Ghost Ship Publishing - Three new games mark the start

02 March 2023 / by Fabian Roßbach
Ghost Ship Publishing - Three new games mark the start

Danish developer studio Ghost Ship Games is launching a new division: Ghost Ship Publishing. With this move, the company is aiming to support other developers by bringing its expertise in financing and marketing, thus promoting the gaming scene in Denmark. The first three games the company will be publishing as a publisher are all from Danish developers.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is the first game Ghost Ship Publishing will be bringing to the market in collaboration with Funday Games. The single-player title is a spin-off of Deep Rock Galactic, a popular game from developer Ghost Ship Games.

In the game, the player has to fight against increasingly powerful waves of aliens in search of gems. The game is set to be released as an Early Access PC title later this year.

SpellRogue

The second game Ghost Ship Publishing will be publishing is SpellRogue. Developed by Guidelight Games, it is a turn-based roguelike game in which the player controls a "wizard with dice rolling" and has to fight through three acts.

This is an innovative variant of the deckbuilding roguelike genre that has been successful in titles such as Slay The Spire. The game is currently in a closed beta phase and is set to be released on PC later. An exact release date has yet to be announced.

DarkSwarm

DarkSwarm is the third game developed by Bitfire Games and published by Ghost Ship Publishing. It is a top-down coop shooter for 1-4 players.

The player follows a group of mercenaries fighting through a large number of aliens. The environments are procedurally generated and destructible. The game is set to be released first on PC, with no release date for consoles announced yet.

An important common denominator of the three games is that all developers are aiming for an open development, flexible game design and consumer-friendly business models. Ghost Ship Publishing is aiming to

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