Independent game studio · Est. 2017

Decades of shipping games.

8 Circuit Studios is an experienced team whose members have worked on Halo, SOCOM, Titanfall and more, led by a 30-year veteran from Nintendo, Microsoft and Day 1 Studios. We build original games in Unreal Engine.

  • Status: original project in development
  • Engine: Unreal Engine

01 / Studio

Small team. Critical mass.

We have spent our careers inside studios that set the bar for console, PC and mobile games. We started 8 Circuit to make original games held to one standard: they have to feel great in the player’s hands before they ship.

We make games with ideas worth chewing on.

We’re small by design, with a distributed team across the US, Australia and Europe. Put the right few people together and something changes: the team gels, punches above its weight, and keeps surprising us with what it can build.

Our people have shipped at

  • Nintendo
  • Microsoft
  • 343 Industries
  • Zipper Interactive
  • Respawn
  • Turtle Rock
  • Day 1 Studios

02 / Craft

Creative drive. Production discipline.

  • Game feel

    Controls, camera and combat tuned until they disappear in your hands.

  • Performance

    Deep Unreal Engine experience, profiling and platform optimization for PC, console, and Steam Deck hardware.

  • Shipping

    With years of first-party launches, we ship when it’s right: stable, certified, and fun from the start.

Tools we build

GameNostic

The crash reporting and analytics we built for our own games, now available to every Unreal Engine 4 and 5 team.

gamenostic.gg