Most studios introduce themselves with a press release. A logo, a mission statement, three bullet points about their “passion for innovation.” You’ve read it before. It says nothing.

This is not that.

Who We Are

Pixelated Dungeon is a one-person indie studio. No team. No office. No investors. Just a solo developer making the kind of games that feel like they shouldn’t exist — games that sit at the edge of cozy and unsettling, that dare you to keep playing just a little longer than you should.

The name matters. A dungeon is not a safe place. It is a place you enter anyway.

You can find us at pixelatedungeon.com and on itch.io at decrebrian.itch.io.

What We’re Building

The first game is called Mosaic: Don’t Look Up.

Here is the pitch: you are given a shattered image. Drag the pieces into place before the timer runs out. Simple enough.

Here is the catch: you do not know what the image is until it comes together. And some images should not be completed.

Mosaic is a horror-lite roguelike puzzle game. Each run takes you through a node map in the style of Slay the Spire — branching paths, escalating difficulty, choices that matter. At every node, a puzzle. The drag-and-drop mechanic is intentionally tactile, intentionally tense. The timer is not forgiving. And if you fail — if you run out of time, or if what you assemble is something you were not meant to see — there are consequences.

There is a jumpscare. You have been warned.

The goal was never to build a traditional horror game. Jump scares get old. Gore gets tired. What lasts is dread — the feeling that something is wrong before you can name what it is. Mosaic is built around that feeling. The puzzle mechanic earns it. You assemble the threat yourself, piece by piece.

It is coming to Steam.

Why Follow a Studio No One Has Heard Of

Fair question.

The honest answer: because small studios take risks that large ones won’t. There is no committee here approving design decisions. There is no publisher asking whether the horror elements will hurt the marketing demographic. If something is weird or uncomfortable or structurally unusual, it stays in — if it makes the game better.

Mosaic is the first proof of that. It will not be the last.

Follow Along

Development is happening in public. The progress, the problems, the decisions — all of it.

If any of this sounds like something you want to watch get made, follow along. More is coming.

The dungeon is open.

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