Awaken Realms

Awaken Realms is a Polish games publisher and entertainment studio founded in 2014 by Marcin Świerkot and Adrian Komarski. Beginning as a boutique miniature-painting commission business, it evolved into a creator and publisher of original tabletop games, with a focus on richly produced narrative campaigns, detailed miniatures, and dark fantasy and science-fiction settings.

The studio's tabletop catalogue includes This War of Mine: The Board Game, Lords of Hellas, Nemesis, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, Etherfields, The Great Wall, ISS Vanguard, and Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition. Its work combines thematic game design, miniature sculpting and production, crowdfunding, fulfilment, localisation, and direct-to-consumer tabletop commerce.

Tabletop and digital development

Alongside its board-game publishing activity, Awaken Realms develops and publishes video games through its internal digital branch, Questline, operating via AR Digital sp. z o.o. This work extends the company's tabletop intellectual property into PC and console games, including the roguelike deck-builder Tainted Grail: Conquest and the open-world dark-fantasy action RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

The company also publishes selected games from partner developers, including Chicken Launcher's No Place Like Home, Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator, and the in-development Project: MIST, as well as Nemesis: Distress with Ovid Works.

Capabilities

• Tabletop game design, publishing, and crowdfunding campaign management
• Miniature sculpting, production, and immersive narrative campaign development
• PC and console RPG development using Unreal Engine and Unity
• Digital game publishing, physical fulfilment, and localisation

Awaken Realms operates as an independent company, with Ravensburger holding a minority strategic investment stake since 2022. Its teams span board-game design, 3D modelling, sculpting, programming, writing, logistics, and digital publishing.