About Default Studios
Default Studios is a small independent development studio. We build games, tools and assorted software, mostly because we want to play with the result ourselves and figure other people might too.
Our first release is Sweeper's Luck, a Minesweeper roguelike about greed, out now on Steam. There is a second project in development that we are being deliberately cagey about.
There is no publisher behind us, no quarterly roadmap and no focus group. Projects get started because they seem interesting, and they ship when they are genuinely finished. Sometimes that is fast. Sometimes it is very much not.
How we work
- Small and finished beats big and abandoned.
- No dark patterns. No fake urgency, no manipulative monetisation.
- Players first. If a change makes the thing worse to use, it does not ship.
- Own your stuff. Saves stay on your machine wherever we can manage it.
Why does this website look like it is from 2003?
Because the modern web is exhausting. Everything is a full screen hero image, an autoplaying video and four megabytes of JavaScript to display three paragraphs of text.
This page is a handful of kilobytes. It loads instantly on anything, it works with JavaScript switched off, and it has a visitor counter. We consider that an upgrade.
Get in touch
Questions, bug reports, business enquiries, or just want to say hello? Write to defaultstudiossupport (at) gmail (dot) com — or use the contact page.