About us
Personal stories.
Everyday choices.
Arken Interactive is an independent studio developing a personal life-simulation game about everyday decisions and the story that follows.
Our mission
A life, not a nation.
We want to make meaningful personal stories accessible: a world where everyday choices connect, small decisions can matter, and each life can take a different direction. In our game, you follow one citizen’s life. You do not run the country.
What we’re building
Connected everyday systems.
Finances, contacts and relationships, and health are systems under active development. We’re working on how they connect to a citizen’s choices and story, with room to learn from testing as the game takes shape.
These are development areas, not a list of finished features. The game is not yet available to play on this website.
Our values
Thoughtful choices, in how we build too.
Accessible and affordable.
We want more people to enjoy meaningful life stories. Model research and tuning aim to balance story quality with the cost of running the experience.
Careful simulation and testing.
Connected systems should support the story. We’re testing their behavior, story continuity and performance as development progresses.
Open about work in progress.
We distinguish what we’re building from what is ready. Plans can change as we learn, and we don’t want a development image to promise a finished game.
Our next goal
Working toward a playable beta.
The next milestone is a rough, playable beta that we can learn from. Our focus is story quality and continuity, careful testing, performance, and model tuning. There’s no announced launch date or access plan yet.
Who we are
Liam
Founder & Game Creator
Aris
Research & Creative Collaborator
Aster
Lead Developer