About Kallisti Games

WHAT WE DO

We provide publishing infrastructure for independent developers who want access to the audiences they deserve. We help with launching, positioning, and distributing your games (while you retain full ownership of your work).

Kallisti Games is focused on lower-overhead PC publishing, while our parent company Akupara Games helps provide broader resources for projects that warrant them.

Our services include:

• Press and influencer outreach
• Storefront release management, copy, and assets (including trailers)
• Distribution on Steam, EGS, GOG and third party PC resellers
• Go-to-market strategy and execution
• Business development and platform relations
• Social and light community support
• Digital events and awards support
• Light paid user acquisition and ads

We focus on quality over quantity and bring with us clarity, expertise, experience and conviction. We don’t make promises we can’t keep, and we keep the promises we make.

We’re here to help ensure your game finds and connects to the audience who will love it in all its weird, unapologetic glory.

WHAT WE DON’T DO

Kallisti Games is a small, agile team focused on efficient execution and providing support that maximizes results.

To avoid confusion (and disappointment), here’s what we don’t do.

• No cash advances
• No co-development or porting
• No mobile, VR or console publishing

If you’re looking for funding or full-service development support, we’re probably not the right fit — and that’s okay.

(Kallisti Games is a sublabel of Akupara Games. Caveat that all of these may be potential options in co-publishing scenarios or if certain performance thresholds are met.)

HOW IT WORKS

Kallisti Games operates on a services-only, revenue-share model.

We provide clearly scoped publishing services and are compensated through a transparent share of revenue only after a game (and the developers) earn money. Developers retain ownership of their IP and creative control.

No recoupment cliffs. No advances to chase. No golden apples hidden in the contract.

You’ve put in the sweat equity because you believe in your project, and we’re here to do the same.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We work best with games that are:

• Explicitly retro-inspired and that can tap into our collective, shared nostalgia for a bygone era
  • Platformers, Boomer-Shooters, SHMUPs, collectathons, Beat ‘Em Ups, Hack N’ Slash, Twin Stick Shooters, Metroidvanias, Point N’ Click Adventures, Kart Racers, RPGs, FMV, RTS, Turn-Based Strategy and other classic genres
  • 2D, Pixel Art or Low-Poly
• Intentional about what they’re trying to do
• Ready (or nearly ready) to think seriously about launch and visibility
• Not especially interested in sanding off their rough edges
• Bonus points for experimental, surreal, psychedelic, or genre-bending

You don’t need a massive following. You do need a point of view.

HOW TO PITCH

Kallisti Games uses the same pitching pipeline and portal as Akupara Games. Please send all inquiries through the link here.

This will ensure we have all the information we need!