About Mogrio Studios
Mogrio Studios is an independent studio making challenging, story-driven games with arcade roots, a sci-fi heart and an eye for the tiny details.
What we make
Games that are hard in the way the arcade was hard: fair, readable, and impossible to put down until you've got it. Every run, every room and every line of dialogue serves a story, and the story rewards the players who stop to look. We'd rather spend a week on a detail most people never notice than ship without it.
Where we come from
Arcade shooters that punished every mistake and made you want one more go. Space strategy and science fiction that made the universe feel enormous and worth exploring. Stories that hide their best moments for the players curious enough to find them. We pay homage to the games that shaped us the way they'd want: by making something that stands on its own.
What we believe
Curiosity is the point
We love space and science at every scale, from galaxies to strings, and the long human project of understanding a little more than we did yesterday.
Leave things better
We try to be good stewards: to the people we work with and play for, to the planet, and to all life on it.
The founder
I'm Brayden, and I started Mogrio Studios to make the kind of games I can't stop thinking about: hard, intense, and built around stories that reward paying attention.
Outer Wilds is my all-time favorite, for its mechanics, its story and the countless small details that make exploring it feel like discovery. My love of arcade games runs through Asteroids, Scramble, Galaga, Qix, Geometry Wars, Tyrian and Commander Keen, and Homeworld is where I fell for science fiction, a love that Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Star Wars, Interstellar and Dark have only deepened.
Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe was a huge inspiration growing up, and I still love space and science at every scale, from galaxies to the smallest particles. The pursuit of understanding, in physics and in games, is what drives me.