# Torn Banner Studios

> Torn Banner Studios is a Toronto independent game developer that turned the free Half-Life 2 mod Age of Chivalry into a durable multiplayer business. Its specialty is physical, skill-based combat that creates stories players retell: cinematic medieval melees in Chivalry and high-stakes co-op survival in No More Room in Hell 2. The company sells premium PC and console games, downloadable cosmetics and campaign passes, then uses live player feedback to refine them over years.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** Toronto, Canada
- **Founders:** Steve Piggott (Founder, CEO and Creative Director)
- **Team size:** Approximately 99 employees in the supplied record; LinkedIn lists 51-200 and Canada reported growth from 35 in 2019 to more than 100 in 2024.
- **Products:** Age of Chivalry, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior, NeverMine, Mirage: Arcane Warfare
- **Notable:** Age of Chivalry helped establish the modern first-person multiplayer melee slasher format., Chivalry: Medieval Warfare became Steam's best-selling game during Christmas week 2012., Chivalry: Medieval Warfare won IndieDB's 2012 Indie of the Year award.

## Products & services

- **Age of Chivalry** — Free Half-Life 2 multiplayer mod that established the team's first-person melee design and community.
- **Chivalry: Medieval Warfare** — Premium multiplayer medieval melee game and the studio's first commercial release.
- **Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior** — Licensed expansion adding historical warrior archetypes to Chivalry.
- **NeverMine** — Small charity game released in Sega's Help: The Game collection benefiting War Child.
- **Mirage: Arcane Warfare** — Multiplayer magic-and-melee action game; commercially unsuccessful and later withdrawn from sale.
- **Chivalry 2** — Cross-platform, 64-player medieval first-person slasher with cinematic objective battles and optional cosmetic purchases and campaign passes.
- **No More Room in Hell 2** — Eight-player tactical co-op zombie horror game with infection, progression and permadeath; launched in Early Access in 2024 and reached 1.0 on PC and consoles in 2026.

## Achievements

- Age of Chivalry helped establish the modern first-person multiplayer melee slasher format.
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare became Steam's best-selling game during Christmas week 2012.
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare won IndieDB's 2012 Indie of the Year award.
- The Chivalry franchise has sold more than 10 million copies across major platforms.
- Chivalry 2 sold one million copies within two months of launch.
- Chivalry 2 sold in 214 markets and helped increase Torn Banner's export revenue more than twentyfold.
- No More Room in Hell 2 surpassed one million players by August 2026, including 500,000 from the 1.0 launch onward.
- The No More Room in Hell 2 team reported more than 8,000 bug fixes and performance optimizations between Early Access and 1.0.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — No More Room in Hell 2 reached 1.0 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with full cross-play; the studio then announced multiple post-launch updates and said the game had passed one million players.
- **2026-04** — The Revelation 0.9 update became the final major Early Access release before 1.0, focusing on difficulty, firearms, progression and usability.
- **2025-08** — Torn Banner delayed No More Room in Hell 2's full launch into 2026 and explained decisions to overhaul progression, reset accounts and omit child zombies because of platform, showcase and regional-market risks.
- **2025-04** — Reanimation, then the game's largest Early Access update, added two maps plus redesigned combat, zombies and inventory.
- **2024-07** — Torn Banner declared Chivalry 2 content- and feature-complete after 11 major content releases, keeping services and critical maintenance online while shifting resources to new multiplayer projects.

## Links

- Website: https://tornbanner.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/torn-banner-studios
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TornBanner
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TornBannerStudios
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TornBannerStudios

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