Founded on January 2, 2025, Hodgewood Gaming was born from a simple idea: build a universe we could keep expanding, with never ending stories that become games to share with you.
We never wanted to create one shot titles because we did not want to keep starting from scratch every time we had a new idea. Inventing a new setting, new lore, new everything, only to leave it behind with the next release never felt right to us. We wanted connection and continuity. We wanted players to feel like when they step into one of our games, they are stepping into something that already exists, something shaped by the lore we have been building and sharing.
That is why we built the Vail Rift Cluster.
In our universe, the Vail Rift Cluster was once the Milky Way. Thousand years after the fall of humanity, something twisted it. Whether it was natural, artificial, or something far beyond either is unknown. The familiar spiral fractured and reshaped. Some regions still resemble ancient star maps, but much of it no longer aligns with what humanity once recorded. Systems drift differently and constellations appear stretched or broken, leaving parts of the galaxy recognizable, but only partly.
Every game we create explores a different part of that Cluster, with a different race, a different struggle and a different moment in its long and fractured history, slowly revealing pieces of the same evolving setting.
For us, this is not about releasing products. It is about expanding a universe and inviting players into it with us.