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Designer Cole Wehrle has announced that he’s leaving Leder Games in order to co-found the new publisher Buried Giant Studios with his brother and developer Drew Wehrle, illustrator Kyle Ferrin, and Ted Caya, former director of operations for Leder Games.
Buried Giant Studios has secured the rights to both Arcs and Oath, two Cole Wehrle designs first published by Leder Games, as well as all existing stock of those games. Leder Games will remain the publisher of Wehrle’s game Root.
For its first project, Buried Giant Studios will fulfill the Oath: New Foundations crowdfunding campaign that Leder Games ran in mid-2024. Next, it will launch a crowdfunding campaign in Q2 2026 for Arcs: Beyond the Reach, with Kyle Ferrin mentioning that he’s “already working on a SET of Arcs expansions”.
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Beyond that, in a Discord post Cole Wehrle writes:
The first is a noir-y either far future or wizard-y “school game” involving murder and mystery and taking place over several years. I think I’ve got the basic concept worked up but I need to spend a lot of time to find the right mechanical framework.
The second is a proper geopolitical game. Though I’ve worked on a lot of political games in the past, they are basically always focused on a single state (Root, Oath, Arcs, etc). Arcs is sorta the exception here, but only sorta. There are stories that those games can’t tell because of how narrow their focus is. I think I actually have a good mechanical engine for this one, but there are lots of scope questions that need worked out. I’d love to push the chronicle structure of Oath in a very different direction.
In the short term though it’s the final bits of production polish on NF, the Arcs expansion, and finishing An Infamous Traffic.
U.S. publisher Hollandspiele released An Infamous Traffic in 2016, and in September 2025 Wehrle posted an update on the game’s second edition, along with a work-in-progress photo.
Additionally, Cole and Drew Wehrle’s company Wehrlegig Games, which they started in 2018 to release a second edition of Cole’s game Pax Pamir, will essentially be a studio inside Buried Giant Studios that focuses on historical games.
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