Highwire Games

Highwire Games is an independent game development studio based in the Seattle metropolitan area. Founded in late 2014 by veterans of Bungie, Airtight Games and Sucker Punch Productions, it develops tactical military shooters and virtual reality action-adventure games. Its capabilities span game design, technical engineering, procedural environments, networked gameplay and interactive audio.

The studio’s debut game, Golem, launched in November 2019 for PlayStation 4 through PlayStation VR. Built around virtual reality interaction, the action-adventure features immersive 1:1 sword combat and an original orchestral soundtrack composed by Martin “Marty” O’Donnell. Perp Games handled physical editions. The music also extended beyond the game through Echoes of the First Dreamer, a standalone musical prequel album.

Tactical game development

Highwire partnered with external publisher and co-producer Victura in 2017 to rebuild Six Days in Fallujah. Based on first-hand accounts from the Second Battle of Fallujah, the tactical first-person shooter uses procedural architecture to bring uncertainty to urban combat. Highwire’s version was rebuilt following the earlier project developed by Atomic Games, which Konami cancelled in 2009.

Six Days in Fallujah entered Steam Early Access on June 22, 2023. Subsequent development included the “Wargame” and “Jolan Park” deployments, with the supplied research documenting ongoing PC and console development. Victura finances, produces and publishes the title while Highwire serves as its developer.

Across its projects, Highwire combines full-cycle game development with environmental architecture, simulation engineering, music composition and spatial audio production. Its portfolio connects two distinct areas of interactive entertainment: physical, close-range interaction in virtual reality and squad-based tactical combat shaped by changing environments.