Behold Studios

Behold Studios is an independent video game developer founded in Brasília, Brazil, in 2009 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, since 2019. The studio develops original games for PC, consoles and mobile platforms, combining retro pixel art with humorous storytelling, tactical roleplaying and cooperative play. Its work often places familiar genres inside playful fictional frameworks, from tabletop gaming sessions to the production of a superhero television show.

The company began by producing advergames and serious games for clients. In 2011, it reorganized around original intellectual property, establishing the creative direction behind its subsequent releases. Its capabilities span game design, narrative writing, full-cycle development, console porting, multiplatform deployment and community management. The studio has experience self-publishing and working with external publishing partners.

Games and creative direction

Released in 2012, Knights of Pen & Paper lets players control both a group of tabletop roleplayers and their dungeon master. Its pixel-art presentation and layered roleplaying premise became recurring elements in the studio’s work. Galaxy of Pen & Paper, released in 2017, brought that approach into a science-fiction tabletop setting inspired by the 1990s.

Chroma Squad, released in 2015 following a Kickstarter campaign, combines tactical battles with managing a television production about stunt actors making a sentai show. Cosplay Club, also known as Mahou Senshi Cosplay Club, explores magical-girl cosplayers through turn-based roleplaying and entered Steam Early Access in December 2023.

The studio’s cooperative games extend beyond traditional RPG structures. Out of Space combines procedural spaceship environments with the practical challenges of sharing and maintaining a home in space. Released on October 13, 2026, Deep Dish Dungeon combines cooperative dungeon exploration, survival and cooking, with Brazilian culinary influences including cassava and guaraná. Published by Raw Fury, it launched on PC and Xbox Game Pass.

Across these projects, Behold Studios brings together characterful pixel animation, systems-driven play and comic reinterpretations of familiar entertainment genres.