DREDWORK is the publisher label behind a small slate of strange, sincere, and (most importantly) shippable games. Built by ONE PERSON, in LUA, on LOVE2D. Seven (7) titles in active production. First Steam release coming soon.
We do not have investors. We do not have a marketing department. We do not have a Slack workspace. We have one (1) person, one (1) keyboard, and one (1) very long to-do list.
We make HARD SH!T. Not edgy hard. Not difficult-for-the-sake-of-it hard. Hard like real, durable, well-made — the kind of thing you find in a junk drawer twenty years later that still works.
ONE HAND. FOUR ARROW KEYS. YOUR WEAPON AUTO-FIRES. Built to be played while you eat, smoke, drink, or hold a baby.
A bureaucratic autobattler RPG. Manage a department of disposable employees through thirty-two years of Margaret's watch. Hire. Promote. Demote. Mourn. File.
Lead a flight of named dragons out into the reach and bring them home. Bells twice on return. Pegs at the hearth, pretending he wasn't worried.
Turn-based stealth ops where every run generates an AI-written classified mission brief. Share it. Compare it. Find out what kind of agent you really are.
You play Kenneth. You program your Sentinels with IF/THEN rules instead of controlling them. Heat economy. Meltdown system. Will budget.
Maggie's den, warm-lit hub. A persistent field where the same battlefield remembers every run, every body, every mistake. Ledger Noir aesthetic.
A no-code engine bundled with the Ghost Jail starter game. The engine is the product. Ghost Jail is the proof.
Bloodweight ships separately under the adarkfable name — not under DREDWORK. It predates the label, runs on a different engine, and earns its own title card. See the creator side for that one.
* The baby may be held by you. The game does not hold the baby.
** Wishlisting is not legally binding. (Morally, however, it absolutely is.)
† "11 MB" includes nine (9) language packs. Counted by hand. By the founder.
‡ DREDWORK is not a corporation. ADARKFABLE is one (1) human being.
§ Results not typical. Most independent labels release zero games.
¶ "HARD SH!T" is rated G. The exclamation point is doing all the work.