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SpiderWare - Version 5 vs Version 6
Aug 26, 2026, 01:45 PM
Removed an unsourced leadership attribution from the intro, the studio-at-a-glance table and the page description, dropped an unsourced earlier-name claim, two unsourced community-size figures and an unsourced claim about what the build excludes, and corrected the Japan role and platform lines
Sep 17, 2026, 03:32 AM
Added 3 gameplay images (2026-09-16)
11Soulbound: Online is developed and published by SpiderWare, a UK indie studio based in London and founded in 2021. The studio is small: eighteen people covering engineering, art, animation, design, music, writing, production and QA, with prior shipping credits at Riot Games, Amazon Game Studios, Blizzard and Jagex.22FieldDetailFounded2021BasedLondon, United KingdomTeam size18Working modelFully remote, fully asyncRole on SoulboundDeveloper and publisherDebut titleSoulbound: OnlineStated missionBuild a new generation of MMORPGs44How They Work55SpiderWare is fully remote and fully async. There is no office and no mandatory meetings; the team works across time zones and writes things down instead of meeting about them. The studio's stated rule is that anyone on the team can put something into the game and ship it without an engineer or a chain of sign-offs. A designer can build a quest, an artist can populate a zone, and a writer can build a story event and see it in the build.77The name is meant literally. A web is interconnected, every strand reaching every other, so the studio runs without siloed departments and describes what it makes as software woven like a web.99Its stated thesis is that a small team with the right tools can produce hand-crafted, world-coherent content at the speed and scale of user-generated content, instead of choosing between the two. That is why live events sit at the centre of the design: the actions of the community drive the narrative, and the world is updated every week with new challenges, events and stories. The broader mission the studio gives itself is to build a new generation of MMORPGs, the kind of games that have not been made before.1111Soulbound's Origins1313The studio built Soulbound as a browser and Discord-native MMO. Running inside Discord and the browser, it passed one million players. In 2024 it won Discord's "Adventure Together" App Pitch.1516The Move To Steam1718The Steam release is a rebuilt, standalone version of the game. Earlier production builds are being retired for the relaunch, with prior progression reset.1921The shipped Early Access client is Windows only. A Mac Steam client sits on the roadmap for the second quarter of 2027, the browser client the game once ran on has been retired, and the studio's own site still lists Mac, browser and mobile alongside PC among its platforms, none of which have shipped on Steam.2123Launch details are on Early Access and Roadmap, and a per-update summary is on Update History.2325Hiring And Support2527Hiring no longer runs through the game's own site. Open roles are published on the studio's separate site, which also carries its about and careers pages and a live feed of the current listings.2730Five roles were open as of August 2026, all of them fully remote:2932RoleAreaNotesVideo Game Content DesignerDesignContract and part-time, anchored to LondonBackend Server Engineer (MMORPG)EngineeringCloud server infrastructure, United KingdomCommunity Manager (MMORPG)CommunityLondonJapan Community ManagerCommunityOpen across Japan, the UK and the United StatesVideo Game QA TesterQAUnited Kingdom, with several other countries also listed3134The Japan community role lines up with the studio's stated localisation plan, which starts with Japanese before Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese. The Early Access build itself ships in English only, as covered on Accessibility.3235Player support runs through the studio's own help centre and support address rather than a third party, and the team said in-game support response times were running at around a minute in the days after launch.
