Tathvamasi Studios

A small studio in Bangalore

Tathvamasi Studios describes itself on its own website as a small indie studio based out of Bangalore, India. The team presents itself as gamers, artists, tinkerers, writers, coders and movie buffs who wear many hats, and says it settled on making video games because that is where its talents and passions align. The studio states an interest in memorable single-player experiences shaped by what it calls the Indian aesthetic, and adds that it does not believe in digital coins, preferring that an enjoyable game be its own reward.

The same page gives a registered identity and address: Tathvamasi Studios Private Limited, on the third floor of a building in HSR Layout, Bangalore. It also carries direct contact details, including an email address and a phone number. Details like these matter for a studio profile because they separate a working company from an idea. The website names the studio's first commercial game as Suri: The Seventh Note, a 2D rhythm platformer set in a mythical version of India.

Selected for the PlayStation India Hero Project

The studio says it is honoured to be one of five teams selected for the PlayStation India Hero Project in 2024. The programme is Sony's effort to back game developers working in India, and Tathvamasi points readers to coverage of the selection for the details. In the studio's own account, Suri is the project that came out of that support, developed in collaboration with the programme and released first and most fully on PlayStation hardware.

In a post written for the PlayStation Blog, game director Glen Martin credits that partnership directly. He writes that working with the PlayStation team helped the studio bring its vision to life, particularly while building what it calls its Rhythm Haptics Engine, the system that ties the game's music to feedback on the DualSense controller. Tathvamasi frames the goal simply: to ensure that Suri feels right at home on the PS5.

Suri: The Seventh Note, the debut game

Suri: The Seventh Note is the studio's first commercial title. Tathvamasi describes it as a 2D rhythm platformer set in mythical India, with a world and score drawn from the country's landscape, folklore and music, from the ancient forts of Rajasthan to mountain temples in the Himalayas. The studio says the game was made with all the passion the team had to give, and points players to the game's own site for more.

The Steam listing adds the playable detail. It calls Suri a rhythm-action platformer where every move syncs to the music, and where the player controls Ajira, a young girl who sets out to find a rare fruit that could save her mother. The island's harmony has broken, the land twists to a darker pulse, and the store page lists rhythm-driven action, cinematic escape sequences and evolving abilities as its headline features.

Where the music comes from

Music is not decoration in Suri; the studio treats it as the game's governing law. In the PlayStation Blog post, Tathvamasi says about eighty percent of the music heard in the game was recorded with original analogue instruments rather than synthesized electronically, a choice meant to preserve texture. The soundtrack layers instruments matched to regions, using a veena rather than a sitar when the player reaches the island's south, and turning to the musical traditions of Rajasthan for its desert stretches.

The harder problem was matching musical variety to the speed of a player's thumbs. The studio tested timings and settled on roughly 480 milliseconds between the main consecutive beats. That window gives enough room for a player's input to register without draining momentum from the platforming. A longer gap would disrupt the rhythm and the mood; a shorter one would make failing to keep time too subtle to notice, so the interval became a design constraint.

Launch, editions and platforms

Suri: The Seventh Note arrives on 30 October 2026 for the PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. The studio announced the date and opened pre-orders on 28 September 2026, in the same PlayStation Blog post. Two editions are offered. The Standard Edition carries the base game, while the Digital Deluxe Edition adds an exclusive Chandini skin, access to upcoming downloadable content, and three days of early access to the full game.

The studio is clear that the extras stay bundled: the Chandini skin and the downloadable content will not be sold separately, and can only be obtained through the Deluxe Edition, including for players who buy that edition after launch. On Steam the game is still listed as upcoming, with a demo available. The PS5 release leans on the studio's Rhythm Haptics Engine, tying each track to the DualSense controller as well.

Quick facts

Studio: Tathvamasi Studios Private Limited, described on its website as a small indie studio based in Bangalore, India. Selected in 2024 as one of five studios for the PlayStation India Hero Project. First commercial game: Suri: The Seventh Note, a 2D rhythm platformer set in mythical India. Game director: Glen Martin, credited on the PlayStation Blog post. The game's world draws on Indian artistic and architectural traditions including Rajasthan's forts, Theyyam culture and Himalayan monasteries.

Release: 30 October 2026 on PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, announced on 28 September 2026. Editions: a Standard Edition and a Digital Deluxe Edition with an exclusive Chandini skin, upcoming downloadable content and three days of early access; the extras are not sold separately. Design detail: the studio spaces the main beats of the soundtrack roughly 480 milliseconds apart, and about eighty percent of the music was recorded with analogue instruments.

Games

• Suri: The Seventh Note

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