Cascade Beach
Est. 2026 · Pacific Northwest

Quiet games,
loud worlds.

Cascade Beach is an independent studio shaped by coastal weather and slow attention. We make games about places worth lingering in.

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Current Work

In the wet
workshop.

We work on one project at a time and we take our time. Here's what's on the bench right now — sketches, prototypes, and the early pieces of something larger.

In Development
Project Codename

Driftwood

A meditative exploration game set across an archipelago that rearranges itself between tides. Hand-painted, slow, and scored by the weather.

GenreExploration · NarrativePlatformsPC · Console (TBA)Window2027 · When it's ready
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Dispatches

From the lighthouse.

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2026.05.12Devlog

Building tides: how we sculpt water in a fully hand-painted world

An inside look at our custom shader pipeline and the years of failed attempts that led to the system we use today.

→2026.04.28Announcement

Cascade Beach is open for business

We're a new independent studio focused on small, deeply considered games. Here's what we're working on, and why.

→2026.04.10Press

Featured in The Indie Wave issue No. 14

A long-form conversation about our founding, our influences, and the games that shaped how we think about play.

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The studio

We're a small team.
That's the point.

Cascade Beach was founded on the conviction that smaller is better, that craft scales down more easily than it scales up, and that the best games are made by people who would rather get one thing exquisitely right than ten things mostly right.

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