Dreamlit

Dreamlit is an independent video game developer and publisher established in 2020. It creates original open-world sandbox games for PC and consoles, bringing together worldbuilding, survival-crafting, settlement construction and ecological simulation. Founded in California, the studio now operates as a fully remote team distributed across North America, Europe and Asia.

Its signature project, Towers of Aghasba, is an open-world fantasy sandbox built around the relationship between rebuilding a civilization and restoring its natural surroundings. Players take the role of a junior architect helping revitalize the devastated island of Aghasba. Reconstructing villages for the Shimu civilization sits alongside cultivating surreal ecosystems filled with fantastical plants and creatures. Town planning, crafting and exploration form part of this interconnected approach to rebuilding the island.

Worlds shaped by construction and ecology

Dreamlit combines settlement-building systems with ecosystem development, making the natural environment a central part of its game design. Its visual direction draws inspiration from Studio Ghibli, including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and pairs stylized environments with high-fidelity art and animation. Development uses Unreal Engine 5, with capabilities spanning game design, systems engineering, art and cooperative multiplayer.

Towers of Aghasba appeared at the PlayStation Showcase in May 2023 and entered Early Access on November 19, 2024, for Windows PC through Steam and PlayStation 5. Dreamlit serves as both developer and publisher, supporting the game with content roadmaps and patches.

The studio's development history predates its formal establishment: an early prototype titled Towers was revealed in March 2019 under the Dreamlit Entertainment name. That prototype provided the foundation for the later project. Today, Dreamlit focuses on developing and publishing its own intellectual property rather than providing external contract development or co-development services.