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Team Junkfish: studio profile, history and games

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Indie-Studio aus Dundee, bekannt für das Horrorspiel Monstrum und den Nachfolger Monstrum 2.

Team Junkfish: studio profile, history and games is a studio (Indie, Indie) based in Dundee, Schottland (remote), founded in 2013. PlayInsider covers 1 game by Team Junkfish: studio profile, history and games: Wilderdark.

Team Junkfish (officially Junkfish Limited) is an independent studio from Dundee, Scotland. It broke through with the roguelike horror game Monstrum.

Table of contents

  1. From uni project to studio
  2. Monstrum and other games
  3. Junkfish today

From uni project to studio

The team came together in 2011 on a group project at Abertay University in Dundee. The name comes from an early prototype featuring a flying mechanical whale. In June 2013 the graduates, led by managing director Simon Doyle and Adam Dart, officially founded Junkfish Limited.

Wilderdark – A volcanic landscape with lava and palm trees
The island stretches all the way to glowing volcanic zones.

Monstrum and other games

Monstrum hit Early Access in January 2015 and launched in full that May. The horror game, set on an abandoned cargo ship with procedurally generated layouts and one of three monsters hunting you, was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA and a TIGA Award and sold more than 100,000 copies. The stealth game Attack of the Earthlings followed in 2018, then Monstrum 2 in 2022.

Wilderdark – A dark forest with red, parasite-infested plants
The parasite has warped the island's wildlife.

Junkfish today

These days the team works remotely from the UK and Singapore. Its next project is Wilderdark, a self-published survival horror game set on an island full of dinosaurs.

Wilderdark – A dense jungle with glowing plants
Collecting samples is a core part of the game.

Games by Team Junkfish: studio profile, history and games

Wilderdark – Beitragsbild mit Titel-Schriftzug64Wilderdark