Owlcat Games is a video game developer founded in 2016 by Oleg Shpilchevskiy and Alexander Mishulin. It is headquartered in Cyprus, with satellite offices in Moscow and Armenia. It is best known for developing

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s such as '' Pathfinder: Kingmaker'' (2018), its successor, '' Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous'' (2021), and '' Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader'' (2023).

History

Owlcat Games was founded in 2016 in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

by game developers who had previously worked on titles such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Etherlords'', and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. After working extensively on MMORPGs, the studio pivoted to create single-player role-playing video games. Partnering with

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and publisher

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, the studio's first game, '' Pathfinder: Kingmaker'', was partly funded through

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and released in 2018. It received criticisms for its technical issues, and Owlcat spent months introducing patches and free updates to the game. Initially a studio within

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, Owlcat raised $1 million in funding from investment firm Gem Capital in December 2019 for the development of another ''Pathfinder'' game, and became an independent studio. The sequel, '' Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous'', once again partly funded through

, was released in late 2021 and sold more than 1 million copies. The company's next game, '' Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader'', was released in December 2023.

Games Developed

References

External links

* {{official website, https://owlcat.games/ Companies based in Moscow Video game development companies Video game companies of Cyprus Video game companies of Russia Video game companies established in 2016 Indie game developers