Piccolo Studio

Piccolo Studio is an independent video game developer based in Barcelona, Spain, creating narrative-driven adventures for PC and consoles. Established in 2015, the studio began game production in 2016 and builds its work around emotional storytelling, artistic direction and interactive experiences that communicate through movement, environments and relatively few words. Its games explore human relationships, memory and empathy through mechanics that connect directly to their themes.

The company grew out of its founders’ longstanding collaboration in interactive digital advertising. After working together for more than twenty years, they moved into original game development and recruited experienced talent from Spain’s creative community. That background informs a production approach combining visual storytelling, cinematic framing, character animation and carefully designed interactive worlds.

Narrative adventures

The studio’s debut, Arise: A Simple Story, launched in December 2019. The third-person adventure follows a deceased man’s memories of love and loss, using time manipulation to shape both its platforming challenges and emotional progression. Techland Publishing handled the original PC and console release, while Untold Tales published the Nintendo Switch version in 2022.

Released in May 2023 through Private Division, After Us shifts to a surreal, devastated world after humanity. Players guide Gaia, the Spirit of Life, as she rescues the spirits of extinct animals. Acrobatics, exploration and environmental storytelling convey its ecological themes through the landscapes and creatures players encounter.

The studio’s subsequent project, Age Twisters, was showcased at Gamescom in August 2026. Developed with publisher KRAFTON, the two-player cooperative narrative adventure follows a grandfather and granddaughter who change their ages across four life stages to solve puzzles. Its cooperative structure extends the studio’s interest in family connections and emotional relationships into shared play.

Across these projects, Piccolo Studio combines game design, narrative and level design with in-house art, animation, programming and interactive audio. Its development capabilities also include research into custom production technology supporting the visual and physical behavior of its game worlds.