Back to all studios
BELI

Believer Entertainment

Games & Interactive
View roles 1Visit website
Open roles
1
Founded
2022
Employees
51-200
Offices
1

About Believer Entertainment

Believer Entertainment is an independent game-development studio creating a new original, stylized open-world multiplayer intellectual property. Established in 2022 and publicly announced in 2023, the company develops its debut project natively in Unreal Engine 5, with an emphasis on player agency, cooperative play and a cross-platform online ecosystem.

The studio combines game design, software engineering, art production and production infrastructure to build multiplayer worlds from early ideation through asset creation and live-service-ready systems. Its creative focus includes stylized 2D and 3D art, environment art, world building, visual-effects simulation and multiplayer systems architecture.

Development capabilities

  • Open-world multiplayer game design and systems architecture
  • Unreal Engine 5 development, custom engine tooling and developer workflows
  • Stylized environment art, world building and visual effects using Niagara, Houdini, Substance Designer and Maya
  • Original IP creation and transmedia world-building
  • Cross-platform online ecosystems and live-service architecture

Open-source production tools

Believer also develops and releases tools intended to support game teams and distributed production. Friendshipper is an open-source companion application for Unreal Engine playtesting, branch management, build distribution and Git source control. Claireon is an open-source Unreal Engine plugin for agentic and automated development workflows.

The company operates with a distributed, remote-friendly team while maintaining its principal executive base in the Los Angeles area. Its work centers on building a new game universe rather than adapting an established license, pairing creative world development with custom DevOps infrastructure and open-source pipeline engineering.

More about Believer Entertainment

Leadership and launch

  • Believer was co-founded by Michael Chow, Chief Executive Officer and former Riot Games vice president and executive producer of League of Legends: Wild Rift, and Steven Snow, Chief Product Officer, a founding member of Riot Games and executive producer of League of Legends.
  • The company launched with a $55 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, BITKRAFT Ventures, Riot Games, 1Up Ventures and Upfront Ventures.

Development approach

Believer describes its founding motto as “Credo In Ludos” (“I believe in games”) and frames its development philosophy around player-centric design rather than aggressive monetization and short-term quarterly priorities.

Notable credits

3 credits
  • Unannounced Original Open-World Multiplayer Title
  • Friendshipper
  • Claireon

Offices

Where Believer Entertainment is based

1 location

  • Los Angeles office

    Headquarters
    8420 Sunset Blvd., Suite 108, West Hollywood, CA 90069, USALos Angeles, California, United States

    Corporate headquarters and principal executive offices in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

    View map

Open roles

Find your next role at Believer Entertainment

1 job