Owlcat Games

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 computer role-playing games 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 by game developers who had previously worked on titles such as Heroes of Might and Magic V, Silent Storm and Etherlords, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) such as Allods Online and Skyforge. After working extensively on MMORPGs, the studio pivoted to create single-player role-playing video games. Partnering with Paizo and publisher Deep Silver, the studio's first game, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, was partly funded through Kickstarter 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 My.Games, 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 Kickstarter, 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.