Mimimi made acclaimed stealth tactics games, but the genre couldn't sustain the studio

Mimimi Games was a German video game studio founded in Munich on 13 January 2011 by Dominik Abé and Johannes Roth. The pair had been collaborating since 2008 and released early games like Grounded (2009) and daWindci (2011, iOS). Their first commercially significant title was The Last Tinker: City of Colors in 2014, but the studio found its identity with Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun in 2016 — a real-time stealth tactics game set in Edo-period Japan that was critically acclaimed and built a loyal following.

Mimimi followed with Desperados III (2020), a western-themed stealth tactics game that also earned strong reviews. In 2021 they released Aiko's Choice, a standalone expansion for Shadow Tactics. The studio had found its niche: highly polished, meticulously designed real-time tactics games with a strong narrative and visual identity. By 2021 the team had grown to 38 employees.

On 29 August 2023, just two weeks after launching Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew — a pirate-themed stealth tactics game and their third major title in the genre — Mimimi announced it would close. The founders stated that rising development costs and insufficient revenue had made it impossible to continue. The studio formally shut down in December 2023. Despite making some of the highest-rated games in the stealth tactics genre, the audience for those games was not large enough to sustain the studio through multi-year development cycles.