Spectarium, a remote-first company building best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs (Role-playing Video Games) founded in 2019, today announced a €5 million euro seed round led by BITKRAFT Venture, with participation from Delphi Digital and Framework Ventures, to scale the team and further develop the gameplay of the company’s first RPG title, Myths, which is scheduled to soft launch to specific targeted audiences in 2024. The gaming company was founded in Oulu, Finland by Romain Schneider, Mark Peterson, and Plarium Co-Founders Avi & Gabi Shalel, the Spectarium team boasts decades of game development and design experience, with members from EA, Epic Games, Riot Games, and Square Enix.
Spectarium CEO, Romain Schneider commented: “Eight years ago, the Spectarium core team came together with a shared mission: to create a game envisioned by our community. This journey fostered a deep trust with our global player base and solidified our team’s passion for crafting games that resonate. While we remain community-centric, the studio has evolved and is committed to developing cross-platform, mass-market games that captivate gamers worldwide. By merging standout visuals with generated content, we aim to craft unique and endless gameplay experiences.”
The company’s flagship title Myths, is an action RPG game that puts fun and endless gameplay at the forefront. Inspired by ancient mythology and beloved classic games, Myths is an epic dungeon-crawling experience with unique twists. Characters, equipment, and portals absorb the properties of defeated bosses, introducing a novel strategy element into the gameplay. Additionally, the first players who find and defeat legendary new bosses can own, upgrade, and make them available to the entire game community, ensuring in-world fame from the entire player base.
A fundamental concept underpinning the game’s design is the creation of an engine that tailors gameplay activities and the proprietary Mythological theme IP to match the preferences of each individual player. As a result, one player’s journey might revolve around engaging in boss battles within the realm of Valhalla, while another embarks on a journey through the intricacies of a Mayan temple. Similar to the TikTok algorithm, the Spectarium game engine intuitively aligns gameplay experiences and thematic elements with the specific preferences of players, essentially making every game unique and personalized.
Spectarium’s innovation lies in the symbiotic collaboration between AI and storytelling. The AI serves as the narrative backbone, dynamically tailoring the storyline to players’ choices and evolving game maps. Jasper Brand, Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures. commented: “At BITKRAFT, we believe that content generation is one of the most promising forms of AI-enabled creativity and a paradigm shift in studio economics. Spectarium’s approach unlocks highly personalized and endlessly customizable gameplay experiences while expanding on proven ARPG systems with the team’s deep genre expertise, and harnessing the global IP of ancient myths to engage diverse player bases across platforms.”
