Independent Game Studio
Collectible games for people who like to collect.
We make games we wanted to play ourselves: built around satisfying collection mechanics, illustrated with care, generous with their players, and quietly funny.
Currently making
First release
Real animals. Strange splices. Stranger battles.
A mobile collectible card game. Collect real animals, combine them into hybrid creatures named and illustrated for the first time, and battle. The first player to discover any new chimera gets the credit, forever.
Next release
Watermelon good. The rest, bad.
A reaction game with a worldview. Watermelon is good. Honeydew is bad. Cantaloupe is also bad. Three short bouts of melon judgment will either confirm your values or surface some uncomfortable truths.
Bauman Games is a small independent studio in the United States. We're a long-time engineering team that decided to build the kinds of games we ourselves wanted to keep returning to — collection-driven, beautifully illustrated, written with a sense of humor, and built to respect the player's time and wallet.
We care about animation polish, satisfying reveal moments, art that holds up under a magnifying glass, and economies that don't feel adversarial. We don't care about mass-market engagement hooks designed to manufacture compulsion.
Follow along, or be notified when our first game launches, at hello@baumangames.com.