Indie studio. Big worlds.
Games with heart. Built with purpose.
We are a small independent studio with a big belief: games can make life better. Whether it is helping families grow closer, teaching through play, or surviving together in a new world, we build games that matter.
- Founded
- 2019
- Projects shipped
- 2
- In development
- 4
- Based in
- North Carolina, USA
How we work
Orcwood started as a handful of people making things for each other — a holiday treat hunt when nobody could leave the house, a puzzle game built in a single cabin, an arcade game about falling upward. None of them were going to change the industry. All of them got finished, and finishing turned out to be the skill worth building.
That habit shapes everything we make now. We scope to what a small team can actually deliver, we ship, and we let the people playing it tell us what to do next. Family Chores looks the way it does because real households pushed back on our first design. New America is being built in the open on Discord for the same reason.
We are not trying to be a big studio. We are trying to be a studio that keeps making things worth playing, with the people we like working with.
Small team. Long horizons.
We build in public on Discord — prototypes, dead ends, and all.
Join the studio DiscordWhat we hold to
Four things we come back to whenever a decision is genuinely hard.
Player First
Every decision starts with the person holding the controller.
Made for Connection
Our best work happens when people play it side by side.
Creativity Driven
We chase the idea that excites us, not the one that is safest.
Indie Roots
Small team, long horizons, and full ownership of what we make.