Ursavus

Independent · founder-led

Games, built
deliberately.

A small studio. Distinct worlds. We make a few games and hold each to a high standard — built for curiosity, precision, and one more run.

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Named for the dawn bear. Made for what comes next.

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Classification
Independent game studio
Discipline
Games, end‑to‑end
Disposition
Built to stay small
Named for
Ursavus, the dawn bear
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Find your next obsession.

Three distinct worlds. One deliberate approach.

01 / Procedural descentEvery seed, another story.

Painted Crowns

Dungeon roguelike

A dungeon that grows from a single seed.

Every floor is procedurally generated — grown from a seed rather than hand-placed — and the difficulty adapts to how you actually play. Built in Unity. No two descents are the same, and none of them are unfair.

Inside the game
Procedural depth
Floors grown from a single seed — coherent and surprising, never the same twice.
Adaptive difficulty
The dungeon reads how you play and pushes back to match — challenging, never cheap.
Roguelike discipline
Runs that matter. Death is permanent; what you learn is not.
Status
Available now on Steam.

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02 / Neon arcadePrecision. Pressure. One more run.

Klast

Twin-stick arcade shooter

A neon arcade shooter built for one more run.

A high-intensity twin-stick shooter about speed, precision, and replayability. You pilot a customizable starfighter across three distinct combat systems, each with its own enemies, bosses, hazards, upgrades, and scoring — rendered in low-poly geometry and neon wireframe, with chromatic light, particle-heavy destruction, and transitions that move with the music.

Inside the game
Cycle
Structured rescue missions, built on precision under pressure.
Vector
Escalating arena warfare against swarms that keep coming.
Asteroid
Fully spherical planetary battles with destructible asteroids — combat wrapped around a whole world.
Beyond the campaigns
Challenge modes, endless progression, a shared hangar, achievements, bestiary entries, rankings, exportable scorecards, and AI pilots flying attract-mode demos.

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03 / Mirror combatTheir fire. Your weapon.

Shatterwing

Vertical bullet hell shooter

Turn their fire against them.

An invading fleet has learned humanity's flight patterns. Give it something it hasn't seen before. Every dash leaves a glass mirror in your wake — place it across an incoming volley and send their shots back into the fleet. Graze bullets, keep your kill chain alive, and charge your mirrors toward homing returns.

Inside the game
Mirror combat
Reflect incoming volleys and turn desperate escapes into devastating counterattacks.
Your ship, your run
Six distinct ships, 24 weapon configurations, and two selectable specials per ship — from slowing time to unleashing a giant beam.
Polarity
Switch colors to absorb matching bullets, store their energy, and release homing volleys in a second campaign mode.
Beyond the clear
Five stages, five difficulty levels, Flight Academy, Practice, Boss Run, hidden encounters, and unlockable pilot stories.

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A company with a deep origin.

Drag through twenty million years — Miocene to now.

The bear we are named for is not the biggest or the fiercest. Ursavus — the dawn bear — was a small, fox-sized animal that lived around twenty million years ago. It was the first undisputed bear, and the common ancestor that grizzlies, pandas, and polar bears all descend from.

It earned that place by getting the form right, once. Everything afterward inherited it. That is exactly the kind of studio we want to be: small and early, the careful origin that good games descend from.

≈ 20,000,000 yr ago

The dawn bear

A small, fox-sized animal appears in the Miocene — the first undisputed bear, and the origin every living bear descends from.

20 Mya
15 Mya
10 Mya
5 Mya
now

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Built to stay small.

Identifying field marks.

Ursavus is run by the people who make the games. We are not chasing a genre or a headcount — small is a capability. It lets us say no, keep our promises, and answer our own mail.

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Independence.

Founder-led, and answerable to the people who play our games — not to a publisher, a platform, or a growth curve.

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Restraint.

We would rather ship one considered mechanic than three loud ones. The hard part is deciding what not to build.

iii

Respect.

A player's time and attention are a trust, not a resource to mine. No dark patterns, no manipulative economies — the game is the whole product.

iv

Craft.

A game is engineering and art at once — measured, fast, and correct, but also a joy to play. We refuse to choose.

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Talk to a person.

We are small by design, and we answer every message ourselves.

Write to us

hello@ursavus.com

Whether you're curious about our games, want to playtest, or are thinking about joining — write to us directly. A sentence or two on what's on your mind is plenty.

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