Every chronicle starts with a first page. This is ours.
Chronicles Games is a small independent studio. We make single-player games that feel like places you live in, not just levels you clear. Today we are saying hello for the first time, and we wanted to do it properly.
Why “Chronicles”?
Old chronicles opened with an illuminated letter: one large, careful capital, painted in gold before a single word was written. That letter became our emblem. It sums up how we want to work: take the time on the first thing people see, and keep that care all the way to the last page.
Each game we make is meant to be a page of that chronicle. Different worlds, different stories, the same attention to detail.
What we believe
- Worlds first. We start with a place: its light, its sounds, the creatures who live there. The game grows from it.
- Written with care. A line from a villager or a lantern left on can tell more than a cutscene.
- A look of its own. Every game gets its own art direction, and we stick to it.
- Small and honest. We stay small on purpose. We only show what is real, and we share the journey as it happens.
Our first game: Aylen
Aylen is a 2D platformer about a little wizard who travels through seven lands at night to bring the light back. A mossy glade in the rain, a village of lanterns, a cave of crystals, a forest so dark you only see what your staff lights up.
Light is at the heart of the game. The lights you gather make your glow larger and push the night back. You can also give them back to the world, to wake up old altars and open new paths. Keeping them or giving them away is a small choice you make again and again.
The game is in active development. Everything you see today is real footage from our build, and it will keep changing as we polish it.
What comes next
Over the coming months we will share dev diaries: how we light a forest that is pitch black, how the lantern village was built, how a boss is designed. Our goal is a first playable demo of Aylen.
If you want to follow the journey, the best place is our account on X. And if you are an artist, a writer, a developer, a journalist or simply curious, our inbox is open.
Thank you for reading our first page. Until the next one.
The Chronicles Games team