STRANGE WORLDS
Places should feel like they existed before the player arrived — and will continue misbehaving after they leave.
DEPARTMENT 13 · STATUS: OPERATING NORMALLY
BAD OMEN
BUREAU
Independent game studio creating strange worlds, unusual stories, and memorable experiences.
ENTER THE BUREAU →WE SAW IT COMING. THE FORMS WERE READY.
INTERNAL ORIENTATION
A NORMAL OFFICE
FOR ABNORMAL EVENTS.
Bad Omen Bureau is an indie game studio creating strange worlds, unusual stories, and memorable experiences.
The name comes from the idea of a fictional organisation that does not prevent disasters. It simply documents them professionally: a department where curses are filed, disasters are approved, and the impossible receives an official stamp.
BUREAU POLICY 01 — Do not panic until the appropriate form has been submitted.
We do not prevent disasters. We simply keep better records than they do.
CURRENT CASE
CASE FILE 001
UNTIL THE
BELLS STOP
NINE BELLS. ONE NIGHT.
DON'T BE THERE FOR THE LAST ONE.
A dark-fantasy survival roguelite where every bell transforms the world. Fight deliberately. Explore when you probably shouldn't. Build increasingly catastrophic combinations. Survive long enough to find out what happens when the ninth bell rings.
THE BUREAU METHOD
SYSTEMS THAT COLLIDE
We like mechanics that interact, combine, and create stories nobody explicitly scripted.
SERIOUSLY EXECUTED NONSENSE
Atmosphere matters. Craft matters. So does knowing when the cursed object deserves an inventory number.
DECLASSIFIED MATERIAL
INCIDENT REPORTS
Development notes filed with unnecessary confidence and approximately the correct paperwork.
REPORT 013-001
WHY NINE BELLS?
Designing a survival game where time changes the world instead of merely making enemies stronger.
13REPORT 013-002
THE SHOVEL PROBLEM
Making one basic melee attack feel good enough to build an entire game around.
13REPORT 013-003
200 UNINVITED GUESTS
What happened when Blackwood Parish's enemy population reached two hundred.
13OTHER INCIDENTS
ADDITIONAL MATTERS
REMAIN UNDER REVIEW.
RESTRICTED NO FURTHER COMMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED.
CONTACT THE BUREAU
ONE ADDRESS.
FEWER FORMS.
Press, creators, business inquiries, suspicious phenomena and properly formatted correspondence.
Unsolicited curses will be filed without comment.