Bad Robot Games

Bad Robot Games is an interactive entertainment studio founded in 2018 through a partnership between Bad Robot Productions, Tencent, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It develops and incubates games for console, PC, mobile, and other interactive platforms, combining game-development experience with Bad Robot’s storytelling and world-building background.

The company operates as a remote-first, distributed studio, bringing together game-industry veterans and creatives with film and television experience. Its work spans internally developed AAA games as well as external creative collaboration, with an emphasis on interactive worlds, systems-driven design, and cross-platform experiences.

Development and collaboration

In 2020, Bad Robot Games expanded to include an internal development studio alongside an external co-development and advisory practice. The latter has contributed creative direction, creature concepts, narrative support, and world-building advice to projects developed with other teams.

Supported areas of work include:

• Full-cycle video game development and internal AAA production
• Cooperative multiplayer and live-service game design
• Systems, progression, and Unreal Engine 5 development
• Narrative, transmedia storytelling, and world-building advisory
• Co-development consulting for external interactive projects

Projects

The studio’s debut internally developed title is 4:LOOP, an original AAA roguelike four-player cooperative shooter directed by Mike Booth and built in Unreal Engine 5 for PlayStation 5 and PC. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced an exclusive publishing partnership for the project in late 2025.

Bad Robot Games has also supported external projects including Weird West, where it served as a creative advisor; Moonbreaker, for which it provided creative and narrative advisory; and the interactive streaming series Silent Hill: Ascension, created in collaboration with Genvid Entertainment, Behaviour Interactive, dj2 Entertainment, and Konami.

Earlier work included the collaborative mobile espionage project Spyjinx, developed with Chair Entertainment and Epic Games before being shelved. Across its slate, Bad Robot Games focuses on bringing cinematic ideas into playable, social, and systems-led interactive experiences.