Undercity Studio: fact sheet

Undercity Studio is a small independent studio making games and apps for iPhone and Android. Its six games are out now on Google Play and the App Store. They are free to play, with optional purchases and no loot boxes.

Platforms: Android and iPhone
Business model: free to play, optional purchases, opt-in reward ads, no loot boxes
Press contact: dev@undercitystudios.com

Mahjong Teahouse
Puzzle. Mahjong solitaire with big, easy-to-read tiles and a new puzzle every day.
Tap tiles to move them into your tray. Two matching tiles in the tray clear as a pair. Every board can be solved.
There's a daily puzzle, a weekly cup, and a tea room you can decorate with the coins you earn.

Merge Keep
Tower defence. Tower defence where you merge matching towers to make them stronger.
Goblins walk a path around your castle. You summon towers onto a small board, and when two match you drag one onto the other to merge them.
Between battles you choose which towers go in your deck and upgrade them.

Shelf Life
Shop simulator. Run a supermarket, starting with one shelf and one till.
You start with a corner shop: one bread shelf and one till. Serve customers, restock the shelves, and spend what you make on new products, staff and a bigger shop.
You can move everything around and decorate the shop how you like. The game gives you one job at a time, so you always know what to do next.

Swipe Chef
Word puzzle. A word game. Each crossword you finish cooks a dish for your restaurant.
Swipe across the letters to make words and fill in the crossword. Each level is a dish, and finishing a menu lets you upgrade the restaurant and move on to the next one.
Extra words you find count as bonus words.

Gnome Guard
Tower defence. Tower defence in a garden. Place gnomes to stop waves of bugs.
Bugs are heading for the mushroom house. Place gnomes anywhere in the garden to stop them. The path gets longer before each wave.
After every wave you pick an upgrade. A run is 30 waves, and what you earn goes into permanent upgrades for next time.

Ink & Empire
Strategy. Turn-based strategy on a hand-drawn world map.
Place armies, attack neighbouring territories and hold on to what you take. Control enough of the map and you win.
You play against computer generals, and a campaign of short wars moves you up through the ranks.
