DARYA
"My idea was, if you can move people emotionally, you can also get them to act."
- Roger Payne -
DARYA is a narrative first person mystery game, where you explore the scattered memories of Darya - a marine biologist, who dedicated her life listening to the last whales on earth.

Play as her daughter Ana, who has been apart from her mother since early childhood and remembers nothing of her. Piece together her life and reconnect through the creatures she loved most.
Darya Studios is a game & media company founded by Sara Shabani & Hannes Bieber and supported by the PressStart Game Founding Stipendium. It is funded by the Minister of State for Culture and the Media and organized by game – The German Games Industry Association in cooperation with the Foundation for Digital Games Culture.
Founders supported by
“PressStart: Games Founding Grant” is a project by
Funded by
Portrait of Hannes Bieber
Hannes Bieber
co-founder / game developer / music & sound designer
Portrait of Sara Shabani
Sara Shabani
co-founder / game developer / art director
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