Lucas Pope

What Lucas Pope is

Lucas Pope is an independent game developer who designs, builds and releases his own games. His site dukope.com presents the work as "Games by Lucas Pope" and links each project to its own game homepage, development log and build notes. He is the developer credited on Return of the Obra Dinn in our database, and the game's Steam store entry credits it to a publishing label, 3909, rather than to a larger publishing group.

His public record is built from pages he controls: a personal site that lists projects with dates and technical notes, a dedicated homepage for each game, and Steam entries for the released versions. The pages reviewed here do not publish awards, sales figures, employee counts or a studio address, so none of those details are stated in this profile. What is documented is the developer's own site, the game's official site and the store listing.

Return of the Obra Dinn

Return of the Obra Dinn is the game listed for Lucas Pope in our database. The Steam store entry names Lucas Pope as developer and 3909 as publisher, and lists a release date of October 18, 2018. The same date appears next to the Obra Dinn entry on dukope.com, where the project is also noted as made with Unity 3D, and the store entry classifies the game under the adventure and indie genres.

The official game site obradinn.com describes the game as "An Insurance Adventure with Minimal Colour" and sets the story in October 1807, when the damaged ship Obra Dinn arrives at Falmouth with no visible crew and the player is sent aboard as an insurance investigator for the East India Company. dukope.com calls it a first-person mystery adventure based on exploration and logical deduction. The Steam listing notes 14 supported languages, 16 Steam achievements and a content note about freeze-frame death scenes and mild nudity.

How the games are released

Pope's pages show a single-author workflow. The developer writes the game, keeps a development log, publishes build notes himself and points players to the game homepage for the full version. For Return of the Obra Dinn the game homepage is obradinn.com, which lists PC and Mac alongside console versions and offers forms for media and review-code requests. dukope.com also hosts development material, including a GDC demo build and a time-lapse video covering three years of modelling for the player's in-game hand.

The obradinn.com footer carries a 3909 LLC copyright notice running from 2018 to 2026, matching the label named as publisher on the Steam listing. Earlier and later projects appear on dukope.com alongside Obra Dinn, each with its own homepage and log, but they fall outside our database entry, which covers Return of the Obra Dinn only, and this profile keeps to that title. No founding company history or office location is published for Lucas Pope on the pages reviewed.

The Steam store entry adds commercial detail to the release: it classifies the game under the adventure and indie genres, records Windows and macOS as supported platforms, and lists a soundtrack add-on priced at 4.99 US dollars alongside the base game. Those store fields are published by Steam for a title whose developer is named as Lucas Pope and whose publisher is named as 3909.

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