Tarsier Studios
CompanySweden · Founded 2004
Documents about Tarsier Studios
Whitepaper3 pages
How Streaming Facilitates Affective Transformation: A Case Study of Horror Game Spectatorship
This paper examines how watching horror games through live streaming can transform fear into humour, using the platform horror game Little Nightmares (Tarsier Studios, 2017) as a case study.
- Stream spectatorship of horror games can convert fear into humour: on Bilibili, watching Little Nightmares shifts viewers from the visceral, empathetic horror felt by players toward amusement and schadenfreude.
- The paper's concept of empathetic horror arises from a player's bond with a front-facing, side-scrolling avatar, and that bond is disrupted when viewers adopt a third-person observer stance.
- Three factors drive the affective transformation: the shift from embodied to observer perspective, the introduction of new actors that change the meaning of monsters and death, and the Danmaku comment stream acting as an active participant in producing humour.
DiGRAJun 2026
Presentation7 pages
Embracer Acquires Tarsier Studios: Investor Presentation
Embracer Group has finalized the acquisition of Tarsier Studios, a Malmö-based developer, to bolster its portfolio of original intellectual properties.
- Embracer Group acquired Tarsier Studios for a total purchase price of SEK 99 million, comprised of SEK 88 million in cash, SEK 11 million in B shares, and a ten-year earnout capped at SEK 44 million.
- Tarsier Studios will operate as an autonomous entity within the Goodbye Kansas Game Invest sub-group, shifting its strategic focus from external work-for-hire to developing and owning original intellectual properties.
- The studio employs over 60 staff members with an average of eight years of industry experience and a track record of developing million-selling titles like Little Nightmares.
Embracer GroupDec 2019
