Sand Door Studio

Sand Door Studio is a French video game development studio headquartered in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. According to its LinkedIn company profile, the studio was founded in 2021 and operates in the video games sector with a team of 11 to 50 employees. It describes itself simply as a "French video game studio" and is best known as the creator of the action game Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior. The studio's public presence is centred on its LinkedIn page and on a dedicated page hosted on the Quantic Dream blog, which serves as the official web destination for Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior. This association with Quantic Dream's blog infrastructure indicates that the game was published or supported by Quantic Dream, the well-known French developer and publisher based in Paris, though Sand Door Studio itself is presented as an independent creative entity rather than a division of Quantic Dream. Sand Door Studio belongs to a dense cluster of independent game development studios in and around Paris, a group that includes peers such as Sloclap, Savage Level, Tindalos Interactive, Shiro Games (Bordeaux), and Quantic Dream itself. Like many of these studios, Sand Door Studio is a small, project-focused team. Its first widely publicised title, Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior, is an action-oriented game built around time-manipulation mechanics, in which the player controls a warrior able to rewind time and fight alongside echoes of her past selves. As a young studio founded in 2021, Sand Door Studio's public record is still limited. It has not been the subject of major corporate transactions, public listings, or large-scale controversies in the available evidence. Its identity in the brand landscape is that of a boutique French game developer whose reputation rests on a single flagship title and on its position within the Parisian game-development ecosystem.

Sand Door Studio was founded in 2021 in Paris, France, according to its LinkedIn company profile. It emerged within the vibrant Parisian independent game-development scene, a cluster that by the early 2020s included established studios such as Quantic Dream, Sloclap, Tindalos Interactive, Savage Level, and others. The studio describes itself as a "French video game studio" and operates in the video games sector with a team of 11 to 50 employees, placing it in the small-to-mid-sized independent bracket. The studio's defining project is Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior, an action game built around time-manipulation mechanics. The game's official web presence is hosted on the Quantic Dream blog at blog.quanticdream.com/lysfanga/, indicating a publishing or support relationship with Quantic Dream, the Paris-based developer and publisher known for titles such as Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human, and Star Wars Eclipse. This connection gave the young studio access to a larger publisher's infrastructure and audience while Sand Door Studio retained its own identity as an independent creator. Beyond the founding year, team size, location, and its flagship title, the public record on Sand Door Studio remains sparse. The studio has not been involved in publicly reported mergers, acquisitions, funding rounds, or leadership changes in the available evidence. Its LinkedIn page lists it alongside similar Paris-area studios, reflecting its position as one of many small French independents contributing to the country's reputation as a major European game-development hub. As of the available evidence, Sand Door Studio remains an active, privately held company. Its history is still in its early chapters, and its trajectory will likely be shaped by the reception of Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior and any future projects the team undertakes.

• 2021

  Sand Door Studio founded in Paris, France.

• Release of flagship title Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior, with official page hosted on the Quantic Dream blog.

Independent French video game studio creating action games with distinctive time-manipulation gameplay.

• Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior

  Action video game built around time-manipulation mechanics, created by Sand Door Studio.

1. 1Sand Door Studio | LinkedInfr.linkedin.com
2. 2Sand Door Studio - Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Lysfanga - Quantic Dream Blogblog.quanticdream.com
4. 4Sloclap | LinkedInfr.linkedin.com
5. 5Shiro Games | LinkedInfr.linkedin.com
6. 6Savage Level | LinkedInfr.linkedin.com