Step into Wonder
- I was CEO, Founder & Creative Director of Catland Ltd from 2017 – 2020
- PC and VR game studio in Helsinki and Tampere founded July 10th 2017
- 8 employees at peak
- Preseed funded by Sisu Game Ventures and Nordic XR Startups
- Wound down 2020
We shipped three videogames in under 18 months to both PC and VR. We had a simple idea – we wanted to make games that made you think “what the hell are we playing right now?”
Catland made videogames that embraced insanity. We were a small team making PC and console games that made you think “what the hell are we playing right now”.
Founded in 2017 in a sketchy Finnish bar at 2AM by me and two other founders, we worked in central Tampere making games that are extremely fun to play and even more hilarious to watch someone else play.
We won awards, raised funding rounds and shipped critically acclaimed video games. We were quick to ship, fast to iterate, eager to refine and we dared when others did not. We had a passion for making wonderful things.
Catland’s operations were wound down in January 2020. The games live on, with all of them available on Steam.
VR
October 2017
96% Positive Steam Rating
Our first title Taphouse VR is an exciting bartending experience set in a tavern full of thirsty dwarves! Now out for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Microsoft Mixed Reality. Taphouse VR is the best dwarf bartending simulator on the planet. It is an excellent first time VR experience with something for everyone – check it out on Steam!
PC & VR
December 2018
80% Positive Steam Rating
Moscow, 1981. Agent Audrey Smoothspy is sent on a mission that is about to turn the Cold War into a fiery one. Steal a Soviet shrink ray, nab some banana peels and get to work – the future of the free world depends on your skills of stealth and subterfuge. Now on Steam.
PC
December 2019
Made in just 16 weeks!
End a galactic war by sabotaging huge starships. A small prototype for a game that is all about stealth, action and player choice.