We built a demo for a year. Then we stopped everything and asked ourselves why it wasn’t fun yet.
This devlog is our 2025 wrap-up, and the start of how we’re telling this story from now on.
Less polish. More truth.
🎥 Watch on YouTube → youtube.com/watch?v=PJiW7bB2…#staydeadgame#gamedev#indiedev
Blair and Hades have claimed a spot by the fireplace and decided winter’s best enjoyed undead and unbothered.🎧 Join them on YouTube for a chill session perfect for slowing down, tuning out, and staying dead this winter.
💀 From our afterlife fam to yours: happy holidays.
youtube.com/watch?v=vp0yuoJX…
Imagine getting cured mid-snack, losing your worm rave, and waking up in a mint-scented torture chamber.
Admit it, you’d pray for a rescue bite too. 💀
🎮Wishlist Stay Dead. Protect your right to rot.
store.steampowered.com/app/3…
🎨Featuring a short interview with our Art Director about how the world of Porto Morto is maturing.
This new blog explores the visual “glow-up” of Stay Dead and the lessons shaping our first full game at Animagic.
👉 Read the interview and art breakdown here: staydead.io/2025/11/26/givin…
Let us know what you think of the new direction!
#indiedev#zombiegame#indiegames
Stay Dead is a rebellious roguelike action game where being a zombie is the best thing that's ever happened to you.
🧟♂️Play as a zombie family
🪓Swap between their abilities
🌴 Take back your island from the evil Cure Bots
Wishlist now!
#PitchYaGame#actiongame#zombiegame
Our animation team pushed Rotzy’s attitude and motion to the next level. Take a look at the process behind one of our latest videos for @staydeadgame !
Got any questions about our animation or rigging? Drop them!⚙️
#animation#digitalart#animationstudio#rigging#Zombie
Some dogs dream of bones. Hades dreams of vengeance . 🕶️
Inside his head, he’s a noir hitman wiping out CureBots over a bad poker hand.
They mocked him. He answered with chaos, claws, and a golden stream of justice. 💦
🐶 The Big Dawg always gets even.
🎯 Wishlist STAY DEAD on Steam and enter his fever dream of fury.
#indie#zombie#indiegame#zombies#dogsofinsta#hades#zombiedog#2dart#digitalart
💅 Mission: Hot Extraction! Blair’s “strategic plan” to bust CureBots may or may not include a few creative liberties.
💀Wishlist STAY DEAD on Steam and help the undead turn up the volume. #zombietwt#2dart#IndieGameDev
Rip’s the skater every zombie in Porto Morto crushes on: flowy hair, perfect ollies, lip ring doing too much. 😏
They say love bites — in Porto Morto, that’s a compliment.
🛹 Get Bit & Wishlist Stay Dead on Steam.
#indiegame#zombiegame#zombies#indiedev#2danimation
🧟♂️ This is Stu! Our #3D team had a blast bringing this quirky #zombie to (after)life.
From low-poly modeling to his rotten textures and over-the-top animations, Stu’s got all the charm you’d expect from the undead.💀
What other BTS do you want to see next? #animation#3dart
If this is on your screen, it means our busted antennas finally worked.
The Zombie Rebellion Is Recruiting and we need you.
This isn’t about zombies vs. humans. It’s about all of us vs. the monsters in lab coats and boardrooms.
Hear our message!
staydead.io/es/2025/09/26/th…
PORTO MORTO UNDER FIRE! 🔥
A swarm of grinning robots has taken over the streets, injecting the “Cure” into every zombie and dragging them back into their old lives.
The town’s un-life hangs by a thread, but the rebellion won’t rot quietly. 🧟♂️✊
#indiegame#gaming#zombiegame
🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE UPDATE 🚨
Meet your future: streamlined, smiling, and already en route. 💜
We’re delighted to introduce the Model 07: ChaserBot — the latest innovation from C.A.R.E.’s world-renowned labs. These units don’t just remove infection… they restore approved lifestyles with efficiency.
🛡️ We cure with care.
🛡️ We improve with precision.
🛡️ Compliance is progress.
#CAREDelivers#TrustTheCure#BetterByDesign
Residents of #PortoMorto can’t even watch TV without C.A.R.E. jamming propaganda down their throats.
If they have to sit through this nightmare fuel between episodes of Brains of Our Lives, so do you.
Welcome to part one. Enjoy the cringe. #Zombie#gaming#indiedev#2danimation
🎬 BTS alert! We had a blast bringing this to life, DJ Ziggy vibing undead… until he’s cured & turned human. 😭 So, which would you rather be: human or #zombie Ziggy? Watch the full vid @staydeadgame!
#2danimation
💉He was vibing… until they cured him.
🦴No rhythm. No joy. Just spreadsheets.
But one bite brings the groove back. 🧟🎶
🛒 Wishlist Stay Dead on Steam this Friday!
💬 Join the undead uprising on Discord.
Got Bit? You will August 1.
The infection has begun... and it comes with rewards. 🦠
To celebrate Stay Dead’s Steam launch, we’re giving away:
🥇 5 winners – $25 Steam Gift Card exclusive demo key
🥇🥈🧪 5 more – exclusive demo key only
That’s 10 #giveaway prizes!
Enter by August 15 🧪 gleam.io/lRx4i/stay-dead-ste…
Infection confirmed... Stay Dead is officially live on Steam! 🦠
Step into the rotten shoes of the infected in this fast-paced action game where the CURE is the enemy.
Fight, bite, and Stay Dead! 💀
Take the bite and wishlist now 🧟♂️ store.steampowered.com/app/3…#indiegame#Steam