zahfox
Independent game studio

Making gamesfun again

You buy our games once. Updates are free, money never buys power, and nothing switches off when a server does.

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Most terms and conditions run to thousands of words, and they protect the company. Ours protect you, and they apply to every game we sell.

  1. Buy it once

    You never pay a subscription to keep playing.

  2. Updates are free

    Fixes and new content cost nothing extra.

  3. No pay-to-win

    Money never buys power, stats or an edge over other players.

  4. No loot boxes

    You never pay for a random reward.

  5. No ads in paid games

    If you paid for it, it never shows you an ad.

  6. The whole game at launch

    We hold nothing back to sell to you later.

  7. It keeps working

    Single-player and direct-connect co-op run without our servers, so the game outlives them.

  8. A DRM-free copy

    We also sell every game without DRM, so your copy runs with no launcher.

In production

Samurai Survivor II

"The dead on the field do not know they are dead."

Dusk over a battlefield in the rain. Banners and spears stand abandoned in the grass, and the dead walk toward a lit hall at the edge of the field.

Samurai Survivor II is a first-person katana game set in Japan in the 1580s. After a battle, thousands of dead lie unburied in a valley. Each night they come for the hall at the edge of the field.

Hold the hall until dawn. Your sword only stops the dead for a while. They get up again unless someone kneels and lays them to rest, so your score counts the dead you lay to rest, not the ones you cut down.

Every cut follows your swing. Flick the mouse or tilt the stick, and the blade goes where you aimed. Block, parry and dodge to stay alive until morning.

  • Co-opUp to four players hold the hall together
  • VersusOne-on-one duels
  • PlatformsTo be announced
  • PricePay once. Updates are free.
  • StatusIn production. Closed playtests come first.
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Early work

Where zahfox began

We made Samurai Survivor in 2016 and Cosmic Conundrum in 2017 as student projects in college. They're small, rough toys next to what we're building now. We keep them online because zahfox started with them, and both still play free in your browser.

2016College projectFree

Samurai Survivor

Hold a walled dojo against waves of zombies with a katana and a belt of potions. It's a short survival game, and the first thing we made.

Play Samurai Survivor
2017College projectFree

Cosmic Conundrum

Fight trolls, aliens and swamp monsters on floating tiles in deep space, one tile at a time. It's a small grid game we made a year later.

Play Cosmic Conundrum