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n-Space

United States Founded 1994 Website

n-Space Inc. was an American video game developer founded in 1994 by Erick S. Dyke, Dan O'Leary, and Sean Purcell. It developed games on nearly a dozen different platforms, but was mostly focused on Nintendo consoles and handhelds in particular since 2001. The game Geist was a second-party project, developed in cooperation with Nintendo. In March 2016, it was announced that n-Space had closed down for unknown reasons.

n-Space at a Glance

If you are browsing PlayPile to understand the history of n-Space, you will find a developer founded in the United States in 1994 that operated until its closure in March 2016. The studio released a total of 23 games on this platform, all developed under their own name rather than published for others. Their career spanned nearly two decades, starting with four titles in the 1990s and peaking with eleven releases during the 2000s before dropping to five games in the 2010s. n-Space worked across a wide variety of genres, though Adventure was their most common focus with 11 titles. They also produced seven Shooters, three Role-playing games, and smaller numbers of Music, Racing, Simulator, Strategy, Platform, Hack and slash, and Fighting games. Their platform reach was broad, covering PlayStation consoles nine times, PC six times, and Nintendo handhelds like the DS and 3DS several times. The IGDB bio notes that they focused heavily on Nintendo consoles and handhelds after 2001, including a second-party project called Geist developed in cooperation with Nintendo. Quality results for the studio are mixed at best. Across 11 rated titles, the average score sits at 59.2 out of 100. The rating breakdown shows zero games scoring above 80, seven games landing in the good range between 60 and 79, three in the mixed category from 40 to 59, and one title rated as poor below 40. Their highest-rated work includes Tron Evolution: Battle Grids from 2010 with a score of 76.4, followed by Rugrats: Studio Tour from 1999 at 69.9. Other notable titles include Duke Nukem: Time to Kill and Sword Coast Legends, which was their final release in October 2015. Recent activity shows a decline in output quality alongside the drop in volume. While Tron Evolution achieved a solid score, later releases like RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D received a low 40 out of 100. Heroes of Ruin from 2012 scored 60.9, and Toy Story 3: The Video Game came out in 2010. The studio ceased operations for unknown reasons in 2016, ending their run as an active developer after producing a diverse but inconsistently rated catalog over more than twenty years.

23
Total Games
59.2
Avg Rating
1997
First Release
2015
Latest Release

Genre Breakdown

Adventure
37%
Shooter
23%
Role-playing (RPG)
10%
Music
7%
Racing
7%

Platform Spread

PlayStation
9
PC (Microsoft Windows)
6
Nintendo DS
6
Wii
5
PlayStation 2
3

Release Timeline

1990s
4
2000s
11
2010s
5

Rating Distribution

0
80-100
7
60-79
3
40-59
1
0-39