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| Company type | Video games |
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| Industry | Videogames |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Alexey and Afanasiy Ushnisky [1] |
| Headquarters | New Zealand |
| Website | www |
Mytona is a global group of companies headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand that focuses on video game development and publishing.
Mytona was founded in Yakutsk, Russia [2] [3] in 2012 and has offices in Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Serbia.
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. [4] The game was shut down in 2020.
In 2018, Mytona released a time management game. In 2019, Cooking Diary [5] won "People's Choice Award" at the 15th International Mobile Gaming Awards. [6] in San Francisco. In 2020, Cooking Diary won "People's Voice" at the Webby Awards 2020. [7] In October 2020, Mytona collaborated with the streaming service Netflix, resulting in the Cooking Diary x Stranger Things Halloween update. [8]
In 2021, the company published the 4v1 physics-based prop hunt survival Propnight [9] , 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. [10] 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. [11]
In 2023, Mytona released two new projects: Outfire (a multiplayer competitive top-down shooter) and Chef & Friends (a time management game).[ citation needed ]
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