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Saroasis Studios
May 1, 2026 at 01:36 AM
Accuracy update (2026-05-01)
Saroasis 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.
Saroasis 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.
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 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.
As 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.
The 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.
Saroasis 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, do not write "published by Tencent" in any factual article on the wiki; treat the relationship as an investor-and-platform-partner one.
Beyond 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.
The 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.
The studio communicates through a small number of official channels, each with a well-defined role:
Official 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.
Community-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.
