welevel studios

welevel studios is an independent, AI-native AAA game development studio based in Munich, Germany. Operating as welevel GmbH, the company develops proprietary games and technical systems for PC and console audiences, with a focus on ambitious survival, city-building and open-world RPG experiences.

The studio’s development approach combines Unreal Engine 5, procedural content generation and internally developed AI tooling. Its pipeline is designed to build large, variable environments and game systems for a compact development team, including procedural world-building, dynamic NPC behaviour, simulation-driven villages and quest design. The company characterises AI as a production accelerator rather than a replacement for human creative work.

Its debut project, SolidRiver, is a medieval-fantasy cooperative survival RPG with gridless city-building systems. The game combines procedural biomes, crafting, physics-based construction and living NPC settlements, and was in closed alpha playtesting as of 2026.

Development focus

• Procedural world generation and environment systems
• AI and machine-learning systems for responsive NPCs
• Unreal Engine 5 pipeline development and optimisation
• Survival, city-building and simulation mechanics
• Open-world action-RPG gameplay

The studio operates as a privately held independent company, backed by venture and angel investors rather than a corporate parent. Its Munich-based team brings together game-development, AI and graphics expertise while building its own technology platform alongside its game production.