What Fire Maple Games does

Fire Maple Games is an independent, founder-owned mobile game development studio based in Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 2008 (per company-published copyright and history; firmographic data states 2012). The studio specializes in premium point-and-click adventure games featuring hand-painted 2D graphics, original orchestral soundtracks, and puzzle-driven exploration across 50+ in-game locations. Its catalog comprises seven standalone titles released between 2010 and 2024 — The Secret of Grisly Manor, The Lost City, The Hidden World (Mosaika), Return to Grisly Manor, Thickety Creek, Curse of the Cobra, and Crookhaven — with recurring intellectual property around the Grisly Manor and Mosaika universes. Games include built-in hint systems, journal-based clue tracking, dynamic maps, auto-save functionality, and localization in 7 languages.

The underlying technology is a custom point-and-click adventure game engine purpose-built for mobile, with manual hand-painted art assets and hand-composed audio rather than procedurally generated or AI-assisted content. The studio sells each title as an individual one-time-purchase paid app — there are no in-app purchases, subscriptions, advertising, or live-service mechanics — distributed exclusively through major mobile app marketplaces: Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store, with legacy availability on Kindle Fire and Nook. Customers are casual mobile gamers seeking offline, story-driven puzzle adventures across iOS, Android, and Kindle devices.

The business is bootstrapped with no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and no enterprise customers. Go-to-market is community-driven via a Discord server (600+ members), email mailing list, and presence on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Blue Sky Social. The studio operates as a lifestyle indie with an estimated 11–50 employees and is listed in TechBullion's 2026 '10 Best Mobile Game Development Companies' curated list alongside Niantic, Rovio, and Gameloft.

Name

Fire Maple Games

Legal name

Fire Maple Games

Website

https://firemaplegames.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fire Maple Games is an independent, founder-owned US mobile game studio developing premium point-and-click adventure games. The studio sells seven titles directly to consumers worldwide through the Apple, Google, and Amazon app stores via one-time purchases, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Glenside

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Game Sales (Paid Apps): Fire Maple Games generates revenue through one-time purchase game sales distributed via app stores. Games are sold as paid apps with no in-app purchases or recurring fees, requiring players to buy each game individually.

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Core offering

Fire Maple Games is an independent mobile game development studio that designs, develops, and sells premium point-and-click adventure games for iOS, Android, and Kindle devices. Its catalog of seven standalone titles—including The Secret of Grisly Manor, The Lost City, The Hidden World (Mosaika), Return to Grisly Manor, Thickety Creek, Curse of the Cobra, and Crookhaven—is sold as one-time paid purchases through major mobile app marketplaces without in-app purchases or subscriptions.

Product overview

Fire Maple Games is an independent mobile game studio offering a portfolio of point-and-click adventure games. The company's portfolio consists of seven distinct standalone adventure games: The Secret of Grisly Manor (the original), Return to Grisly Manor (its sequel featuring time travel), The Lost City, The Hidden World (Mosaika), Thickety Creek, Curse of the Cobra, and Crookhaven. These are sold as individual premium mobile apps available across iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms — there is no platform-with-modules architecture; each game is a self-contained, independently purchased title with its own storyline, puzzles, and graphics. All titles share a similar aesthetic and gameplay formula centered on exploration, item collection, and puzzle-solving.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Crookhaven A treasure-hunt adventure game set in the seaside town of Crookhaven, where players decipher clues and uncover a lost pirate fortune. Available on iOS, Android, and Amazon.
• Curse of the Cobra A mystery adventure game where players travel across New York, London, and Cairo to stop the evil Cobra Queen, solving puzzles and interacting with local characters. Available on iOS, Android, and Amazon.
• Thickety Creek An adventure game centered on uncovering a lost fortune hidden behind the locked gates of a forbidden forest, involving local folklore of bank robbers. Available on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire.
• Return to Grisly Manor A sequel adventure where players help Grandpa repair his time machine and travel back to the original Grisly Manor to find the land deed and stop developers from demolishing the manor. Available on iOS, Android, and Amazon.
• The Hidden World (Mosaika) A point-and-click adventure where players discover a magical land hidden behind a fireplace in their uncle's house, featuring hand-painted graphics and a built-in hint system. Available on iOS and Android.
• The Lost City An adventure game where players follow Grandma's legend to find a hidden city that can control the seasons, featuring a journal, dynamic map, and built-in walkthrough. Available in 7 languages across iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and Nook.
• The Secret of Grisly Manor The original point-and-click adventure where players explore Grandpa's mysterious manor, solving re-engineered puzzles to discover his secret. Features over 50 locations, auto-save, and a classic adventure style. Available on iOS, Android, and Amazon.

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Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Gameloft: Major mobile game developer/publisher also named alongside Fire Maple in the same curated list, with the same app store distribution channel but vastly larger scale and broader genre portfolio.
• Niantic: Major mobile gaming developer (Pokémon GO, Ingress) explicitly named alongside Fire Maple in TechBullion's curated industry roundup, comparable only in the broad mobile gaming distribution channel and vastly larger scale.
• Telltale Games: Larger narrative adventure publisher (The Walking Dead, Batman) with overlapping storytelling focus in adventure games, though operating at significantly larger scale and with episodic/live-service delivery models.
• Rovio Entertainment: Mobile game publisher behind Angry Birds, also listed alongside Fire Maple in TechBullion's curated roundup; comparable only as a much larger incumbent sharing the same app store distribution ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Wadjet Eye Games: Indie adventure game publisher-developer with a portfolio of narrative point-and-click titles (e.g., Gemini Rue, Technobabylon), comparable in genre focus and small-team indie approach.
• Revolution Software: UK-based studio behind the Broken Sword point-and-click adventure franchise, a direct genre comparable operating in classic adventure with cross-platform publishing including mobile.
• Amanita Design: Czech indie studio behind Machinarium and Botanicula, a long-running point-and-click adventure specialist with hand-crafted art direction directly comparable to Fire Maple's hand-painted graphics approach.
• Rusty Lake: Dutch indie studio specializing in point-and-click puzzle adventure games across mobile and PC, with a comparable atmospheric storytelling and inventory-puzzle focus similar to Fire Maple's portfolio.
• Daedalic Entertainment: German adventure game publisher/developer with multiple point-and-click titles such as Deponia and Silence, comparable in narrative-driven adventure genre and indie-focused publishing model.
• Snapbreak Games: Mobile-first puzzle/adventure game developer distributing premium games through app stores, with a similar premium one-time-purchase business model and mobile-only distribution footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/firemaplegames
• Facebookfacebook.com/FireMapleGames
• Instagraminstagram.com/Fire_Maple_Games

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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