While Spiders is likely best known by gamers these days as the developers of Greedfall, the studio has actually been quite busy over the years. The company is plenty busy working on a brand new game in Steelrising, but many may be wondering what kind of games the studio put out in the past. The answer to that question is that the company has basically specialized in two kinds of games. However, the subject matter in those titles has been quite eclectic and varied.

While Spiders is best known for action/role-playing games in the last few years, point-and-click adventure is really where the studio began. In fact, before the company was doing a ton of its own work, it was mostly helping other developers bring PC games over to consoles. Even after it started working on its own IP, it didn't leave those relationships or opportunities behind.

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Spiders: The Sherlock Holmes Years

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Before Greedfall helped put Spiders on the map with the last generation of consoles, the company was best known as working with Frogwares to bring Sherlock Holmes to the Xbox 360 and PS3. Both games centered around the famous British detective in adventure games similar to what gamers might be used to in something like The Walking Dead. The difference, of course, is that the Sherlock games were more about solving a mystery than surviving a zombie apocalypse. Spiders worked on two games in the long-running franchise.

The first game the studio worked on was released 11 years ago: Back in 2010, before Steelrising was even a robotic glint in the studio's eye, the company brought Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper from the PC to the Xbox 360. Frogwares, which has continued to put out games in the series, was the company that initially developed the title on PC. Interestingly, the game never made its way to Sony's PS3 console. Two years later, Spiders ported The Testament of Sherlock Holmes to consoles as well. This time, the game came to both the Xbox 360 and the PS3.

In between those Sherlock adventures, Spiders worked on several other new games, though for the most part it had the same kind of deal as it did with Frogwares. Gray Matter was an even more straightforward point-and-click adventure where the developers worked with Wizardbox on the console port for the PC game. This too came just to the Xbox 360, instead of being on both Microsoft and Sony's console.

Role-Playing Becomes Spiders' Bread And Butter

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Apparently divesting itself a bit when it came to the kind of games it worked on, Spiders spent quite a bit of time even in the early years working on RPGs. It also ventured into fantasy tales more than anything else when it came to the setting of such games.

In 2010, it released Faery: Legends of Avalon on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Unlike its partnerships on adventure games, this was developed entirely by Spiders. In 2012, the company once again did a team-up, this time with Cyanide to produce Of Orcs and Men. In 2013, Spiders released Mars: War Logs, and then Bound By Flame launched in 2014. Both games were RPGs as well, set in a cyberpunk and fantasy setting, respectively.

In 2016 Technomancer became the first Spiders game of the PS4/Xbox One console generation. Three years later, Greedfall became the first game that also released on Xbox Series X/S and PS5, alongside PS4/Xbox One. Steelrising will be the first game Spiders develops specifically for the new generation of consoles.

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