Coffee Stain Publishing

What Coffee Stain Publishing is

Coffee Stain Publishing is the publishing arm of the Swedish game group Coffee Stain. Its own pages describe its mission as enabling unique games to live up to their full potential, and state that the team's record includes titles that have sold in the millions. The publishing label works with external development studios, while other parts of the group develop games in-house.

The publishing office is listed on the group's site as located in Stockholm, Sweden. A separate publishing page lists the games the label has published, among them Valheim and Deep Rock Galactic, both of which appear in our database with Coffee Stain Publishing as publisher.

Where it sits in the Coffee Stain group

Coffee Stain Group's company description states that Coffee Stain is a Scandinavian game developer and publisher founded in 2010, with a portfolio of community-driven games primarily for PC and console. The same document states that the group grew out of a company founded in Skovde, Sweden, in 2010, and that its portfolio includes Goat Simulator and Satisfactory alongside the externally developed titles Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim, Teardown and Welcome to Bloxburg.

The company description states that the group consists of around 250 people spread over 13 game studios, including Coffee Stain, Ghost Ship and Tuxedo Labs, all based in Scandinavia. It describes a decentralised model in which studios of roughly 5 to 30 people hold accountability for development and updates, while a small central organisation provides strategic and publishing support. The group also states that it was spun out of Embracer Group, with the distribution of Embracer's shares in Coffee Stain resolved at an extraordinary general meeting on November 3, 2025.

Valheim and Deep Rock Galactic

Valheim is described on Coffee Stain's own game page as a brutal multiplayer exploration and survival game set in a procedurally generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. The same page states that Valheim left Early Access on September 9, 2026, closing its Early Access journey with the Deep North update. Our database lists Coffee Stain Publishing as the publisher of Valheim.

Deep Rock Galactic has its own page on the Coffee Stain site, described there as a one to four player co-operative first-person shooter with destructible environments and procedurally generated caves. Coffee Stain's publishing page lists it among the games the label has published. Our database lists Coffee Stain Publishing as the publisher of Deep Rock Galactic.

Company details

Coffee Stain operates as a group of studios under a single parent. The group's website carries the registered details Coffee Stain Group AB, organisation number 559280-0014, with an address at Tullhusgatan 1 b, 652 09 Karlstad, Sweden. Its publishing pages also list a Stockholm address for the publishing operation.

The group's own company description states that it develops and publishes games across PC, console and mobile, combining internal development with a selective partnership strategy, and that its approach relies on Early Access, user-generated content and continuous updates to sustain its titles over time. It also lists offices in Skovde, Stockholm, Malmo, Trollhattan and Gothenburg.

The group's public material is addressed to developers and investors as well as players. Its publishing page invites studios to submit games for consideration, and a separate investors section describes the business model behind the group. Both pages carry the registered details of Coffee Stain Group AB.

Questions people ask