HandyGames presented its entire portfolio at the start of gamescom in THQ Nordic's PreShow. Not only were new gameplay scenes from Oddsparks shown, but the mobile version of Way of the Hunter: Wild America was also officially announced. This event underscored the studio's claim to be perceived as an independent, strong brand within the Embracer Group.

April 24, 2024 marked the beginning of a new era for the studio. With Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, HandyGames launched its largest internal development project to date in early access on PC. The mix of automation (à la Factorio) and real-time strategy with cute creatures (the Sparks) struck a chord with the community.

Also in April 2024, HandyGames brought the stylish 4-player co-op shooter PERISH to PlayStation and Xbox consoles. As publisher, they helped developer duo ITEM42 make the leap from PC to console platforms. This once again demonstrated HandyGames' strength in bringing niche titles with high graphic quality to a broad console audience.

With the official announcement of Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure by our Cologne-based studio Massive Miniteam, the game will enter Early Access in 2024 and enjoys great support from its fanbase. With its unique look and feel, as well as its multiplayer mode, this game, funded by Deutsche Games-Förderung, could become an international flagship in the field of automation.

The iOS version of our highly successful title Endling – Extinction is Forever won this year’s prestigious Apple Design Award in the categories Visuals and Graphics and Social Impact, as well as the coveted British BAFTA Games Award 2023 in the Game Beyond Entertainment category.

One of our strategic cornerstones: Exploring new technologies as they emerge. Our experienced VR team is bringing Townsmen VR optimized for the Sony PlayStation VR2 as a top title. Since its launch, this game has served as a launch title for the new hardware – including the official boxed version.

From SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake to Titan Quest – Ultimate Edition and Little Big Workshop, we are continuing to focus on premium mobile games Made in Germany. We are excited to see what future surprises lie ahead of us when it comes to increasingly powerful smartphones and tablets.

Fans already know that the mobile version of the racing simulation Wreckfest is full of shreds. But hardware giants such as Samsung also like to show off the performance of their new generation of smartphones: Wreckfest is chosen as THE reference game for the market launch of their new S23 smartphone, and it honorably slips into the leading role of their elaborate TV commercial

After extensive planning and construction, we are excited to open our in-house team restaurant and social area under the name local.loots. As an important part of our company’s health management, the focus is not only on healthy food but also on relaxation, mental health, events and providing a place to socialize. A place to feel comfortable and recharge your creative batteries!

Due to our ongoing growth, we invest enormously in renovating our business premises and creating a new exquisite team restaurant. We want to provide high-quality, healthy, and tasty catering for the overall well-being of our teams!

The multiplatform release of Endling – Extinction is Forever is receiving overwhelmingly positive responses on Metacritic, Opencritic, and from our fans. Saving the last fox family in a world destroyed by humans is winning over critics worldwide. The latest milestone: the nomination in the category “Games for Impact” at The Game Awards 2022.

Streaming platforms for games are gaining in popularity and are reaching new audiences. Many of our titles, like Chicken Police – Paint it RED!, One Hand Clapping, Through the Darkest of Times, Little Big Workshop, and El Hijo – A Wild West Tale, are already available to be streamed!

Mobile gaming remains a rapidly growing segment of the games industry. One of HandyGames’ strategies in expanding its portfolio of premium games is to present its fans with high-quality titles. At the forefront are Wreckfest, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, Titan Quest, Chicken Police – Paint it RED!, and many more premium mobile experiences.

We were the first German publisher to release a game on Netflix. Namely, our beloved classic: Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt. The streaming platform enjoys a large user base, which allows us to continue growing our community of players.

2022 brought us many awards: Chicken Police – Paint it RED! became the Best App for Tablets (Google), One Hand Clapping became the “Most Creative Game” (PLAY21), and won the “Innovation Award” (BIG, Brazil). Endling – Extinction is Forever made it all the way to The Game Awards as a nominee in the category “Games for Impact,” and Wreckfest (Mobile) is taking off just as successfully since its release and has already been named “App of the Week” (toucharcade). And that was by no means all.

To further expand our success, we have filled more key vacancies in our company and thus strengthened our teams! A new Producer, PR-Manager, and Director Sales & Business Development were hired. So much manpower needs space, which is why we are doubling our premises this year!

We enriched our range of premium mobile games for iOS and Android! In collaboration with Nickelodeon, the popular and top-selling title SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated has been released, likewise our own classic Titan Quest – Legendary Edition, in its most comprehensive version ever!

We are happy to report our acquisition of the German game studio Massive Miniteam! Over the years, we have been able to work closely together on many successful releases, including Spitlings and the console versions of Little Big Workshop and Chicken Police – Paint it RED!. Another milestone on our way to a successful future!

Not only did Through the Darkest of Times win the hearts of the gaming community, it also won the award for Best Serious Game at the German Computer Game Awards and the Educational Media Award for Best Game Offer for Teens!

We proudly added more full featured console games as premium mobile titles for Android and iOS to our portfolio, such as Aces of the Luftwaffe – Squadron, Rebel Cops, and Through the Darkest of Times.

Gamescom and IAB took place only on the Internet this year. We mastered this challenge with pleasure and were able to successfully present nine of our games to a huge international audience there with virtual booths, including Pile Up! - Box by Box, One Hand Clapping and Endling – Extinction is Forever!

And that’s what we want and will do! As a strong partner, also for our domestic game studios, we are in the fortunate position to be able to promote and produce many more high-quality titles in the coming years thanks to the budget resolution our government has passed!

Our titles are attracting increasing attention! That’s why we intensified our own streaming activities and also our cooperations with popular streamers – to be able to respond even more directly to the reactions and concerns of our fans.

Our Games El Hijo, One Hand Clapping and Little Big Workshop have been added to Google Stadia, so we can reach out for more people using this streaming platform. We have also been able to expand our presence in other online stores, such as Amazon and Magenta Gaming.

Presented our published games El Hijo – A Wild West Tale, Through the Darkest of Times and Rad Rodgers – Radical Edition for the first time at the PAX East in Boston.

Added several upcoming PC and console titles, among others Spitlings, One Hand Clapping, A Rat's Quest, Little Big Workshop and Endling – Extinction is Forever, to our publishing portfolio.

Published, ported and launched several high-quality premium mobile titles, among them Spellforce: Heroes & Magic, Battle Chasers - Nightwar, Lock's Quest and This is the Police II.

HandyGames™ enjoyed a highly successful gamescom 2019, at the THQ Nordic booth as well as the Indie Arena Booth, garnering attention from players, press, and business alike.

Received the gamescom 2019 Awards for „Best Mobile Game“ (Battle Chasers - Nightwar / Airship Syndicate) and „Best Indie Game“ (El Hijo – A Wild West Tale / Honig Studios) for our published games.

Launch partners of Google’s new subscription service, Google Play Pass, with a strong lineup of 10 successful premium games, including among others Titan Quest and This is the Police.

Townsmen Expeditions (working title), which will mark the most recent entry in the Townsmen IP, received 150.000€ development funding from Creative Europe.

In July 2018 HandyGames became part of the THQ Nordic Family and will operate as an international publisher for small and mid-sized projects.

The newest entries of two retro clssics, Jagged Alliance: Rage! and Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams – Owltimate Edition mark our first step into publishing.

Our virtual reality god-game simulation, Townsmen VR, was awarded the German Computer Games Award 2018 for Best Game Design.

Players can now experience and take part in the development of our two latest virtual reality Games Townsmen VR and Devil and the Fairy on Steam Early Access.

The great concept and game design behind Townsmen VR have secured funding from the FilmFersehFonds Bayern over 300.000€ and 150.000€.

Our crazy action-packed shoot ‘em up Aces of the Luftwaffe – Squadron arrived as our first title at the Nintendo Switch shop.

Stunt Kite Masters was part of the small and very exclusive launch portfolio for the Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality platform.

Developed a YouTube show to give an authentic insight into the German game developer scene with interviews of guests from the industry and relevant topics.

Released Super Party Sports: Football as a special version for Instant games for Messenger.

Released Panzer Panic VR and Stunt Kite Masters as our first games on the Oculus Rift.

Clouds & Sheep 2 was our first game released on Gameroom, Facebooks new Windows desktop gaming platform.

Presented our first Industry 4.0 App Pick-by-Watch, a smart intralogistics solution, tailored towards the needs of a networked storage system.

Released Hidden Temple – VR Adventure as our first game on the Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus.

Samsung launched their new Tizen Store and we brought four excellent games to the party! Among them, our top title clouds-and-sheep-2.

A fantastic Humble Mobile Bundle featuring exclusively HandyGames games! A great end of the year bargain and the chance to support non-profit organizations.

Catch fish with dynamite or lean back and tend to your cute flock of sheep. Anyone can be mainstream. In 2016 we brought a breath of fresh air to the Sony PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Make yourself comfortable, grab a hot drink, boot up your PC and build your very own kingdom. In cooperation with Headup Games we’ve released our hit game Townsmen for PC on Steam.

Won 3 awards at the German Developer Awards in the categories Best German Game Studio, Social Commitment and Best Mobile Game for Clouds & Sheep 2.

Released our first two Virtual Reality Games I Slay Zombies – VR Shooter and Hidden Temple – VR Adventure for Android.

Super Party Sports: Football was released, to much acclaim, as our first game on Xbox One.

Release of various high-quality wearable games like Max – My Fitness Dog and My Fitness Maze as one of the very first game developers in this market segment.

Aces of the Luftwaffe was successfully released as the first HandyGames title on the Sony PlayStation 4.

Aces of the Luftwaffe became our first release on Steam, emphasising our continued push to go “beyond mobile”.

Aces of the Luftwaffe received the award for the best game in the category ‘innovation’ at the German Games Developer Awards.

One of the first developers to be on the new smart TV platform Android TV.

Release of the four games Aces of the Luftwaffe, Save the Puppies, Ninja Hero Cats and Farm Invasion USA for the new Amazon Fire TV on its launch date.

Partner of Amazon Fire Phone’s launch. Release of our game Stage Dive Legends for this special platform just in time.

Our games reached 1 million reviews on Google Play.

4th place at the German developer studio of the year awards by “Making Games”.

One of the first turn-based multiplayer games presented by Google at the Google I/O 2013. Later officially and successfully released on Google Play.

Launch partner of Google Play Game Services with several titles which were presented at the Google I/O 2013.

Aces of the Luftwaffe was the first game ported to the Windows Phone 8.

2nd prize for Clouds & Sheep – Chord Edition! HandyGames™ was the first developer that successfully used Chord SDK to beam sheep between Samsung devices.

Honorable mention and a prize of $ 40,000 for our game Stage Dive Legends.

Aces of the Luftwaffe won 2nd place at the Opera Top Apps Awards 2013 in the category “Games: Action”.

Support for the first mobile phones which went beyond mobile like the OUYA or now the Samsung S Console.

1st prize ($ 100,000) for Guns’n’Glory WW2.

First games for the Sony Xperia Play, the first mobile handset with real gaming controls.

First company to use Immersion Haptics in almost every Android game.

First releases of free-to-play games thanks to in-game advertising.

First game support for the Zeemote, a small external joystick for mobile games.

First two games (Snowboard Rush and Hamster Hustle) in which the players control the game characters by using body movements in front of the mobile phone’s camera pre-installed on the Sony Ericsson Yari device.

First games for the Nokia N-Gage.

R&D showcase for location-based games (LBS games) with a unique Siemens Mobile Phone. We combined the real with the virtual world map in a science fiction game.

First color J2ME soccer game for the World Cup of T-Mobile/T-Online. It was developed for the first color J2ME device, SGH-T 100, which was sold exclusively on T-Mobile. The game was heavily advertised during the World Cup 2002.

First online/mobile/SMS game for Siemens Mobile Phones on the C45.

First James Bond game on behalf of Vodafone Global for the movie “Die another Day”.

HandyGames™ was founded in 2000 by the two brothers Markus and Christopher Kassulke and their business partner Udo Bausewein.

Published the first mobile pre-installed games together with Siemens Mobile Phones.

First monochromatic WAP Games.