Four people · four games · one small studio
ANRK Studios is a four-person crew making visual novels, idle games, rhythm oddities and a card game we cannot stop tinkering with. Everything here is made by the same four hands, no outsourcing, no roadmap committee.
A short, tender visual novel about not fitting the shape you were given. Branching conversations, hand-written dialogue, and an ending that depends less on what you choose than on how patiently you listen. Our first release, and still the one people write to us about.
An idle game told entirely in text: you raise a warband in a dying kingdom, and it keeps fighting while you are away. Numbers grow, heroes die permanently, and the log you come back to reads like a chronicle someone else wrote about your choices.
Tower defence on the downbeat. Enemies march in time, your turrets only fire when you hit the note, and every track is a level with its own rules. Miss the groove and the lane collapses; nail it and the whole screen locks into the music.
An online living card game where every card belongs to a different era, and playing out of time bends the board. No randomised packs: full sets, open deckbuilding, and balance patches we argue about in public. The playtest is live on Steam and the four of us are in the lobby most evenings.
We met making things nobody asked for and never really stopped. ANRK is deliberately four people: small enough that every decision fits in one conversation, big enough to actually ship. We prototype fast, kill ideas without ceremony, and keep the ones that still feel good after a month.
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One line about what Stefano actually does all day, and the one game he refuses to stop balancing.
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One line about what Elisabetta brings to the group chat, plus a detail that makes her sound like a person.
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One line about Dmitri's corner of the codebase and the thing he built that nobody else understands.
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One line about Alessandro, the part of the game he owns, and something slightly unhinged he enjoys.
Playtesters, composers, curators, and people with strong opinions about card balance: we read everything. One mail a month, no launch spam.
