SandBloom Studio
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About SandBloom Studio
SandBloom Studio was an independent video game developer founded in 2017 in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain. Its work focused on cinematic, narrative-driven games and atmospheric puzzle-platformers, using interactive storytelling to explore memory, mortality and other existential themes. The team described its projects as poetic “odes to life,” combining entertainment with reflective subject matter.
The studio’s capabilities covered full-cycle game development, level design, scripting and programming in Unity, alongside conceptual artwork and 2D and 3D environment and character production. Its visual approaches ranged from hand-drawn imagery to low-poly and voxel environments. Alongside its original games, the company offered third-party contract development and external gamification services, with experience across PC, mobile and console platforms.
Games and creative development
EMMA: Lost in Memories was a hand-drawn 2D puzzle-platformer exploring memory loss. Released across PC, mobile and home consoles, it involved a publishing partnership with JanduSoft for its console editions. Its intimate subject matter reflected the studio’s broader interest in connecting game mechanics with emotional and philosophical ideas.
For DE-EXIT - Eternal Matters, SandBloom moved into a 3D cinematic voxel adventure about the afterlife and acceptance of mortality. Published by HandyGames in April 2023, the game paired stylized environments with realistic lighting and motion-capture animation, reaching PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.
Earlier projects included Sold O2ut, a cooperative cyberpunk beat-’em-up prototype, and Volcano Demon, a boss-rush action game drawing on Canary Islands mythology. The studio also began pre-production on The Last Waywalker, an unreleased action adventure set on a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited entirely by machines.
Following financial difficulties after the release of DE-EXIT, the company entered voluntary bankruptcy in 2025. The proceedings concluded for lack of assets, and the resulting provisional closure of its commercial registry sheet was published in February 2026.
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Founding team
The founding group comprised Oriol Sanz Arenas, producer and CEO; Julien Gatumel, head of communication and 3D artist; Jonathan Hortelano Rodríguez, project manager and programmer; Beatriz Blanes, 2D/3D artist; Joan Aparicio, game designer and community manager; and Gabriel Jiménez, creative director and artist. These are historical team roles. The corporate research also identifies Sanz Arenas as sole administrator.
Recognition and development funding
- Sold O2ut reached the finals of PlayStation Talents Spain.
- DE-EXIT - Eternal Matters received SAGA 2023 nominations for Best Narrative, Best Audio Design and the Public Choice Award. These were nominations for the game.
- The studio received €150,000 in European Union Creative Europe funding for pre-production of The Last Waywalker, under project 101093922.
Name origin
The studio's name refers to flowers blooming in the arid Atacama desert, a metaphor the founding team adopted for perseverance through adversity.
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Current and former locations of SandBloom Studio
- Carrer de Duran i Sors, 6–8, Despatx 1, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, SpainSabadell, Catalonia, Spain
Sabadell office
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Former company headquarters and studio premises. The report identifies the location as closed following the bankruptcy proceedings and subsequent provisional registry sheet closure.
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