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Saroasis Studios - Version 6 vs Version 7
Jul 12, 2026, 06:53 PM
Rewrote the studio-relationship note as reader-facing prose, removing editorial-instruction phrasing (2026-07-12)
Jul 22, 2026, 01:40 AM
Added the studio's published office footprint and its in-house development and publishing capability
11Saroasis Studios is the Chinese game developer behind Rewinding Cadence. The studio is described in industry coverage as Tencent-affiliated, with that relationship sitting at the investor and platform-partner level rather than at the storefront-publisher-of-record level.2233Studio Profile4455Saroasis is positioned as an anime-styled studio with a dual focus on shooters and role-playing games. Public material describes the studio as a team in the several-hundred-developer range with a track record in the shooter category, which feeds into the precision of action-game-style combat seen in Rewinding Cadence. Members of the team have been described in industry coverage as having previously worked on other large Chinese live-service games. Specific personal credits should be treated as unconfirmed unless they are confirmed by the developer directly, since pre-launch coverage of Chinese studios is often loose with role attributions.667+The studio's own corporate material places its headquarters in Shenzhen, with additional offices in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Chengdu. It describes itself as handling both development and publishing in-house rather than relying on an external publishing partner, and states an explicit goal of building original intellectual property for a global anime-game audience.8+9+That self-description lines up with the storefront listings, which name the studio in both the developer and publisher fields. It is also the cleanest available answer to a question community sources get wrong regularly: the studio publishes its own games, and the corporate relationship described in the section below sits above that, not in place of it.10+711Other Projects812913Saroasis Studios is also developing Fate Trigger: The Novita, a free-to-play anime-styled hero battle royale. Fate Trigger and Rewinding Cadence are sister projects under the same studio rather than a single shared universe, and the two games are aimed at different audiences: a competitive multiplayer shooter on one side and an open-world story RPG on the other.101415+The studio's public timeline puts the shooter's first reveal in 2024 and this game's formal reveal on June 11, 2025, three days after a short teaser went out. Those two dates are the studio's own framing of its output so far.16+1117Publishing and Distribution12181319As a Tencent-affiliated studio, Saroasis benefits from Tencent's mainland China distribution infrastructure for both Android and PC builds. The Chinese-region pre-registration for Rewinding Cadence runs through the standard Tencent-friendly mobile storefronts and the BiliGame portal, with the official Chinese-language site serving as the canonical hub. International distribution plans have not been finalized publicly, and the studio's English-language social presence is limited to its game-specific channels rather than a single corporate handle.14201521Community Channels16221723The studio maintains official social and video channels for Rewinding Cadence in both English-language and Chinese-language markets, alongside the Chinese-region storefront listings used for pre-registration. The studio uses those feeds for trailers, dev letters, beta announcements, and patch notes.18241925Funding and Investor Profile20262127Saroasis Studios is described in industry coverage as a Tencent-affiliated studio. The relationship is at the investment and partnership level rather than the publisher level: storefront listings for both Rewinding Cadence and the studio's adjacent shooter Fate Trigger: The Novita name Saroasis Studios as the publisher of record. Tencent's involvement has been signaled through the studio's distribution access, its hiring profile, and its public-event placement, but the corporate filing-level relationship has not been published in detail. Until the studio publishes a definitive statement, the relationship is best treated as an investor and platform partnership rather than a publishing arrangement.22282329Studio Output and Adjacent Games24302531Beyond Rewinding Cadence, Saroasis Studios is also developing Fate Trigger: The Novita, a free-to-play anime-styled hero battle royale. Fate Trigger and Rewinding Cadence are sister projects rather than entries in a shared universe, and they target different audiences: Fate Trigger is a competitive multiplayer shooter, while Rewinding Cadence is a single-player open-world story RPG with co-operative companion dynamics.26322733The studio has not announced a third title at the time of writing. Industry coverage occasionally mentions ex-Saroasis staff working on other Tencent-affiliated projects, but credit attribution between studios at this level is loose in pre-launch reporting and should not be treated as canon.28342935Public Communication Cadence30363137The studio communicates through a small number of official channels, each with a well-defined role:32383339Official Chinese-language site: canonical hub for press kits, character reveals, and confirmed game facts.English-language X account: global-track milestones and trailer drops in English. Lower posting frequency than the CN-track channels.YouTube channel: English-subtitled trailers, the eight-minute and twelve-minute gameplay showcases, beta promotional cuts.Weibo account: highest-frequency CN social channel for announcements, dev letters, and community-event notices.Bilibili channel: video mirror of YouTube content, Chinese-language cuts, and dev-livestream archives.34403541Community-driven aggregator accounts that re-translate CN posts into English are useful for staying current but are not affiliated with the studio. They should not be treated as primary sources.