Freedom Video games raises $10M to publish indie video games

Freedom Video games mentioned it has accomplished its first exterior priced-financing spherical, elevating a complete of $10 million in each main and secondary capital to publish indie video games. Play Ventures led the spherical.

The Huntsville, Alabama-based firm is barely about 18 months previous, nevertheless it has printed profitable indie tasks like Coromon, Dreamscaper, Darkish Deity, Cat Café Supervisor and Symphony of Struggle. Every of these titles offered a whole lot of hundreds of copies, which is fairly good by indie requirements.

“When looking for a accomplice to affix us for the subsequent a part of our thrilling journey, we knew we wanted somebody with a background in bringing compelling experiences to broad audiences, and Play Ventures completely does,” mentioned Ben Robinson, COO of Freedom Video games, in an announcement.

“We couldn’t be extra proud to work collectively. Not solely will this allow us to carry much more prime quality indies to fruition and proceed rising our platform for creators to share their content material, however to additionally keep dedicated to our developer first mindset by persevering with to spend money on our suite of instruments and companies for indie builders,” mentioned Donovan Duncan, CEO of Freedom Video games, in an announcement.

Play Ventures mentioned it shares Freedom’s imaginative and prescient for a various business elevating unknown recreation improvement expertise from world wide. The funding will speed up Freedom’s development, permit the hiring of extra manufacturing employees to increase and higher serve indie builders, increase their neighborhood platform: wiki.gg, and develop the Freedom Video games’ indie recreation catalog.

Play Ventures’ funding was joined by Nashville Capital Community (NCN) and GFR Fund.

“Freedom’s fast development is a transparent signal of the place the guts of the sport business lies, with indie video games,” mentioned Harri Manninen, Founding Associate at Play Ventures, in an announcement. “We consider that Freedom Video games will turn out to be a staple title within the indie area, alongside the likes of Devolver, Annapurna, tinyBuild, Group 17, and so many others. As followers, we’re additionally trying ahead to taking part in what they’ve in retailer for 2023 throughout all platforms.”

The success continues into This fall 2022 with the anticipated launch of premiere indie title 9 Years of Shadows, and into Q1 2023 with extremely anticipated video games like Mail Time, One Lonely Outpost, and lots of extra.

“We’re supporting indie builders and creator concepts,” mentioned Donovan in an e mail to GamesBeat. “We consider that is the place an increasing number of creativity will originate. This usually means smaller improvement groups which may not usually have entry to the assets and alternatives we offer. Our video games themselves are very broad, we expect we are able to discover enjoyable in lots of genres and as a substitute look to assist a wide range of video games vs. a single area of interest or particular kind of recreation.”

The corporate isn’t but targeted on Web3 video games. It has 10 workers and it began in August 2020, after Donovan left his publish as president of Fandom.

“Throughout my profession I used to be lucky sufficient to construct and run a few of the largest gaming communities on the earth, and traditionally we’d take advert {dollars} to develop these communities and hold them on-line,” Donovan mentioned. “These advert {dollars} solely got here from the most important video games, however I lengthy felt that indie creativity was at an obstacle by not with the ability to spend the large budgets. With our neighborhood platform, wiki.gg, our distinctive advertising expertise, and our understanding of neighborhood, we consider we are able to take nice indie concepts and share them with the world in a method that makes nice financial sense for our developer companions, and shares these superior video games with the world, which excites the heck out of us as players.”