Ghost Ship Games ApS is a Danish video game developer and publisher based in Copenhagen. Founded in 2016, it is best known for developing Deep Rock Galactic.
History
Ghost Ship Games was founded in the spring of 2016 by a team of five former employees of Press Play after that studio's closure. The company was funded the Danish government's Cap Nova, which focused on video games.[1] CEO Søren Lundgaard was invited to join the company shortly after by game director Mikkel Martin Pedersen. Lundgaard and Pedersen had previously been co-workers at the defunct game studio Deadline Games for over ten years.[2] The newly formed team begin work on a co-op title that they envisioned as "basically combining Minecraft and Left 4 Dead".[3] In February 2017, Swedish developer Coffee Stain Studios acquired a 30% stake in Ghost Ship Games and agreed to publish their first game, Deep Rock Galactic.