Leandro
Founder, design and code
About the Studio
Zero Trust Games
A small family studio making games about understanding, shaping, exploiting and defending complex systems, from strategy and simulation to games where you lead a single character. Real cybersecurity and infrastructure concepts become game mechanics, and you never need to know the jargon to play.
Who We Are
Zero Trust Games is a small family studio. I build the games, and my sons Rafael and Daniel test every idea and play every build.
Rafael
Playtester and idea validator, learning the craft to join development
Daniel
Playtester and chief "is this fun?" officer
Why "Zero Trust"
Zero trust is a security principle: no user, device or network is trusted by default, and every access is verified. It is how we think about our games, too: systems you can inspect, question and break, where nothing works just because someone said so.
Trust nothing. Verify everything. Design for survival.
What Our Games Share
Emergent Systems
Mechanics interact to create situations no one scripted, with real second-order consequences.
Infrastructure as Gameplay
Networks, supply chains, colonies and security architecture decide what you can do.
Indirect Control
Plan, configure, automate and allocate instead of steering an avatar.
Readable Complexity
Deep simulations, but you can always understand why an outcome happened.
How We Work
All our games share one universe, the Toryn Saga, and each stands on its own. We build them one release at a time: Hack the Stars and Watchfloor come first, and the rest of the saga is planned to follow.
Every idea is tested at home first, then with players outside the studio before any public build, and what they tell us shapes what we build next.
Premium games: no loot boxes, no randomized packs, no paid power.
Contact
The fastest way to reach the team is our Discord. For press, business and partnerships, email us.