Worlds remade by hand.
BaltaSomnia builds handcrafted, systems-driven worlds. Our first game, Vexalia, is a voxel creature-collection RPG where fusing creatures visibly reshapes them forever, and the lineages you raise help rebuild civilisation itself.
What we're building
Vexalia
A creature-collection RPG about lineage, fusion, and rebuilding a broken world. Pre-alpha, Arc 1 fully playable.
In development
The World Within Names: Arcane Chess
A point-based army-building chess game across thirteen playable nations, each with their own lore and unique pieces.
Early developmentLatest from the Vexalia dev diary
The starters become themselves
All 31 creatures get a resolution upgrade in one sweep, and the entire human cast gets elbows, real knees, and faces that finally look like themselves.
The prologue plays start to finish
Real cutscenes, a hold-to-skip you can trust, and our full opening act playable from morning one to the last night (no spoilers here).
Ordinary life moves into the valley
Sheep, hens, and a hunting loop arrive, plus the first real version number quietly stamped in the corner of the menu.
One person, in Madeira
BaltaSomnia is an independent game studio founded and run by Baltasar Sousa on the island of Madeira.
For more than a decade, Baltasar has been turning ideas into working software. In 2014, he left university to co-found Dobsware, a mobile app development company. In 2021, he co-founded FootAR, creating augmented and virtual reality experiences.
Games, however, were always the unfinished chapter.
Over the years, he explored different ideas, built prototypes and imagined worlds, but none of them made it beyond development. BaltaSomnia was created to change that. It is a space for experimentation, creative freedom and the kind of games he always wanted to make.
Its first title is Vexalia, a project rediscovered years after its original prototype was left behind. Finding it again became the starting point for something larger: a studio built to turn long-held ideas into finished worlds.
Persistence is part of the journey. In 2017, Baltasar weighed 130 kilograms at 1.70 metres tall. In 2026, he completed the 80-kilometre MIUT across the mountains of Madeira.
BaltaSomnia is built with that same mindset.
Keep moving. Keep creating. Finish what you started.
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