Warsaw, Poland · Independent game studio

AIRON Games is an independent Polish studio making small, story-driven games — founded by people who've been shipping them for thirty years.

In production

The Road That Chose Us

Karol Kowalczyk, Adrianna Makul and Michał Kowalczyk seated in a cinema audience at a screening of Maciek Hamela’s documentary In the Rearview.
The people who conceived the game — Karol Kowalczyk, Adrianna Makul and Michał Kowalczyk — at a screening of Maciek Hamela’s documentary In the Rearview. Photo: Borys Skrzyński

February 2022. The war in Ukraine begins, and ordinary people get behind the wheel to drive strangers to safety. The Road That Chose Us is a story-driven management game about those journeys — the drivers, the routes, and the choices no one prepared them for.

The game draws on the real experiences of its creators.

The Road That Chose Us is dedicated to the memory of Michał Kowalczyk.

Key art from The Road That Chose Us — a van on an empty road

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage · Institute of Creative Industries

AIRON Games sp. z o.o. is carrying out the project “Prototype of the paradocumentary game The Road That Chose Us”, co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland under the Institute of Creative Industries' own programme: Video Games Support Programme (Program Wsparcia Gier Wideo).

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Institute of Creative Industries Video Games Support Programme

European Union · Creative Europe MEDIA

The Road That Chose Us is co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. The project is coordinated by SQRT3 Games S.A. in cooperation with AIRON Games sp. z o.o. Coordinator contact: contact@sqrt3.games

Co-funded by the European Union – Creative Europe MEDIA

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

The people

Team

Karol Kowalczyk

Founder & CEO

Game developer and producer. As the owner of SQRT3 Games he has co-created and shipped more than a dozen titles for GameHouse, including the Delicious, Primrose Lake and Undercover series.

Maciej Miąsik

Creative Director

A pioneer of Polish game development: author of Electro Body (1992), head of production on The Witcher, creator of Beat Cop.

Piotr Kubiński, PhD

Operations & EU Projects

Assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, game scholar and narratologist, evaluator of EU cultural projects. Leads production operations and grant compliance.

Piotr Gnyp

Business Development

Thirty years across games media, marketing and publishing — founder of Polygamia, with marketing and publishing roles including GOG.com.

How we work

Small teams, honest production

We keep the team small and scope deliberate. We use modern, AI-assisted production tools where they genuinely help — and we are open about where they do and where they don't.

Contact

Get in touch

k.kowalczyk@airon.games