A one-person game studio · Germany
Vanir Forge makes compact, well-made games for the browser and your phone. Puzzles first. No ads, no accounts, nothing that follows you home.
Cubesweeper is playable now on the web and in testing for Google Play. About the game
Forged so far
One idea per game, worked until it shines. Everything runs in your browser; the ones that belong on a phone come to the stores too.
Minesweeper, wrapped around a cube. Then dug into.
Six boards glued into one glossy cube where clues reach across the edges, and a CORE mode that digs through nested layers of rock to a glowing centre.
In the fire
No newsletter, no roadmap theatre. This list is the roadmap.
The forge
Vanir Forge is Alexander Frase, building games alone from the Black Forest in Germany. The Vanir of Norse myth were the gods of growing things and good fortune, the quieter half of the pantheon. A forge is where patient work turns raw material into something that lasts.
That is the aim here: games small enough to finish properly, bright enough to feel good in, and honest enough to respect your time and your data. The future in these games is a place you would want to visit.
One idea, worked until it shines. A game ships when it is finished, not when a date says so.
Space, colour and light. Optimistic science fiction: a cosmos worth exploring, not one to escape from.
No ads, no accounts, no tracking, playable offline. Your settings and best times stay on your device.
Write to the forge
Bug reports, tester requests, press questions, or just a word about a game you liked.
Mail is answered by a person, usually within a few days. There is no contact form because there is no server behind this site that would send one.
