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Stage Clear Studios

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About Stage Clear Studios

Stage Clear Studios was a Spanish video game developer, co-developer and console porting specialist founded in Madrid in April 2012. Its work combined original game production with technical and artistic support for external publishers and independent developers. The studio closed in May 2024 during Thunderful Group’s restructuring, and its legal entity was formally extinguished in September 2025.

The studio debuted with Shiny The Firefly, a physics-based platformer released in 2013. In 2014, it expanded beyond its own games to offer console conversions, graphics outsourcing and engineering support. This combination of original development and external production services shaped its work over the following decade.

Development and platform adaptation

Stage Clear handled full-cycle development as well as individual production tasks. Its capabilities covered gameplay engineering, 3D character and environment art, modeling, rigging, texturing, UI/UX design and platform optimization. Its technical services included adapting projects built with Unity, Unreal Engine and custom engines, alongside quality assurance and platform certification support.

Console adaptation became a central part of its portfolio, with projects spanning Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox platforms. Its porting and co-development credits included Cloudpunk, Unto The End, Valfaris, Aragami, Runbow, Yesterday Origins and Bridge Constructor Portal. These projects sat alongside original productions and contracted art and engineering work.

The studio led full development of The Last Kids on Earth and the Staff of Doom, a multiplatform action-adventure game published by Outright Games in 2021. Its other internally developed titles included Super Blackjack Battle II Turbo Edition - The Card Warriors.

Acquisition and closure

Thunderful Group acquired the studio in September 2021 to expand its internal production and console co-development capabilities. Stage Clear subsequently entered voluntary dissolution in March 2024. Thunderful publicly confirmed its operational closure that May, followed by formal corporate extinction in September 2025.

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Founders and historical leadership

  • The founders were Daniel Santos Fonseca, Daniel Martínez Bofarull and Enrique Orrego Franco.
  • Daniel Santos Fonseca served as managing director and sole administrator from April 17, 2012 to March 29, 2024. Francisco Javier Jose Iborra Serrano was appointed liquidator when voluntary dissolution was registered.

Acquisition terms

The 2021 acquisition was valued at up to €2.5 million: €1 million upfront in cash and shares, plus up to €1.5 million in earn-outs.

Notable credits

21 credits
  • The Last Kids on Earth and the Staff of Doom
  • Shiny The Firefly
  • Super Blackjack Battle II Turbo Edition - The Card Warriors
  • Max: The Curse of Brotherhood — Nintendo Switch port and publishing
  • Cloudpunk — console porting
  • Unto The End — co-development and porting
  • Valfaris — console porting
  • Aragami — Nintendo Switch port
  • Runbow — console porting
  • Yesterday Origins — console porting
  • Bridge Constructor Portal — console porting
  • The Coma: Recut — console porting
  • Slain: Back from Hell — console porting
  • Snakeybus — console porting
  • Underhero — console porting
  • Stranded Sails: Explorers of the Cursed Islands — console porting
  • AER Memories of Old — Nintendo Switch port
  • Silence — Nintendo Switch port
  • Delicious: Emily's Road Trip — co-development
  • FIFA series — historical work-for-hire services
  • Dead Space series — historical work-for-hire services

Offices

Current and former locations of Stage Clear Studios

2 locations

  • Original Founding Location

    Former office
    Calle Acequia 15Galapagar, Community of Madrid, Spain

    Opened 2012 · Closed 2020

    About this office

    Original suburban premises, described in the report as Las Rozas de Madrid / Calle Acequia 15, Galapagar, used from 2012 until relocation in 2020.

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  • Madrid offices

    Former office
    Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
    About this office

    **Madrid Studio** Status: inactive / historical Headquarters Address: Calle Gobelas 15, Piso 1, 28023 Madrid Opened: 2020 Closed: 2024 Former primary studio and headquarters, occupied from summer 2020 until the studio closed in May 2024. --- **Liquidation Legal Address** Status: inactive / historical Address: Avenida Felipe II 17, 1º Oficina 1, 28009 Madrid Opened: 2024 Closed: 2025 Historical legal premises used during liquidation from November 2024 to September 2025; not identified as an active development studio.

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