The team behind The Shore

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How Ares Dragonis and Dragonis Games made The Shore, from a solo project in 2019 to PS5 in 2026. The team, the partners and the timeline.

The Shore is the first game of Dragonis Games, an independent studio in Greece founded by Ares Dragonis. It started as one person learning Unreal Engine and became a game on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox.

Timeline

2019 Ares Dragonis starts The Shore alone and works on it for eleven months before Adonis Brosteanu and Thanos Zampoukas join.
2020 A free demo comes out in July. A Ulule campaign raises 4,855 euros from 162 backers to fund the story mode, and The Shore receives an Epic MegaGrant.
19 Feb 2021 The Shore launches on Steam, followed by GOG in October.
2022 The Shore VR arrives on Steam. An anniversary patch adds a hidden event and a larger underwater area, then a photo mode and Steam Deck support.
30 Apr 2026 The Shore: Enhanced Edition launches on PlayStation 5 with Iphigames. A physical PS5 edition with Necrophosis: Full Consciousness follows on 28 May from PQube.
2026 Xbox Series X|S release, announced on Xbox Wire.

Credits

The Team

Ares Dragonis

Creator, director and artist

Founder of Dragonis Games. Started The Shore in early 2019 and worked on it alone for eleven months: design, environments, creatures and direction. Went on to make The Shore VR, Eresys and Necrophosis.
Adonis Brosteanu

Programmer

Built the game systems of The Shore and The Shore VR in Unreal Engine, and later led programming on Eresys.
Thanos Zampoukas

Composer

Wrote the original score, from the Island and Lighthouse themes to the Dagon theme.
Brandon Fague

Voice of Andrew

Plays Andrew, the father at the centre of the story.
Alexander Gorbenko

Marketing, IndiePump

Runs marketing for Dragonis Games through IndiePump, including the console launch of the Enhanced Edition.