Studio Stamp is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands and ships games all over the world.

We create tabletop mystery games. With puzzles, murder, deduction, intrigue and beauty.

We love telling stories with all types of media, whether it’s text, video, photos, puzzles, social media, websites or audio. We love history, authenticity, interesting characters and graphic design.

Timeline

In the summer of 2018, friends Marilou and Joël were sitting on a terrace and came up with the idea of perhaps starting an escape room. To test the collaboration, they first wanted to do a “smaller” project where they didn’t have to rent a building right away. That became Meester, 1883 (the Dutch version of On Circus Grounds).

After a few weeks, August came to join us as an intern and became an integral part of the team right away.

After two years of working on the game one day a week, many tests and improvements later, they raised €23,000 for the first printing of Meester, 1883 in 2020 with a crowdfunding campaign.

This was followed by a second printing and a Kickstarter campaign for the English version in 2023.

Studio Stamp is now run by Joel. Together with August and Marilou he developed a new game to be released in 2026.

In 2024, Jodi Hill interned at Studio Stamp and worked with Joel to create the game Fallen Star, which was released in 2025.