First-person cult horror
A first-person cult-horror shooter set in an Indonesian town.
“the congregation of the bell has woken”
Coming soon
Worlds beyond the window.
Pale Window Studio is an independent game studio building distinct interactive worlds across different genres.
The games
Four games. Four worlds.
A gothic cartoon auto-battler. An Indonesian folklore survivor. A cult-horror shooter. A haunted video store. Each one is built as its own place, in the genre that suits it.
Gothic cartoon auto-battler roguelite
Build your company. Set the stage. Break the Bell.
A single-player auto-battler roguelite drawn like a haunted 1930s cartoon. Recruit a strange company, place them on the board, and let them fight.
Every unit evolves through three hand-drawn forms as you collect copies. Combine Traits, decide who holds the front line and who stays back, then watch the company fight on its own.
A branching road of battles, encounters, Drafts, Forges and Challenges leads through four acts toward the source of the Black Bell.
Wishlist on Steam (opens BLACKBELL on Steam in a new tab)
ReleaseComing Q1 2027
- Recruit & evolve
- Units grow from 1★ to 3★, and their look changes with them.
- Combine Traits
- Build a company around the Traits that suit your run.
- Set the stage
- Frontline, backline, targets and spacing decide the fight.
- Four acts
- Selectable Travellers, higher Ascensions, one haunted road.
Indonesian folklore survivor roguelite
One very long night.
- 40
- playable characters
- 71
- weapons
- 230
- items
- 20
- waves until dawn
Survive twenty waves of the spirits from Indonesian folklore: Pocong, Kuntilanak, Tuyul and many more. Rebuild between waves at the Night Stall, then go back in with something worse.
Pick one of forty fighters, from a silat Fighter to Ondel-Ondel, and hold the clearing while the horde grows. By wave seventeen the camera has to back up.
Two figures from legend wait at the end of the night: Antaboga and Nyi Roro Kidul.
Steam page coming soon
ReleasePlanned for December 2026
Who comes out at night
- Pocong
- A spirit still bound in its burial shroud. It hops, because the ties were never loosened.
- Kuntilanak
- A woman in white with long hair. In the stories you hear her laugh before you see her.
- Tuyul
- A tiny spirit that, in the stories, gets sent out to steal money.
- Antaboga
- The great serpent of the underworld from Javanese wayang.
- Nyi Roro Kidul
- Queen of the Southern Sea.
Coming soon
Two more windows, lit but not yet open.
FREAKFLIX
VHS horror deckbuilder
Inherit a failing video rental store. Keep it open by day. The tape in the back room is the problem.
Coming soon
Studio
A lit window at night, and the pull of whatever is on the other side.
Pale Window Studio is an independent game studio building distinct interactive worlds across different genres.
Every project starts from a place worth looking into. The genre comes second, chosen to suit that world. That is how a haunted cartoon auto-battler ends up on the same slate as an Indonesian folklore survivor, a cult-horror shooter and a video store with something wrong in the back room.
The slate
| Game | Genre | Status | Steam |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKBELL | Gothic cartoon auto-battler roguelite | Coming Q1 2027 | Steam page for BLACKBELL (opens in a new tab) |
| NISKALA | Indonesian folklore survivor roguelite | Planned for December 2026 | Not yet on Steam |
| SEKTE | First-person cult horror | Coming soon | Not yet on Steam |
| FREAKFLIX | VHS horror deckbuilder | Coming soon | Not yet on Steam |