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StickyLock

game developer and publisher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ124056756
Source-derived summary

StickyLock is an independent game development studio and publisher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The studio was founded in 2018 and as of 2024 it has more than 50 employees. The studio is also known for its projects in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) as well its other games.

StickyLock Games B.V. (the games development division of the StickyLock Group) was declared bankrupt on 17 July 2024.

Projects

Histera

Histera is a multiplayer first-person shooter with a "Glitch" mechanic that transforms sections of the play area in real-time during the game, with scenery from one time period changing to scenery from a different period. StickyLock is developing and publishing the game. The game was released into Early Access on Steam on 20 June 2024.

A game demo was available to play during Steam Next Fest in October 2023.

Woven

Woven is a single-player third-person adventure game developed by Alterego Games and published by StickyLock. It was released on Android, iPad, iPhone, Steam, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on 15 November 2019.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2024, 2023, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, StickyLock, game and developer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from StickyLock” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.