What KeokeN Interactive does

KeokeN Interactive is a Dutch independent game development studio headquartered at Diamantlaan 15 in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, operating as a private limited company (KeokeN Interactive B.V.) with 11-50 employees. Founded by CEO Koen Deetman and run as a founder-led operation alongside his brother and co-founder Paul Deetman (founder and managing director), the studio builds single-player, narrative-driven, third-person sci-fi adventure games for the global PC market. Its core product is the three-title "Deliver Us" franchise, consisting of Deliver Us The Moon (an apocalyptic near-future thriller about an energy crisis and a lunar mission), Deliver Us Mars (a sequel centered on recovering stolen ARK colony ships), and Deliver Us Home (a solitary astronaut experience completing the trilogy). The technology stack centers on a standard game-engine pipeline for atmospheric sci-fi world-building, exploration, traversal, and survival gameplay, with the studio's stated differentiation resting on rich, believable game worlds and socially resonant storytelling.

The studio operates a pure direct-to-consumer B2C model, selling its games as one-time digital purchases on the Steam platform with no subscription or live-service component and no disclosed enterprise or B2B customers. Its go-to-market is narrow: the company website functions as a top-of-funnel content/brand surface, while Steam serves as the bottom-of-funnel marketplace reaching individual PC gamers worldwide. Pricing is set at the platform level and is not publicly disclosed on the studio's own channels. The studio has no disclosed external funding, no parent company, no M&A activity, no formal partnerships, and no patents or certifications on file, making it a bootstrapped, founder-owned creative studio whose commercial exposure is concentrated on one platform (Steam) and one franchise (the Deliver Us series).

Name

KeokeN Interactive

Legal name

KeokeN Interactive B.V.

Website

https://keoken.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

KeokeN Interactive is a Dutch independent game studio (11-50 employees, Hoofddorp) that develops narrative-driven third-person sci-fi adventure games, including the three-title Deliver Us franchise, sold as one-time digital purchases to global PC gamers via Steam.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Hoofddorp

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Video Game Sales: The studio generates revenue through the sale of narrative-driven adventure games. Games are sold as one-time purchases through digital distribution platforms like Steam, with no recurring subscription component.

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Core offering

KeokeN Interactive is an independent Dutch game development studio that designs, develops, and sells single-player, narrative-driven, third-person sci-fi adventure games in the "Deliver Us" franchise, including Deliver Us The Moon, Deliver Us Mars, and Deliver Us Home. The studio focuses on creating rich, believable game worlds with immersive storytelling, exploration, and survival mechanics set in apocalyptic and futuristic science-fiction settings. Games are sold as one-time digital purchases through the Steam platform to PC gamers worldwide.

Product overview

KeokeN Interactive is a video game development studio that creates narrative-driven sci-fi adventure games. Their portfolio consists of three interconnected games in the 'Deliver Us' series: Deliver Us The Moon (the original), Deliver Us Mars (the sequel featuring new frontiers and stolen ARK colony ships), and Deliver Us Home (the most recent installment featuring a solitary astronaut securing humanity's future). The studio develops single-player, third-person adventure games with immersive storytelling set in futuristic science fiction worlds.

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Brands

• Pingy: KeokeN Interactive's official mascot. The penguin has been with Koen since he was 4 years old and represents everything positive, motivating people to keep going and never give up.

Products and services

• Deliver Us Home A solitary sci-fi experience where one astronaut works to secure a home and new future for humanity. It is a single-player narrative-driven, third-person adventure game set in a futuristic wide linear world.
• Deliver Us Mars An atmospheric sci-fi adventure and sequel to the award-winning Deliver Us The Moon, offering an immersive astronaut experience with a suspense-fuelled, high-stakes mission to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward.
• Deliver Us The Moon A sci-fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. Global powers created the World Space Agency to secure a promising new source of energy on the moon.

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Technology focussed Yes

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Direct peers

• Playdead: Danish indie studio behind the narrative-driven, atmospheric single-player adventures Limbo and Inside; highly comparable to KeokeN as a small team focused on tightly crafted, exploration-driven sci-fi/world-building PC games distributed digitally.
• The Chinese Room: UK studio known for narrative exploration titles like Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs; directly comparable as a small narrative-adventure studio building atmospheric, story-led PC experiences.
• Red Barrels: Canadian indie studio behind the Outlast horror series; comparable as a small, self-funded studio that has shipped multiple successful narrative-driven titles on PC via Steam and built a recognizable franchise.
• Deck Nine Games: US studio that took over the Life is Strange franchise and specializes in narrative-driven adventure games with sci-fi/mystery themes; closely comparable in product category and target audience.
• Dontnod Entertainment: French developer of the Life is Strange series and narrative-driven sci-fi/horror adventures like Vampyr; a leading reference point for narrative-adventure studios of similar artistic ambition, though at larger scale.
• Red Thread Games: Norwegian indie studio behind Draugen and Dreamfall Chapters, focused on narrative-driven single-player adventures; closely comparable in scope, scale, and storytelling-led sci-fi/nordic atmospheric positioning.
• 11 bit studios: Polish indie studio behind This War of Mine and Frostpunk; comparable as a self-published, narrative/atmospheric indie studio that has scaled from small-team origins through self-publishing on Steam.

Emerging players

• Keen Games: European indie game studio with experience in survival/atmospheric PC titles; a relevant regional peer for European indie studios operating in the adventure/survival PC niche on Steam.

Broad incumbents

• Supermassive Games: UK developer of narrative horror/adventure titles such as Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology; an adjacent incumbent working in cinematic single-player narrative experiences with similar sci-fi/survival atmospheric DNA.
• Quantic Dream: French developer of cinematic narrative-adventure games like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain; a broader incumbent in the same narrative-adventure genre with sci-fi themes, operating at much larger scale.

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Customer concentration

• Xx.com/keoken
• Facebookfacebook.com/keokeninteractive

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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