Auroch Digital is 10 years old 🎉🎈 plus, our birthday Giveaway!
/WE ARE 10 YEARS OLD! 🎉
Auroch Digital is 10 years old!
The Auroch Digital team are so excited to have reached such a momentous milestone. We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved during this time and we feel very lucky to be able to work on something that we all love - videogames!
We’ve got big plans for the future and the studio is going from strength to strength. Thank you to all our partners, players, fans, and supporters for going on this journey with us over the last decade. We can’t wait to see what the next one brings!
Here’s an obligatory word from Tomas Rawlings, Auroch Digital’s CEO; “So we’ve made it past 10 years as a company, given the pace of change in gaming, I’m pretty sure 1 gaming year is like cat or dog years and the equivalent to like 7 normal years which would make us 70 plus?! Seriously, I’ve been lucky to get to do the thing I love most - gaming - as a job. Now I’ve been doubly lucky that we’ve had a company do well enough that it’s past a decade. So if you’ve bought one of our games, played one, chatted on Discord, opened an email from us, send us a bug report, retweeted a tweet, commented on a forum, or anything else that helped us get here; a huge thank you from myself and the amazing team here - and (raises glass of Champagne to you) here’s to the next decade when we’ll be playing Holodeck games on Mars!”
A Brief History of Auroch Digital
Auroch Digital was founded in 2010, initially as a consultancy, helping organisations such as the Royal Society, UK Parliament, the Wellcome Trust and many others understand and engage with games and gaming.
In October 2012, we expanded to become a development studio, creating pioneering newsgames such as NarcoGuerra and Endgame: Syria. This earned our GameTheNews initiative its spot at the forefront of the “games with purpose” movement with Auroch's CEO, Tomas Rawlings, giving many talks around the world on this subject and even being featured the Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition at the V&A museum.
That experience of connecting games to the real-world and the rapid prototyping of games entered the DNA of the company and now we continue to innovate by creating original games, as well as working in partnership with other games companies and major brands to develop titles using existing IPs.
The studio continues to grow and is recognised as a leading development studio within the gamedev community for our talent in connecting the real with the digital. We are also recognised for our craft in porting games from one platform to another, be that physical tabletop to, for example, digital or between PC and mobile.
We are also a co-founding member of Bristol Games Hub and work to nurture gamedev talent locally.
We’ve got loads more exciting games and plans for the future. Make sure you stick around with us to see what they are!
Auroch Digital 10th Anniversary Giveaway
One lucky person signed up to our newsletter list will receive our Auroch 10th Anniversary Bundle including a digital copy of all of our games (with console games you can choose the platform you wish). Make sure to sign up to be part of our birthday giveaway!
To be entered into the giveaway, you need to sign up to our newsletter mailing list here. If you’re interested in the games we’re giving away, you can find out more about them below! Sign up before 10th January 2021 to be entered!
Ts & Cs for our giveaway can be found here.
We’re also having a sale in our physical shop - Save 50%!
As well as a giveaway of our digital games, we are also running a sale in our physical store, including Mars Horizon: Blast Off!, our Chainsaw Warrior t-shirts, and Elections of US America Election: The Card Game. You can save 50% on all of these items!
Some of Auroch Digital’s many, many games
At the heart of everything we do are our games. The whole team at Auroch Digital are big gaming fans and being able to make and share our own games with the world is what drives us to work hard and keep getting better. These are some of the games we’ve made over the years!
Mars Horizon
Release Date: 2020
Platform: Steam, Xbox One and Series X, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Watch the trailer.
Mars Horizon has been created with support from the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.
Megaquarium
Release Date: 2019
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
Megaquarium follows in the footsteps of classic theme park management tycoon games and has been a big hit on Steam.
A theme park management tycoon game with an aquatic twist. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium. Watch the trailer.
Agatha Christie: Death on the Cards
Release Date: 2019
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
There has been a murder, and you must enlist Agatha Christie's beloved detectives to discover the culprit! A tense but fun card game of mystery, bluffing, and deduction - where everyone is guilty but one of you is guilty of murder!
Mars Horizon: Blast Off!
Release Date: 2019
Platform: Tabletop
In Mars Horizon: BLAST OFF! each player aims to complete the first crewed mission to Mars. To achieve this galactic task you run your own space agency, making all the key decisions: which rockets to build, what missions to run, and where to spend resources. Take risks to take to make space-history.
Dark Future: Blood Red States
Release Date: 2019
Platform: Steam
Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future: Blood Red States, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world. Watch the trailer.
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Release Date: 2018
Platform: Steam
Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics is a tactical, squad-based strategy game set against the backdrop of World War Two, as a band of Allied heroes fight The Secret War against two rival Nazi factions. These detestable syndicates are obsessed with the occult, and are backed by otherworldly horrors from the Cthulhu Mythos. Watch the trailer.
OGRE
Release Date: 2017
Platform: Steam
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armoured hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres". Watch the trailer.
Chainsaw Warrior
Release Date: 2013
Platform: Steam
Step into the combat-boots of Chainsaw Warrior - a former special-forces soldier who has been cybernetically modified to undertake the most dangerous covert missions. New York has only an hour left to live. All that is left is one man facing overwhelming odds... The original 1987 Games Workshop classic goes digital.
Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night
Release Date: 2015
Platform: Steam
Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night is a new chapter for Games Workshop's cult classic! It's the year 2035 and the crazed followers of a near-forgotten God have opened a hole into a nightmare dimension. He saved New York in 2032 - can Chainsaw Warrior now save the world? Not only are there swarms of Aztec zombies, mutants, traps, Moon Cult Agents and other twisted fiends between him and Darkness, time is the enemy too! Only 60 minutes remain to save the world! Watch the trailer.
Elections of US America Election: The Card Game
Release Date: 2016
Platform: Tabletop
Elections of US America Election: The Card Game brings together the best snark of political website Wonkette with the game design smarts of our GameTheNews initiative to create the greatest social card game in political history, mostly because it’s the FIRST ONE IN HISTORY TOO! (Maybe.)
Last Days Of Old Earth
Release Date: 2016
Platform: Steam
Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans? In a hostile environment, where natural resources are almost depleted, you must fight your way to survive for one more turn. With scarcity goes rivalry, and only the law of the wild applies in this icy and desolate world.
And games we launched under Game The News, an Auroch Digital Initiative:
Endgame: Syria
Release Date: 2012
Platform: Mobile
Endgame: Syria is a free interactive exploration of events unfolding in Syria today. It is a news-game; a simulation that uses interactivity to explore a real world event.
Will you choose to accept peace at any cost? What if the war goes badly and the only options left mean more extreme actions; would you agree to follow this path? Can you win the war and the peace that follows? Find out in Endgame Syria.
NarcoGuerra
Release Date: 2013
Platform: Mobile
Can you End the Never-Ending War?
NarcoGuerra is a challenging and tactical newsgame that puts you on the frontline of one of the most dangerous conflicts ever; the War on Drugs. NarcoGuerra looks at the ongoing conflict from the perspective of the Mexican authorities trying to stamp out the drug trade within that embattled country. As the Chief of Police you must attempt to retake Mexico’s regions from the cartels whilst dealing with corruption within the police force itself.
