ABOUT Firesquid

About Firesquid

“Firesquid is a developer-focused publisher deeply supporting talented teams making games that modernize and revisit the strategy genre.”

Website[www.firesquid.fr]
Facebook[www.facebook.com]
Newsletter[6002c7a7.sibforms.com]
Discord[discord.gg]
Twitter

VIEW ALL

POPULAR DISCUSSIONS

VIEW ALL (2)

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Firesquid 2024 recap

18 December, 2024 - Lumixvaz | 0 Comments

What happened in 2024 for Firesquid? Well, a lot! We stayed busy with many new releases, announcements, and another edition of TactiCon. Let us detail what happened this year.

First, Firesquid is a developer-focused publisher helping teams realize their vision. We form deep and trust-based relationships with our partners. Firesquid aims to create a catalog of strategy titles that modernize and revisit the genre while delighting our players the world over.

We are always looking for new teams and games to support, so strategy game developers: Submit your games[airtable.com]!

What happened in 2024?

Start of FireSquad

At the start of the year, we launched a new program for content creators: FireSquad.

FireSquad is a vibrant collective of content creators passionate about strategy games, giving streamers and YouTubers exclusive access to our games, new opportunities and a community of like-minded creators to join.

If you’d like to join FireSquad, fill out the form: https://forms.gle/jWw6UBQvFFvQPNc88

Blade Prince Academy by ANGEL CORP

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333510/Blade_Prince_Academy/
Starting the release round with Blade Prince Academy! After a successful Kickstarter, the game was released in March and shortly after, was part of the Women in Game Dev Bundle, a bundle initiated by Women In Games France to highlight women working on French video games. A free DLC also came out later on, adding a new playable character to the Blade Princes, Kleff!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2904540/Blade_Prince_Academy__Kleff_DLC/

Great Houses of Calderia by Resistance Games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812910/Great_Houses_of_Calderia/
2024 was also the year of the 1.0 launch for Great Houses of Calderia! In May, after 8 months of Early Access, players could put their hands on our feudal grand strategy game. The demo is still available if you’d like to give the game a try.

REUS 2 by Abbey Games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1875060/Reus_2/
Also released in May, Reus 2 keeps evolving with the release of monthly free updates adding new content, and implementing suggestions made by you.

These updates and our dedication to listening to the players' feedback were praised by the community, making Reus 2’s reviews Overwhelmingly Positive (95%).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333960/Reus_2__Ice_Age/

2025 will be a fruitful year for Reus 2 with an exclusive free update bringing whole new mechanics: the relationships system between cities as well as the natural disasters abilities for the Giants. The Ice Age DLC was also announced, bringing more content for you to create their own worlds.

Crab God by Chaos Theory Games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289390/Crab_God/
Crab God, our atmospheric underwater strategy game, has many things to be proud of. Working on a game that has real-life positive impacts on the environment was an amazing project. It is even more satisfying to see the actions taken since launch thanks to the community playing the game:
🐠 1,561 coral fragments restored
🌳 651 trees planted
🌊 1,525 lbs of plastic removed from our oceans
🐢 985 baby sea turtles saved
💨 7,060 kg of carbon offset
🛡️ 1,217,000 m² of marine area protected

2024 honored Crab God with various awards, celebrating both the hard work the team made with for example the Unity for Humanity Grant as well as the social impact included in the project with the Big Impact: Social Matters at Gamescom LATAM.

TactiCon by Firesquid & Hooded Horse Inc.

For a 3rd edition, TactiCon was back in July! The event got even more traction than the previous year with great results in terms of visits, over 2,300,000 unique visitors to the event page, up 600,000 from last year. It shows us that you enjoy our strategy games gathering, so we will keep going at it! A 4th edition is planned for next summer. If you or someone you know are working on a strategy game, don’t hesitate to submit your game here: https://forms.gle/hC16giGHr5Grs1bC9

As always, the event featured a Showcase with exclusive announcements as well as Panels & Talks by passionate developers, which you can find on our YouTube channel.

Space Prison by Wooden Alien

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1865930/Space_Prison/
Who knew life in prison could be so positive? Space Prison launched in July 2024 and received positive reviews and insightful feedback. It seems that you enjoyed your time in your intergalactic cell!

We explored in our monthly dev blogs the behind-the-scenes of birthing a new universe with a diverse cast of characters and how we take a new turn on the survival game genre by making it in a confined and populated space instead of a vast and inhabited area.

USC: Counterforce by Angry Cat Studios

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574870/USC_Counterforce/
July was also the time of USC: Counterforce’s 1.0 launch! One year after its launch in Early Access, the game was released on Steam and GOG.com with a full campaign where you were now able to create your avatar, choose your affiliation, manage your marine roster, and go on the first missions of the Campaign, both on a global and small scale, with the strategic map!

The game has a Remote Play Together option on Steam. It allows you to invite a fellow marine to join your fight. One player owns and runs the game using the Remote Play Together feature to invite the other. So Gear up and prepare to fight with a friend!

Becoming Saint by Open Lab

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2643010/Becoming_Saint/
During TactiCon 2024, we have announced our new game Becoming Saint, a real-time strategy game where you build your heretic movement, gather followers, and try to convert medieval Italy to your beliefs!

Follow this holy journey where we share the development of the game step by step, both on the artistic direction and the combat gameplay. We aim to make you live the evolution of an indie strategy game via our Steam news. So check out our dev blogs!

Vultures: Scavengers of Death by Team Vultures

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2537470/Vultures__Scavengers_of_Death/
During TactiCon, Vultures: Scavengers of Death was also announced as joining the Firesquid catalog. In this 90's survival game inspired world, tactical turn-based survival horror, you play as an operative of VULTURES. Scavenge the infested metropolis for materials and information that could cure the infection plaguing the world. The demo is up until the end of December, so gear up to fight the zombie threat!

During Vultures’ development, we are very open to the players’ suggestions. We would love to hear what you think of our last monsters, you can also help us name some characters! Follow us on Reddit to contribute to the game, check out our last post.

What’s next?

We can’t share too much yet but we are very excited to say that we’ve signed a few new titles! Now, we could say that these future games are from genres we’ve never explored before at Firesquid. We’ll give you more details in the coming months.

We also plan to attend a few industry events, so if you’d like to meet up at GDC, or Gamescom, let us know.

See you next year!

Firesquid 2022 retrospective

19 December, 2022 - Firesquid | 0 Comments

This article is a recap of what happened in 2022 for us at Firesquid, a young publisher of strategy games. Read about our exciting year!
We are an indie publisher focusing on games that include strategizing and thinking. Whether it is a grand strategy game, a city-builder, or any other game where the brain is the most important muscle. Our goal is to empower diverse teams and offer players games that make their eyes shine.

What happened in 2022?

We started the year with the announcement of our first game Great Houses of Calderia, a modern generational Grand Strategy game set in the fantastic land of Calderia inspired by the Renaissance.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812910/Great_Houses_of_Calderia/

We received a warm welcome from the strategy game community, especially on Twitter. Players seemed to be intrigued by the Crusader Kings III and Game of Thrones mix and joined our Discord server. We organized a few playtest sessions with our community in the following months. Players shared insightful feedback and we carefully listened.

In June, the game was selected and showcased at the PC Gaming Show in front of thousands of viewers with an exclusive gameplay trailer.

The day after was the beginning of the Steam Next Fest, where the game was showcased. We shared a new demo and had two live streams by the developers at Resistance Games. The reception was good and gained us thousands of wishlists.

In the Summer, Léa and Igor joined us as game testers for an internship where they could learn QA testing, and work on all our games. Thanks to their hard work and passion, they helped the teams tremendously.

At the same time, we were working on another big project: TactiCon. TactiCon is a love letter to strategy games of all kinds. With our partners Hooded Horse, we wanted to celebrate this genre that’s so close to our hearts.

TactiCon is a five-day Steam festival showcasing a carefully curated list of exciting upcoming and recently released or updated strategy and tactics games across a number of different subgenres (grand strategy, 4X, RTS, turn-based tactics, and similar). It also features a series of unique talks, panels, interviews, and let’s plays given by experts from the genre in addition to showcasing the games themselves in a dedicated sale. The event is covered by streamers and the media alike and hosted as a weekend sale on Steam.

TactiCon Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TactiCon

In total, 116 games were featured with 48 demos, and 58 games on sale. Two dozen speakers took part in 9 panels around strategy games, with the videos available on Youtube. The Steam page received +2.1M unique impressions and +1.5M unique visitors and a significant wishlists (among 62 respondents) and sales boost for the games participating.

In parallel, to take advantage of the TactiCon momentum, we announced our second game, USC: Counterforce. USC is a turn-based squad tactics game inspired by XCOM, Space Hulk and Aliens, featuring in-depth skill & combat systems and multiple game modes. The game invites you to discover the truth behind the demise of colony MC83-A, and to protect Humankind from an ancient alien threat.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574870/USC_Counterforce/

We ran a first playtest session on the demo and new tutorial that was really promising. The developers, Angry Cat Studios, and us are eager to add new features and modes to the game. The community members will be able to test new exciting features in advance of its release.

We then prepared for December’s TurnBasedFest, a Steam strategy game event created by the turn-based community. USC: Counterforce participated with a demo including a new tutorial, new missions, and major visual changes.

We’ve been attending many events in 2022: Game Camp (Lille), Gamescom (Cologne), EGX Live (London), Game Connection (Paris). We plan of going to a few more in 2023, starting with the Game Developer Conference in March (San Francisco). We’d love to meet you there and listen to your pitch!

2023 is going to be very promising for us as a publisher. We will release our first games Great Houses of Calderia and USC: Counterforce, announce new partnerships, hopefully, have the second edition of TactiCon, and more!