Feral Cat Den

What Feral Cat Den does

Feral Cat Den is an independent video game studio founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York. The studio operates with a small core team of approximately 5-6 individuals, including founders Jeremy Abel, Evan Anthony, Evan Stark, Marcin Zeglinski, and Noah Sablan, supplemented by freelance collaborators. Its primary commercial product is Genesis Noir, a narrative adventure game released in 2021 that frames the Big Bang and the birth of the universe through noir-styled point-and-click gameplay. The studio is also developing a follow-up title, Nirvana Noir, though no firm release date has been disclosed.

The studio monetizes through direct-to-consumer sales of digital games distributed across multiple storefronts (Steam, itch.io, Epic) and console platforms (Xbox, Nintendo Switch), supplemented by a branded merchandise store offering apparel and accessories. Genesis Noir received four nominations at the Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards, providing modest brand recognition within the indie game community and serving as the studio's primary marketing signal.

Feral Cat Den operates as a privately held, founder-owned entity with no disclosed external funding rounds. Revenue mechanics consist of unit sales at standard indie price points plus merchandise, distributed across a long-tail consumer base rather than enterprise or platform-anchor customers. The studio's addressable market is the niche segment of players interested in narrative-driven, artistically distinctive adventure games, a category with limited but engaged demand.

Name

Feral Cat Den

Legal name

Feral Cat Den

Website

https://feralcatden.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Feral Cat Den is a Brooklyn-based independent game studio founded in 2016 that develops narrative-driven adventure games such as Genesis Noir for distribution across PC and console storefronts, serving long-tail consumers of artistically distinctive indie titles.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Game Sales: Genesis Noir released in 2021 for PC, Mac, Xbox, and Switch. Revenue from digital game sales through platform storefronts.
2. Merchandise Sales: Branded merchandise sold through store.genesisnoirgame.com including apparel and accessories.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Feral Cat Den is an independent game studio that develops and self-publishes narrative-driven adventure games built around hand-crafted animation and interactive gameplay. Its debut release, Genesis Noir (2021), is sold directly to consumers through PC, Mac, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch digital storefronts, with branded merchandise sold through the studio's own online store. The studio is currently developing its follow-up title, Nirvana Noir.

Product overview

Feral Cat Den is a small game development studio offering a focused portfolio of two narrative adventure games. Their core products are Genesis Noir (released in 2021) and Nirvana Noir (upcoming), both featuring visually rich and tactile experiences that fuse animation with interactivity. The studio also creates animations, web experiences, and VJ content as part of their creative output.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Genesis Noir An adventure game set before, during, and after the Big Bang, in which players must stop the Big Bang to save their love. Built around hand-crafted animation and interactive storytelling, released for PC, Mac, Xbox, and Switch. Targeted at individual players who enjoy artistic, narrative-driven indie games.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Collaborators (External)minorOthersFeral Cat Den maintains a spreadsheet of collaborators and has collaborated with external talent. However, they currently state they are not looking for additional collaborators.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Campo Santo: Independent studio that shipped the award-winning Firewatch. Directly comparable to Feral Cat Den as a small, narrative- and art-driven indie studio operating in the same adventure-game category.
• thatgamecompany: Independent studio behind Journey, Flower, and Sky: Children of the Light. Comparable to Feral Cat Den in prioritizing artistic, emotionally led interactive experiences over mainstream game design and shipping across multiple platforms.
• Playdead: Independent studio behind Limbo and Inside, both critically acclaimed, visually distinctive 2D adventure games for PC and consoles. Playdead is the closest comparable in size, scope, and platform footprint for Feral Cat Den.
• Lucas Pope (3909 LLC): Solo/small-team indie developer of Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn — both narrative-driven, highly distinctive adventure games on PC and consoles. Closely comparable to Feral Cat Den in studio scale, creative ambition, and platform reach.
• The Fullbright Company: Independent studio behind Gone Home and Tacoma, walking-simulator style narrative adventures. Closely comparable to Feral Cat Den in targeting narrative/adventure indie players and exploring story-forward game design.
• Cardboard Computer: Two-person indie studio behind the episodic Kentucky Route Zero, a critically acclaimed narrative adventure. Directly comparable to Feral Cat Den as a small team building atmospheric, story-forward adventure experiences with distinctive visual identity.
• The Chinese Room: Small narrative-first indie studio known for Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Comparable to Feral Cat Den as a small team building atmospheric, story-driven, multi-platform adventure experiences.

Broad incumbents

• Annapurna Interactive: Established publisher of high-prestige narrative and artistic indie games (What Remains of Edith Finch, Outer Wilds, Stray). Comparable to Feral Cat Den in distribution of art-forward, narrative-led indie titles on PC and consoles, but operating as a broader publisher rather than a development studio.
• Raw Fury: Indie game publisher focused on artistic and narrative titles such as Sable, Norco, and Kingdom Two Crowns. Comparable to Feral Cat Den in curating and distributing visually distinctive narrative adventures on PC and consoles, but as a publisher rather than developer.
• Devolver Digital: Major indie publisher across PC and consoles (Hotline Miami, Inscryption, Cult of the Lamb). Comparable to Feral Cat Den through shared indie adventure/aesthetic positioning and multi-platform storefront distribution, though Devolver operates at significantly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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