Bee Square Games

Bee Square Games was an independent mobile game developer founded in Barcelona in 2012. The studio created original games for iOS and Android, combining stylized character art, animation and free-to-play game design. Its work ranged from an arcade endless runner to incremental role-playing games, with an emphasis on humorous characters and progression systems.

The studio handled game design, software engineering, 2D art and animation as part of its own development process. Its business centered on creating proprietary intellectual property rather than providing development services for outside clients. Cartoon visual design and expressive characters formed a consistent part of its games.

Mobile games and development history

Its first release, Run Sheldon!, launched in April 2013. Inspired by Aesop’s fable The Tortoise and the Hare, the side-scrolling endless runner introduced the studio’s colorful cartoon style through original artwork and animated characters.

Bee Square’s major commercial breakthrough came with Almost a Hero in March 2017. The idle incremental RPG follows a band of flawed fantasy protagonists and combines character progression, artifacts and seasonal events. It reached millions of downloads and developed an international player community. Bee Square created, developed and published the game, then supported its live operations for more than three years.

In July 2020, the studio transferred full ownership and operations of Almost a Hero to DECA Games. The transfer allowed Bee Square’s team to concentrate on a new mobile project initially announced as Guns & Goblins.

Bee Square contributed the original concept and pre-production work for that project, which subsequently became Goons & Goblins, an idle player-versus-player RPG. Its September 2023 soft launch was developed and published through the separate company Fortyfox S.L.; Bee Square promoted the release through its existing social channels.