Lumen Drift
Guide a single beam of light through 160 hand-built mirror rooms. Featured by Apple in 31 countries.
€3.99 · iOS & Android
Independent mobile games · Lisbon
Small games for the
in-between moments.
We're Tinyfold, a two-person studio making calm, premium puzzle games for iOS and Android. No ads, no energy timers, no dark patterns — just one price and a lot of care.
Games
Three games, each made to be played with one thumb in under two minutes.
Pocket Orchard
Grow a tiny orchard one match at a time. A quiet game with no fail states and a soundtrack recorded on a real cello.
€2.99 · iOS & Android
Knot & Bolt
Untangle, tie and tension ropes to pull a little robot home. Our first game, still updated every spring.
€1.99 · iOS & Android
Notes
What we've learned making small games, written down so we stop forgetting it.
- 01 Designing for one thumb Why every Tinyfold game is playable on a crowded tram, and the three layout rules we never break.
- 02 The 90-second session How we pace levels around the length of a coffee queue — and why we stopped measuring "time in app".
- 03 A year without ads: the real numbers Downloads, refunds, revenue and rent. An honest look at premium pricing for Lumen Drift's first twelve months.
- 04 Shipping a game under 40 MB Procedural audio, vector art and a ruthless asset budget. How Pocket Orchard fits on the oldest phones we support.
- 05 The game we cancelled Eleven months into "Harbor Lights", we stopped. A postmortem on sunk cost, playtests, and walking away.
The studio
Tinyfold is Inês Moura (design, art) and Tomas Lindqvist (code, sound). We met at a game jam in 2018, shipped Knot & Bolt two years later, and have worked from a small room above a bakery in Alfama ever since.
We make one game every eighteen months or so. We prototype on paper, test with strangers on the 28 tram, and only ship when a level makes us smile on the fiftieth play.
- Players
- 1.2M
- Ads shown
- 0
- Team
- 2
- App Store rating
- 4.8
Say hello
Press, bug reports, publishing questions or just a nice note — we read everything and usually reply within two working days.
- Emailhello@tinyfold.games
- Press kitpress@tinyfold.games
- StudioRua de São Miguel 14, 1100-544 Lisboa