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Seattle studio Reflection Games raises more cash for mobile battler ‘Mutant Forge’
Reflection Games, an independent studio founded in 2021 by several veterans of Seattle’s Big Fish Games, is raising more cash. A new SEC filing reveals that the company raised $1.1 million in a new investment. We reached out to Reflection for more details. The company’s debut project is Mutant Forge, a free-to-play “strategy battler,” soft-launched out of beta in September for iOS and Android. Reflection’s CEO, Paul Thelen, is the founder and former chairman at Big Fish Games, which was acquired in 2014 by Churchill Downs Inc. Other Big Fish veterans at Reflection include chief operating officer Patrick Wylie, senior… Read More
Reflection Games, an independent studio founded in 2021 by several veterans of Seattle’s Big Fish Games, is raising more cash.
A new SEC filing reveals that the company raised $1.1 million in a new investment. We reached out to Reflection for more details.
The company’s debut project is Mutant Forge, a free-to-play “strategy battler,” soft-launched out of beta in September for iOS and Android.
Reflection’s CEO, Paul Thelen, is the founder and former chairman at Big Fish Games, which was acquired in 2014 by Churchill Downs Inc. Other Big Fish veterans at Reflection include chief operating officer Patrick Wylie, senior backend engineer Christopher Warwick, and game design director Michael Tapley.
In Mutant Forge, players are given an assortment of disposable monsters with which to attack enemies and destroy fortifications, in an experience that mixes mechanics from tower defense and “auto-battler” games. Each type of unit has its own strengths and weaknesses, but you have to work around their recharge timers, rather than simply building up your force and flooding the zone.
Players of Mutant Forge can take on both CPU-controlled opponents and other humans as generals of their own bespoke mutant armies. It began its second season of content, the “Season of Hearts,” in February.
