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Stone Labs Studios

Everything you need to write about the studio and its games. All assets below are free to use in coverage. For anything else, including review access, email matt@mattjohnston.io.

Studio
Stone Labs Studios
Company
MattJohnston.io LLC
Based in
Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Founder
Matt Johnston, founder and developer
Engine
Unreal Engine 5
Website
stonelabsstudio.com
Press contact
matt@mattjohnston.io

About the studio

Stone Labs Studios is an independent game studio in Allentown, Pennsylvania, founded by Matt Johnston. The studio makes games that feel like toys: warm, funny, tactile and led by story. The kind you pick up just to see what they do, then keep playing because of who you meet along the way.

The flagship project is Pengi: The Long Way Home, a story-led 3D platformer coming to PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. A second game, Puck Pups Hockey, is also in development.

Title
Pengi: The Long Way Home
Genre
Story-led 3D platformer
Platforms
PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Developer
Stone Labs Studios
Publisher
Stone Labs Studios (self-published)
Release date
To be announced
Game site
stonelabsstudio.com/pengi

Pengi: The Long Way Home

Pengi is about eighteen. He loves fishing, his friends, a good belly slide and pretty much any sport going. He waddles home across the Antarctic ice with the day's catch and finds his whole colony gone.

Up on a rooftop, something unexpected is waiting: Lacey, a pair of sentient canvas high-tops. Together they step into the Threadway, a strange transit country full of belongings lost by a mysterious convoy, and start the long way home through worlds like Bellows Orchard, the Drowned Orchestra and the Clockwork Whale. Every world teaches Lacey a brand new form.

Features

Belly sliding, hopping and climbing across hand-built worlds made of lost things. A sidekick who changes form in every world. A warm, funny story about friends, family and finding your way home. Built in Unreal Engine 5.

Trailer

Download the trailer (MP4, 1080p)

Logo and key art

Screenshots (in-engine, current build)

Title
Puck Pups Hockey
Genre
Arcade sports, couch multiplayer
Players
2 to 4
Status
In development
Platforms
To be announced

Puck Pups Hockey

Fast, friendly arcade hockey for 2 to 4 players on the couch. Pick a squad of animal skaters, win the face-off, and dangle, deke and slap-shot your way past the goalie. Big saves, one-timers, sudden-death overtime and instant replays, built in Unreal Engine 5.

Screenshots (in-engine, current build)