Danish studio Trophy Video games has acquired Airport Simulator: First Class developer Playrion from Paradox Interactive.
The acquisition consists of a €2.25 million upfront payment and a three-year earn-out primarily based on internet income efficiency.
By way of this acquisition, 30 workers from Playrion will be part of Trophy Video games.
“It is a milestone for Trophy Video games. Now we have had Playrion on our radar for 4 years,” stated Trophy Video games founder and CEO Søren Gleie. “They’ve been one in all our largest opponents, and we all know the corporate, the video games, and the market rather well. Due to this fact, we see a really sturdy strategic match.”
Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester added: “This transaction is a step in aligning our operations round growing and publishing technique and administration video games primarily for PC and console. Playrion is a extremely expert cellular sport developer with a powerful observe file, and we’re blissful to have discovered a dedicated proprietor who can help the studio’s development.”
Trophy Video games intends to make use of Airport Simulator as the idea for a brand new sequence of simulation video games. The corporate beforehand used this strategy in 2021 with the acquisition of Airline Supervisor 4, which marked the start of the corporate’s development.
“By now, we’ve got a recipe for a way we will take a sport that has already confirmed there’s a market and construct a whole sequence round it,” added Gleie. “We did that with Airline Supervisor, and that’s the alternative we now see in Airport Simulator. If we reach repeating the mannequin, Playrion can turn out to be a wholly new development pillar for Trophy Video games.”
Gleie acknowledged that Trophy Video games is in “an excellent place for additional development,” with six video games at the moment in improvement.
“Now we have greater than quadrupled our income in 5 years and now have the capital to additionally make bigger acquisitions. Playrion is our largest acquisition to date and one other step within the development technique we’ve got laid out.”
Following the acquisition, Trophy Video games has up to date its 2026 monetary outlook. Projected income is now between €22.8 million and €24.1 million, up from the earlier estimate of €20.1 million to €22.4 million.
Paradox Interactive acquired Plarion in 2020. The Paris-based studio was based in 2010.