Donkey Crew

Donkey Crew is a game development studio based in Wrocław, Poland, creating multiplayer survival games, action RPGs and settlement simulations for PC and consoles. Its work combines third-person combat, open-world exploration and systems that let players shape their surroundings through construction, cooperation and conflict. The studio grew from an international modding community into a commercial development team.

Its origins date to 2014, when developers from the Mount & Blade: Warband community came together around the cRPG multiplayer modification. The early team subsequently worked from Belfast on Of Kings and Men, a medieval multiplayer combat game released into Early Access in 2016. Publishing complications halted that project. In 2018, the developers restructured and relocated their headquarters to Poland, establishing the legal company behind the current studio.

Survival worlds and medieval settlements

Last Oasis entered Steam Early Access in March 2020. Set on a scorched Earth, the nomadic survival MMO centers on large, wind-powered wooden machines called Walkers. Its combination of mobile bases, resource gathering and multiplayer conflict established a distinctive setting for the studio’s survival game development. Following strong initial interest, technical and player-retention challenges prompted the team to refocus its development pipeline.

Bellwright, released into Steam Early Access in April 2024, brings the studio’s medieval combat interests together with settlement building and survival roleplaying. Players experience its world from a third-person perspective while developing villages, organizing inhabitants and participating in rebellion battles. The game connects individual action with the management of a growing community, rather than presenting settlement development solely through a top-down strategy interface.

The studio’s production capabilities span gameplay engineering, character and environment art, technical animation, interface development, visual effects and motion capture processing. As of October 2026, its reported development plans included major Bellwright content expansions and releases for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Its portfolio reflects a continuing focus on player-driven worlds and the interaction between combat, survival and community building.