Ghost Ship Games ApS is a Danish
video game developer and publisher based in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
. Founded in 2016, it is best known for developing ''
Deep Rock Galactic''.
History
Ghost Ship Games was founded in the spring of 2016 by a team of five former employees of
Press Play after that studio's closure. CEO Søren Lundgaard was invited to join the company shortly after by game director Mikkel Martin Pedersen. Lundgaard and Pedersen had previously been co-workers at the defunct game studio
Deadline Games
Deadline Games A/S was a Danish video game developer based in Copenhagen, operating between 1996 and 2009. Its last published game was ''Watchmen: The End Is Nigh'', based on ''Watchmen''.
On 29 May 2009, Deadline Games filed for bankruptcy, ...
for over ten years and each of the six founders had had experience in studio management.
The newly formed team begin work on a co-op title that they envisioned as "basically combining ''
Minecraft
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'' and ''
Left 4 Dead
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''". In February 2017, Swedish developer
Coffee Stain Studios acquired a 30% stake in Ghost Ship Games and agreed to publish their first game, ''Deep Rock Galactic''.
Coffee Stain Publishing released ''Deep Rock Galactic'' into early access on 28 February 2018. Ghost Ship benefited from the community feedback that an early access model allowed for. Early reviews of the game were very positive and the game amassed 300,000 players by September 2018. The game officially left early access after more than two years on 13 May 2020.
In August 2021, Coffee Stain's parent company
Embracer Group
Embracer Group AB (formerly Nordic Games Licensing AB and THQ Nordic AB) is a Swedish video game and media holding company based in Karlstad. The company was established under the name Nordic Games Licensing in 2011 as part of Nordic Games Grou ...
acquired the remaining 70% of Ghost Ship Games, which made the studio a subsidiary of Coffee Stain Holding. In November 2021, Ghost Ship announced that ''Deep Rock Galactic'' had sold three million copies and would be ported to
PlayStation 4 and
PlayStation 5 in January 2022. In June 2022 they announced they had sold 4 million copies.
Ghost Ship Games announced a
Publishing label for Danish game studios in February of 2023. The label's first three titles were subsequently announced as ''Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor'' (a single player spinoff of Deep Rock Galactic), ''SpellRogue'' and ''DarkSwarm''.
Games developed
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Companies based in Copenhagen
Danish companies established in 2016
Embracer Group
Video game companies established in 2016
Video game companies of Denmark
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