Stormcloak Games

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Developers of http://adaptorygame.com, an upcoming base-building survival game! Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa ➡ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2201620/Adaptory/

A promotional image for the Wellington Game Review event. Title images for five games - Dream Team Supreme, Adaptory, Cooking for Ma, Fledgling: Firstborn, and Card Cricket Quest - are showcased on a bright and colourful geometric background, with gaming controllers and stars dotted around. The Wellington Game Review logo is at the top middle of the image, with a banner below reading "Play games made in Wellington. Support local devs with feedback". At the bottom of the image, underneath the game title images, is another banner with the event details, which reads "24th July 2026 at 6:00pm. Respawn Esports Centre, 9 Manners Street, Wellington".
An image of the Adaptory early access roadmap, specifically the section for Update 2. The background shows various rooms in an Adaptory base, such as a space for plants, and the transmission room. In the foreground is an industrial-themed text box, with the title "Update 2 - Temperature Update". Within the text box are five entries, listed as follows. "Unlock heating and cooling systems Improved gas and liquid physics systems Simulation performance optimisations Bug fixes and QOL And more!" In the bottom-right corner of the text bow is a small illustration of a thermometer leaning on a fan unit.
A promotional image for Adaptory participating in Nonbinary Coded Games 2026. The background is tri-shaded diagonal purple lines. In the foreground on the left side are many adorable illustrated cartoon-style characters; a witch with green hair and a purple cloak and pointed witch’s hat, an anime-style rabbit character with a green dress and cape, two carrots floating on either side of it, a blue and white coloured cartoon humanoid demon with a mullet-style haircut, and a neko cat person with short brown hair, whiskers, brown dress, and a slinky brown tail. On the right side of the image is the title for the festival, “Nonbinary Coded Games”. Under that is the cover image for Adaptory, with many explorers hard at work. Under that panel are the dates for the festival, July 13 - 20, 2026. A funky rectangular textbox has the says “Celebrating games made by nonbinary creators”.
A trio of silhouettes on a navy background. The leftmost silhouette looks like a three by three grid of squares evenly cut into the silhouette. The middle silhouette is a rectangular shape with slightly curved sides, and a bumpy top side. The rightmost silhouette looks mostly square with two bumps on the top side and two bumps on the bottom. Under them are three question marks in italics.
A promotional illustration for the ANZ IndieFest 2026, showing a yellow octagonal sign on an illustrated forest background. The sign reads "STOP! My game is featuring in ANZ IndieFest 2026" and under the sign are the dates May 8th - 14th.
Am image of Jevon, our solo dev, in a promotional NZ Games Fest Play by Play frame in pink and white. At the bottom of Jevon's picture is text listing the talk she will be giving. The text reads "5pm - 5:30pm Jevon Wright. Why I didn't us generative AI in my game, and you shouldn't either".
A screenshot of the updated difficulty selection screen on a green nebula background, highlighting the "Relaxed" difficulty. An illustration of two explorers watching a shooting star is underneath. A hover over text box reads "Explorers can't die, resources are abundant, and random events are kinder. Recommended for players who have never played a base-building game before." Under that, a text box lists the adjustments to the gameplay for the Relaxed difficulty. "Explorer death not enabled. Building requirements -50%. Event difficulty -50%. Event scale -25%. Explorer speed -25%. Resources +300%. Event chance -50%. Event frequency -67%. Explorer mood +5%. Oxygen consumption -50%. Space exposure -50%."
An illustration of Adaptory explorers hard at work. One with blonde hair and an orange cardigan is digging in the dirt, while the other with dark afro hair and a blue and grey outfit has their build tool ready to go! Behind them are a number of storage tanks for gas and liquid, new to the game!
A small video clip of Adaptory gameplay footage. Two explorers are asleep in their bedroom, with a beam of aurora light illuminating them through what appears to be glass, a previously unseen element in Adaptory! There is also music from the Adaptory original soundtrack playing in the background.
An illustrated image with the Steam Spring Sale branding. The background shows a cozy, hazy illustration of a garden path with trees, flowers, and a wooden fence with a small blue bird perched on it. In the centre, large round pink and white text reads "Steam Spring Sale. Mar 19 - 26 AT 10AM PST". Under that is a pink rectangle with the Adaptory logo illustration inside it. In the bottom corner of the box is the price listing, stating the price is 20%off, it was $19.99USD and is now $15.99USD.
Landscape illustration of an explorer sitting at a research desk, a handful of data chips on one side and a monitor reading "Update!" on the other side. The explorer is seen from behind with two grey braids and a light blue shirt, and is holding a data chip in their hands.
A short clip of music from the Adaptory soundtrack. The accompanying video is a repeating animation of two explorers on the surface of a planetoid, wearing spacesuits and sharing headphones. One is lying down and relaxing while the other is pointing excitedly at the stars, and occasionally a shooting star streaks past. The Adaptory logo is also hovering above them, and the text at the bottom of the clip shows the track playing is track one, "This Planet Is Not In My Database".
A promotional image for the Women's Day Sale on Steam. In the top left corner is an image of the Adaptory logo on an illustration of explorers working in a cave. The majority of the rest of the image is a gorgeous illustration of an adventurer in a mystical location, a glint in their hand interacting with a beautiful entity or possibly statue. The text on the image reads "Women's Day Sale; games by women-led studios. Hosted on Steam. March 6th to 15th. Organized by Wings."
Roadmap of Adaptory Early Access, showcasing Update 1, the Materials Update: Unlock refinement and smelting, Use different materials in your base, Difficulty settings for easier & harder games, Bug fixes and QOL, And more!
A GIF of an Adaptory base full of machines, explorers, and plants thriving. An air filtration, water filtration, and research station are fully operational, as well as some growing manaberries, trees, and a transmitter that is fully charged.
The Adaptory logo on a field of blue and purple galaxy pattern. Behind the logo are two custom explorers representing the soundtrack composer Sai Natarajan and the sound designer Evan Burman. Sai's explorer has dark skin, black short hair, a green shirt under a black overshirt, and black pants. Evan's explorer is bald, has a red shirt under a brown jacket, and blue jeans. Under the logo is a subtitle in white and green that reads "Audio Team Stream".
A video cycling through close up images of the explorer selection screen, and the highlighted explorer is changing every two seconds, cycling through six different creators - Caff from The Indie Brew, Dave from Wee Hours Games, Molly Berry, ParallaxStella, Stormie Plays, and Zeppy Game. Each creator has their explorer, traits, name, and explorer code displayed. In order, the codes are Caff = RC, Dave = PZ, Molly = BW, Stella = SX, Stormie = S5, and Zeppy = Z9.
A GIF of two explorers underground, waving and cheering out to the viewer. Around them are two lines of pulsing text. One is the Adaptory logo, made up of riveted metal panels and a green "a". The other is bright green text that reads "Over 20K wishlists!".
An illustrated image of a rocket ship on an alien planetoid with light glowing inside the windscreen and doorway, and a beautiful blue green aurora lighting up the sky. An explorer in a spacesuit is walking away in the right-hand foreground, smiling delightfully, ready for adventure!
A screenshot of the Steam "Popular Upcoming" tab, where a number of games are listed. Adaptory is currently #5!
Screenshot of Adaptory showing a crashed ship landing and an explorer running from the left to investigate it
Screenshot of Adaptory showing Marsi (on the right) having a tantrum, while another explorer (on the left) rests in an unpowered cryochamber. Oh dear.
Screenshot of Adaptory showing one explorer in a cryochamber being revived, while another one stands nearby, sad.
A promotional image of the Adaptory game thumbnail - including two explorers digging through a tunnel and working on a machine of some kind. The thumbnail has a frame from the 19th Indiecade Festival naming Adaptory as a "featured selection", and stating the festival runs from January 16th to 30th.
A repeating GIF of in game footage of an explorer working on the transmitter in their base, the attached satellite moving as it scans for incoming information.
A repeating GIF of four explorers waking up in their crashed spaceship.
A repeating video of CHARLI, an adorable computer console screen with a green cartoon face on its display, running through a series of expression animations for happy, curious, cheeky, surprised, and playful. CHARLI is on a scrolling blue and purple space background, and text at the top and bottom reads “Meet CHARLI! Computational Holographic Assistant for Research, Logistics, and Information” Each expression has its own alert sound effect, timed with some original Adaptory music in the background.
An image of eight explorers representing the eight dev team members, plus a CHARLI bot on the end, all smiling and chatting to each other. From left to right, Ruby has curly red hair and a fluffy cardigan, Sai has short black hair and dark clothes. Kat has shoulder-length dark hair and a red jumper under a jacket, Logan has midlength ginger hair and green jacket, Care has long light brown hair and a blue hoodie, Cass has shoulder-length dark hair and a fluffy cardigan, Evan has no hair and a brown jacket, and Jevon has blue hair and a purple sweater. On the further right end is CHARLI bot, smiling happily. They are all poking out from different edges of the Adaptory logo, over a starry nebula background.
A repeating clip from the Adaptory early access release announcement, reminding everyone that the game comes out for early access on January 26th! The text is overlayed on some obscured gameplay footage of explorers running around the base, doing various tasks.
An adorable image of explorers inside a very well-constructed base, one of them working away on a computer, two other chatting in a doorway, surrounded by sparse furniture, including a pinboard or notes and pictures, and a trunk for equipment. In the center of the image, text reads "Adaptory Release Date Announcement".
A view of the top of the base, in front of a beautiful galaxy filling the sky. A cargo pod drops from the top of frame and lands on the base with a small explosive animation. The clip repeats.
A GIF of dirt in game, with shovel-shaped dig symbols on it, and a series of very basic astronauts running in and out, digging through the dirt. Whenever an item is revealed from the square, an old black and white image of a small sword appears to represent it.
A looping GIF of inside an Adaptory base. Multiple floors can be seen, with water pipes flowing from a pump in one room, around the edge of the image, and then into a different room. An explorer, Cathlia, is staying perfectly still while the pipes do their thing. The in-game view switches between the regular base view and the liquid overlay, in which you can see the individual blobs of water moving clearly through the pipes.
A very rough sketch of the original explorer design, featuring a figure in a nondescript robe or dress, posed in different angles; looking ahead, neutral, sideways, and facing away.
Two explorers, Chichi and Cathlia, in their base, arguing heatedly about the lack of space bees in Adaptory. Chichi is gesturing with one arm, while Cathlia has her arms firmly crossed.
Two explorers cheering and enjoying the shifting colours of an aurora in space, while they stand on the top of their base. Chichi says "Look, there's an aurora!", and Cathlia replies "Those lights remind me of stained glass windows of the temples, headresses of the midsummer dancers back in Southrun."
In game screenshot of an explorer (Thera) standing under a light, gesturing at a row of potted trees that are growing healthily. Thera has pale skin and long black hair, and is wearing a purple sweater, grey pants, and brown shoes on.
A black background with a spotlight circling a robotic message display screen. The message reads "Greetings, Explorers. I am your Computational Holographic Assitant for Resources, Logistics and Inforation. You can call me C.H.A.R.L.I. for short!". Next to that screen is CHARLI; a small monitor unit with grey casing and a green screen, displayed on which is an adorable smiling face.
An adorable illustration of deep space explorers - one is working on repairing an electronic device, the other is sweating nervously while carrying an armful of rocks. They are in a cave setting, with the glow of lanterns and, from one cave, the glow of fire or lava. At the top of the illustration is the logo for Adaptory; the word "Adaptory" made out of riveted metal, except for the lower case "a", which is an adapted recycle symbol growing on a small twig of a plant.
Promo image of Adaptory as part of Frosty Mini, 10 December 2025: with a special announcement! 8am AEDT / 10am NZDT
Photo of ZeppyGame playing Adaptory at PAX Aus 2025
"Adaptory" featured at PAX 25, "Australia's Biggest Gaming Festival", Oct 10-12 2025
"Made in New Zealand" Steam page sale banner
Greetings, Explorers. I am your Computational Holographic Assistant for Resources, Logistics and Information. You can call me CHARLI for short!
Photo of someone at PAX West 2025 playing the 2D base-building/simulation game Adaptory.
Adaptory: Play our demo at PAX West. Find us at Booth #1115 (indie.io)
Adaptory at Gamescom 2025, statistics: 404 games started 14849 tiles dug 6590 buildings built 287 artefacts found 233 meteors 835 diary entries 143 dead explorers 93 distress calls transmitted
Map of Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom 2025 showing where Adaptory is (booth A3)
Banner showing Adaptory in Debut Festival, August 7-11
Screenshot of itch.io showing Adaptory as the most popular Game tagged colony-sim
Promo image for Adaptory, as part of Indie Arena Booth 2025: Play me at Gamescom hall 10.2.
Short 6 second clip of Adaptory showing explorers digging, collecting resources, and building up a base deep underground.