Native applicationRelease preparation
Portia
A quiet Markdown workspace for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with optional intelligence and explicit review before writing changes.
Enter Portia
Books / Software / Strange systems
Exact instruments for strange work.
Recluse Studio makes illustrated books, focused software, and digital works for writing, inquiry, play, and other difficult forms of attention.
A private machine, briefly visible
EST. 2026 / RS–01
01 / Current work
Ten active instruments.
Native apps, games, research atlases, an RPG-zine manual, a synthesizer you can play and record, and a catalog of affordable audio equipment.
Native Mac applicationPublic release forthcoming
Glassport
Control your paired iPad from a native Mac window, copy text both ways, transfer files and folders, and save useful captures and passages.
Explore Glassport
Strategy storyIn development
Infini Wizard
An offline portrait tower-defense story for iPhone and iPad. Defend the home seal, revise a bounded spell, and decide what power to send home.
Enter Infini Wizard
Puzzle-platformerIn development
Disquiet
A portrait side-view pixel puzzle-platformer about incompatible histories, the Still, and the accounts a city preserves.
Enter Disquiet
Public research edition1,494 nodes · 3,188 relations
The Liminal Atlas
A source-backed theory and research atlas of governed passage across life, mind, art, architecture, media, and technology.
Enter the complete Atlas
Research atlas12 modules · 20 patterns
Rooms That Remember
Narrative, information and page design in twelve classic RPG modules.
Read the complete atlas
Public research edition16 dossiers · 20 historical images
The Codices Atlas
Follow American bookmaking before and after conquest through painted histories, astronomical tables, legal records and early Mexican print, with sources and image credits attached.
Read the Codices Atlas
Interactive research manual18 chapters / Illustrated genre atlas
Staplebound Worlds
Explore the history, culture and possible futures of RPG zines through a core rules manual, with character records, a bestiary, keyed dungeons and sources attached to the research.
Read the RPG-zine manual
Browser instrument33 voices / Four tracks
Kintsugi Synth
Build a loop from circuit-modeled voices, move it through phaser, squelch, and reverb, then keep the recording as an Apple/Logic Loop, M4A, or WAV.
Play Kintsugi Synth
Public audio directory896 listings / 38 supplier candidates
Hi-Fi Field Catalog
Browse affordable home audio, electronic instruments, microphones, cables and shortwave radios. Compare sourced USD prices, follow supplier links and keep a checked shortlist.
Browse the hi-fi catalog
Playable experiment / Browser-native
The Orchard at the Outside
Move Kestrel through five fields of work, evidence, ritual, and refusal. The game opens directly from here.
Play now
Keyboard + touch
Progress saves in this browser
Play The Manifest of Heat
Play The Forty-Eighth Place at Farewell
02 / Field notes
Field notes from the machine room.
Research records on agent systems, software craft, technical evidence, and the failures worth preserving.
Enter the semantic archive Move / scroll / descend03 / Signal
Eight tensions hold the work.
Wake each node. The mechanism answers in discrete states; the principles remain plain.
04 / Method
The proof belongs in the object.
Claims narrow until their mechanisms are visible. Atmosphere handles invitation. The instrument handles truth.
Local ownership
Keep work on the user’s device where practical. Name every external boundary.
Native behavior
Use platform conventions for navigation, input, accessibility, and control.
Explicit authority
Show proposed changes before they replace authored work. Keep Apply and Discard exact.
No theatre at the boundary
Support, privacy, pricing, and product status remain legible and current.
05 / Contact
There is a human in the machine.
Questions, support, and serious oddities may be sent directly.
support@recluse.studio