# Singularity 6

> Singularity 6 is a Los Angeles game studio founded in 2018 by former Riot Games leads Anthony Leung and Aidan Karabaich. Its debut title, Palia, is a free-to-play cozy MMO built around cooking, fishing, gardening and low-stakes hanging-out for a mass audience the hardcore MMO never courted. The studio raised roughly $49 million, shipped Palia to more than 10 million players across PC, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox, and - after two rounds of layoffs in 2024 - was acquired by Daybreak Game Company, which now runs Palia as a live service.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founders:** Anthony Leung (CEO & Co-Founder), Aidan Karabaich (Co-Founder & Game Director / Creative Director)
- **Team size:** ~73 employees (down from ~140+ before 2024 layoffs)
- **Products:** Palia, S6 game server platform
- **Notable:** Named and popularized the 'community sim' genre with Palia, Surpassed 10 million players by April 2026, Shipped a single title across PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S

## Products & services

- **Palia** — A free-to-play, cross-platform cozy MMO 'community sim' set in the world of Kilima. Players gather, cook, fish, farm, craft, decorate homes and hang out in a persistent shared world with light story and no combat pressure. Available on PC (own platform, Epic, Steam), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
- **S6 game server platform** — In-house cloud-native game infrastructure powering Palia at scale - built with Rust and Go microservices, ScyllaDB for schema-less player data, Apache Kafka event streaming, and Kubernetes with Agones/Karpenter for game-server autoscaling, empty-server rotation and geographical distribution.

## Achievements

- Named and popularized the 'community sim' genre with Palia
- Surpassed 10 million players by April 2026
- Shipped a single title across PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S
- Raised roughly $49M from a16z, FunPlus, LVP, Transcend, Anthos and industry veteran Mitch Lasky
- Built cloud-native game infrastructure (Rust, ScyllaDB, Kafka, Kubernetes/Agones) supporting a persistent shared world at scale

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Daybreak Game Company acquires Singularity 6; Palia continues as a live service.
- **2024-05** — Second 2024 layoff round cuts roughly 40% of remaining staff.
- **2024-04** — First 2024 layoff round cuts 49 employees (~35% of staff).
- **2025-05** — Palia launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
- **2026-04** — Palia surpasses 10 million players; Royal Highlands expansion arrives in May 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://singularity6.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/singularity6
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/singularity6
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/singularity6

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Last updated: 2026-08-19