NoviForged
Game studio / the Netherlands
Small games you cannot stop replaying.
An independent studio building short arcade games for phones. One minute a run, and always one more run.
- Founded
- 2026
- Based
- The Netherlands
- Team
- Independent
- Focus
- Arcade games for phones
- First title
- HOOKED, in testing
- Platform
- Android
The current build
HOOKED
Hold to grab the rope, release to fly. Miss the next hook and you fall. Everyone in the world swings through the same course each day, so the score at the top actually means something.
- Genre
- Arcade, one touch
- Platforms
- Android (Google Play)
- Price
- Free to play, optional coin packs
- Rating
- Pending (IARC)
What we build
Fun in the first ten seconds
A game should make sense before your first death and work with one hand on a bus. If it needs a tutorial screen to be understood, the design is not finished yet.
Built around one more run
The moment right after failing is the one we design hardest. Instant restart, no ceremony, nothing between you and the next attempt.
Everyone gets the same day
Our games share a daily challenge that is identical for every player in the world. That is what turns a private high score into something worth arguing about.
Money never buys skill
Purchases touch wallets and timers, never physics, speed or level layout. A paid run is never a faster run than yours.
In development
The Android build is in testing. The store link appears here the day it goes live.
Build log
What actually shipped, most recent first.
HOOKED v23 running on real devices. Google Play is the next stop.
Eight boosters to arm before a run, a chest meter that sloshes like liquid, and a menu sky that follows the real time of day.
Reward chests fill as you play, forty trophies now pay out coins, and a free gift waits every few hours.
One shared course a day, every tester on the same board.
One rope, daily courses, ghost replays of your best run.
Talk to the studio
Bug reports, press requests and privacy questions all reach the same inbox, usually answered within 3 working days.