Dragonis Games

About Dragonis Games

Dragonis Games is the Greek horror studio of Ares Dragonis. How it started, who makes the games, the partners and the awards.

Dragonis Games is an independent horror studio in Greece. It began in 2019 with one person, Ares Dragonis, teaching himself Unreal Engine by building an island he would not want to visit.

That island became The Shore, released on Steam in 2021 and on PlayStation 5 in 2026. Eresys followed as a co-op cult horror game, and Necrophosis took the studio somewhere drier and stranger: a desert of bone and rust drawn from the paintings of Zdzislaw Beksinski.

The games are made by a small core team with long-time collaborators, and published on console by Iphigames and PQube.

Credits

The Team

  • Ares Dragonis

    Ares Dragonis

    Founder, director and artist

    Started The Shore alone in 2019 and built every creature and environment himself. Directed The Shore VR, Eresys and Necrophosis, and sculpted the 110-page Necrophosis artbook.

  • Adonis Brosteanu

    Adonis Brosteanu

    Programmer

    Built the game systems of The Shore and The Shore VR in Unreal Engine, led programming on Eresys and co-developed Necrophosis.

  • Thanos Zampoukas

    Composer

    Wrote the original score of The Shore, from the Island and Lighthouse themes to the Dagon theme.

  • Brandon Fague

    Voice of Andrew

    Plays Andrew, the father at the centre of The Shore.

  • Alexander Gorbenko

    Alexander Gorbenko

    Marketing, IndiePump

    Runs marketing for Dragonis Games through IndiePump, including the console launches of The Shore and Necrophosis.

Partners

Made possible with

Recognition

Awards

Since 2019

From one artist to PlayStation and Xbox

  1. 2019 Ares Dragonis starts The Shore alone, learning Unreal Engine as he builds it.
  2. 2020 The Shore demo. A Ulule campaign funds the story mode and Epic Games awards a MegaGrant.
  3. 2021 The Shore launches on Steam on 19 February, then on GOG.
  4. 2022 The Shore VR, a new chapter set after the original, arrives on SteamVR.
  5. 2023 Eresys, co-op Lovecraftian horror for up to four players, opens in Early Access.
  6. 2025 Necrophosis launches on Steam on 25 April: a world of bone and rust after Beksinski.
  7. 2026 The Shore: Enhanced Edition on PS5 with Iphigames. Necrophosis: Full Consciousness on PS5 and Xbox with PQube, and both on one disc for PS5.