Games built on the frontier, not in a boardroom.
Homestead Games is a one-developer studio. No investors pulling strings. No pay-to-win — ever. Just games made for the people who actually play them.
Three promises. Zero exceptions.
Never pay to win.
Money buys hats, cosmetics, and good vibes — never power. No loot boxes, no energy timers, no "convenience" that's really a toll booth. If it touches the scoreboard, you earn it in-game.
No investors, no masters.
Zero outside funding means zero backseat drivers. Every design call is made by the same person who answers the support emails — and nobody else is in the room.
Players first. Always.
Bug reports get read, not binned. Balance changes get explained, not spun. This studio works for the people who boot the game — and for no one else.
The year is 2099. The frontier never died — it got a firmware update. Level up your cowboy, fight outlaws, duel rivals, and build your homestead at the edge of the grid.
The sequel nobody expected: classic fantasy MMO flavor at idle-game pace. Pick a class, fight through 18 hand-painted zones, run a guild, farm honor and grind dungeons — a fantasy MMO idle sim that keeps working while you don't.
The slipgate opened and out climbed a Quake-struck idle arena. Take the controls and the waves keep coming; go idle and your champion keeps fighting — bhop, rocket-jump, gib. Seven Quake weapons, an Altar of upgrades, and a five-episode campaign, with live deathmatch PvP when you want blood, not balance.
What's riding next.
"Our games will never be pay-to-win. Not at launch, not for now, not 'except for this one season pass.' Ever. And with no investors at the table, every decision gets made for one group of people: the players."
Small enough to listen. Independent enough to say no.
Homestead Games is a one-developer studio. Every line of code, every pixel, every balance number in Cyber Cowboys was made by the same person who reads the bug reports and answers the Discord pings.
That's not a limitation — it's the whole point. The homesteaders built something for themselves and their neighbors, not for shareholders. That's how these games get made, and that's how they'll always be run.
PAY-TO-WIN ........ NOT FOUND
GAMES ............. Cyber Cowboys · GrindZeroth · Slipgate Arena
NEXT .............. germinating