Granary Software

An independent studio in Chicago

Software with somewhere
to grow.

A granary is where a harvest is kept safe until it is needed. We build software the same way: small, careful, and made to last longer than the season it shipped in.

Play Corner Lot See our work

Work

What's in the granary

Corner Lot: a top-down city block in Chicago with a coffee shop, bookstore, and lemonade stand beside a feed of neighbourhood news

Our first game

Corner Lot

A cozy-competitive tycoon on the real streets of Chicago.

Everybody starts with one lemonade stand. Pick a corner, set a price, learn the block, and build something that outlasts the rivals who open next door. The city keeps trading while you're away, and there is always exactly one goal on the table.

  • One real map. Chicago's own address grid, from the whole city down to a single storefront.
  • Twelve businesses. Lemonade to breweries, apartments to hotels. Yes, there is a granary.
  • Plays anywhere. In the browser today. iPhone and Android on the way.
Play in your browser App stores: coming soon

How we build

Small, careful, and built to keep

Foundations first

The simulation underneath our games is its own library, with no engine inside it. It runs the same on a phone, in a browser, and on the server, so the world is one world.

Made to last

We would rather ship a smaller thing that still works in five years than a bigger thing that needs rebuilding in one. Plain code, plain formats, no fashion.

Honest with players

No dark patterns, no manufactured urgency, no selling your data. A game should be a fair deal, and the person on the other side of the screen is the whole point.

About

A one-person studio, on purpose

Granary Software is an independent studio founded in 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. It is small by design: one builder, a few good tools, and enough patience to get the details right. The name comes from the buildings that dot the prairie an hour outside the city, where a good harvest is kept until it is needed.

We make games first, and the tools and services those games need second. Everything we ship runs on the same engine-agnostic simulation, which means the things we learn on one project carry straight into the next.

Founded
2026
Home
Chicago, IL
Games shipped
1
Granaries in those games
1

Contact

Say hello

Press, partnerships, a bug you found, or a corner of Chicago you think belongs in the game. We read everything.

hello@granarysoftware.com Corner Lot support