Kepler Interactive

Kepler Interactive was founded in April 2020 at the initiative of former Ubisoft employee and French entrepreneur Alexis Garavayan, who had previously co-founded the video game investment fund Kowloon Nights. Self-described as a "super developer" publishing group, Kepler was born out of an alliance between seven studios to “pool their resources and knowledge”. The company has stated that every studio head that enters the fold gets an equal say on how Kepler operates, and an equal share of the benefits. Beyond Garavaryan himself, this included the heads of A44 (known for developing Ashen), Alpha Channel, Awaceb (known for Tchia), Ebb Software (known for Scorn), Shapefarm, Sloclap (known for developing Absolver and Sifu) and Timberline Studio. Garavaryan declared that they had a studio committee, which meets on a weekly basis, as to major decisions relating to Kepler, but that this did not involve the heads deliberating on decisions pertaining to the individual studios themselves, which remain functionally independent.

In September 2021, it was announced Kepler had raised $120 million from Chinese gaming company, NetEase.

In 2023, Kepler also launched Kepler Ghost, a white-label publishing service, providing marketing and publishing for game developers. Eternights from Studio Sai was the first video game project to benefit from this program. The Gentlebros, the developer behind the Cat Quest series, became the eighth studio to join Kepler's ownership structure; meanwhile a partnership with the new studio Sandfall Interactive for the latter's debut title, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was officially announced in March 2023. It also partnered with Ironwood Studios for the publishing and release of Pacific Drive. In April 2025, Kepler published the critically acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Sandfall, a game whose development it had also funded.

In 2025, Tactical Adventures, the studio who made Solasta: Crown of the Magister, became the ninth independent studio integrated into the Kepler Interactive brand.

Alexis Garavaryan claims Kepler to be highly selective as to the titles it publishes. It evaluates an average of 1,400 projects per year and signs “only two or three”. He also states the firm sets itself apart by financing projects with modest budgets but with high-quality visuals and innovative game mechanics. Unlike most publishers, who finance a title in exchange for varying degrees of control over its development, Garavaryan asserts Kepler never imposes decisions on the development studios it partners with. François Meurisse, COO and co-founder of Sandfall Interactive, highlighted it was this promise of creative freedom on Expedition 33 that prompted the team, which had received offers from more prominent publishers in the industry, to sign with Kepler instead.

Kepler reported a gross revenue of $50 million in FY2022 in the wake of the first titles published by the company: Sloclap's Sifu and Ebb Software's Scorn. On the heels of Rematch and most notably critical and commercial hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Kepler reported $305m in revenue in FY2025, a new peak since FY2022. With $193m of gross profit, 2025 marked the company's first profitable year since its foundation.

Games published via Kepler Ghost