Hungry Couch Games
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Hungry Couch Games
Hungry Couch Games is a video game development studio founded in April 2019 by game designer and creative director Konstantin Burov. Established in Moscow, the studio develops games for PC and consoles, combining pixel art with systems-driven action, exploration and strategy. Its work spans top-down shooters, open-world adventures, mining simulations and tower defense.
The studio became a wholly owned subsidiary of tinyBuild in February 2021. With the publisher’s funding and publishing support, Hungry Couch grew from an individual developer’s project into a multidisciplinary development team while retaining creative freedom within the group.
Games and development
Its debut game, Black Skylands, brings together top-down aerial combat, airship modification, base-building and procedural dungeon exploration in a floating-island setting. Described as a “skypunk” open-world action-RPG sandbox, the game entered Steam Early Access in July 2021 and reached its full release in August 2023. Its platform lineup includes PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
Hungry Couch followed this with Drill Core, a science-fiction roguelite strategy game built around corporate planetary mining. The game combines mining operations with tower defense and colony and base management. It entered Steam Early Access in September 2024 and reached version 1.0 on PC in July 2025. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch versions followed in April 2026 alongside The Machine World expansion.
Across these projects, the studio’s capabilities cover full-cycle game design and development, prototyping, concept art, pixel art animation, audio and sound design, and porting between PC and console platforms. Its production work also extends beyond initial release through live support and expansion content. Both released games progressed through Early Access before their full launches, and the portfolio connects action-focused sandbox play with strategy built around managing resources, infrastructure and defensive systems.
More about Hungry Couch Games
Early publishing partnership
The project that became Black Skylands attracted tinyBuild's attention in 2019 after Konstantin Burov shared prototype gameplay clips of a top-down shooter set across floating islands. The publisher then partnered with him to expand the project, preceding its later acquisition of the studio.
Team roles
The research names Andrey Li as lead programmer, Sergey Chelnokov as level designer and Anna Nikolaeva as HR/office manager. It also identifies Dmitry Romanov, Vasilii Makarov and Olga Panova as developers. The studio's operating model combines a core development team with contract contributors.
Notable credits
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Where Hungry Couch Games is based
- Ordzhonikidze str. 11, bldg. 3Moscow, Russia
Moscow office
HeadquartersPhysical development studio and headquarters, with design workspace and production offices.
- 1100 Bellevue Way NE, STE 8A #317, Bellevue, WA 98004, USABellevue, Washington, United States
Bellevue office
Registered corporate office of Hungry Couch LLC under tinyBuild; identified as a legal entity seat rather than a development workspace.
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