Indie game studio · Amsterdam · est. 2026
Shio (塩) is Japanese for salt — the first thing humankind ever used to preserve, and to flavor. That's the whole studio, in one grain.
We preserve what made games great.
Then we season it.
Salt preserves.
Salt flavors.
Games should do both.
Keep it salted.
Our games
Every Shio game starts from something classic worth preserving — then gets seasoned until it's ours.
"Two sisters. One impossible clock.
Three hundred and fifty years of secrets."
A detective adventure series set in Amsterdam across two timelines — a modern museum mystery wound around the workshop of a 17th-century clockmaker. Play as Lem and Ally: one thinks, one leaps, both solve.
A 16-bit co-op beat 'em up about saving real hip-hop.
The Syndicate of Wack has kidnapped the wives of Jerome XL and MC Drieman — the duo behind pirate station HHZ Radio — to silence true school forever. Brawl through a neon-graffiti Netherlands in pure Streets-of-Rage tradition: combos, pickup weapons, Mode-7 set pieces, and couch or online co-op for two.
Status: pre-alpha — follow along, it's going to slap.
Grind City, 1995. Four goals. One winner.
A comical hip-hop life-sim board game — beepers, boomboxes and boom bap. Stack paper, boost your vibes, master the skillz, build your clout. Work shifts, survive rent week, play the Block Exchange, battle the Friday cypher — and outgrind AI rival Big Jonesy or three of your friends online.
Straight from the game — drag to spin:
The lab
Something big is curing in the salt right now.
We can't say what. We can say it's very Amsterdam.
The studio
Brand new and proud of it. Founded near Amsterdam — canals outside the window, crates of records inside.
Point-and-click adventures, 16-bit brawlers, turn-based life sims — genres that earned their place. We keep what made them great.
Modern tech, original stories, our own tools and pipelines — every game built in-house, grain by grain.
Our released games run right in your browser. No launcher, no install. Just click and play.
