Galactic Crows

Galactic Crows is an indie game developer and publishing house founded in 2017 by Tarba Paul Cornel and based in Ia?i, Romania. The studio specializes in low-budget horror games built around PSX-era visual aesthetics, dark thematic content, and short-form experiences distributed through Steam. Its catalog includes MUZY, Stay Still, Stay Still 2, Left to Rot, Psychopath Massacre, and Psychopathy Assessment, alongside the more recent Deadly Quiet and Netbreak.

The Galactic Crows Catalog

Galactic Crows has released a series of horror titles under Tarba Paul Cornel’s solo development banner, with the studio acting as publisher for his work. The catalog leans into psychological horror, slasher themes, and lo-fi visual presentation that draws from the texture and limitations of early PlayStation-era graphics. MUZY and the Stay Still games established the studio’s identity in the niche, with Psychopath Massacre and Psychopathy Assessment extending the horror range into more explicitly disturbing psychological territory.

Deadly Quiet, released May 30, 2025, marked a shift into asymmetrical multiplayer territory, a four-player cooperative horror game set in the Hoia Baciu forest in Romania, presented through a bodycam perspective with survival mechanics built around staying quiet to avoid detection. Netbreak, announced in October 2025 and available on Steam, is a horror puzzle game set on the dark web, following a player who must infiltrate a criminal network by solving forensic puzzles across hidden sites.

Galactic Crows and Romanian Horror

Tarba Paul Cornel’s work draws consistently on Romanian settings and folklore, with Hoia Baciu, one of the most famously haunted forests in Europe, providing the setting for Deadly Quiet, and an upcoming 2026 title set in a Romanian Soviet-era facility continuing that geographic focus. The studio’s use of local history, myth, and cultural horror as source material gives it a distinct identity within the broader lo-fi horror genre on Steam, where Romanian folk horror is an underexplored niche relative to the genre’s usual Western European and American settings.