Xombis is the Winter Park, Florida studio behind Blightened: a 2.5D Metroidvania, an archive-management deduction game, and the books that hold the lore together.
Two doors into one world. One through the claws of the beast that survives it, one from the desk of the archivist who catalogs what it leaves behind.
Awaken the Beast.
A dark fantasy 2.5D Metroidvania platformer where corruption fuels both survival and power. Explore fractured timelines, channel volatile blight into abilities, and battle monstrous guardians across collapsing realms.
Inspect relics. Diagnose corruption. Decide what survives.
A narrative archive-management game set in the world of Blightened. Inspect cursed relics, question unreliable visitors, find the Seven Powers, and keep the Sanctuary Archive alive for one more day.
Xombis builds a single dark fantasy universe and ships it in every form it fits: games in Unity and C#, books in print, and a folklore archive on video. Small team, long memory, everything in one voice.
We also take on select collaborations where our production pipeline, UI systems or worldbuilding can help another studio ship.
Work with usUnity and C# from prototype to Steam: gameplay systems, enemy AI, save and progression systems, full controller support and store presentation.
Our games →One universe kept consistent across games and books: ruptures, blight, the Syphon, the Sanctuary Archive and the Seven Powers.
The stories →Folklore compendiums and novels published under the Xombis name, in hardcover and digital, starting with Monstrous Legends.
On Amazon →Character, environment and UI art produced with Limited Slip Studios, an Orlando game-art group with fifty-plus shipped IPs.
Limited Slip Studios →Interface systems, editor tooling and reusable pipelines, drawn from two decades of production UI work in games and simulation.
Portfolio →Trailers, gameplay captures, a developer's story and a daily relic reveal series on YouTube, plus written dev logs.
Latest news →Screens and key art from the Blightened universe.
The lore does not stop at the screen. Xombis publishes the folklore, histories and records the games draw from.
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Real legends, catalogued the way the Archive would: Sea, Myth, Beast, Spirit, Ancient, Elemental. The creatures that haunted the world before Blightened did.
A new chapter is coming. Ancient records, forgotten histories, secrets unearthed. The written record of the Sanctuary Archive and the companion to Relic Keeper.
A step outside the Blightened universe. A sealed city, and the people who decide what gets in and what never gets out.
Xombis LLC is an independent game and publishing studio in Winter Park, Florida, run by Chris Santangelo: a technical developer and UI/UX designer who has spent two decades building interactive software, from military training simulators and AR/VR research applications to mobile and strategy game interfaces, for teams including Hit-Factor Games, LexisNexis, JHT and Virtual Reality Rehab.
Blightened is the world he kept returning to. He designs, codes and directs it in Unity and C#, from the enemy state machines and the Syphon to the store pages and the dev logs. Character and environment art is produced with Limited Slip Studios, where he has served as Technical Director since 2009.
Three rules hold the work together: movement is identity, corruption and time are the spine, and readability beats spectacle. AI-assisted tools support concept exploration and iteration in our visual and writing workflows; every system, mechanic, piece of worldbuilding and production decision is made by the developer, and we say the same on our Steam pages.
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Since late August the channel has been cataloguing Relic Keeper's archive one relic a day. Trailers, boss fights and the developer's own story sit beside them, along with an archived folklore essay series for the curious.
The latest entries: Sharpened Bone Shard, Bone Comb Rupture, Blighted Chisel, Blight Ladle, Beggars Crown, Bark Disc and the Syphon component set. Each short is a single relic from the Sanctuary Archive, classified on camera.
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Blight-fuelled abilities, collapsing ruptures and the Mountain Fist Golem, captured in engine from the Steam demo build.
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The first look at the Sanctuary Archive: visitors, relic inspection tools, the diagnosis panel and the consequences of getting a classification wrong.
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Why a solo developer with twenty years in simulation and UI work decided to build a Metroidvania, and what the blight is really about.
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