Ronimo Games

Ronimo Games was an independent Dutch video game developer founded in Utrecht in 2007 by seven graduates of the Utrecht School of the Arts. Its work focused on stylized 2D and 2.5D action games, side-scrolling strategy and multiplayer competition, combining cartoon visuals with games developed for PC, consoles and mobile platforms.

The team's origins preceded the company. In 2006, members created the original freeware Windows prototype of De Blob as students. THQ subsequently acquired the intellectual property for commercial adaptation; Ronimo's connection was to that student prototype rather than development of the later commercial console game.

Strategy and multiplayer games

Ronimo released Swords & Soldiers on Nintendo WiiWare in May 2009. The game translated real-time strategy into a side-scrolling format and later reached additional console, computer and mobile platforms. The studio expanded the series with Swords & Soldiers II in 2015 and Swords & Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon in 2018.

Awesomenauts, released in 2012, brought multiplayer online battle arena systems into a 2D side-scrolling game inspired by 1980s animated cartoons. Ronimo supported it through expansions, including Starstorm and Overdrive, and developed expanded console editions under the Awesomenauts Assemble title. The PC game moved to a free-to-play model on Steam in May 2017.

The studio later developed Blightbound, a three-player cooperative dungeon crawler published by Devolver Digital. It entered Steam Early Access in July 2020 and received its full multiplatform release in July 2021. Across its projects, Ronimo handled original game development, platform adaptations and continued support after release.

Final years

Following Blightbound, the studio worked on the multiplayer action project Call of the Pony King, which remained unfinished during Ronimo's operation. Ronimo continued development activity until 2023 and was declared bankrupt on August 22 that year, ending its commercial operations. Atari acquired the Awesomenauts and Swords & Soldiers intellectual property and catalog assets from the bankruptcy liquidation in October 2023.