Independent Game Studio
Small, focused games made in the space between other things — the kind you can pick up for five minutes and still feel like you actually did something. No live-service treadmill, no engagement metrics, just games built to be finished.
What we've made
A chess puzzle journey
One winding road through a kingdom of chess — a different mate-in-N trial at every one of its 1,000 stops, a boss at the end of every chapter, and forty-nine duelists on a ladder that climbs past 2,882 Elo.
Jeu de dames · International draughts
A draughts journey through France's cafés — from a village square to the Grand Café de Paris. Clear the board in N moves, crown your kings, and take on forty café regulars across the 10×10 board.
Tap a shelf to lift its books, tap another to place them — clear every shelf down to one color.
Trace every line on the board in one unbroken chain of taps — no edge crossed twice.
How we make games
Every trial, duel and board runs on your device. No connection needed to play — only to show the ads that keep it free.
Nothing to sign up for, nothing syncing to a server. Your progress lives on your phone, and nowhere else.
A road with an end, a ladder with a top. Five minutes counts, and one day you'll reach the last stop.
Who we are
Quiet Hours Games is an independent studio building small, complete games rather than sprawling ones. Every release stays playable offline, asks for no account, and respects however little time you actually have for it — five minutes on a train, or an evening with nothing better to do. Gambit Road and Dame's Road are the first two; they won't be the last.