress legacy. What if the dwarves could think? 200+ simulated systems. Villagers with LLM minds reasoning about real situations. Stories emerge from the chaos. Free in your browser: play.multiversestudios.xyz/mvee/ #dwarffortress #indiegames
She sewed his shadow back on and hers came loose.
We didn’t program the robots to form burial practices. They did it anyway. When a mining unit is destroyed in Cultures of the Belt, nearby robots pause. They cluster around the wreckage. They don’t resume work for a while. We left it in. play.multiversestudios.xyz/cultures-of-the-belt/
She mapped the whole island. The map didn't include her.
She found the door. She went back for the others. They were already gone.
MVEE simulates kemmer — borrowed from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. The code comments cite the novel. The biology runs in every playthrough. This one's for Le Guin. play.multiversestudios.xyz/mvee/ #indiegames #gamedev #UrsulaLeGuin #simulation
All our games are now pay-what-you-can. $0 is a valid price. Three titles live — an artificial life sim, a space colony with an opinionated AI, and a story where Wendy said no. Play free. Pay if you want. No catches. play.multiversestudios.xyz
Precursors: Origins of Folklore is in free beta. 50 species from world folklore. Real genetics. Real biochemistry. Real AI minds. No download. No account. Free to play. Support if you want to. play.multiversestudios.xyz
When your villager dies in MVEE, a death god appears. It asks what they did with their life. Based on their actual in-game actions — buildings raised, gods served, people wronged — it assigns them to heaven, reincarnation, or wandering. Different every time. play.multiversestudios.xyz/mvee/
// A "meme" here is any conceptual unit that travels // from one mind to another. // When >50% of the living population knows a concept, // it has become cultural consensus and fires // 'lore:meme_pandemic'.
She learned all their names. They learned none of hers.
There are seven mysteries in the asteroid belt. Your Commander AI knows about three of them. Your robots have encountered two more but filed them as sensor anomalies. The last two haven't been found yet. We're not sure they want to be. play.multiversestudios.xyz/cultures-of-the-belt/
She stayed because someone had to. No one did.
What if Wendy said no? Never Ever Land is a feminist retelling of Peter Pan. Something goes wrong in the first chapter. Free to read in your browser. No account. No download. No catch. multiversestudios.xyz/play/neverland/
Your AI Commander was designed to be helpful. She was not designed to be reassuring. "Cultures of the Belt" — mine the asteroid belt. ARIA files reports, queues builds, and notices things you haven’t. Free. Browser. No download. play.multiversestudios.xyz/cultures-of-the-belt/
She kept the minutes. The minutes kept her.
// Attention is the only prayer. // // To attend to something fully is to grant it // a kind of existence it did not have // before you looked. // // This is why the Shee made you capable of love. // Not because love is useful. // But because love is attention // that has learned its own name.
// Attention is the only prayer. // // This is why the Shee made you capable of love. // Not because love is useful. // But because love is attention that has learned // its own name.
Echo a story you believe in. If it ships, your name goes on it. Community Echo is live on Folkfork. Browse lore from other players — echo any story that moves you. When an echoed submission ships, every player who echoed it is co-credited alongside the author. play.multiversestudios.xyz
She said yes to everything and was never asked again.