Independent game studio · Tbilisi, Georgia

Easy to enter.
Hard to leave.

We make dark, addictive games for Steam. Pull one thread and the spiral does the rest.

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Now in development

Our games

A grinning, hollow-eyed man in a fur hat is scanned with a yellow Geiger counter at a fenced checkpoint.
Uncanny Valley: Checkpoint

Uncanny Valley: Checkpoint

Pass. Quarantine. Kill.

A nuclear meltdown has unleashed a viral mutagen, and you and your friends are running the Soviet checkpoint in the way. Inspect papers, spot the lies, and judge twisted bodies while radiation and paranoia close in. Every mistake costs something.

Release
November 2026 (planned)
Players
Solo or online co-op
Platform
PC · Steam
Publisher
Polden Publishing
  • Survival horror
  • Co-op
  • Choices matter
  • Outbreak sim
  • Psychological
  • Roguelite
  • Multiple endings

What we're about

How the trap works

The hook

A simple loop you understand in a minute. Stamp a passport. Open a door. Then the rules start to bend, and you want to see how far.

The dread

Horror that builds instead of jumps. Every run is a little stranger, every face a little wronger, and every choice stays with you.

The pull

One more run. One more shift. We build games for the moment you check the clock and it's 3 a.m. Better with friends, worse for your sleep.

You came for one round. The spiral had other plans.

The studio

Two people, one spiral, a lot of Coke Zero

41.7151° N, 44.8271° E Tbilisi, Georgia · UTC+4 სპირალური ხაფანგი

Spiral Trap Studio is Jason and Liza, a two-person indie studio working out of Tbilisi. Jason came from Boston to make games. Liza is a Georgian 3D artist who builds the faces you'll be inspecting a little too closely.

We make the kind of games we can't put down ourselves: dark, a bit funny, and built around one more try. We're small on purpose, so every character, scream and stamp gets made by hand.

J

Jason Lovett

Game developer · Boston → Tbilisi

Writes the code, designs the loops, and decides how much worse things should get.

Addicted to: Coke Zero, making games
L

Liza Ezieshvili

3D artist · Georgia (the country)

Sculpts every twisted body, grin and gas mask. If a character makes you uneasy, that was her.

Addicted to: Coke Zero, cats, making cool art

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