Chashu Entertainment

Chashu Entertainment is an independent video game development studio founded in 2015 in Culver City, California, and subsequently based in Dallas, Texas. Its work spans physics-driven comedy adventures and action role-playing games, combining character mechanics, real-time combat, exploration and narrative world building.

The studio made its commercial debut with Deputy Dangle, a self-published PC game released on July 29, 2016. The comedy adventure follows a boneless police officer through the city of Dangleton. Its unusual protagonist puts physics-based movement and character control at the centre of the experience, establishing an early technical foundation for the team's subsequent work.

From physics comedy to fantasy role-playing

Chashu's next production, Sands of Aura, brought the studio into open-world action RPG development. The game combines Souls-like combat with exploration across Talamhel, a twilight fantasy realm submerged beneath an ocean of sand after a divine cataclysm. Players become an initiate in the Order of Remnant Knights and travel the sandseas aboard a sailing vessel called a grainwake.

Alongside combat and exploration, players recruit refugees to expand the sanctuary settlement of Starspire. Modular weapon crafting supports hundreds of forgeable combinations across seven fighting styles, connecting equipment choices with different approaches to combat. The production brings together the studio's capabilities in environment design, lore, programming, 3D art, animation, visual effects and audio.

Published in partnership with indie.io, formerly Freedom Games, Sands of Aura entered Steam Early Access in late 2021 and reached its full PC release on October 27, 2023. Editions for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S followed on February 26, 2026, extending the game beyond its original PC audience.

Across these releases, Chashu's portfolio shows a progression from an experimental physics-based character adventure to a larger fantasy RPG built around interconnected combat, crafting, settlement development and exploration systems.