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Colossal Order is a Finnish video game developer known for its business simulation game series Cities in Motion and for its city-builder series . The company was founded in Tampere, Finland in 2009. The developer is closely linked to Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive, which tests, markets, sells, and distributes, the games by Colossal Order. The CEO of Colossal Order is Mariina Hallikainen.
At first, Colossal Order had difficulties obtaining funding for its first game, the business simulation game Cities in Motion, that was already in development when the company was founded. Investors thought that Cities in Motion would not attract a large enough clientele. Instead of big investors, the first steps of the company were funded by Finnish public instruments – Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, Tekes, and DigiDemo finance of the Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture – as well as small private investors.
In its early phase, the company was coached by the Yritystalli program of the Tampere University of Technology, but advice was sought directly from experienced Finnish game development companies as well, specifically Remedy Entertainment and Frozenbyte. Upon being founded, Colossal Order compared dozens of publishers and ended up signing a publishing agreement with Paradox Interactive after over a year's worth of negotiations.
In October 2015, Colossal Order was awarded the Finnish Game Developer of the Year () award at the convention. The judges thanked Colossal Order for focusing: "from its inception ... on – in addition to developing games – also developing its business model".
Unlike the game developers that founded it, Colossal Order does not develop mobile games. Instead, the company focuses on . Employees of the company have their own internal wiki platform for developing games. Games by Colossal Order are known for their active modding communities. One of the programmers at the company works full-time on modding tools.
The best-known game of the company is the city-building game published on March 10, 2015. It competes with games of the SimCity and Cities XL series. A total of 14 expansion packs, 22 content packs and 23 music packs were released for the game.
was announced on March 6, 2023 and released on October 24, 2023 for Windows. Console versions of the game were delayed until Q2 2024, before being further delayed indefinitely.
| 2011 | Cities in Motion | Paradox Interactive | Windows, MacOS, Linux |
| 2013 | Cities in Motion 2 | ||
| 2015 | Windows, MacOS, Linux, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia | ||
| 2023 | Windows, planned for Xbox Series X and Series S and PS5 |
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