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An Action-Adventure Game

Can a kingdom be saved by its worst son?

The Chola empire is at its peak, and dying from inside. You are the young prince it cannot afford to lose. Nineteen, untested, just stripped of everything and pushed into the streets of Thanjai.

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Thanjai at night, seen from the hills

The Chola empire has one year to find if its prince can become king.

King Sengaalar watches the last of his line grow reckless while the kingdom fractures. The young prince must journey the empire, past foreign saboteurs, palace traitors, and the enemy he carries inside.

Heir to everything. Ready for nothing.

Meet Vinnendhiran

Vinnendhiran in disguise on the streets

He's spent his whole life making a sport of disappointing everyone in the palace, his father, his tutors, the council of ministers who stopped saving him a seat at the royal assembly. One fateful day, he's pushed into the streets, stripped of his name and his power. For the first time, he sees the kingdom for what it actually is.

When you pick up the controller, he's a spoilt prince; a disaster. By the time you put it down, you'd have decided what kind of king he becomes.

The world doesn't pause for you.

Beyond Thanjai, the kingdom unfolds – the Kaveri's harvests, the open roads, the desert land past the borders, the half-ruined temples in the hills. All of it living on its own clock.

The crowded streets of Thanjai
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தஞ்சாவூர்

Thanjai, the loud, living city

The Kaveri farmlands at golden hour
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காவிரிக்கரை

The Kaveri farmlands

Riding the open road
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பாதை

The open road

The Paalai wastelands
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பாலை

The Paalai, the wastes

Temple ruins of Thanjai
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கோயில்கள்

Temples & ruins

Every street has a story, and every face in the crowd has somewhere to be by sundown.

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First Impressions

Crafted in Chennai. Told for the world.

Ayelet Studio is a 30-person independent team building culturally grounded action-adventure games, rooted in Tamil history, made for players everywhere.

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Motion capture session at Ayelet Studio: a performer rehearsing with the Surulvaal
Motion capture · the Surulvaal in studio
Vinnendhiran in the Chola landscape at golden hour

Return to Thanjai

Coming to PC, Xbox X|S, and PlayStation 5