Supergiant Games
More info
- Creator
- Amir Rao, Gavin Simon
- Founded
- Type
- Game developer (independent)
- Website
- supergiantgames.com
A small independent studio that made four acclaimed games in a row and then won big with the roguelike Hades.
Amir Rao and Gavin Simon left EA and founded Supergiant in 2009 in San Francisco. The debut, Bastion (2011), with its narrator and hand-painted art, set the tone; Transistor and Pyre followed. Hades (2020) — a roguelike in which death drives both play and story — was the studio's breakout and won several game-of-the-year awards, rare for the genre. The team is still small and independent; Darren Korb's music and Logan Cunningham's voice work are signatures. Hades II arrived in early access in 2024.