Suspicious Games

Suspicious Games was an independent German game development studio founded in 2021 and based in Bavaria. It developed original games for PC and mobile platforms while providing external development services to other businesses. Its work spanned tactical gameplay, card-based systems and action-adventure prototyping, combining game design, programming and visual production.

The studio's debut mobile project, Zauberzirkel (Magic Circle), entered open beta on Google Play in June 2021. The fantasy-themed game centred on tactical spellcasting. Its subsequent project, Saligia, explored a different format: a 3D single-player action-adventure developed as a publicly funded prototype and later made available through itch.io.

During 2023 and early 2024, Suspicious Games worked on Projekt Waldkauz, a PC prototype combining turn-based tactics with deckbuilding. Built in Unity, the project received concept and prototype support from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern. Its development brought together game design, gameplay systems, art and visual effects.

Alongside these original projects, the studio offered work-for-hire programming and art services. Its capabilities included full-cycle game design and prototyping, gameplay and systems programming in Unity and C#, combat mechanics, interface and user-experience design, and 3D art and visual effects. External commissions formed an important part of the business model supporting its own development work.

In February 2024, the studio announced that a shortage of external client contracts had made continued operations financially unsustainable despite its prototype funding. The team completed the funded prototype milestone for Projekt Waldkauz at the end of that month, then shelved the project and wound down operations over the following months. Its public prototype releases remain part of the record of its brief development history.