We make games for the cartridge that was never released. Atmospheric pixel-art RPGs and adventures from the dead bits between the eras.
INSERT COINNecrobyte is a small indie studio building atmospheric games rooted in the 8 and 16-bit era — but without the saccharine, marketable nostalgia most retro indies trade in.
Our north star is the lost cartridge. The game that should have existed in 1991 but didn't. The one you'd find in a dusty bargain bin with no manual and a sticker half-peeled off, take home, and never quite recover from.
RPGs with weight, platformers with teeth, stories that earn their endings. Pixels treated as ritual rather than relic.
A card-based action RPG of dynamic 3D combat and detailed pixel craft. Sit at the table where souls are coin and the dealer is patient. Win cleanly or win cruelly — the cards remember either way.
A 16-bit gothic metroidvania. A hundred years the Crimson Marrow has slept beneath his castle. The bells have cracked. The last son of the House of Vale takes up the holy arsenal and climbs.
Notes from the workbench. Updated when the cartridge says so.