Rural Games

Rural Games is an independent Indian video game development studio founded in late 2025 by Sunny Rajput. Established in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, the studio builds original single-player games shaped by regional culture, folklore, and grounded Indian settings, while working through a distributed remote production model.

Its development approach combines narrative-led design with real-time 3D production in Unity. The team’s capabilities span game design and programming, environment and prop art, character art and rigging, animation, audio, worldbuilding, and systems design. Rural Games also runs practical internship and talent-incubation tracks intended to connect academic media skills with commercial indie-game production.

Current projects

• Platform 13 is a first-person atmospheric survival-horror game set in a desolate, abandoned Indian railway station. Its supernatural mystery centres on a 1998 incident and is being developed for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
• Zero Drag is a psychological detective-noir thriller set in modern-day Bihar. The game follows investigator Rupesh as he investigates a devastating fire; full-scale production began on July 7, 2026.

Creative focus

Rural Games concentrates on immersive, systems-driven experiences that bring Indian regional stories and environments into contemporary interactive entertainment. Its work pairs psychological horror, survival mystery, and crime-thriller storytelling with environmental design and optimized real-time assets for PC and console development.

The studio developed its structure around a remote network of specialized contributors. After expanding beyond 80 contributors, it reorganized into a core production team of more than 30 departmental leads and specialists to reduce bureaucracy and support focused development across its active titles. This model supports both the studio’s original productions and its mentorship-oriented entry points for emerging game creators.

Active development on Platform 13 and Zero Drag, alongside ongoing recruitment and internship activity, positions Rural Games as a growing indie developer creating culturally rooted games for global audiences.