Annapurna Interactive

What Annapurna Interactive is

Annapurna Interactive is the video game publishing division of the entertainment company Annapurna Pictures. Its own about page states that it was established in 2016 and that it works with game creators from around the world, helping them create and release personal experiences. The same page states plainly that the company is a division of Annapurna Pictures.

The publisher's about page names some of the games it has released, listing What Remains of Edith Finch, Outer Wilds, Neon White and Stray. Our database lists Annapurna Interactive as the publisher of Outer Wilds. The company appears only as a publisher in our data, which matches its self-description as a publishing division working with external creators.

Its own description of the work is deliberately broad: the about page says the division helps creators from around the world create and release personal experiences for everyone, rather than describing a house style or a fixed genre. The division names four titles as notable releases on that page, and those titles come from several different studios rather than from an internal development team.

Its place within Annapurna Pictures

Annapurna Pictures is an entertainment company founded by Megan Ellison in 2011, according to the company's own about page, which states that it works across film production, video games, television production, distribution, marketing and finance. Annapurna Interactive sits inside that structure as the games division.

The interactive division was established in 2016 and has since released a catalogue of titles from studios around the world. Its own about page describes its work as helping creators release personal experiences for everyone, and lists Contact addresses for press, support, general and job enquiries, with press handled through an external agency.

Outer Wilds in our database

Our database lists Annapurna Interactive as the publisher of Outer Wilds. The game's Steam store page names Mobius Digital as developer and Annapurna Interactive as publisher, gives a release date of June 18, 2020, and places the game in the Annapurna Interactive franchise listing on the store. The page describes it as an open-world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

The Steam listing states that Outer Wilds won Best Game at the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards, and the publisher's own about page lists it among the notable games the company has released. Both of those statements come from the publisher's own store listing and website rather than from third-party coverage.

The same store listing states that the game was named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer and The Guardian, and describes it as an open-world mystery in which the player joins a space programme searching a solar system that changes over time. The listing also records the game's available platforms and its single-player feature set.

How the publisher describes itself

Annapurna Interactive presents its role as working with game creators rather than developing games itself. Its about page states that it helps creators make and release personal experiences, and the games it names as notable releases come from external studios, including Mobius Digital for Outer Wilds.

The division's public material is limited to its about page and its catalogue listings. It does not publish a corporate fact sheet with founding details beyond the statement that it was established in 2016 and operates as a division of Annapurna Pictures.

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