Independent game studio · California

Indie games with West Coast energy.

Cali Bros is a small studio making pixel-art games full of big ideas, strange worlds and the kind of “one more turn” you stay up late for.

Now in development

Space Fruit

Space Fruit: a fully built ship with gardens, an orchard, a reactor, crew quarters and a seed lab
In active development

Somewhere out there grows the fruit of immortality.

Space Fruit is a pixel-art space colony sim. Build your ship room by room, grow strange fruit in its gardens and feed it to a crew with their own skills, moods and needs. Every fruit does something: heal the wounded, sharpen the gunners, keep the engineers awake. Then follow the old star charts, one sector at a time, in search of a tree that never dies.

74Fruits
25Ship rooms
15Enemy ships
  • Colony sim
  • Ship building
  • Fruit crossbreeding
  • Space combat
  • English & 中文
GrowFind 58 kinds of seed among the stars and cross them in the Seed Lab to breed 16 hybrids.
BuildAdd kitchens, reactors, orchards, shields and more, then keep them powered and crewed.
ExploreChart a path through each sector: wreck fields, trading outposts, strange signals and a casino.
SurvivePirates and warlords prowl the lanes. Man the guns, raise the shields and patch the hull.
Also in development

Primal Man

Primal Man: a player's castle with a berry field, archery range and woodlot around it
In active development

Start as a caveman. Build a castle. Rise through the ages.

Primal Man is a top-down multiplayer survival game for phones. Gather wood and stone on a huge island, craft weapons and armor, tame horses, bulls and even elephants, and hire a husky, archer, knight or mage to fight at your side. Your cave grows into a castle with fields around it, and the farther you roam from home, the deadlier the goblins, beasts and bosses get.

10Bosses
4Companions
3Mounts
  • Multiplayer
  • Survival
  • Crafting
  • Taming & riding
  • Made for phones
Gather & craftChop, mine and hunt, then turn it into clubs, spears, bows, potions and bronze armor.
Tame & rideWin over a wild horse, bull or elephant with a pile of apples, then ride it into battle.
Build a baseGrow your cave into a castle, plant fields around it and furnish a safe room inside.
Hunt bossesThe Skeleton King, the Spider Queen, a Hydra and a Dragon guard lairs far from home.
Also in development

RIOT

RIOT: a crowd of protesters with signs facing a police line on a campus street
In active development

Choose your side. Control the street.

RIOT is a crowd-control strategy game you can play from either side of the line. Lead the protesters or command the police through a 50-level campaign across downtown, a college campus, the City Hall plaza, the bridges and the docks. Hundreds of people act on their own, so you don’t give orders, you give suggestions, and not everyone follows. Keep the public on your side, watch the tension, and don’t push the other side past its breaking point.

50Levels
52Abilities
260Biggest crowd
  • Strategy
  • Crowd simulation
  • Play both sides
  • Pixel art
  • Made for phones
Pick a sidePlay the whole campaign as the police, the protesters, or both. Each side has its own tactics.
Suggest, don’t commandEvery person in the crowd thinks for themselves. Your calls nudge them, and not everyone listens.
Win the publicForce works, but every move shifts public opinion. Lose the public and you lose the street.
Build your loadoutUnlock new tactics as you win, then pick up to eight to bring into each level.
Coming up

More on the horizon

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Next project

Something new is already in the works. Details land here first.

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Game jam builds

Small experiments, prototypes and effects tests built in Unity and Unreal.

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Devlog

Behind-the-scenes looks at art, effects and progress from the studio.

The studio

Small team. Big sunsets.

Cali Bros is an independent studio building the games we’ve always wanted to play.

We keep the team small and the ideas big. Every project starts with one question: would we stay up all night playing this? If the answer is yes, we build it.

  • Readable at a glanceCrisp pixel art that tells you what’s happening the moment you look.
  • Effects with punchSpells, impacts and explosions that feel as good as they look.
  • Strategy that rewards a planSmart choices beat button mashing, every time.
  • Godot
  • Unity
  • Unreal Engine
  • Niagara VFX
  • Pixel art
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