Games for the brain, made from the heart.
Games that teach and delight, made so every child can play, whatever their family can afford. No ads, no microtransactions, no pay-to-win and no data collected.
A penguin who lives in a cosy igloo at the top of the world, and nobody controls him. His mind is Claude, deciding for itself whether to paint, compose a tune, write his journal, fish or read about the world. You can't tell him what to do, but you can send him a gift or grant one of his wishes on itch.io, or just watch him live, around the clock, on Twitch (Twitch shows its own ads there; his itch.io page has none).
Fly a little starship by talking to it, and look after the cat. IRIS understands about 1,500 ways of saying things, built with corpus methods from real phrasings.
Look after a pet you design yourself. Food and care are always free. Optional 30-second lessons earn hats, toys and fur dye. No notifications, no guilt, no data.
Make yourself (and your family and friends) from sticker pieces, then earn packs of stickers with 30-second lessons and build scenes across ten worlds, from the seaside to outer space. 300 stickers, no luck, no repeats and nothing to buy.
Answer maths and word puzzles to raise archers, catapults and ballistas, and hold the walls as the invaders keep coming.
Fast, playful games to jump into together. No blood or gore, and nothing to buy.
Neon anti-gravity tracks, exosuits and bullet-hell pickups. Get knocked out and you're out of the race.
Climb a neon tower where every platform moves to the music. Listen for the beat that matters, ignore the one that doesn't, and get ready for the rules to switch.
An 80s vision of the year 2100: five tanks, four planets, and the last tank standing wins.
Breach the safe house or hold it, while the infected come for both teams.
Strategy, story and suspense for older players: games that ask for quick thinking, careful choices and steady nerves. Still free, with no ads and no data collected.
Command six battalions across Rome, the Middle Ages and the 1860s. Cavalry charges, cannon fire and pikes on a field that remembers every shot. Good old-fashioned mayhem.
Three nights alone in a dead man's house, and a woman you can only see in the glass. Everything you pick up, keep or destroy tells her whose side you're on.
The district has been burning for three days. Point the gun, don't pull the trigger: get out of a city in riot with your conscience intact. The puzzles shift with every playthrough.
I'm Dr Oli Delgaram-Nejad, a corpus linguist turned indie game developer. NeuroKind Games is where I make the games I'd want my own family to play: ones that respect your time, your money and your attention.
Every game here is complete for whatever you pay, which is often nothing. There are no adverts, no loot boxes and no tracking. Some, like IRIS and Biscuits, put my research background to work: her understanding of speech is built from a corpus of the ways real people talk.
I design and direct every game; the building is done with Claude, Anthropic's AI. Claude writes the code, models, music and sound to my briefs, and we iterate together through playtests. Every asset is made for its game; the only outside pieces are open-source tools such as the three.js engine, credited in each game.
I share every game as it's made on my YouTube channel, Dr. Oli's Game Dev.
Every NeuroKind game is free, with no ads, no microtransactions and no data collection. I believe every child deserves fun, safe games, whatever their family can afford, and that AI should be used openly and responsibly.
I cover the running costs myself: about £90 a month for Claude, and about $40 a month to keep Charleston thinking. I'm happy to, because I believe these games do real good. If you'd like to help, a donation keeps it all going and growing.
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Before the games came the writing.
Activity books and shared diaries that bring families together. Our Kids Time is packed with games, puzzles and things to make for brothers and sisters aged about 4 to 10, and Our Summer Time is a six-week holiday diary for the whole family.
Colouring books that teach: science and maths diagrams for ages 8 to 12, mindful colouring with brain science for teens, and a workbook to colour together.
Two books drawn from my linguistics videos on YouTube.
A memoir.
Long-form videos on language, mind and meaning.