Godforge Gets Investment from Scopely
Summary
The Godforge announcement shares that Scopely has invested in Fateless, bringing more resources and time to build the game without an acquisition or change in creative direction. It recognizes the 50,000+ Discord community as a key reason for the investment and emphasizes a long-term, player-focused vision.
Hey - exciting news, and we wanted you to be the first to hear it, straight from us, like always.
Scopely, the leading mobile games company behind hits like MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO, has made an investment in Fateless.
Not an acquisition. Not a takeover. Fateless is still Fateless - same founders, same team, same people up at 1am answering your questions in this very server. What this actually is: an investment in what you all have already built with us.
Why we're saying it like that
Because it's true. Scopely didn't invest in a pitch deck or a spreadsheet. They invested in us and in this community - the 50,000+ of you in this Discord who showed up for a game that doesn’t exist yet, who put your own money behind us when nobody else would, who've been testing, breaking, and rebuilding Godforge with us in real time. That's what they saw. That's what convinced them. Not the market opportunity slide. You.
Why Scopely
We talked to a lot of companies. Most of them talked about numbers. Scopely talked about players.
They've spent years building and running some of the biggest live-service games in mobile – games with communities that have stuck around for years. That's the hard part. Anyone can launch a game. Very few know how to keep one alive, growing, and worth coming back to for years after. That's exactly the kind of long-term partner we wanted, because Godforge was never meant to be a quick hit. It's meant to be something we’re still playing years from now.
And just as important: they get that the community is the game, not a marketing channel bolted on after. That's rare, and it mattered to us more than anything else on the table.
What this means for us
More resources. More time. More room to build Godforge the way we've always wanted to, without cutting corners. That's it. That's the upgrade.
What doesn't change
- The vision. The creative direction. Godforge is still our call, and the game we've built with you is still the game we're making.
- Your feedback will always mean everything to us! Already you will see the sweeping improvements from Beta 1 to Beta 2 in the next play test. We’re pumped to get you back into the game and hear what you think!
- Us, being straight with you. That's not changing either.
Why we're telling you this at all
Simple, you've always gotten the truth from us first, whether it was good news, awkward news, or "hey, the beta's delayed and here's exactly why." That's not changing just because the news this time is bigger. You've earned hearing it directly from us, not finding it out some other way.
We've got more to share soon. For now, thank you for building this with us. This isn't the end of anything. It's just more runway to go further and build bigger, faster than we could on our own.
Simon, Dan & Sham
