An independent game studio building small, handcrafted games for iOS, Android, and PC.

What we make

Small games. Big personality.

Nerdbucket is a small independent studio based in western North Carolina. We make tight, focused games you can pick up for five minutes or five hours — with an emphasis on clever mechanics, careful polish, and a sense of humor.

Puzzle

Knot Today

A tangled rope puzzler. Pull the right strand, untangle the knot — or make it worse.

Arcade

DoomScroller

An endless scroller about the endless scroll. Dodge the feed, outrun the algorithm.

Strategy

Exhausted

A resource game about doing too much with too little, and knowing when to stop.

Puzzle

Screw Loose

Pull the screws, drop the blocks. A satisfying take on the unscrew-puzzle genre.