Old soul.New games.

A Seattle game studio making small games with the feel of the ones we grew up on, pixel by pixel, for phones, tablets and the browser.

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Games

Two are out now. Two more are in review and on their way.

Great Voyage Chef key art: the chef cooking on a ship deck
iPhone · iPad · Coming soon

Great Voyage Chef

All you have left is one ship and your mother's last recipe. Sail 25 ports, trade spices and glass, weather storms, cook 78 dishes, and pay back every coin to bring the family shop back to life. A cozy Age of Sail cooking and trading RPG.

  • 25 ports, 78 dishes
  • Buy low in one port, sell high in the next
  • English and Korean
Odyssey Beat key art: Odysseus and crew rowing under the moon
Steam · Coming soon

Odyssey Beat

Twenty years off-beat. A one-button rhythm game that retells Homer's Odyssey in 14 chapters, from the Trojan Horse to the Underworld galop. Hit the beat to get home. Miss it, and every chapter has another ending.

  • One button, that's the whole control scheme
  • 14 chapters, 3 difficulties
  • Fail a chapter, get its other ending
Tiny Safari title screen with a cow
iPhone · iPad · Out now

Tiny Safari

A gentle animal world for ages 2 to 5 and the grown-ups who play along. Pick a continent, find each animal as a shadow, tap to paint it in color, then hear its name and its real call. 39 animals, feeding and counting games, hide and seek, and an Animal Book with photos and facts.

  • Free, no ads, no purchases
  • English and Korean narration
  • Works offline
  • Ages 4+ · Made for Ages 0–5
Time Machine Life gameplay: the 2008 crash
Browser · Free · Korean

Time Machine Society

타임머신 대기자 연합. If you went back in time, how much could you make? A growing set of browser games built on real historical prices and events: a 15-minute life sim set in 1980s America, higher-or-lower price quizzes, angel investing, luxury resale, and full stock, movie, sports and real-estate simulations. Sorted by how many minutes you have.

  • No install, plays in any browser
  • Real historical data, fictional money
  • Games from 1 minute to 15+

Trailers

Thirty seconds of each game in motion. Videos open on YouTube.

▶Great Voyage Chef — official trailer
Sail, trade, cook. Pay back every coin.
▶Odyssey Beat — announcement trailer
One button. Fourteen chapters. Fourteen ways to fail.
▶Time Machine Life — trailer
Twenty again in 1980, knowing the future.
▶Tiny Safari — app trailer
Tap to paint, then hear the real call.

More on the Retro Soul Studio YouTube channel.

About

Retro Soul Studio is a game studio in Seattle. The name is the whole pitch: the games that stuck with us had a soul that still works today, and that is what we build, with modern tools and a pixel-art heart.

We make small, finished things. A kids' app with no ads. A set of browser games you can play on your lunch break. Each one ships complete and stays free or cheap.

Contact

Press, feedback, bug reports, or just to say hi.

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