Destroy All Humans Remake Studio Black Forest Games Goes Independent
Black Forest Games has become an independent studio, separating from its former owners THQ Nordic and Embracer Group. Eurogamer reported the change on 11 November 2026.
The studio gained its independence through a management buyout. In that kind of deal, a company's own managers buy it from the owners who held it before. Black Forest Games said it is still working with THQ Nordic in some capacity after the change.
The studio is based in Offenburg, Germany, and was founded in 2012. It joined the THQ Nordic group in 2017. According to its LinkedIn company page, the team now numbers more than 100 professionals.
Its earlier titles include Fade to Silence, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and Rogue Stormers. Its latest release is Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed, a remake of the 2006 game Destroy All Humans! 2 – Make War Not Love. Black Forest Games also developed the remakes of the first two games in the Destroy All Humans series.
The studio has also co-founded Third Signal, a new group of independent studios. Third Signal is meant to offer help and resources to other indie teams. Indie teams are small studios that make games without a large publisher's backing, and they often work with limited staff and budgets. Andreas Tobler is CEO of Third Signal.
For a studio that has spent years inside a larger group, going independent changes who owns the company and who makes its decisions. The studio's work on remakes and its ties to THQ Nordic continue, according to the studio's statements. What Third Signal will offer, and how its member studios will work together, is still to be detailed.
