Cakefish

Cakefish is an independent Norwegian game development studio building original interactive entertainment. Its current focus is Dreamthorn, an upcoming PC multiplayer action RPG that combines card-driven deckbuilding, deliberate top-down tactical combat, roguelike campaign progression, and cooperative play within a fantasy world shaped by cosmic horror.

Development of Dreamthorn began in March 2021. The project pairs a client built in Unreal Engine 5, using C++ and Blueprints, with a proprietary server-side architecture written entirely in Rust. Cakefish’s work spans gameplay and systems design, networked engineering, UI and combat programming, stylized 3D character work, painterly concept art, visual effects, and animation-pipeline development.

Building Dreamthorn

Dreamthorn is designed around customisable card and character progression, with gameplay unlocks earned through play. Its visual direction brings together elegant fantasy environments and more unsettling creature designs, supporting a setting that moves between beauty and horror.

Cakefish develops its own intellectual property rather than offering external work-for-hire, contract co-development, or outsourcing services. The studio entered full production on Dreamthorn in 2026, expanding its core team to roughly 15 people.

A distributed studio

The company operates remote-first, coordinating around European time zones while collaborating with contributors across the Americas through East Asia. Its public hiring materials describe a structure intended to give team members creative autonomy, direct access to the studio lead, and participation in the long-term success of the project.

As an independent developer, Cakefish is focused on taking Dreamthorn from its early systems and world-building work into a complete multiplayer RPG experience.