INDEPENDENT GAMES / A FEW DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS
Rowdy animal taverns. Bird overlords. Overgrown spaceships. Quiet neon fish. Welcome to the Origami Octopus game shelf.
01 / PLAY NOW
Pick a world. Play online or take it offline.
DECK BUILDING / TAVERN MANAGEMENT
A deck-building tavern management game where an ever-growing cast of animals show up each turn. Seat and serve them—then find out how the drunks mess up your bar!
Play in your browser, or download the offline-compatible app from the game site.
Play or download the app Critter Cantina on itch.io ↗
CREATIVE / AMBIENT AQUARIUM
A quiet tank. Draw a shape and it becomes a creature in a calm, musical tank: your outline decides how it moves, sings, and plays!
Part idle game, part simulator, part zen garden, part lofi jukebox, part screensaver. No goals, no score, no timers—just a tank that keeps living whether you're watching or not.
Play in your browser, or download the offline-compatible app from the game site.
Play or download the app Neon Reef on itch.io ↗
SQUAD MANAGEMENT / FITNESS
A fitness tracker disguised as a squad-command campaign. Your steps, water, reps, and square meals become the radar, medi-kits, and firepower your soldiers take into battle against the flying alien-enhanced ostriches!
The browser game is available now. Step tracking uses the Android app; store release is in preparation.
02 / IN THE WORKSHOP
Works in progress. Plans can change.
BULLET HELL / ROGUELITE
A colony ship has been swallowed by the Bloom. Fight through its overgrown decks and graft the enemy's biology onto your own body. Every new power brings you closer to the thing you're fighting. The dead officers ride along as salvaged neural chips, advising you, judging you, and watching you become it.
A developing game with no announced release date.
TACTICAL SQUAD CONTROL
Board enemy ships, open and seal bulkheads, steer your squads, capture navigation archives, and bring your personnel home alive.
Try the Boarding Party playtest ↗RADIO CRISIS STRATEGY
Keep a town listening. One transmitter, eight minutes until midnight. Work the night shift at WZRD 88.7 and decide which claims go on air, then hear what happens next.
Play Dead Air ↗03 / PROTOTYPES & EARLY IDEAS
Experiments, working titles, and possible next games.
Some ideas become full games. Some stay experiments. And some go in the trash!
Three experiments from the 22-project notebook.
A solo skirmish tactics experiment built around operative selection, stealth, and careful decisions.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
The potluck brew-off! To create the most delicious concoction possible, each witch takes turns handpicking their ingredients—but beware, your coven is quite competitive and might have some tricks! A handful of special ingredients modify each game. Designed for 3-6 witches.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
A horror-lite hide-and-seek game for solo play or parent-and-child pass-and-play. Hiding spots disappear as the nights get more dangerous.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
A rapid-run experiment in the GRAFT universe: watch the descent, study the replay, draft against what killed you, and go again.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
Tune the rhythms, colors, and clustering of bioluminescent wisps, then send them into a shared dark field. An early ambient game concept.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A lane battler where waves of bugs fight automatically and your deck shapes their chances. Build spawners, issue orders, and break the opposing towers.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A Western-themed shootout with over +50 cowboys. A love song to movie and anime. Scaling mods challenge your reflexes!
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
An early RTS concept combining production queues you set up in advance with a handful of live commander abilities.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A push-your-luck salvage concept set in a dying underground power grid. Strip charge cores, survive security drones, and decide when to cash out.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
Every round, both sides secretly commit one order, then the armies auto-clash. No unit micro, just scouting, timing, and commitment.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A simultaneous-choice microgame for two or three players. Try to be the second mouse to reach the cheese: first springs the trap, last misses out.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
An early boxing project with playable simulation and economy experiments. Working title; no release announced.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
A relationship simulation set in a large social circle, where conversations build trust, attraction, and suspicion.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
A real-time card engine battler with a finite card pool. Build economy, acquire technology, and pressure the opposing base as the clock keeps moving.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A solo combat experiment in a neon pageant carrying the faces of dead gods. Break armor, interrupt attacks, and expose the heart.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
Pair numbered seed tiles, spend your blooms carefully, and try to reach each season's growth target.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
Draft a loadout, then watch it auto-resolve against a gauntlet built entirely out of the cards you refused.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
A fighting game coaching simulation. Choose training, study opponents, and make adjustments between games; the fighter handles the buttons.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
Plan the hidden side of a tactical encounter. Commit your position blind, before the enemy squad picks its path, then slip a hidden asset past them.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A series of increasingly risky stealth situations, built around detection, timing, and isometric dioramas.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
Two rival crews raid opposing vaults. Careful planning gives way to quick combat reactions under one shared reserve clock.
Early idea / working title. No release announced.
A three-player hidden-objective card game experiment.
Prototype / working title. No release announced.
05 / THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLAYTESTS
I'm a life-long gamer making games for other gamers. So if you're reading this, you have my sincere thanks.
Whether you've been here since the early builds, or don't even know me IRL, this all exists because friends kept showing interest, sharing ideas, finding bugs, and helping me make better games. That's a gift I don't take lightly. I appreciate you being here!!
04 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE GAMES
Father / Game Designer / Bullet Chess / Publisher / Poet / Lebanese / Mecha'thun Druid / Golgari / MortarBait / Proxy Hatch / Alekhine's Defense / Haqqislam / Dahshat Company / Jinteki / Anarchs / DnD 3.5 / knights > bishops / Rogue (Black Control) Decks / Urgot / Faust + Zappa + Venom+ / Ganondorf / HP Stack Pyg / Maokai Mill / Bombs for Hands / Lifelong Gamer ////
THE STUDIO
Independent games by Christopher Morgan. A growing collection of strategy, strange creatures, small experiments, and worlds worth coming back to.
Instagram @origamioctopusgames ↗