Gunfire Games, LLC

Gunfire Games is a game development studio based in Texas, USA. It was formed by David Adams who was previously CEO at Crytek USA, along with a group of lead developers from Crytek. A downscaling at Crytek USA was reported at the end of July 2014. The team was working on the action game HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age, announced only a month before, and development on that title was moved to the Frankfurt Crytek studio in Germany. The US studio's activities were from then on to be limited to managing sales of CryEngine licenses. Adams resigned the same day. The game was eventually released as Hunt: Showdown in 2018. Crytek USA was also said to be chronically under-funded and Adams wished to take matters in his own hands without having to rely on a larger governing entity.

The formation of Crytek USA came about very quickly in a bid to acquire Vigil Games in THQ's bankruptcy auctions, as no one had put forward a bid. Adams was the co-founder of Vigil and was with the company until it was closed following publisher THQ's bankruptcy in December 2012. Before that, he worked at NCSoft and a group of NCSoft developers joined Vigil Games. Vigil was best known for the Darksiders games.

In its early years (2015-2017), Gunfire made 6 VR titles: Herobound: First Steps (2015), Herobound: Spirit Champion (2016), Herobound Gladiators (2016) together with Escalation Studios, Chronos (2016), Dead and Buried (2016) and From Other Suns (2017).

Returning to its Vigil roots, the studio approached Nordic Games that held the Darksiders licence and made Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition (2015) and a third title Darksiders III in 2018. On 14 August 2019, they were acquired by THQ Nordic.

Gunfire launched its own major IP with the action RPG Remnant: From the Ashes (2019), followed by Chronos: Before the Ashes (2020), a remastered version of the prequel Chronos from 2016. The sequel Remnant II was released in 2023.