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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Alexey and Afanasiy Ushnisky [1] |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Website | www |
Mytona is a mobile game development and publishing company headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. The company operates internationally, with additional offices in Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and other locations.
Mytona was founded in 2012 by brothers Alexey and Afanasey Ushnitsky. The founders’ work in game development began earlier in 2005, when they released their first title, an action game based on the Yakut heroic epic “Uolan Bootur the Swift”. [2] [3] Although the game did not achieve commercial success, it provided foundational experience for the team. In 2006, the brothers established Sulus Games, which initially consisted of approximately 50 local developers. Over the following seven years, Sulus Games developed more than ten projects for the Big Fish Games platform, primarily in the hidden object and time management genres. [4] Several of these titles became popular among PC casual game audiences.
Following the expansion of the mobile gaming market, the founders shifted their focus to mobile development and established Mytona in 2012. [5]
In 2015, Mytona released a hidden object game titled Seekers Notes. It is a mystery genre game set in the town of Darkwood. Users play as the Seeker, the chosen one, the possessor of a powerful artefact — the Magical Map, and the aim is to save Darkwood from an evil curse.
This hidden object game was released in 2015. [6] The game was shut down in 2020.
In 2018, Mytona released a time management game. In 2019, Cooking Diary [7] won "People's Choice Award" at the 15th International Mobile Gaming Awards. [8] in San Francisco. In 2020, Cooking Diary won "People's Voice" at the Webby Awards 2020. [9] In October 2020, Mytona collaborated with the streaming service Netflix, resulting in the Cooking Diary x Stranger Things Halloween update. [10]
In 2021, the company published the 4v1 physics-based prop hunt survival Propnight, [11] a multiplayer game, for the developer Fntastic. The game was shut down in 2024.
Mytona published on Steam an MMO survival game The Day Before developed by Fntastic, which was panned by critics. [12] The game was released in 2023 and shut down soon after its release.
At the end of 2021, the company launched its own metaverse, Mytonaverse. [13]
In 2023, Mytona released two new projects: Outfire (a multiplayer competitive top-down shooter) and Chef & Friends (a time management game).[ citation needed ]
