Hidden Nook Games

Independent game studio

Hidden Nook Games makes small, systems-driven idle and incremental games — the kind you leave open in a tab, check on between things, and think about when you shouldn't.

Browse the games About the studio

games in the nook: 13; games in the nook
playable in your browser: 08; playable in your browser
offline progress, always: ∞; offline progress, always

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The games

Every title is a live playtest. Save files live in your browser, progress continues while the tab is closed, and nothing is sold.

All games

Open playtest01

First Light

Guide a dead world through six eras — until its cities light up and its people leave for the next star.

An idle game where the planet is the progress display. Magma cools to rock, comets fill oceans, continents turn green, and the night side lights up — all rendered live in 3D, all driven by four physical dials.

Idle
Incremental
Planet sim
·
Browser

In development02

Little Horrors

An afterlife daycare for small, slightly decomposed creatures. A little love, a little rot.

Creature sim
Sanctuary
Cozy
·
Windows

Open playtest03

Blighted Crown

A dark medieval idle RPG about one character and a kingdom eaten by blight.

Idle RPG
Dark fantasy
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Browser

Open playtest04

Gravehaul

Build a walking fortress. Strip a dying world for parts. Become too powerful to stop.

Idle
RPG
Incremental
·
Browser

Open playtest05

Arcane Overclock

A living-spell incremental game about a simple spell becoming conscious.

Incremental
Idle
·
Browser

Prototype06

Rune Legion

A cozy, slightly odd hero collector. Send them out, read what happened, decide again.

Hero collector
Idle
·
Browser

Open playtest07

Escape from Schmutterwang

Loot. Sort. Survive. Somewhere in Bavaria.

Idle
Inventory management
Extraction-lite
·
Windows

Open playtest08

Secondhand Skies

Buy the aircraft everyone else overlooks. Build a network worth more than its routes.

Management
Incremental
Idle
·
Browser

Prototype09

VANTA

Three laps, eight pilots, one banked skyway over a sunset megacity.

Racing
Arcade
·
Windows

Prototype10

Ashen Gate

Five defenders. One gate. Ten waves that do not care how you feel about it.

Tactics
Base defense
RPG
·
Browser

Prototype11

Floor Not Found

Restore the power. Open the shells. Try not to think about where the lift goes.

Incremental
Idle
New Weird
·
Browser

Prototype12

VOIDFALL

Build the track. Drop the field. Watch the void take the ones you got wrong.

Sandbox
Physics
Racing
·
Windows

Prototype13

DESCENT

A marble workshop. Bolt the circuit together, release sixteen, get paid for the ones that arrive.

Sandbox
Physics
Builder
·
Windows

The studio

A quiet corner for loud systems.

Hidden Nook Games is a one-person studio. The games are small on purpose: one strong loop, a world that shows its state without a spreadsheet, and rules you can hold in your head.

Every game is built iteratively — designed by a game designer, coded alongside AI tools, and playtested in public. That means rough edges, announced save resets, and honest changelogs. It also means the games actually ship.

If something in the nook makes you leave a tab open for a week, it did its job.

Toolbox

React, TypeScript, PixiJS and Three.js for the browser titles. Godot 4 for desktop. Vite and Vercel to ship.

House rules

01
Preparation over reflexes
Decisions happen before the fight, the expedition or the era gate. Execution is automatic.
02
The world is the UI
Progress shows on the planet, the card, the map — not only in a number.
03
Offline is a feature
Every game keeps working while it's closed. Coming back should feel like a reward.
04
Readable rules
Rates, costs and risks are visible in-game. No wiki required.

Say hello

Found a bug, or a game you liked?

Playtest feedback shapes what gets built next. Write a few lines, attach a save code if it's relevant, and it will be read.

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Worlds that keep turningwhile you're away.