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

Freedom Video games stated 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 just about 18 months previous, nevertheless it has revealed profitable indie tasks like Coromon, Dreamscaper, Darkish Deity, Cat Café Supervisor and Symphony of Warfare. Every of these titles offered a whole lot of 1000’s of copies, which is fairly good by indie requirements.

“When in search of a accomplice to hitch 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,” stated Ben Robinson, COO of Freedom Video games, in a press release.

“We couldn’t be extra proud to work collectively. Not solely will this allow us to carry much more top 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 providers for indie builders,” stated Donovan Duncan, CEO of Freedom Video games, in a press release.

Play Ventures stated it shares Freedom’s imaginative and prescient for a various business elevating unknown recreation growth expertise from around the globe. The funding will speed up Freedom’s development, permit the hiring of extra manufacturing workers to broaden and higher serve indie builders, broaden 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 speedy development is a transparent signal of the place the center of the sport business lies, with indie video games,” stated Harri Manninen, Founding Associate at Play Ventures, in a press release. “We imagine that Freedom Video games will grow to be a staple identify within the indie house, alongside the likes of Devolver, Annapurna, tinyBuild, Workforce 17, and so many others. As followers, we’re additionally wanting ahead to enjoying what they’ve in retailer for 2023 throughout all platforms.”

The success continues into This autumn 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,” stated Donovan in an electronic mail to GamesBeat. “We imagine that is the place increasingly more creativity will originate. This usually means smaller growth groups which may not usually have entry to the assets and alternatives we offer. Our video games themselves are very broad, we predict we are able to discover enjoyable in lots of genres and as an alternative look to help quite a lot of video games vs. a single area of interest or particular sort of recreation.”

The corporate isn’t but targeted on Web3 video games. It has 10 staff and it began in August 2020, after Donovan left his submit 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 maintain them on-line,” Donovan stated. “These advert {dollars} solely got here from the largest video games, however I lengthy felt that indie creativity was at an obstacle by not having the ability to spend the large budgets. With our neighborhood platform, wiki.gg, our distinctive advertising expertise, and our understanding of neighborhood, we imagine we are able to take nice indie concepts and share them with the world in a manner 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 avid gamers.”