Independent game studio · Amsterdam

Story-first games you can actually finish.

3Cats Studio makes choice-driven fiction with real consequences — and an ending you earn. A growing shelf of titles, each bringing its own colour to the shelf.

Three cats · three colours · one studio
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Games

All Time High key art — a hillside infinity pool above Los Angeles glowing at night
Out now

All Time High

“How far would you go in a mania? Every choice has a ledger. Every gain has a price.”

A moral-descent thriller told through your phone, your feeds, and a trading terminal. Chase a California fortune one “just one more trade” at a time — through a crypto mania where every gain costs something. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings.

WindowsmacOSiOS10 languages6 endings

A work of fiction — depictions of trading and markets are dramatic fiction, not financial advice.

Dear Nobody key art — a censor’s desk of wartime letters under a single lamp
Coming Nov 11, 2026

Dear Nobody

“A war you never see. A love that exists only on paper. A pen that has started to answer back.”

You are the censor reading letters between two lovers who have never met — striking words from a wartime correspondence that begins, impossibly, to answer your own pen. Every word you cut is cut from the relationship too. Six endings.

WindowsmacOSiOS & Android · coming soon10 languages6 endings
1453 key art — the siege camp at night under the walls of Constantinople
Coming Oct 28, 2026

1453: Fall of Constantinople

“Everyone knows the city will fall. No one knows who they’ll be that day.”

Venice, 1500. Anna Notaras is writing down testimonies of the siege, and four witnesses sit at her table — a janissary, a baker’s daughter, an engineer, a noble. They live the same fifty-three days from both sides of the walls, and their accounts don’t always agree. Your choices cross between their stories.

WindowsmacOSiOS & Android · coming soon11 languages4 testimonies
PLEASE CONFIRM THE DECEASED key art — a night-shift morgue intake desk
Coming Nov 18, 2026

Please Confirm the Deceased

“The paperwork says one thing. The body says another. Sign anyway.”

You work nights at a morgue intake desk. Bodies arrive with paperwork, and the paperwork is your job — check it, question it, stamp it, send it on. Most nights the two agree. The nights they don’t are the ones you will remember. Seven nights, forty-five intakes, and instruments that tell you things the forms do not.

WindowsmacOSPsychological horrorSeven nightsFour endings
Per My Last Email key art — an emptied open-plan office floor at night, one monitor still lit
Coming February 2027

Per My Last Email

“Every reply is two decisions, and the second one is the real one.”

You are the newest hire on floor six at Bellwether & Locke, and the account you inherited is not a new account — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email. You choose what you say, then you choose who sees it: reply, reply-all, forward, CC, BCC. The routing is permanent and it goes in your file. A CC that seemed polite on Day 2 is evidence on Day 9.

WindowsmacOS11 languagesTen business daysSix endings
The Previous Owner key art — a lamplit secondhand bookshop, the keeper standing on a worn rug between two walls of shelves
Coming 30 November 2026

The Previous Owner

“Shelve carefully, and do not read the margins.”

Run a secondhand bookshop in London, 1994. Every book remembers who owned it before — pressed flowers, letters, notes in the margins. Across books that should never have met, the same hand keeps writing. You inherited the rules with the shop.

WindowsmacOSEnglishLondon, 1994Single-player
Town Hall key art — a clerk’s desk with a rubber stamp and a wax seal, the half-empty harbour town through the window
Coming February 2027

Town Hall

“Whatever you stamp becomes true.”

The town is half empty, but the town hall still opens at nine. You are the clerk — the mayor is unreachable, the other offices are dark, and the seal on your desk still works, which makes you the government. Permits, licenses, certificates of birth and death: the paper is a claim, your stamp is the fact. Then step out to the town map and visit what you signed — the reopened bar, the condemned house, the pier that is suddenly private property.

WindowsFirst-person 3D10 languagesSingle-player
The Off-Season key art — a shuttered seaside hotel seen from the promenade in winter rain at dusk, one upper window still lit above the dark sea
Coming Q1 2027

The Off-Season

“The hotel is closed for the winter. You have the keys.”

You are the winter caretaker of a seaside hotel nobody visits between October and March. The owner is away until spring and her rules are pinned above the desk in her own handwriting: no guests, no exceptions. But the season has an instalment to make and the boiler eats oil, so an empty house is not safe — it is bankrupt. Then somebody knocks: off the last bus, in the rain, with cash and no booking, and a reason they would rather not give. You decide who gets a key, and which room.

WindowsmacOSLinux11 languagesSingle-player
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Studio

A small independent studio with full editorial control. Every part of every game — story, design, music, code — is crafted in-house, start to finish.

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Endings you earn

Choice-driven fiction with real consequences. No filler middles, no abandoned arcs — a story you can actually finish.

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One engine, many worlds

A shared narrative engine carries the craft from title to title, so each new game ships sooner.

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Made in Amsterdam

An independent studio. Small team, full editorial control, craft in every detail.

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For developers

We also sell the system we run on. The playbooks, the release discipline and the runnable checks a small studio actually uses — in a form your coding agent can execute rather than summarise.

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The Game Studio Kit

Nineteen operational playbooks, twenty-one runnable checks and a game project that already installs, tests and packages. Steam, the App Store, Google Play and itch — from one codebase. What’s inside →

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Or we make the game

Would you rather someone else built it? We take story-first games end to end — writing, design, code, art, music, and the launch. Tell us about it →

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Newsletter

There’s always another one.

Steam will tell you about the game you already found. This tells you about the next one — and we finish one every few weeks.

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Press & hello

For press enquiries, keys, interviews — or just to say hi:

info@3cats.studio