Kingmaker Once More After Losing Rights Several Years Ago

Owlcat Games, developers of beloved CRPGs Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader has reunited with My.Games. Just like Owlcat, My.Games was a subsidiary of Mail.Ru before it became independent in 2022 (Owlcat split off in 2019).

Owlcat Games was still owned by Mail.Ru when it published its debut game, Pathfinder: Kingmaker. As the previous gaming arm of the company, My.Games held the rights to Mail.Ru’s gaming properties. The now-independent My.Games has launched a premium publishing arm, Knight’s Peak, with oversight over games like Starship Troopers: Extermination.

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As both ex-subsidiaries are now independent, Knight’s Peak has reunited Owlcat with its debut title Pathfinder: Kingmaker. After Owlcat left the company in 2019, they stopped earning royalties from Kingmaker and could not update the game. Fans are hoping they’ll see a couple of patches for Kingmaker now that Owlcat is back in control.

Knight’s Peak told Game Rant that the partnership is a ‘homecoming’. “What we want to bring across is that we’re bringing this game home,” they said. “We are happy to have so many former members who worked on this game in the past and now we are bringing it home to Knight’s Peak, so we’re basically getting the band back together.”

Nothing has been promised by Owlcat or Knight’s Peak, but the partnership may allow for future updates to Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

After going independent following the release of Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Owlcat released Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous in 2021, earning an 83 Metascore on the review aggregator Metacritic. The final expansion for Wrath of the Righteous, A Dance of Masks, is set to release on June 13.

Owlcat released Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader in December. In our 8.2/10 review of the CRPG, we called it “a shining star for fans of the setting who appreciate a narrative focus.”