🍙Onigiri

Games

Dark Samurai

Dark Samurai is a roguelike horde survival game with permanent progression, a persistent open world, quests, and online co-op, set in feudal Japan overrun by demons.

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Mailing List

We are giving exclusive playtesting access to the subscribers of our mailing list, where we share our development progress as we are preparing for the closed beta of Dark Samurai.

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Open Development

We aim to be as transparent as possible about our development process, and we hope to bring you in as we go. Follow along on our Dark Samurai Trello board, which records our completed and work-in-progress tasks.

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Team

Jonas Bötel

Jonas is a technical director, software engineer, and game developer. His work includes games like Rara and Subnautica, as well as optimizing performance and porting to Android, iOS, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch.

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Sönke Seidel

Sönke is an art director, technical artist, and game developer. His work includes games like Chorus, Battle Planet: Judgement Day, Beatbuddy, Kane and Lynch 2, Alliance: The Silent War, Codename: Gordon, and Psychotoxic.

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Studio

🍙Onigiri is an independent video game development studio founded in 2023 by Jonas Bötel and Sönke Seidel.

The roots of Onigiri can be traced back to the early 2000s when Sönke Seidel and Jonas Bötel first crossed paths in the map-making community for the original Counter-Strike video game. At the time, Sönke was already working as a professional 3D artist, while Jonas was studying computer science with aspirations of a career in game development. The duo collaborated on several smaller game projects, and although none of them got released, their desire to work together professionally persisted throughout the years. More than twenty years later that opportunity has come.

Press Kit

We have prepared a press kit containing all our assets as well as information about Onigiri and the games we make.

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Video Policy

You are permitted to stream, upload, and monetize videos of or about our games. You do not need to seek any further approval from us.

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