Stray Bombay

Stray Bombay is an independent game development studio founded in March 2019 by Chet Faliszek and Dr. Kimberly Voll. Based in Seattle, Washington, it develops cooperative multiplayer games for PC and consoles, with an emphasis on social interaction, teamwork and encounters shaped by dynamic artificial intelligence.

The studio’s design approach puts shared player experiences at the center of its games. Its capabilities span game design, programming, art production, cross-platform engineering, backend integration and self-publishing. Cooperative first-person shooters, adaptive encounter systems and cross-platform multiplayer are central areas of its work.

The Anacrusis

The studio’s debut game, The Anacrusis, is a four-player cooperative first-person shooter set aboard a stranded space vessel. Its visual style draws on the retro science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s. An adaptive AI Driver controls enemy and resource spawning in response to player performance, shaping the pace of encounters as a group progresses.

The Anacrusis entered Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview on January 13, 2022, with full cross-platform play and a day-one Xbox Game Pass release. It reached version 1.0 on December 5, 2023. The game is available for PC through Steam and the Microsoft Store, alongside Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One.

Development expanded the game beyond its initial cooperative format through dedicated holdout modes, asymmetrical versus play supporting one to eight players, and Steam Workshop mod support. These features give players several ways to approach its encounters and create their own additions.

Stray Bombay continues to support its community through developer updates and organized play sessions on Discord. Community playtesting and mod support form part of its approach to developing and maintaining multiplayer experiences.