Altitude Games

Altitude Games is a Makati-based mobile game development studio that has been building original mobile titles since 2014, at a time when most Philippine game studios worked primarily as outsourced co-development shops for foreign publishers rather than owning their own intellectual property. The studio raised US$275,000 in seed funding shortly after founding specifically to develop original IP in the midcore game space, a deliberate bet against the more common regional pattern of contract development work.

Philippine tech conglomerate Xurpas Inc. (itself already listed in this directory) held an equity stake in Altitude Games for years following its founding; a 2023 BusinessWorld report noted Xurpas planned to sell down a 21.17% stake in the studio, indicating an ongoing, if reducing, ownership relationship between the two companies.

Altitude Games has continued operating for more than a decade past its founding, with visible activity through 2024 and 2025 including participation in Gamescom Asia and the Philippine GameDev Expo, active hiring for Manila-based roles, and company events held in Makati as recently as December 2025, suggesting a stable, ongoing studio rather than a dormant shell.

Most Philippine game development talent historically worked on outsourced, work-for-hire projects for foreign publishers, building other companies' games rather than original titles the studio itself owned and could earn ongoing revenue from.

Mobile game players in the midcore and casual segments who download and play Altitude Games' own original titles, rather than enterprise clients, since the studio's core strategy is direct-to-consumer game publishing rather than contract development.

Altitude Games built its business around owning original mobile game IP from a very early point in the Philippine game industry's development, when most local studios were positioned as outsourcing partners rather than independent publishers, and has sustained that model for over a decade.