Chucklefish Limited is a British

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and

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based in

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. Founded in 2011 by Finn Brice, the company specialises in retro-styled games. Chucklefish is best known for developing ''

Starbound ''Starbound'' is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Chucklefish. ''Starbound'' takes place in a two-dimensional, procedurally generated universe which the player is able to explore in order to obtain new weapons, armor, ...

'' and '' Wargroove'', as well as publishing ''

Risk of Rain ''Risk of Rain'' is a 2013 platform game developed by Hopoo Games and published by Chucklefish. The game, initially made by a two-student team from the University of Washington using the GameMaker engine, was funded through Kickstarter before b ...

'' and formerly '' Stardew Valley''.

Games developed

Games published

Volunteer contributions controversy

In 2019, Chucklefish were accused of exploiting around a dozen voluntary contributors during the development of ''Starbound'', sometimes logging hundreds of hours with no compensation. Many of them were teenagers at the time and stated that they felt their inexperience was exploited by the company's director, Finn Brice. In a statement, Chucklefish said that contributors were under no obligation to create content or put in any particular number of hours.

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