Fracture Labs
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Fracture Labs
Fracture Labs is an independent game development and technology studio founded in 2018. Based in Estonia, it develops persistent multiplayer open-world games and provides infrastructure and engineering services to other developers. Its work combines game production, performance optimization and blockchain-based game economies.
The studio’s flagship project, Decimated, is a post-apocalyptic, third-person multiplayer survival RPG built in Unreal Engine 5. Set in an abandoned wasteland, it brings human citizens, wastelanders and cyborg police officers into competition for resources and survival. Its digital economy integrates the DIO token on the Solana network. The game is available through Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Technology and development services
Infrastructure developed during production of Decimated forms the basis of Fracture Labs Platform Licensing. The platform offers fifteen modular systems covering persistent world state, combat, inventory, loot and economy, spawning, quests and AI behaviors. These systems are offered to external studios building multiplayer open-world projects, extending the company’s business beyond its own game production.
Fracture Labs also provides optimization audits and engineering sprints for Unreal Engine 5 and Unity projects. These engagements address CPU and GPU profiling, memory budgets, shaders and performance requirements associated with console and PC certification. Its technical capabilities include Unity draw-call reduction, procedural world generation using SideFX Houdini, multiplayer netcode and persistent cross-server state management.
Additional services include Web3 backend integration, connectivity for secondary marketplace trading and custom multiplayer feature co-development. Together, these offerings support developers working on interactive worlds, multiplayer systems and blockchain-enabled game experiences.
The company also operates Game Foundry, a web-based developer toolset intended to assist independent game makers with art, code and audio pipelines. This adds a developer-facing tools offering alongside the studio’s game production, licensed infrastructure and technical services.
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Leadership and operating model
- Founder Stephen Arnold is identified as CEO and Creative Director.
- The studio describes a distributed, remote-first operating model, with core staff and production contractors across Europe and South America.
Production history
- The licensed platform grew out of more than five years of development on Decimated. During its 2024–2026 expansion into platform licensing, the company presented the infrastructure as a way to reduce open-world development cycles from 5–8 years to 12–24 months; these are company-stated targets.
Project recognition
- Decimated won Best Blockchain Game at the Crypto Games Conference in 2019, received awards at Global Games Pitch in 2022 and received an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games. These recognitions concern the game rather than a separately identified studio-wide award.
Corporate history
- An early Maltese entity, Fracture Labs Ltd, was incorporated in 2018 during project incubation. In an interview, Stephen Arnold explained that physical staff did not operate from Malta and that core operations and corporate governance moved to the Estonian entity.
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Where Fracture Labs is based
- Saani tn 2/2-26, Põhja-Tallinna linnaosa, 10149 Tallinn, Harju maakond, EstoniaTallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Tallinn office
HeadquartersRegistered corporate office and overall headquarters, serving as the studio’s legal, corporate and administrative center.
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