In 2022, Owlcat pulled off another coup in partnering with Games Workshop to produce the first CRPG based on the d100 ruleset that traces its roots back to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, that game being Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (using the Rogue Trader tabletop game as its inspiration and source material).
This led to a highly successful second Kickstarter for a sequel, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and to Paizo ( Pathfinder's tabletop developer & publisher) being very satisfied with the treatment Pathfinder was getting in the CRPG space and developing a close working relationship with Owlcat. While that game faced a turbulent launch, Owlcat put in the work to clean up the game's bugs and defects, and by 2019 it was considered easily one of the best games of the "isometric revival".
The studio was founded in 2016 by Oleg Shpilchevskiy and Alexander Mishulin, and soon after its founding launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first title: Pathfinder: Kingmaker, an RPG based on the Pathfinder ruleset (which branched off from Dungeons & Dragons in 2009) and was in fact the first CRPG made for that setting and ruleset. Owlcat is primarily devoted to the creation of computer Role-Playing Games in the Western RPG mold, taking particular inspiration from Baldur's Gate and other Infinity Engine-era titles. with the "satellite" office in Moscow previously having been the de facto main development studio and home to the vast majority of the staff, prior to events of the early 2020s prompting a move of the bulk of the team to Cyprus. Owlcat Games is a Video Game developer, headquartered in Cyprus with satellite offices in Russia and Armenia. Who better to make some great Pathfinder games?
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