Sisu Game Ventures

We are COOKING! Just one week into open beta and we have... 🏆 Hit 1 MILLION lifetime players 🥉 3xed our playerbase since Steam Next Fest 👑 Put out a week 1 patch with CUSTOM GAME LOBBIES for our LEGENDS 🗺️ Posted a development roadmap detailing what's to come: https://lnkd.in/gTW6zdK7 Thanks to everyone for their support! Onward!

🌟 SUPERVIVE IS LIVE IN OPEN BETA 🌟 It's been a wild ride of development - just under 4 years. From the studio founding at the very end of 2020, to our first playtest with real players (and Shroud, lol) a few months later, to playtesting at least every month with dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of new players as we built this snowball. Thanks for coming on this journey /so far/, and we'll see you all in SUPERVIVE! https://lnkd.in/gkxJu4y2

🎮 How Cosmic Lounge is Building Games in a Better Way 🚀 At Cosmic Lounge, we believe that to craft stellar games, game teams should have exceptional tools. That’s why we built the Puzzle Engine—a proprietary AI-powered technology designed to address the biggest challenges we have seen in building mobile free-to-play games. Here’s how it’s shaping our approach: 1️⃣ Validating product-market fit: Coming up with ideas is easy, but knowing if they are good is very hard. With Puzzle Engine, our designers can quickly prototype using a no-code toolset and market-test concepts to discover which designs truly resonate with players. 2️⃣ Scaling content production: Live games need constant updates, but content bottlenecks often hold teams back. AI-powered tools in Puzzle Engine streamline this process, ensuring a steady flow of engaging levels and features while supporting advanced monetization. 3️⃣ Maximum operability: Making new features for liveops is traditionally slow. Puzzle Engine is designed to support operability-by-default, enabling easy releases of new kinds of events and updatable features—and even personalizing them. Thanks to Puzzle Engine’s unique architecture, even game mechanics can be treated as updatable content. 4️⃣ Marketing with minigames: Misleading ads may lower CPI but often lead to high churn from disappointed players. With Puzzle Engine, our marketing team can easily build and market-test user acquisition-optimized minigames for ad creatives—and include them in the actual games. This approach reduces cost per retained user by up to 50%. The Puzzle Engine represents our commitment to rethinking how puzzle games are built and giving our teams the tools to create better experiences for players. 🎥 Watch the Puzzle Engine in action. #PuzzleEngine #AI #GameDevelopment #MobileGaming

News: we’ve officially launched our first game. ✨ Retail Mage is now available for purchase on Steam! We’re incredibly proud to have shipped our game in under 6 months, showcasing the fun and promise of a whole new paradigm to play, unlocked by a creative and technically robust integration of new technologies. A huge thanks and shoutout to our incredible team and all the partners and collaborators who hopped onto this project! Grab a friend and come on down to MageMart, where the vegan meatballs are plentiful and the chance for fires is abnormally high 💳🧙✨ (Steam store link in comments!)

This year, we've been actively participating in key gaming events, sharing how AI is transforming game development. Through collaborations with various companies—including key partners like Google—we’ve demonstrated how AI-driven innovation is shaping the future of game creation. At Cosmic Lounge, we use our proprietary AI-powered Puzzle Engine for game development and operations. One of the pioneering use cases is AI-assisted game level generation, testing, and analytics, where we leverage integrated solutions like Google Vertex AI models to achieve up to 20x efficiency. Want to see our AI-driven tools in action? We will be at Google’s booth at Slush on November 20th at 12 PM, showcasing how our team utilizes the Puzzle Engine to push the boundaries of game design. For a snapshot of our approach, check out this video featuring our CEO, Tomi Huttula, as he explains how we harness AI to power the next generation of game development. #GoogleCloud #Slush2024 #MobileGames #AItechnology #GameTech #PuzzleEngine #VertexAI

Thanks to everyone's energy during Steam Next Fest and our Korean Closed Beta, we're moving as fast as we can to Open Beta. And now we have an official date... Watch to find out ;) https://lnkd.in/gxDakaTN

Had the privilege, honor and a blast to present a short demo of Get Colossal at GF24 event hosted by Supercell! https://lnkd.in/dJCkW3V8 The event was streamed and you can find it here (demos are at the end): https://lnkd.in/d59YSCnv

We’re very excited to share that Bitmagic was featured on the Nasdaq Tower at Times Square in New York! This is one of the incredible highlights that comes with being honored as the Game Changer 2025! 🎉 It’s truly inspiring to see Bitmagic up on one of the world’s most iconic stages. This recognition underscores our team’s hard work and dedication to driving innovation in gaming. Being named Game Changer 2025 is more than just an award – it’s a reflection of our commitment to pushing boundaries, exploring new horizons, and shaping the future of game development. Thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey, from our team to our partners and our amazing community! Here’s to more achievements, more milestones, and more moments like these! 🥂 #GameChanger2025 #Bitmagic #NASDAQ #TimesSquare #Innovation #Gaming #Lightspeed

emptyvessel has been selected as one of 25 Game Changers 2025! We are honored to have been selected and would like to extend our thanks to Lightspeed and GamesBeat You can stay up to date with what we’ve been working on by following playdefect on X or adding DEFECT to your wishlist on Steam!

Markus Kiukkonen and Markus Hjort stepping on stage at Games First to share the story of Bitmagic. Right on the heels of their 2025 Game Changers win. Divide and conquer! 😉