Owlcat Video games, builders of beloved CRPGs Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Dealer has reunited with My.Video games. Identical to Owlcat, My.Video games was a subsidiary of Mail.Ru earlier than it grew to become impartial in 2022 (Owlcat cut up off in 2019).
Owlcat Video games was nonetheless owned by Mail.Ru when it printed its debut sport, Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Because the earlier gaming arm of the corporate, My.Video games held the rights to Mail.Ru’s gaming properties. The now-independent My.Video games has launched a premium publishing arm, Knight’s Peak, with oversight over video games like Starship Troopers: Extermination.
As each ex-subsidiaries at the moment are impartial, Knight’s Peak has reunited Owlcat with its debut title Pathfinder: Kingmaker. After Owlcat left the corporate in 2019, they stopped incomes royalties from Kingmaker and couldn’t replace the sport. Followers are hoping they will see a few patches for Kingmaker now that Owlcat is again in management.
Knight’s Peak advised Recreation Rant that the partnership is a ‘homecoming’. “What we need to convey throughout is that we’re bringing this sport residence,” they stated. “We’re comfortable to have so many former members who labored on this sport prior to now and now we’re bringing it residence to Knight’s Peak, so we’re mainly getting the band again collectively.”
Nothing has been promised by Owlcat or Knight’s Peak, however the partnership could permit for future updates to Pathfinder: Kingmaker.
After going impartial following the discharge of Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Owlcat launched Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous in 2021, incomes an 83 Metascore on the evaluation aggregator Metacritic. The ultimate enlargement for Wrath of the Righteous, A Dance of Masks, is ready to launch on June 13.
Owlcat launched Warhammer 40k: Rogue Dealer in December. In our 8.2/10 evaluation of the CRPG, we referred to as it “a shining star for followers of the setting who admire a story focus.”
