Story before spectacle
We want characters, relationships, and consequences to give the player a reason to care about the world beyond simply reaching the next objective.
Independent game studio
We make worlds
worth remembering.
Yagiyama Studios is an independent game studio focused on story-driven games, memorable characters, and atmosphere that stays with the player after the screen goes dark.
Who we are
Small studio.
Big worlds.
We created Yagiyama Studios to make the kind of games we want to spend time inside: character-driven adventures with a strong sense of place, mystery, emotion, and discovery.
Our current project, Yuriko's Nightmare, brings those ideas together in a turn-based horror JRPG set in rural Japan in 1989.
Our goals
What matters to us.
We respect your time
We refuse to pad our games with empty open worlds or useless mini-games. We want you to feel at home in our games while not overstaying our welcome.
Classic roots, our own style
We draw from the story-driven games we grew up with while building systems, presentation, and stories that feel distinctly our own, from RPGs to Space Sims.
Our approach
Make every detail
serve the experience.
From a line of dialogue to a dungeon layout, an interface animation, or the sound of an empty hallway, we aim for each piece to reinforce the tone and identity of the game around it.
We focus heavily on optimization, and always aim to smoothly run our games on low-end hardware.
Current project
Yuriko's Nightmare
A story-driven turn-based horror JRPG set in rural Japan, summer 1989. Five classmates open a door to a place that should not exist, and discover that some memories refuse to stay buried.
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