What we think about, what we're building, and why.
Extraction shooters are the most interesting genre in gaming right now. On PC and console, there are real choices. On mobile, the picture is messier. Seven games are competing for the space, and they have almost nothing in common beyond the word "extraction" in their store listing.
Every competitive game you've ever played has the same premise: here are the rules, here is what winning looks like, now go. Extraction shooters threw that out. They dropped you into a world full of valuable things and dangerous people and said, "Leave whenever you want. If you can."
It's 2am and I'm sitting in our Barcelona office with the lights off and a cold coffee I forgot about three hours ago. The question everyone keeps asking: why did you leave?
We plastered posters over street art. The graffiti community called us out. So we tracked down the artist, apologized, and turned a mistake into something real.
Extraction shooters produce some of the best moments in gaming. They also demand your entire evening, a Wikipedia tab for the ammo system, and the patience of someone who enjoys filling out tax forms. We wanted the moments without the homework.
During a MISFITZ alpha session, a player teamed up with a stranger. They cleared three areas together, split every piece of loot evenly, played like friends. Thirty seconds from extraction, the stranger stopped moving. Two seconds of nothing. Then they turned and killed him.
Every character in MISFITZ tells you something about the person playing them. Ray, Rush, Beat, Gloss, Shade, and Drip. Not because we designed it that way, but because when you give people six distinct personalities and a game built on trust and betrayal, people self-sort.
The honest version of our founding story involves a cramped co-working space in the Poblenou district, a whiteboard we bought from IKEA that kept falling off the wall, and a three-week argument about whether "MISFITZ" was a terrible name.
