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Salmi Games

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About Salmi Games

Salmi Games is an independent game development studio and extended reality technology consultancy based in Munich, Germany. Founded in September 2013 following collaborative game jam prototypes in 2012, the studio began with minimalist game design before concentrating on virtual reality and cross-platform multiplayer experiences. Its work combines original game production with technical consulting, platform adaptation and software engineering for external clients.

Original games

The studio's commercial debut, Ellipsis, is a wordless action-puzzle game released for iOS, Android and Apple TV in 2016, followed by a PC release in January 2017. Its subsequent projects explored different forms of VR interaction: Late For Work places a player-controlled giant gorilla against up to four local players using a PC, while GrowRilla brings an eat-em-up roguelite format into virtual reality. Both games progressed through Early Access before their full releases in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Released in September 2021, Sweet Surrender is a fast-paced roguelike VR shooter set inside a dystopian megatower. It became a sustained development project, receiving more than fourteen major content expansions and visual overhauls across Meta Quest, SteamVR and PlayStation VR2. The studio is also developing DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew, a cooperative VR extraction shooter in which crews explore alien temples.

Technical partnerships

Alongside its own games, Salmi Games works with other developers on XR design, engineering and platform optimization. It partnered with creator Rune Skovbo Johansen to bring the room-scale game Eye of the Temple to Meta Quest in 2023 and contributed subsequent Quest 3 enhancements. Its collaboration with Algoriddim on djay for Apple Vision Pro involved XR design and technical advisory work.

The studio's capabilities include cross-platform networking, standalone-headset optimization, physics and fluid simulation, VR inventory systems and custom locomotion. Beyond entertainment, it provides custom application development, performance optimization and software engineering for industrial and enterprise clients in optics, lasers, electronics and financial technology.

More about Salmi Games

Leadership and operating model

  • Founder Yacine Salmi is the company's managing director.
  • The studio combines an internal development team with recurring external collaborators.

Recognition and production support

  • Ellipsis won Game of the Year and Best Action Game at the Intel Level Up 2016 Game Demo Contest.
  • The 2023 Meta Quest release of Eye of the Temple, developed with porting support from Salmi Games, received a Meta Editor's Choice award.
  • Algoriddim's djay for Apple Vision Pro, to which Salmi Games contributed, received a 2024 Apple Design Award.
  • Sweet Surrender received federal computer game production funding from the German government.

Industry participation

  • As a long-term Meta partner, Salmi Games presented developer optimization insights at Meta Connect 2024.

Notable credits

7 credits
  • Ellipsis
  • Late For Work
  • GrowRilla
  • Sweet Surrender
  • DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew — in development
  • Eye of the Temple — Meta Quest port and Quest 3 enhancements
  • djay — Apple Vision Pro XR design and technical advisory

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Where Salmi Games is based

1 location

  • Munich office

    Headquarters
    DIE GAMEREI, Hohenlindener Straße 4, 81677 Munich, GermanyMunich, Bavaria, Germany

    The studio's sole operating premises and overall headquarters, located at DIE GAMEREI.

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