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About Honig Studios

Honig Studios is an independent digital production and game development studio founded in Berlin in 2012. Its work brings together narrative storytelling and interactive technology across video games, digital publishing, educational platforms and experimental media. The company developed from a transmedia entertainment agency into a studio producing both original games and commissioned digital experiences.

Its capabilities span full-cycle game development, interactive prototyping, creative concept development, narrative design, UI/UX design, and web and mobile application engineering. Its reported areas of practice also include virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Across these disciplines, the studio has worked for audiences in interactive entertainment, children’s media, cross-media broadcasting, culture and education.

Games and interactive storytelling

A prominent game credit is El Hijo – A Wild West Tale, released in 2020. Developed with Quantumfrog and published by HandyGames, the non-violent spaghetti-western adventure uses stealth and puzzle solving. The studio subsequently developed The Lost Glitches, a tactical deck-building game combining cyber-fantasy imagery with role-playing elements.

Its children’s work includes Milli the Snail, an interactive preschool storybook, and Obstgarten / Orchard, a mobile adaptation of HABA’s board game. Other projects explore different ways to deliver stories and cultural content: Ooigo provides children’s audio experiences, while Kunstlabore connects artistic practice with educational institutions through a digital learning platform.

The studio’s broader transmedia portfolio includes participatory online experiences accompanying The Spiral, the interactive coal-mining documentary Atterwasch, and The Disaster Resilience Journal, produced with Helios Design Labs. It also collaborated with architectural firm Die Baupiloten BDA on hochdrei – Visionenspiel, a participatory tool for imagining and planning libraries.

In June 2026, Honig Studios entered court-supervised insolvency proceedings. Its legal entity entered formal liquidation in July 2026, marking a significant change after more than a decade of production.

More about Honig Studios

Founders and early history

  • Federico Dini and Jiannis Sotiropoulos co-founded the studio and served as managing directors during its active history. The report notes a director departure in July 2025 without identifying which individual departed; their historical roles should not be treated as verified current appointments.
  • In a 2021 interview, Sotiropoulos traced the collaborators’ shared Neukölln workspace back to around 2006, before the studio’s formal founding.

Recognition

  • El Hijo – A Wild West Tale received Best Indie Game at Gamescom 2019 and Best Family Game at the German Computer Game Awards in 2021.
  • Milli the Snail received Apple’s Best of 2012 recognition and a Red Dot Communication Design Award. The Red Dot archive lists Honig Studios GmbH as the client.
  • The Spiral was nominated for an International Digital Emmy Award; the nomination concerned the production rather than a standalone studio award.
  • The Disaster Resilience Journal won at the Digital Communication Awards in 2015.

Collaborative development

The German Federal Cultural Foundation commissioned Die Baupiloten BDA, working with Honig Studios, to realise hochdrei – Visionenspiel. The participatory library-planning tool underwent an approximately eighteen-month development and testing period.

Notable credits

10 credits
  • El Hijo – A Wild West Tale
  • The Lost Glitches
  • Milli the Snail / Milli – A Small Snail in a Big World
  • The Spiral
  • Obstgarten / Orchard
  • Ooigo
  • Kunstlabore
  • hochdrei – Visionenspiel
  • Atterwasch
  • The Disaster Resilience Journal

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Where Honig Studios is based

1 location

  • Berlin offices

    Headquarters
    Berlin, Germany
    About this office

    **Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: Hobrechtstraße 65, 12047 Berlin, Germany Email: hello@honigstudios.com Phone: +49 30 64 38 6217 Office webpage: https://honigstudios.github.io/contact/ Verified company headquarters and operating base in Neukölln. The company entered insolvency and liquidation in 2026; physical closure of the premises is not established. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: Weserstraße 6, 12047 Berlin, Germany Former working premises in Neukölln, preceding the move to larger premises across the street.

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