Zeboyd Games

Zeboyd Games
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2009
FounderRobert Boyd, William Stiernberg
HeadquartersLake Arrowhead, California, United States
Key people
Robert Boyd (Co-Owner), William "Bill" Stiernberg (Co-Owner) (2009–2023)
ProductsEpiphany in Spaaace!, Molly the Were-Zompire, Breath of Death VII, Cthulhu Saves the World, Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3, Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4, Cosmic Star Heroine, Cthulhu Saves Christmas, This Way Madness Lies
Number of employees
2
Websitezeboyd.com

Zeboyd Games is a indie developer specializing in retro-style 16-bit role-playing video games. Zeboyd is most associated with its co-creators Robert Boyd and William Stiernberg, who did the great majority of the work for their games. Stiernberg left the studio in 2023, but it continues onward under Boyd.[1]

Much of the studio's work is comedic in nature and parodies Lovecraftian horror. Its first games were the interactive fiction works Epiphany In Spaaace! and Molly the Were-Zompire for Xbox Live Arcade; which were remastered for Windows in 2023. Soon afterward, the studio released its first RPGs, Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World. The studio was then contracted to develop the third and fourth installments in the Penny Arcade Adventures series. In 2017, Zeboyd released the original IP Cosmic Star Heroine, a sci-fi adventure. The studio subsequently returned to comedy games with Cthulhu Saves Christmas and This Way Madness Lies.[2]

The studio's games are typically short in length, and have been positively received by critics and commended for their writing, gameplay and value.

  1. ^ Steinberg, Bill [@bill_creates] (July 7, 2023). "pic.twitter.com/KRhysMugt3" (Tweet) – via Twitter.; see also https://zeboyd.com/about/ where Stiernberg is listed as a "Friends of Zeboyd" as of 2023.
  2. ^ "Zeboyd Games Resurrects Penny Arcade Adventures". RPGamer.com. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2011-08-26.