Monkeys Tales Studio

Monkeys Tales Studio is an independent game development studio based in Bologna, Italy, founded in 2015. We make narrative and graphic adventures where story, visual research and the player’s experience come first.

Our games

A Painter’s Tale: Curon, 1950 (2021). A painter is dragged into the lake at Resia and wakes up in the village of Curon as it was before being flooded in 1950. It is a story of love and resistance about memory, mixing real events and fiction, with the village rebuilt in voxel. Available on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation and Switch, in Italian, English and German.

The NADI Project (2016). A first-person graphic adventure. Jeremy Parker, a successful businessman, is shipwrecked on an island missing from every nautical chart and must explore the ruins of a Cerberus Electronics research base. His goal: escape. Available on Steam.

OMEGA: The Beginning (2020). A sci-fi graphic adventure told in episodes, about friendship. In Episode 1 you play Scott, searching for his childhood best friend and discovering that a mysterious figure is plotting something dangerous. It mixes traditional and voxel graphics, with an original soundtrack. Available on Steam.

PROTOThYPE _ a love story (2017). A first-person narrative experience inspired by The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide. You explore a young developer’s game prototypes and piece together his complicated love story with a schoolmate. It is short, but intense. Available on Steam.

Who we are

We believe video games are a cultural medium that can preserve memory and artistic heritage. Read our story on the Who we are page or get in touch.