Small Studio. Big Ideas.
Games Made To Be Explored, Understood, And Played Your Way.An indie game developer and publisher creating systems-driven games built around progression, experimentation, and meaningful player decisions.
In development
Every tribute payment buys time. Eventually, you stop paying.
A persistent idle settlement RPG about building a vulnerable tributary village into the political, economic, and military center of a regional rebellion.
In development
Every fortune should have a story.
Start with almost nothing and build wealth through work, investing, property, businesses, gambling, leverage, and risk in a fictional financial sandbox where success can compound, and collapse.
Little Lodge Games is an independent game studio and publisher founded by Scott Cunningham and operated by Scott Cunningham Services. We make systems-driven games built around progression, experimentation, and meaningful player decisions, from growing a struggling settlement into a regional power to building and losing a financial empire.
The lodge is a small place away from the main road. Somewhere interesting people and ideas gather, a home base before the next adventure, and a home for games that do not need enormous teams to have enormous depth.
Our promise is simple: respect the player's intelligence and time. You should understand why something happened, make meaningful decisions, recover from mistakes, see your progress reflected in the world, and step away and return without being punished for it. Challenge comes from the game, never from hidden information or manipulative monetization.
The Lodge Is The Home. The Games Are The Journeys.
The beginnings should feel humble. The possibilities should not.
Economy affects expansion. Expansion creates risk. Risk changes strategy.
Growth should show up in the world, not just in a bigger number.
Lose the empire, keep the game. There is always another path.
Little Lodge Games is a small independent game studio, developer, and publisher working on idle, incremental, simulation, and strategy games for PC. Every project starts from the same idea: a handful of clear systems that talk to each other, a world that visibly changes as you grow it, and progression you can read without a spreadsheet. If you like settlement builders, economic sandboxes, management sims, or games you can step away from and return to, this is the lodge for you.
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