Independent game studio — est. 2026

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.

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The Homestead Constitution

Three promises. Zero exceptions.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

Featured title
Cyber Cowboys
Idle Western RPG — Steam Early Access Sept 25

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.

CombatIdle auto-fight that keeps grinding while you sleep off the whiskey
MultiplayerPvP duels, posse wars, and server-wide world boss bounties
BuildCrafting, gathering, mounts, cosmetics, and player housing
SocialA live saloon chat and a remort prestige system for finished cowboys
Roadmap

What's riding next.

Now — Live
Cyber Cowboys browser edition — fully playable, updated constantly on player feedback.
Playing now
Sept 25
Steam Early Access launch — native build, achievements, Steam Cloud saves, trading cards.
During EA
Steam-native features shaped by the community — new frontier content and balance passes with the posse, never behind a paywall.
With you
1.0 & Beyond
Full release when the game earns it — plus the next Homestead title, already germinating.
Germinating
readme.txt
"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."
— Homestead Games · Independent since day one
About

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.

"See you on the frontier, partner."
— The Dev
Founder, janitor & lead bug-fixer
INVESTORS ......... 0
PAY-TO-WIN ........ NOT FOUND
GAMES ............. Cyber Cowboys
NEXT .............. germinating