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KNELL STUDIO

/// MOURNING · RITE · SILENCE

THE TOLL
[ THE FINAL BELL · THE LAST RITE ]
HEAR THE KNELL
LET THE SILENCE REMAIN
Knell Studio crafts games about endings. Grief, memory, and the spaces between heartbeats. We build quiet cathedrals where you can mourn, remember, and finally rest.
RING THE KNELL LIGHT A CANDLE

FUNERAL ATMOSPHERE

Silence, candlelight, and the weight of absence. Games that feel like vigils.

RITUAL MECHANICS

Slow, deliberate, respectful. Actions that feel like prayers or farewells.

GHOST STORIES

Narratives about loss, memory, and the people we leave behind.

⎯ THE KNELL REQUIEM

We are mourners, not healers. Knell was founded to honor the endings we usually look away from. Our games are not about overcoming grief — they are about sitting with it, holding it, and letting it be.

Based in a converted funeral home in Savannah, our team of four builds quiet, heavy experiences. Our current rites include a game about a grieving lighthouse keeper, a interactive elegy for a lost friend, and a slow walk through an empty cathedral.

The bell tolls for thee. Listen.

4 mourners
7 elegies
quiet hours
2022 first toll
THE TOLL — RECENT RITES
🕯️ 06.03.2026
Release: "Elegy for a Drowned Town"

A walking sim about loss and memory. Available on itch.

⚰️ 04.28.2026
Soundtrack: "Requiem for Unheard Voices"

Stream on Bandcamp. Choral drones and field recordings.

🕊️ 03.22.2026
Devlog: "Building a Funeral Home"

How we turned grief into game mechanics.

THE CHAPEL
The Funeral Home
127 Abercorn Street, Rear Studio
Savannah, Georgia, 31401
United States
🕯️ iron gate, brass knocker — enter quietly
mourning line
+1 (912) 417-6835
text only · speak softly
no consecutive digits — silence between rings
funeral mail
[email protected]
[email protected]
we reply when the candles burn low (2-4 days)
THE QUIET ROOM — our discord for mourners, poets, and those who listen.
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