Owlchemy Labs Inc.

Owlchemy Labs is a US game development established in 2010 by Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate Alex Schwartz in Boston, Massachusetts, US. Currently its headquarters is based in Austin, Texas, US.

Their debut title was the physics racer Snuggle Truck (2011), followed by co-development with Dejobaan Games on AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome (2011) and AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration) (2012), as well as supernatural log-chopper Jack Lumber (2012) and quirky choose-your-own-adventure game Dyscourse (2015).

From then on the studio focused on created extended reality (XR) and virtual reality (VR) titles often with a humourous tone, such as Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives (2016) that won the Game Developer's Choice Award for best VR/AR Game in 2017, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017), Vacation Simulator (2019) and Cosmonious High (2022).

In addition to standalone titles, Owlchemy Labs has released several experimental and accessibility features (like Hand-Tracking and Subtitles Updates), and also founded VR Austin, one of the largest VR-focused meetups in the US with over 2,000 members. Before that, the founders started the Boston Unity Group and the Winnipeg Unity User Group.

On 10th May 2017 Google announced the acquisition of the company. Alex Schwartz left the company on 18th July 2018. Former CTO Devin Reimer became CEO and Andrew Eiche became CTO. Schwartz left to start a new company absurd:joy in June 2019 and took studio director Cy Wise with him.