The Solo Frogs frog working late at a desk, monitors showing a yellow Backrooms corridor

The studio

A small studio
for bigger worlds.

Solo Frogs is an independent game studio. We make original games that are bold, beautiful and a little bit unhinged — and we put them where anyone can play them: one link away.

Why a frog?

A frog on its own is quiet, patient and surprisingly good at jumping a very long way. That’s the whole plan.

We’re a deliberately small team. No committees, no focus-grouped sequels, no live-service roadmap. Just a handful of people who love games that make you feel something — dread, wonder, joy, the urge to call a friend at 2am and say “you have to play this”.

Our first game, HUM, is a Backrooms horror built entirely for the web: real-time lighting, fully voiced, ten levels deep, and free to play in a browser tab. It won’t be our last, and it won’t all be horror.

What we believe

Four rules on the studio wall.

Original worlds

No licences, no clones. Every game starts from a feeling nobody else is making.

Browser first

If you have a link, you can play. We sweat load times so you never wait at a launcher.

Playable, always

Every build is a game someone can finish. We find the fun by playing, not planning.

Feel something

Scared, delighted, unsettled, moved — anything except bored. That’s the bar.

The pond

Small team. Every discipline in the room.

All frogs. Mostly.

The Solo Frogs frog as the art team — Art
Makes the dark look good. Light, mood, materials and the exact shade of wrong yellow.

The Solo Frogs frog as the engineering team — Engineering
Renderers, AI directors and save systems — and the code that makes it all run in a tab.

The Solo Frogs frog as the audio team — Audio
Room tone, creatures, voices in the walls. The reason you’ll take your headphones off.

The Solo Frogs frog as the design team — Design
Levels, pacing and the moment you stop walking and don’t want to turn the corner.

The frog sketching a level map in front of a wall of polaroids joined with red string

How we work

Design by playing.

Checkpoints, not milestones
Every few days the game is playable start to finish in its current scope. If it isn’t fun yet, we know straight away.
Research the dread
For HUM we wrote a full lore bible, mapped every level to player metrics and studied what actually scares people — before a single wall went up.
Tools that keep us small
Procedural levels, node-based shaders and a custom horror director let a tiny team build big, strange places.
Sound from day one
Audio isn’t a polish pass. The hum was in the game before the walls were.