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Kolibri Games

Games & Interactive

Reinventing Idle Games

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Founded
2016
Employees
51-200
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About Kolibri Games

Kolibri Games is a Berlin-based mobile game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play idle, incremental and tycoon simulation games for iOS and Android. Founded in 2016 as Fluffy Fairy Games, the company began in a student flat in Karlsruhe, where its four founders developed Idle Miner Tycoon in eight weeks using a lean, rapid-prototyping approach.

The studio moved to Berlin in early 2018 and rebranded as Kolibri Games on 22 October 2018. Its hummingbird identity reflects an operating philosophy centred on agility, responsiveness and iterative production. Kolibri builds games designed to evolve over time, combining continuous deployment and weekly content updates with player telemetry, behavioural analysis and A/B testing.

Mobile development and live operations

Kolibri combines game design, engineering, quality assurance and publishing for mobile titles. Its capabilities include:

  • Idle, incremental, tycoon and management-simulation design
  • Unity and C# game-client development
  • LiveOps, content scheduling and continuous delivery
  • Monetisation, virtual-economy modelling and game balancing
  • Telemetry engineering, data warehousing and cohort analysis
  • User acquisition, creative optimisation, App Store Optimization and retention marketing

Its portfolio includes Idle Miner Tycoon, Idle Factory Tycoon, Idle Restaurant Tycoon, Idle Firefighter Tycoon, Idle High School Tycoon, Idle Bank Tycoon, Idle Farm Tycoon and Idle Taxi Tycoon. The company reports that its games have surpassed 250 million downloads worldwide.

Company history

In February 2020, Ubisoft Entertainment SA acquired a 75% controlling interest in Kolibri Games. Kolibri continues to operate as an autonomous mobile-games development and publishing subsidiary. Later that year, it expanded its internal production capacity with a branch studio in Bucharest focused on developing original titles within the Idle Miner Tycoon universe.

Kolibri's founders stepped down from executive roles in early 2021. Guillaume Verlinden subsequently took over leadership as Managing Director, guiding releases including Idle Restaurant Tycoon, Idle Firefighter Tycoon and Idle Bank Tycoon.

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Corporate leadership

Kolibri Games GmbH lists Yves Guillemot as Geschäftsführer (Managing Director), Guillaume Verlinden as Prokurist / Managing Director, and Hugo Pimentel as Prokurist. The original founders—Daniel Stammler, Janosch Sadowski, Oliver Löffler and Tim Reiter—left executive roles in early 2021 and subsequently established the investment vehicle BLN Capital.

Rebrand context

The 2018 change from Fluffy Fairy Games to Kolibri Games was described by the company as a new name and visual identity for the same company. The hummingbird became a symbol of agility, responsiveness and rapid iterative production.

Notable credits

8 credits
  • Idle Miner Tycoon
  • Idle Factory Tycoon
  • Idle Restaurant Tycoon
  • Idle Firefighter Tycoon
  • Idle High School Tycoon
  • Idle Bank Tycoon
  • Idle Farm Tycoon
  • Idle Taxi Tycoon

Offices

Current and former locations of Kolibri Games

3 locations

  • Berlin offices

    Headquarters
    Berlin, Germany
    About this office

    **Berlin Headquarters & Primary Studio** Status: active Headquarters Address: Elisabeth-Schwarzhaupt-Platz 5, 10115 Berlin, Germany Main studio and corporate headquarters housing executive leadership, product management, game engineering, QA, art/design, marketing, and data analytics. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: Hallesches Ufer 60, 10963 Berlin, Germany Opened: 2018 Closed: 2021 Former Berlin-Kreuzberg office.

  • Bucharest Branch Studio

    Bucharest, Romania

    Opened 2020

    Direct branch studio established to expand development capacity and develop titles in the Idle Miner Tycoon universe.

  • Karlsruhe office

    Former office
    Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Opened 2016 · Closed 2018

    Student apartment studio and founding premise.

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