Independent · Est. 2026 · Denver

Spare
Lumen

A small studio building unhurried, beautifully quiet games.

We make the kind of games you keep open in a tab — a place to meet a friend, play a hand, and put the phone down feeling a little better.

See our first game→About the studio
ThrowbackPack: a hand of cards on dark green felt
ThrowbackPack · in development
Founded
2026
Studio
Solo + a vision
Currently
Building № 01
Contact
hello@sparelumen.com
The Studio

We make things slowly,
on purpose.

Spare Lumen is a one-person studio making careful, considered games for the people who still keep a deck of cards in the kitchen drawer.

More interested in the way a Sunday afternoon feels than in retention curves — small games, made well, that are good company for an hour or a lifetime.

№ 01

Quiet on purpose

No streaks, no XP bars, no nudges. The game ends when you say so.

№ 02

Better with people

Every game we make is built around a table — local pass-and-play first, with friends online second.

№ 03

Sold once, owned forever

One price, no subscriptions, no ads, no telemetry. We promise to keep it that way.

Our First Game

№ 01.
ThrowbackPack

Twenty classics. One handsome pack. Built for couches, long flights, and the friends you’ve been meaning to call.

In-game · HeartsScreenshot of ThrowbackPack showing a hand of Hearts on dark green felt
A collection of 20

The classics, handset in the dark.

Chess, rummy, euchre, backgammon, spades — twenty of the games you grew up with, rebuilt with the same care you’d bring to a paperback edition of a favorite novel. Pass-and-play, online with friends, or against a thoughtful opponent.

Included in the pack
  • Chess
  • Rummy
  • Euchre
  • Backgammon
  • Spades
  • Hearts
  • Cribbage
  • Gin
  • Checkers
  • Go Fish
  • Solitaire
  • Pinochle
  • Bridge
  • 500
  • Yahtzee
  • Dominoes
  • Reversi
  • War
  • President
  • + one more
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