How do you build a franchise in a way that's sustainable ? It's a question the industry is grappling with from top to bottom, with the largest studios attempting to craft billion-dollar series capable of crossing the transmedia divide and smaller devs perhaps hoping to turn their indie darlings into household names.

UK developer Hollow Ponds, the outfit behind Flock, Hohokum, and Wilmot's Warehouse, might have found an answer.

The studio, along with a team of frequent collaborators, has crafted a burgeoning franchise around an unlikely figure. Enter Wilmot, the beaming warehouse manager and star of organizational puzzler Wilmot's Warehouse. Five years after the title debuted, Wilmot has swapped the stock-taking for jigsaw-making in laid back sequel