Hooded Horse

Hooded Horse
IndustryVideo games
Founded2019
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas
,
US
Key people
Tim Bender (CEO)
Snow Rui (CFO)
Number of employees
12 (2023)
Websitehoodedhorse.com

Hooded Horse is an American video game publisher founded in 2019. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company is most known for publishing tactical and strategic games such as Against the Storm, Old World, and Manor Lords.

History

The company was founded in 2019. The company specializes in creating tactical and strategic games with elements commonly seen in role-playing games. As a publisher, Hooded Horse will allocate a budget of at least $100,000 for localization and marketing for each project, and developers can retain 65% of all revenues generated following a game's release.[1][2] Early games published by Hooded Horse include Terra Invicta, a grand strategy game from Pavonis Interactive, the studio behind the Long War mods for modern XCOM games, and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic from 3Division. It then signed with Mohawk Games for the development of Old World, after the original publisher Starbreeze Studios abandoned the project as it encountered financial difficulties.[3]

By 2023, the publisher had a total of 12 employees, and had published 20 games, most of which were released through Steam's early access program.[1] Against the Storm was released in late 2023 to critical acclaim, and had sold over 1 million copies by March 2024.[4] The company is set to publish Xenonauts 2 (released through early access in 2023),[5] Manor Lords (released through early access in April 2024),[6] and Nova Roma from Lion Shield, the developer behind Kingdoms and Castles, among others.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Velocci, Carli (February 13, 2023). "How indie publisher Hooded Horse aims to do right by developers". Game Developer. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  2. ^ Shoemaker, Richie (March 30, 2023). "Harnessing Hooded Horse power – Tim Bender and Snow Rui on their indie publisher". MCVUK. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  3. ^ Low, Aloysius (October 13, 2021). "Old World's Epic Games Store exclusive a good thing: Hooded Horse CEO". Yahoo!. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  4. ^ Livingston, Christopher (March 30, 2024). "One of our favorite city builders has sold over a million copies on Steam, and there's an expansion on the way". PC Gamer. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  5. ^ Brown, Andy (June 19, 2023). "Sci-fi strategy 'Xenonauts 2' confirms Early Access release date with new trailer". NME. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  6. ^ Chalk, Andy (May 3, 2024). "Taking a lesson from Manor Lords, Hooded Horse delays Norland to July". PC Gamer. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  7. ^ O'Connor, Alice (June 11, 2023). "Build your own Roman city with this new citybuilder next year". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved May 2, 2024.