Silent Deck Labs is an independent game studio in Port Macquarie, NSW. We make games about machines that have stopped working, and the people who have to understand them to survive.
games
In development · PC
The ship remembers. You don't.
A hard sci-fi survival game. You wake alone in cabin 4-3 to alarms and emergency lighting, with no memory of who you are. The ship is failing, the crew is asleep in cryo, and the only way through is to read the manuals, find the faults and fix them with your own hands.
how we make games
01 · systems first
Every problem in our games is a real system with a real failure. Read the documentation, trace the cause, fix it. No quest markers.
02 · physics that holds up
Vacuum is silent, zero-g needs mag boots, and thrust is gravity. We start from what would really happen and design the fun inside it.
03 · consequences carry
What you break stays broken until you fix it, and the ending remembers. Tension comes from the world, not from a timer.
the studio
Silent Deck Labs was founded in 2026 by Bruce Thomson, after more than twenty years building and running industrial systems. That's where the studio's taste comes from: equipment that has to work, manuals that have to be right, and the quiet when something important stops.
The name is a ship's deck that has gone silent. It's the moment our games begin.
Studio enquiries, collaboration and anything else. For press, creators and keys for Yasemin's Wake, use the press address.