# Serenity Forge

Serenity Forge LLC is an American video game developer and publisher based in Boulder, Colorado. The studio was founded in 2014 by Zhenghua "Z" Yang.

## History

Upon graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business in 2014, Zhenghua Yang (commonly referred to as Z) formally founded Serenity Forge in Boulder, Colorado, with the mission to "create meaningful games that challenge the way players think," according to the company's official website. Despite his academic background in finance and economics, Yang, a lifelong gamer, decided to pursue a career in video games because he saw more potential and fulfillment in the medium. Prior to graduating college, Yang (under the Serenity Forge brand) released the studio's debut game Loving Life in 2012. Loving Life released for free on online platforms and serves as an autobiographical visual novel detailing Yang's personal experience coping with chronic refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare autoimmune disease that saw him hospitalized for over two years as a teenager.
In 2016, Serenity Forge began publishing games by third-party developers in addition to making its own. The Studio's first publishing releases were Stage 2 Studios' science fiction exploration game Lifeless Planet and developer Ludo Land's narrative puzzle game Four Sided Fantasy.

## Games

| Year | Title | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) | Platform(s) |
| 2012 | Loving Life | Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows |
| 2014 | Lifeless Planet | Stage 2 Studios | Serenity Forge | PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch |
| 2014 | Luna's Wandering Stars | Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows |
| 2015 | Pixel Galaxy | Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows |
| 2016 | Four Sided Fantasy | Ludo Land | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| 2017 | Mystic Melee | Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows |
| 2017 | Pinstripe | Atmos Games | Serenity Forge, Armor Games | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, macOS |
| 2018 | A Case of Distrust | Ben Wander | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, iOS |
| 2018 | The King's Bird | Serenity Forge | Graffiti Games | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One |
| 2018 | Where the Water Tastes Like Wine | Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge, Good Shepherd Entertainment | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, macOS |
| 2019 | Virgo Versus The Zodiac | Moonana | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2020 | Half Past Fate | Serenity Forge | Way Down Deep | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch |
| 2020 | The Alto Collection | Snowman, Serenity Forge | Snowman | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One |
| 2020 | Neversong | Serenity Forge, Atmos Games | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Apple Arcade |
| 2021 | Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing | Serenity Forge | Way Down Deep | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch |
| 2021 | Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1) | Explosm, Skeleton Crew Studios | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2021 | Date Night Bowling | Serenity Forge | Way Down Deep | Microsoft Windows |
| 2021 | Land of Screens | Serenity Forge | Way Down Deep | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch |
| 2021 | Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! | Team Salvato, Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, macOS |
| 2021 | Death's Gambit: Afterlife | White Rabbit | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| 2022 | Land of Screens | Serenity Forge | Way Down Deep | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch |
| 2023 | Arcadian Atlas | Twin Otter Studios | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2023 | Smile For Me | LimboLane | Serenity Forge | Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2023 | Homestead Arcana | Serenity Forge | Skybound Entertainment | Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2023 | LISA - Definitive Edition | Dingaling Productions | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 |
| 2023 | Lifeless Moon | Stage 2 Studios | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2023 | Long Gone Days | This I Dreamt | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2024 | Loving Life (Remastered) | Serenity Forge | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch |
| 2024 | Keylocker | Moonana | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 |
| 2024 | Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut | Black Tabby Games | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2024 | To the Moon | Freebird Games | Serenity Forge | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2024 | To the Moon: Sigmund Minisode 1 (Holiday Special) | Freebird Games | Serenity Forge | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch |
| 2024 | To the Moon: Sigmund Minisode 2 (Holiday Special) | Freebird Games | Serenity Forge | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch |
| 2024 | Roman Sands RE:Build | Arbitrary Metric | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S |
| 2025 | Centum | Hack The Publisher | Serenity Forge | Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S |