Early Morning Studio

Early Morning Studio is a Swedish video game developer focused on classic role-playing games for mobile, PC and consoles. Its work combines handcrafted fantasy worlds, narrative design, 2D artwork and tactical turn-based combat. The studio develops its own original intellectual properties, handling game design, programming, writing and visual art internally.

The company traces its beginnings to around 2010, when university friends Kristian Andersson and Emir Kuljanin began making games while studying computer science and software development in Sweden. Their first project, Vampire's Fall, grew from an interest in the immersive worlds of pen-and-paper games and early computer RPGs. Positive player reception encouraged them to expand the team, with lead artist Julijana Mijailović joining before the business formally incorporated in November 2018.

From mobile RPGs to multiple platforms

The studio developed Vampire’s Fall: Origins as a 2D open-world dark-fantasy RPG built around tactical encounters. Originally released on mobile in 2018, it subsequently expanded to PC, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. The game accumulated more than 10 million lifetime downloads, establishing a wider audience for the studio’s approach to old-school role-playing.

Subsequent releases include the settlement-building RPG Champions of Avan and the turn-based Vendir: Plague of Lies. Its portfolio also includes Sol Frontiers. The later Vampire’s Fall 2 continued the studio’s fantasy RPG work across mobile and PC.

Thunderful Group acquired the company in November 2021, retaining its founders and autonomous creative direction. Early Morning Studio continues to develop games within the group, which later became majority-owned by Atari. Anchored in Gävle, Sweden, the studio combines a physical workspace with a distributed international team and describes its operating approach as remote-first.