Maya Ellison
Creative Director
Designs the rhythm of each floor so tension always resolves into rest. Fifteen years in tabletop and video game design.
A Mindful Co-op Dungeon Crawler
Build an empire without losing your calm.
Cosmic Dungeon Empire is a slow-burn, co-operative crawler for two to four players. Explore living dungeons, grow a quiet star-empire, and rest between battles — there is no timer chasing you here.
- 4-player
- shared campaigns
- 80+ hrs
- of handcrafted depths
- No timers
- play at your pace
"Rest is a mechanic here, not a weakness."
— From the studio design notes
The World
A dungeon that breathes with you.
We built Cosmic Dungeon Empire in a small studio on Rivington Street for players who love strategy but not stress. Every floor of the Cosmic Dungeon regenerates around the way you play — patient explorers uncover gardens and observatories, while reckless raiders wake older, hungrier things.
Between expeditions you return to your orbital sanctuary: a home base you shape stone by stone, plant by plant. Progress is saved the moment you step away, so a single campaign can stretch comfortably across months of unhurried evenings.
- Fully co-operative — no player-versus-player pressure, ever
- Adaptive difficulty that reads your table, not a leaderboard
- Offline-friendly saves, cross-session with no penalties
- A hand-scored ambient soundtrack for focused, calm sessions
How to Play
Four steps into the depths.
No sprawling tutorial, no wall of menus. Cosmic Dungeon Empire eases you in over a single quiet evening.
01
Settle your sanctuary
Chapter 01 · ~20 minClaim a drifting asteroid and lay out your first rooms — a hearth, a workshop, a greenhouse. This is the calm you return to after every run.
02
Gather your circle
Chapter 02 · 2–4 playersInvite up to three friends into a shared campaign. Everyone keeps their own hero and progress, and you can drop in or out of any session without breaking the story.
03
Descend together
Chapter 03 · turn-basedRead the dungeon, share supplies, and solve its rooms as a team. Combat is turn-based and forgiving — retreat and rest whenever the table needs a breath.
04
Grow the empire
Chapter 04 · endless depthsCarry relics home to expand your sanctuary and unlock deeper floors. The empire you tend quietly reshapes the dungeons you explore next.
The Studio
Made by a small, unhurried team.
Eleven people share the studio above a coffee roaster in Shoreditch. Here are a few of the hands behind the dungeon.
Theo Nakamura
Lead Systems Designer
Builds the adaptive difficulty that reads your table. Believes the best challenge is one you barely notice arriving.
Priya Raman
Art Director
Paints the soft, diffused worlds of the Cosmic Dungeon by hand before they ever reach a screen.
Callum Wright
Audio & Composer
Scores the ambient soundtrack live with cello and analogue synths in the studio back room.
Ines Duarte
Narrative Designer
Writes the quiet lore hidden in the walls, so no two expeditions tell quite the same story.
Player Voices
What our players tell us.
From beta testers across the UK who traded frantic games for something slower.
The Dispatch
Slow news from the depths.
One unhurried letter each month: new floors, studio notes, and early beta invitations. No noise, unsubscribe any time.
We send at most one email a month. Your address stays with our studio only.
Contact
Come find the studio.
Questions about the beta, press, or just want to say hello? Send a note or visit us above the roaster on Rivington Street.
Call the studio
+44 20 3318 4465Email us
[email protected]Visit us
58 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3AU
Studio hours
Mon–Fri, 10:00–18:00 · Playtest Thursdays until 21:00