Independent studio · Est. 2026

Games, not slot machines.

SAD Technologies is an independent technology studio. Through SAD Games, we make mobile games you pay for once and play for as long as you like. No energy bars. No gem shops. No tricks.

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SAD Games
iPhone · iPad · Vision Pro
Founded 2026
Manifesto

Somewhere along the way, mobile games stopped being made for players and started being made for spreadsheets. Timers that nag. Currencies that confuse. Stores that never close. The phone in your pocket is the most capable game console ever sold, and it deserves better. So we build the games we always wanted to play: finished, fair, and made with care.

The SAD Games team
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Energy timers

Play for five minutes or five hours. The game never tells you to come back later.

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Loot boxes

Nothing random is ever for sale. What you see is what you get.

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Ads

Not as rewards, not between levels, not ever.

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Honest price

Try it free. If you love it, unlock the full game once. No currencies, no gambling, no shortcuts for sale.

Now playing

The work.

One game at a time, built until it is genuinely done. Our first is a living, breathing dinosaur park.

SAD Games · Tycoon · 2026 Dino Dominion

A 3D dinosaur park tycoon where every animal is alive and anything can go wrong. Breed 55 species, keep the fences powered through tropical storms, then climb into a jeep and drive through the park you built.

55 speciesiPhoneiPadVision ProNo ads
Riding along with a T. rex in Dino Dominion
Principles

How we build.

Six rules we hold ourselves to on every project, whether it is a game or not.

01

Pay once,
own it.

A fair price for a finished game. No subscriptions to keep your save alive, no consumables to keep you competitive, no paying to skip the fun.

02

Respect
the clock.

No timers designed to pull you back, no streaks designed to guilt you. Our games play offline and pause when you do.

03

Native,
all the way down.

Swift, Metal and RealityKit. Built for the hardware in your hand, from older iPhones to ProMotion and Vision Pro.

04

Private
by default.

No ad networks, no tracking, no selling data. The little we measure is anonymous and you can switch it off.

05

Craft over
content mills.

Fewer things, made better. Every animation, sound and line of copy is there because someone cared about it.

06

Ship it,
then stand by it.

Launch is the beginning. We fix what breaks, answer every support email, and keep the lights on.

The studio

Atoms and
bits.

SAD Technologies designs circuit boards, mechanical parts and software under one roof. Games are where we make it fun; the same engineering builds real things you can hold. One team, from the copper to the code.

01

Electronics

Circuit boards from schematic to assembled prototype. Component selection, layout and bring-up for products that have to work the first time someone plugs them in.

02

Mechanical

Enclosures, mechanisms and parts designed in CAD, prototyped fast and refined for manufacture. The physical side of a product, made to feel as good as it looks.

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Software

Native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro, realtime 3D and spatial experiences, and the systems behind them. The same craft that ships our games.

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Whole products

Board, body and code designed together by one team, so nothing gets lost between disciplines. From first sketch to the thing in your hand.

Have something
worth building?

Alongside our own games, we take on a small number of hardware and software projects each year, for teams who care about their product as much as we care about ours.