Serenity Forge

Serenity Forge LLC is an American video game developer and publisher based in Boulder, Colorado.^[1] The studio was founded in 2014 by Zhenghua "Z" Yang.^[2]

Serenity Forge LLC

Company type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	2014; 11 years ago (2014)
Founder	Zhenghua Yang
Headquarters	Boulder, Colorado , US
Number of employees	24 (2021)
Website	serenityforge.com

History

Upon graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business in 2014, Zhenghua Yang (commonly referred to as Z) formally founded Serenity Forge in Boulder, Colorado, with the mission to "create meaningful games that challenge the way players think," according to the company's official website.^[3][4] Despite his academic background in finance and economics, Yang, a lifelong gamer, decided to pursue a career in video games because he saw more potential and fulfillment in the medium. Prior to graduating college, Yang (under the Serenity Forge brand) released the studio's debut game Loving Life in 2012.^[5] Loving Life released for free on online platforms and serves as an autobiographical visual novel detailing Yang's personal experience coping with chronic refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare autoimmune disease that saw him hospitalized for over two years as a teenager.^[6][7]

In 2016, Serenity Forge began publishing games by third-party developers in addition to making its own. The Studio's first publishing releases were Stage 2 Studios'^[8] science fiction exploration game Lifeless Planet and developer Ludo Land's narrative puzzle game Four Sided Fantasy.^[9]

Games

Year	Title	Developer(s)	Publisher(s)	Platform(s)	Ref.
2012	Loving Life	Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows
2014	Lifeless Planet	Stage 2 Studios	Serenity Forge	PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch	[10]
	Luna's Wandering Stars	Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows	[11]
2015	Pixel Galaxy	Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows	[12]
2016	Four Sided Fantasy	Ludo Land	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One	[13]
2017	Mystic Melee	Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows
	Pinstripe	Atmos Games	Serenity Forge, Armor Games	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, macOS	[14]
2018	A Case of Distrust	Ben Wander	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, iOS	[15]
	The King's Bird	Serenity Forge	Graffiti Games	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One	[16]
	Where the Water Tastes Like Wine	Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge, Good Shepherd Entertainment	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, macOS	[17]
2019	Virgo Versus The Zodiac	Moonana	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	[18]
2020	Half Past Fate	Serenity Forge	Way Down Deep	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch	[19]
	The Alto Collection	Snowman, Serenity Forge	Snowman	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One	[20]
	Neversong	Serenity Forge, Atmos Games	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Apple Arcade	[21]
2021	Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing	Serenity Forge	Way Down Deep	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch	[22]
	Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1)	Explosm, Skeleton Crew Studios	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	[23]
	Date Night Bowling	Serenity Forge	Way Down Deep	Microsoft Windows	[24]
	Land of Screens	Serenity Forge	Way Down Deep	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch	[25]
	Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!	Team Salvato, Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, macOS	[26]
	Death's Gambit: Afterlife	White Rabbit	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One	[27]
2022	Land of Screens	Serenity Forge	Way Down Deep	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch	[28]
2022	Flipper Lifter	Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Playdate	[29]
2023	Arcadian Atlas	Twin Otter Studios	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S	[30]
	Smile For Me	LimboLane	Serenity Forge	Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S	[31]
	Homestead Arcana	Serenity Forge	Skybound Entertainment	Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S	[32]
	LISA - Definitive Edition	Dingaling Productions	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5	[33]
	Lifeless Moon	Stage 2 Studios	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	[34]
	Long Gone Days	This I Dreamt	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	[35]
2024	Loving Life (Remastered)	Serenity Forge	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch	[36]
	Keylocker	Moonana	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5	[37]
	Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut	Black Tabby Games	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	[38]
	To the Moon	Freebird Games	Serenity Forge	PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S	[39]
	To the Moon: Sigmund Minisode 1 (Holiday Special)	Freebird Games	Serenity Forge	PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch	[40]
	To the Moon: Sigmund Minisode 2 (Holiday Special)	Freebird Games	Serenity Forge	PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch	[41]
	Roman Sands RE:Build	Arbitrary Metric	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	[42]
2025	Centum	Hack The Publisher	Serenity Forge	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch	[43][44]
	Cooking Companions	Deer Dreams Studios	Serenity Forge	PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch	[45]