Happy Squid Studios

The nicest people making the weirdest games.

Who we are

Happy Squid Studios started the way a lot of good things start right now: a wave of layoffs scattered a lot of talented people across the industry, and a few of us decided to stop waiting for the next studio to build us a home, and build one ourselves instead.

We're a small core team backed by a wider pool of freelance friends, working together on our first original game. No publishers breathing down our necks, no crunch culture. Just a tank full of people who love making games.

Our squids have had their tentacles on bigger projects before making their own home:
Silent Hill Ascension CoComelon Prison Architect Star Wars: Monopoly Cities: Skylines Minecraft Dungeons 2 Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers Fallen Sword 2 The Bookwalker Tinykin Angry Gran Run Wings: Remastered
11 squids in the tank
1 original game in development

Our First Game

Sweet Deceit

Get your friends together, open up shop, and keep the customers smiling. It’s chaotic, it’s co-op, and it’s sweeter than it looks, well right up until it isn’t.

Run your sweet shop, work together, keep the orders moving, and try not to ask too many questions about what happens behind the counter

  • Co-op chaos
  • Horror-comedy
  • 1–4 Players

The Tank

Meet the Squids

Small studio. Small tentacles. Big ambitions.

The Ink Pool

Friends of the studio

Freelancers and collaborators who help us make waves.

Come say hello

We're just getting our socials set up for now, Discord is where the tank hangs out. Come watch Sweet Deceit take shape.