0n1 Studios: Press Kit
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Everything you need to write about 0n1 Studios and our games: boilerplate you can paste, a fact sheet for every title, and the logos, icons and key art, free to use in coverage. Questions, review codes or something you can't find here? Email [email protected].
Fact sheet
| Studio | 0n1 Studios (0n1), independent game studio, self-published |
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| Pronounced | "oh-nee"; say it Oni Studios; written with a zero: 0n1 |
| Founded | May 2026 · Canada |
| Focus | Privacy-first games: no ads in any title, no third-party trackers, no manipulative monetization |
| Business model | Free to play, or one fair one-time price; Everywhen's optional Unlimited tier is the one subscription, and it is plainly priced. No energy timers, no loot boxes |
| Platforms | Mac (Runoff), iOS (iPhone & iPad) and Apple Watch (watchOS); LineBy's daily puzzle also plays in the browser; Android and desktop in development |
| Released | Runoff: on the Mac App Store since 6 October 2026 ($2.99, no in-app purchases); LineBy: on the App Store since June 2026, free to play since 11 July 2026 (one-time $0.99 Full Library unlock), plus the free LineBy You iMessage companion |
| In development | Hunt · Worldwright · Everywhen (and Runoff for iPhone and Android) |
| Website | 0n1studios.com |
| Dev journal | 0n1studios.com/journal: built in public, with an RSS feed |
| Social | @0n1_studios on Instagram |
| App Store | Developer page |
| Press contact | [email protected] |
Boilerplate
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0n1 Studios is an independent game studio making privacy-first games for mobile and desktop: no ads, no trackers, no manipulative monetization.
0n1 Studios (pronounced "Oni") is an independent game studio founded in Canada in 2026. It makes carefully built, atmosphere-first games for mobile and desktop on a single rule: games should earn your attention, not harvest it. Its first releases are Runoff, a pipe-surfing racer out now on the Mac App Store, and LineBy, a daily quote puzzle on the App Store; Hunt, Worldwright and Everywhen are in development.
0n1 Studios (pronounced "Oni", written with a zero) is an independent, self-published game studio founded in Canada in May 2026. It makes carefully built, atmosphere-first games for mobile and desktop, held to a rule the studio applies to every title: no ads, no third-party trackers, and no monetization designed to wear you down. Games are free to play or cost one fair, plainly stated price, never an energy timer or a loot box.
Its first release, LineBy, is a daily word puzzle built from 315 hand-picked quotes across history, film and music, free on the App Store with a single $0.99 unlock for the full library. Runoff, a bright cel-shaded pipe-surfing racer, is out now on the Mac App Store ($2.99, no in-app purchases), with iPhone and Android in beta. Hunt, a Victorian monster hunt, Worldwright, a time-travel game on a simulated history, and Everywhen, an interactive audio story, are in development.
The studio builds in public: its development journal documents what shipped, what broke and what it cost, at 0n1studios.com/journal.
What makes 0n1 different
- No ads in any 0n1 game. Not a banner, not an interstitial, not a "watch a video to continue", in any title, released or planned.
- No third-party trackers, and no advertising identifiers. LineBy, Runoff, Worldwright, Hunt and Everywhen carry no analytics, advertising or attribution SDK at all.
- One fair price, or nothing. LineBy's entire business model is a single optional $0.99 unlock. No subscriptions, no consumables, no second charge.
- Your data stays on your device. LineBy plays fully offline; what it syncs travels through the player's own iCloud, not a 0n1 server. No 0n1 game requires an account, and guest play is always the default.
- Built in public. The development journal publishes the work as it happens, including the parts that went wrong.
Games
Every figure below is taken from each game's source, not from marketing copy. Status is current as of this page's last update.
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Runoff
On the Mac App StoreStand-up thruster-board racing through the empty storm pipes: one finite energy core between you and the flag, drawn in hard ink on bright paper.
- Status
- Released on the Mac App Store 6 October 2026 (v1.0) · iPhone & iPad in beta on TestFlight, Android in Google Play closed testing; every image is a real in-game capture
- Platform
- Mac (macOS 12.0+) now; iPhone & iPad (landscape) and Android to follow
- Price
- $2.99 on the Mac App Store, no in-app purchases
- Genre
- Arcade racing
- Content
- Ten-circuit career ladder, four-rider roster (pick one, race the other three), local head-to-head on your own network
- Note
- No internet connections, no third-party SDKs: no ads, no analytics, no account; head-to-head is direct device-to-device on your local network
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LineBy
On the App StoreA daily word puzzle: a famous line arrives scrambled, and you rebuild it one tile-swap at a time. Every quote is hand-picked and worth reading once it lands.
- Status
- On the App Store since June 2026; free-to-play since 11 July 2026 (v2.1)
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 17+ · free iMessage companion
- Price
- Free · optional one-time $0.99 Full Library unlock
- Genre
- Word / quote puzzle
- Content
- 315 hand-built puzzles (106 history, 73 film, 136 music) across four difficulty tiers, plus a new daily
- Extras
- 21 Game Center achievements; build and share your own puzzles by code; plays fully offline
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Hunt
In developmentA Victorian monster hunt. London, autumn 1887: you hold Warrant Nº 47 for something that isn't a man. Four nights to prove what it is, how it opens, what hurts it and where it's weak, then a real-time fight on what you proved.
- Status
- Unreleased, in development. Built today: a prologue and one case (one monster over four nights)
- Platform
- Steam (PC & Mac) first, then iPhone
- Price
- TBA
- Genre
- Investigation / real-time action, single-player
- Lineage
- Grew out of Duels, an unreleased Victorian spell-duelling game, now paused
- Engine
- Unity 6.3
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Worldwright
In developmentA time-travel game on a simulated history. The world has ended and its records are gone: go back into the eras of one place, find what bent its history, and bend it otherwise; every change ripples into the present.
- Status
- In development; nothing playable yet. The browser demo of the city-builder it began as was retired in October 2026
- Platform
- Desktop, iPhone & Android planned
- Price
- TBA
- Genre
- Time travel on a simulated history, single-player
- Built
- The simulation, which plays six eras of one place from the Stone Age to the Modern; the loop is being built and played first as a text game
- Engine
- Unity 6.3
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Everywhen
In developmentA branching choose-your-path audiobook. Press play, listen, and steer the tale by choosing. A new shared story arrives every other day.
- Status
- Unreleased, in development
- Platform
- iPhone & iPad, with an Apple Watch playback remote
- Price
- TBA
- Genre
- Interactive audio fiction
- Content
- Four genres (fantasy, horror, crime and sci-fi) on an every-other-day drop cadence
- Note
- Narration is a hybrid of on-device and cloud synthesis; the app needs no account or sign-in
Key art
Full-resolution 1536×1024 JPEGs, one per game. Cleared for editorial use. See the terms below.
Brand & app icons
The studio mark and each game's icon or emblem, at full resolution.
Using these assets
You may use everything on this page in editorial coverage (articles, reviews, videos, roundups) without asking us first. No permission request, no licence fee, no embargo to clear. A credit to "0n1 Studios" is appreciated but not required.
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Contact
Press enquiries, interviews, review builds and asset requests: [email protected]. We answer everything, usually within a day or two.