FAQs
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TYCLOPUS is a Spanish independent video-games studio with the mission of creating games with significance:
We aim to develop new ways for players to have fun, delivering appealing, ambitious titles focused on their uniqueness, innovation, and excellence!
Our core team is based around Barcelona and composed of talented, experienced and passionate people in long love with video-games. We believe masterpiece games feel magic, and the only way to create said magic is through love, effort and fun.That's why we will always work with patience and ambition: You deserve the best games, and we create them!
After years of development as an independent, committed, and selfless team, TYCLOPUS S.L was incorporated as in Spain in January 2024. In April of the same year, Raised by Monsters S.L partnered with us to take our production capacity and quality seal to a new level.
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Our logo is a stylization of the eye of a lovely creature featured in the first video-game ever imagined by the TYCLOPUS founding brothers, during their childhood.
These creatures -the Busticlopus, whose cubs are the Tyclopus- look like the cute hybrid between a white bison and a Komondor dog, and only their horns and a single eye manage to show up behind their dense fur!
Search for them, as we don’t miss the opportunity to hide them in our games as a little Easter egg!
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We are currently working on our first commercial project: PREQUEL, a challenging sandbox ARPG set in a procedurally generated Abyss.
This project started during pandemic lockdown as an alternative to a huge online competitive game that the founders of TYCLOPUS were working on.
Although PREQUEL is not yet ready, you can expect that project and lots of others in the future, as we have plenty of exciting, ambitious and unique concepts ready to be created!
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We focus on PC and game consoles as platforms for most of our dream projects. We develop our projects with portability and mouse+keyboard and gamepad compatibility in mind.
PREQUEL is being developed in Unreal Engine 5 and will be released in PC, Playstation 5, XBOX X and Nintendo Switch.
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We are working really hard to be able to launch PREQUEL in late 2025, but it's still early to schedulle the release.
Our mission is to deliver an unforgettable and excellent game, and videogame history has proven that projects with great potential can fail due to rushed development.
That is why we will not announce the release until we are absolutely certain that PREQUEL is ready.
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Sadly, we are not offering a PREQUEL demo yet.
We are currently working on making it available, but we have to make sure it’s stable and enjoyable before releasing it.
Follow us to make sure you don’t miss its release!
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Like every studio, our team needs funds to pay for the huge expenses that arise from development: equipment, software, fees, taxes and the salaries of talented qualified people working full time add up to a great amount of money.
As an independent studio with a limited budget, we must find clever ways to make things fair for everyone, and thus, every game will have its own business plan.
PREQUEL, as a high quality single-player adventure with more than 60 hours of content, will be monetized through the selling of copies of the game with a single payment, which will grant full access to every game feature and future updates, including most of the planned expansion DLCs for free.
We may, however, release some great expansion DLCs not directly related to the original game storylines which will require their own purchase. We also plan to sell high quality official merchandising products, inclunding plushies, pins, mousepads and others, and even a board game!
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We aim to offer top quality games born from ambition, love, innovation and patience. Our team of talented experts work really hard to make it possible, but that’s not all.
We also want to create a passionate community and read and listen to your thoughts. Being close to our costumers is as important to us as delivering an excellent product. Building always bigger and amazing projects together with you is our ultimate goal!
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We appreciate your help. Thank you!
Growing a community is key for any indie studio.
You can wishlist PREQUEL on Steam to help us grow!Here’s the link!
You can also follow us on our social media, where you can find the latest news and even claim exclusive rewards!
Here are our Instagram, X, Tiktok and Facebook links!
And last but not least! The small act of sharing the project with your friends is the best way to support our studio and projects!
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It’s always great to have a chat with you!
If you have a small question, you reach us in the official PREQUEL X using this link. We will be posting most of the news and information regarding the game, and it’s also a great way to get in touch with our community and development team!
We are also sharing the development on our other official social media pages (Instagram, Tiktok and Facebook links).
For any additional information, troubleshooting and business, you can contact us using the Contact Us page.
PRIVACY POLICY
TYCLOPUS has the strong belief that privacy is a fundamental right.
When purchasing our games, participating in a crowdfunding campaigns or contacting us, we will need to store your email address to deliver purchased copies, campaign rewards or reply to your questions. Merchandising and future online products may need additional data from you for verification purposes and proper delivery of goods. Anonymous data may be collected in order to help the development of our products, such as community polls to decide an expansion theme or which game character will be featured in our next merchandising product.
However, we won’t use or store any data received from you for any purpose but to ensure your security, delivering your purchases, enhancing user experience (with anonymous data) and replying to you.
We don’t and we will never collect personal data to sell, share or distribute it with third parties.