Studio Ephua

Where Stories Thrive. Ephua focuses on creating immersive, thought-provoking tales. We believe stories are a universal truth, and humans are at the heart of them.

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📢 Calling all game developers! Do choices matter in your game? Game submissions for the 2026 edition of the successful Choose Wisely Festival and Showcase are now open! Join us in celebrating branching narrative games! Open globally to developers and teams of all sizes. Last year we featured over 390+ titles, held a one hour opening showcase, recieved 17 million impressions and had over 550,000 visits to the event page. This year we're aiming to do a lot more! Check out the link below for more information! 📝 https://cutt.ly/CWF26DevSignUp About Choose Wisely Festival The Choose Wisely Festival is a choice-based narrative games celebration, focused on featuring the delightful craft of branching narratives. The event debuts this year. About Studio Ephua Studio Ephua is an independent game developer, focused on creating immersive interactive narrative games.

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Solomania's Alpha Demo is now available on Itch!

Solomania's Alpha Demo is now available on @itchio!

It's the introduction to our interactive superhero drama about flawed solo heroes being forced to partner up.

In the first few minutes of the game, you'll meet our MC, but also her mentor and the potential superheros she'll be partnered up with.

Since this is so early in the development, shares and feedback are highly appreciated as everything helps to make the project a little bit better. Especially for a small time dev. 🫶

Solomania [Alpha Demo] by EPHUA

Romance drama about flawed heroes and their collateral damage.

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A warm mug is placed gently in front of you.

"There’s my favourite hero."

You shift upright.

"Every time you call me that, I feel less and less like one."

📖 Continue the journey and wishlist In Ashes on Steam

In Ashes on Steam

In Ashes is a medieval fantasy adventure where you must balance heroism and survival with rest, burn out, and trust. In this choice-driven v

[studioephua]

This is actually quite a serious moment

Solomania on Steam

SOLOMANIA is a romance drama about flawed heroes and their collateral damage. With your new reluctant partner, prove that you're not as mess

[studioephua]

Adding emotes to the characters in Solomania. I think it gives it more of that comic book feel. Although, maybe we could do with a few more?

[studioephua]

Thank you for 5000+ Wishlists!

Thank you so so much. With wishlists from all around the world, I'm honoured to have you be a part of this journey.

The Journey so far...

In Ashes first launched it s paged nervously in 2025. As a first-time small dev, it's the first time I've ever launched a page. In fact, 2025 had a lot of firsts. It saw our first discord server, our first X/Twitter account, the first time we ever participated in a Steam festival or had hosted a festival. It was the first time we created an announcement trailer for the game and announced Studio Ephua!

It's strange to think of what it took to get here. 

It's been a bit quiet, no?

I know! But that doesn't mean the game isn't moving forward. I handle both the development of the game, and the communications, while working full-time. So often I don't have the time or resources to push out content to social media, but that doesn't mean we have nothing to show for it.

Vui, our background artist, has been expanding the world of the new demo with some brand new areas that are key to the story, while Betto has been using them to work on some incredibly exciting additional CGs! 

We also have Zombie assisting us with concept art, and while I can't show most of the cool reveals yet, I can say they're doing an excellent job!

What else?

While it's unlikely In Ashes will feature custom SFX. However, I’m currently working with a very talented duo on producing a custom track for the project. The quality is already mindblowing! All to be revealed in due time!

Listen to In Ashes Intro Tease by Studio Ephua #np on #SoundCloud

That's all for now.

In Ashes on Steam

In Ashes is a medieval fantasy adventure where you must balance heroism and survival with rest, burn out, and trust. In this choice-driven v

Farewell,

Little Hero

-Ephua

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Solomania Devlog 00

Hello!

I want to give a quick introduction to this project and clear up any confusion for those familiar with my other project.

Solomania is a compact project that is meant to give some room for me to grow as a developer! Its plot revolves around a group of superpowered characters, who for various reasons, work alone. 

Why a new project?

In truth, Solomania was originally concepted way back in 2024. It is not a new project. It was actually intended to be one of the first projects I wanted to finish and release. The idea itself was simple, and not truly a victim of scope creep. (Windchimes did an excellent job with the narrative design and outline.) However, the concept itself failed to capture much initial interest when I first dipped my toes into game development. Due to this, itt has not been in active development for quite some time. 

For a long while, I truly struggled to build the confidence to take the risk to pick this project back up. Visually, it's ambitious and costly to make. While there was some interest, I questioned whether I could afford to finish such a project. It's scope is humble, but I have always wanted to set a bar for quality. That came with many learning curves and costly mistakes as a new dev.

That being said, I've decided to give Solomania a chance. 

If nothing else, but for the sake of putting more art into the world at a time where the value of art and those who make it is being questioned. I'm grateful for those who contributed to the project and I believe their work deserves to be seen.

It seems unfair to kill it before giving anyone a chance to even see the game.

Thank you for giving Solomania your time and support. A demo will be coming very soon, for Otome Jam 2026. 

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Introducing... Solomania

SOLOMANIA is a narrative-driven visual novel drama about flawed heroes and their collateral damage.

We just launched the itch.io page!

You are Astra, a hero and a menace. Nobody asks questions as long as the job is done. That has always been enough, until now.

Now, the higher ups are... uncomfortable with your latest actions. They demand someone else keeps you in check. Your only choice is another hero, and the only heroes left are alone for a reason.

To clear your good name, take on the task of investigating a strange civilian report deep in the dark woods. Sounds easy, right?

Game Features

🔥 G x B Romance: 2 Partners / Romantic Options to choose from, and investigate a cabin in the woods.

🔥 Chaos or Romance: Navigate the story with the partner of your choice. Will your relationship develop into romance, hate, or somewhere in-between?

🔥 Superpowered or Supernatural?: Survive your encounter with the unknown.

🔥 Tempting fate: Explore endings that change based on your choices and relationships. 

🔥 ♥ Crafted with indie love ♥ : Experience striking, hand-painted visuals that belong in a graphic novel. Created by a small, but passionate team. 

Coming to Otome Jam 2026

So excited to get this one out.

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Otome jam has me quite tempted to revive a small thing.

Been sitting on it for far too long.

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seeking otome developers! ✨

Otome Games Celebration - Steam Festival Sign Up

This is a form for otome developers & publishers who want to join the 2nd otome games Steam festival from May 4-11th 2026. The event is host

sign ups for my Steam festival dedicated to otome games closes in just 2 days (January 28th)! if you're making an otome game on Steam, fill out the form before it closes to apply for the (free) festival and be shown alongside lots of other otome games from across the world in May. if you know of any developers making otome games, send the form their way and let them know!

read more information about the event here

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your favourite adventurers and burnt out heroes.

Please remember to rest.

In Ashes on Steam

In Ashes is a medieval LGBTQ+ fantasy adventure where you must balance heroism and survival with rest, burn out, and trust. In this choice-d

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Choose Wisely Festival Official Opening Showcase 2025

Ahh! Merry Crisis has been featured as one of the 50 choices matter indie games in the Choose Wisely Festival's opening highlights reel alongside some really amazing??! games!!

If you want to skip straight to Merry Crisis, go to 52:52, otherwise the vid is time-stamped at the start of the "exclusive announcements" section (47:00), which is where Merry Crisis is featured!

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Hi everybirdie! Love Limit is part of #ChooseWiselyFestival, hosted by @studioephua on Steam!!!!

Swoop on by and score a whole bunch of other darling shinies for your nest this winter between Dec 8th-15th. It’s windy out there! Your nesting materials matter more than ever!

Wishlist it into existence: https://tinyurl.com/y4v2xvxz

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The Choose Wisely Festival is Live!

📚The Choose Wisely Festival, the celebration of branching narrative games is now LIVE on Steam! 🎮

🔗 ephua.uk/CWF25

Steam Store

Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

✨ 390+ games from indie darlings to acclaimed studios ✨ 60 min showcase ✨ Over 200 games on sale ✨ Exclusive bundle deals

From now until Dec 15, Choose Wisely.

Watch on Twitch:

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rest: in a dark room is participating in the choose wisely festival on steam! andddd a huge announcement miiiight be coinciding with the festival so you probably wanna check it out...

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I am thrilled to tell you Where are you, Cinderella? will be part of the Choose Wisely Festival hosted by Studio Ephua on Steam!!! 💕 

It's such an honour! 😭

Please check out the other games of the fest through the #ChooseWiselyFestival hashtag

🎮 Wishlist WAYC: https://bit.ly/WAYC

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Choose Wisely Festival Showcase

📚The Choose Wisely Festival goes live in less than 12 hours! 💫

Join us for the Opening Showcase Premiere to kick it all off at 6PM GMT / 10AM PST.

Also available on Twitch 💜

Watch this video on Twitch Live