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Nordcurrent is a Lithuanian video game development and publishing company headquartered in
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. It has development studios in Vilnius (Lithuania), Dnipro (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland) and Gothenburg (Sweden). Nordcurrent develops and publishes casual and
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games for smartphones, tablets and PC/Mac.


History

Nordcurrent has been operating since 2002 when Ivolgamus, a company developing games for consoles, was established in Vilnius by two brothers Sergej and Michail Trofimov and Michail's wife Victoria. The company worked for a while as a developer in the
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business, mostly known for cooperation with Activision. In 2007, they grew rapidly and achieved success with the ''Shrek'' and ''Barbie'' games, which were developed for Activision. In 2008, Nordcurrent started publishing independently to take advantage of the opportunities available on the global market. Since 2010, Nordcurrent has specialised in the development of freemium and casual games. The first big hit created by the company was 101-in-1 Games for the
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platform and it has reached top 5 games in 75 countries. The game reached 20 million downloads by 2014. In August 2014, the iOS game ''Cooking Fever'' was released. In February 2015, it was released for Android. In the first year ''Cooking Fever'' was downloaded by more than 50 million players. In November 2015, Nordcurrent opened a new development studio in Warsaw, Poland. One of company’s most popular games, ''Sniper Arena'', was released in 2016 and has 50 million downloads worldwide. In 2018, Nordcurrent acquired Odesa (Ukraine) game studio Blam! Games Studio which then was renamed to Nordcurrent Odesa. Also, in October 2018, Nordcurrent released ''Murder in the Alps'', having over 10 million downloads. Over the next three years, Nordcurrent has released several new games – Airplane Chefs (2020), Pocket Styler (2020), Happy Clinic (2020), Ocean’s Heart (2021), and Murder by Choice (2021). Nordcurrent continues to expand with the acquisition of RinGames, based in Dnipro, Ukraine. The acquired company has 28 employees and 10 years of experience in the computer games industry. RinGames was previously known as the strongest game graphics team in Ukraine. The company is a member of the Lithuanian Game Developers Association - an organisation of professional and amateur game developers in all fields. Since 2002, Nordcurrent has developed more than 50 games that have attracted more than half a billion players worldwide. In November 2023, Nordcurrent acquired Swedish game developer River End Games.


Awards

In 2015, ''Cooking Fever'' was awarded as the game of the year by LT Game Awards. In 2017, Nordcurrent co-founders Victoria, Michail and Sergej Trofimov were awarded for their services to the Lithuanian games industry by the LT Game Awards. In 2018, Norcurrent released ''Murder in the Alps'', which was awarded in the LT Game Awards as best game in several nominations: best sound design, best game for smart devices and the best game of the year. In 2021, the company’s game Airplane Chefs in LT Game Awards was nominated for best sound design and best game for smart devices categories. In 2023, ''Murder by Choice'' won the best narrative for a mobile game in the NYX Game Awards. It was also nominated for game of the year, best mobile game, and best art direction categories in the LT Game Awards.


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* {{Authority control Companies based in Vilnius Video game companies established in 2002 Information technology companies of Lithuania Video game development companies Video game companies of Lithuania Lithuanian companies established in 2002