We make games
we want to play.
Utopos Games is a video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. We're industry veterans with 20+ years of experience who first worked together on Command & Conquer at Westwood Studios.
- 2019
- Studio founded
- $1M
- Seed funding raised
- 20+
- Avg years experience
- C&C
- Westwood alumni
Our Games
Guntech 2
Retro arcade space shooter
A retro-inspired space shooter for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Steam and Atari VCS.
Utopos
Multiplayer arena fighting with rocketships
Available on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux, and Atari VCS game console.
Guntech Adventures
Retro-style arcade shooter
An insanely fun retro-style arcade shooter. Free to play on iOS and Steam.
URG
Utopos Rocketship Game
A brand new retro-style rocketship shooter. Available on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux.
Raivo
The first game to gamify machine learning
Collect robots, train them with real AI, and battle other players worldwide.
Latest Videos
News Coverage
- OCT 8, 2019VentureBeat: Utopos Games raises $1 million to make AI-based robot battle game Raivo
- OCT 8, 2019GamePress: Raivo brings Advanced AI to the Gaming World
- OCT 8, 2019Gaming Street: Machine learning-based game Raivo gets $1 million in seed funding
- OCT 8, 2019Gamasutra: Utopos raises $1 million to gamify machine learning with debut title Raivo
- OCT 8, 2019V2.fi: Suomalais-amerikkalaisen Utopos Gamesin tuleva peli Raivo sai taakseen 1 miljoonan dollarin siemenrahoituksen
Latest from the Blog
- November 12, 2019Music by Frank Klepacki!
Award-winning composer Frank Klepacki is writing the original soundtrack of Raivo! Utopos Games has a strong connection to Mr. Klepacki through our Westwood Studios heritage.
- November 5, 2019Utopos Games Popup Lounge in Helsinki!
During the week of November 18 to November 22, the whole world gathers in Helsinki for the annual Slush conference. Utopos Games will attend big time — we're opening a popup office in Helsinki!
- October 30, 2019Boo! Happy Halloween from Utopos!
We're excited and humbled by how amazing the response has been to our first game, Raivo! We wanted to take a moment and wish you all a Happy Halloween!
The Good Place for Games
Utopos Games/yo͞oˈtōpōs/ — The Good Place, The Place of Utopia. We are a team of some of the world's best and most experienced game developers, reunited to build something new.
We are Utopos Games, a video game developer based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. We're comprised of industry veterans with an average of 20 years of professional game development experience. We've worked in leading roles on groundbreaking franchises like Command & Conquer, The Lord of the Rings, and more. We've built games for PCs, consoles and mobile, premium and free-to-play. We've built strategy games, arcade action games, shooters, and more.
We have all worked together in various different teams over the years, starting from Westwood Studios some 20 years ago. All of us still have a passion to create something new, push the industry, and are ready to come together. In early 2019, we did. We decided that it is time for us to found a new studio. Utopos Games was born.
Jani Penttinen
One of the first game developers to come out of Finland. During the past 27 years Jani has worked for EA, Westwood Studios, Housemarque, Remedy Entertainment and founded a mobile game studio in China.
Elie Arabian
A seasoned Art Director with over 27 years of game industry experience. He started his career in 1992 at Westwood Studios and has also worked for Electronic Arts, Petroglyph Games, Instant Action, Garage games, Shuffle, Bally Technologies.
John Comes
Having built games for over 18 years as a designer, engineer, producer, and more. He's been involved in major franchises such as Command & Conquer, Lord of the Rings, Supreme Commander, Planetary Annihilation, and Hello Neighbor.
Hector Yee
One of the world's leading AI programmers and visionaries. At Google AI, he wrote an Emmy award winning recommendation system for YouTube. At AirBnB, he wrote the dynamic pricing algorithm.