MysticPortalGuide is a 14-person studio working out of a converted print works on Amwell Street. We take prototypes to shipped titles — Unreal and Unity, PC and console, first playable to live-ops.
Fixed-scope engagements with named engineers, weekly builds, and source handed over at every milestone. Day rates in GBP, no agency markup.
A polished, playable slice that proves your core loop — one biome, one boss, full audio pass. Built to pitch to publishers or greenlight internally.
Embedded Unreal 5 and Unity 6 engineers who slot into your repo, your Jira, your standups. Gameplay, tools, and rendering work delivered as reviewed pull requests.
PC-to-console ports for Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series — memory budgets, TRC/XR compliance, and first-party submission handled end to end.
Hover a station to see what happens on the floor. No mystery, no hand-waving — just the way builds move from whiteboard to store page.
Loops on paper before code.
We block out the core loop in a two-week paper-and-greybox sprint, pressure-test it with 20+ external playtesters, and only greenlight a slice once the fun is provable — not promised.
Two-week cadence, weekly builds.
Every Friday you get a signed, installable build with a changelog. Feature branches are gated behind automated smoke tests running on our on-prem build farm downstairs.
Concrete-brutalist to hand-painted.
Our in-house art team covers stylised PBR, pixel, and 2.5D. Audio is recorded in the basement live room — Foley, adaptive music in Wwise, and full VO direction.
Launch day and the 200 after it.
We handle store-page setup, day-one patch, and a 90-day live-ops runway: crash triage, seasonal content, and a Grafana dashboard you keep after handover.
A slice of shipped projects and works-in-progress from the studio.
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Rustline — greybox to shipped biome, Unreal 5.4
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Basement live room during a VO session
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Neon Ledger — 2.5D roguelike, Switch port
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Build-farm wall and the daily changelog board
“The vertical slice MysticPortalGuide built got us a two-title publishing deal. The capture reel did most of the talking in the pitch room.”
Harriet L.
Creative Director, Islington · Shipped Q1 2025
“Their embedded engineers landed clean PRs in our Unreal repo from week one. It genuinely felt like hiring three seniors without the twelve-week ramp.”
Daniel O.
Technical Lead, Bristol · Engagement 2024
“They took our PC build to Switch and passed Nintendo cert on the first submission. Locked 60 in busy scenes where we expected to fight for 30.”
Priya S.
Studio Head, Manchester · Ported Nov 2024
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Send the pitch, the prototype link, or the mess you need untangling. We reply to every serious enquiry within two working days.