Independent game studio / North of England

NorthernStack

Small games, made properly.

Meet Blackmoot

01 / Studio

One small
studio.

Northern Stack is an independent studio making Blackmoot, an offline strategy game about building up a House and living with what happens while you're away. We've also just started on something gentler, called Puddleside.

02 / Our games

In development

A lonely Hearthhold beneath a stormy moorland sky Blackmoot

Private Alpha / Not yet available

Build your House. Shape the realm. Leave a name worth keeping.

Build up a fragile Hearthhold, come back to whatever happened while you were away, and decide for yourself what your House is for.

Explore Blackmoot

03 / Something new

Just announced / Early in development

Puddleside.

Puddleside is a tiny garden that lives in a corner of your desktop, looked after by a small keeper called Puddle. He'll do the watering, the weeding and the fishing. You choose what he builds next, bring him the odd gift, and watch the place slowly become yours.

It'll run on the real clock and the real weather — when it's raining outside your window, it'll be raining on Puddle too.

It's very early days: no screenshots, no date, nothing to download yet. We just didn't want to keep it to ourselves any longer.

A doodle, not a screenshot. Real artwork to follow.

04 / How we work

Small on
purpose.

We're a small studio in the North of England. We'd rather make fewer games and take the time to get the details right.

Blackmoot is furthest along. Puddleside is just getting started.

05 / Contact

Say hello.

Questions about the studio or either game? Drop us a note.

hello@northernstack.co.uk