SGSHOHO GAMES

SHOHO ARCHIVE · 2017–2021

Nine releases.
Nine fossils.

The old games are not hidden under the floorboards anymore. This is the museum layer beneath the current studio.

CRYPTIC artwork
FILE 01
2020 · Interactive Fiction

CRYPTIC

Escape a deadly crypt by typing your way through puzzles, choices, and a twisted game of survival.

ARCHIVE NOTEA text-first survival experiment where interface and story are the same thing.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Hamster Logic 3D artwork
FILE 02
2021 · Puzzle

Hamster Logic 3D

A colorful geometric puzzle game about getting a hamster, a ball, and a surprisingly capable brain back home.

ARCHIVE NOTEProof that the catalog was never going to stay in one genre lane.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Parking Cop Simulator artwork
FILE 03
2017 · Simulation / Comedy

Parking Cop Simulator

Inspect cars, learn the rules, write the tickets, and try not to get fired during your first week on the job.

ARCHIVE NOTEAn early fascination with turning ordinary systems into playable routines.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Reading Simulator artwork
FILE 04
2017 · Simulation

Reading Simulator

A digital library experience built around the radical mechanic of sitting down and actually reading classic books.

ARCHIVE NOTEA deliberately odd simulator whose central interaction is exactly what the title promises.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Hiking Simulator 2018 artwork
FILE 05
2018 · Exploration

Hiking Simulator 2018

A deliberately absurd hiking sim with a huge snowy landscape, wildlife, secrets, and plenty of empty wilderness.

ARCHIVE NOTEA wandering-space experiment, part comedy and part lonely landscape.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Creatio Ex Nihilo: Aition artwork
FILE 06
2018 · RPG

Creatio Ex Nihilo: Aition

Play as the first being in existence and shape a universe whose future depends on the choices you make.

ARCHIVE NOTEAn early move toward bigger narrative choices and world-scale consequences.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Hiking Simulator 2017 artwork
FILE 07
2017 · Exploration

Hiking Simulator 2017

An early first-person wandering experiment from the original Shoho catalog.

ARCHIVE NOTEThe fossil layer of Shoho: empty space, exploration, and a willingness to make something strange.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Dungeon Chest artwork
FILE 08
Archive · Game

Dungeon Chest

An older Shoho release from the experimental back catalog.

ARCHIVE NOTEA surviving artifact from the era when the studio was testing wildly different small game ideas.
OPEN RELEASE ↗
Phantast artwork
FILE 09
Archive · Game

Phantast

An older Shoho release from a catalog that rarely stayed in one genre for long.

ARCHIVE NOTEOne more branch in a back catalog built by changing direction instead of repeating one formula.
OPEN RELEASE ↗