Devotion

Devotion Studios

Logo since 2018
Formerly	Devotion Games (1989–2005)
Type	Private
Industry	Video games Digital distribution
Founded	March 10, 1989 (1989-03-10)
Headquarters	Rossano , Ionio
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Urbe, Life, Wurld, Industries,Coaster and Locomotion game series Proton Engine Oxygen Launcher
Number of employees	1329 (2022)

Devotion Studios is a Ionian video game developer founded in 1982 by TBA. The company is most famous for its Urbe series as well as titles such as Life, Wurld and Industries. Devotion Studios also created the Proton game engine and the Oxygen Launcher game and community service.

Timeline of Devotion Studios

1984	Release of Raid on Necro Bay
1985
1986	Founding of Devotion Studios
1987
1988
1989	Release of Urbe
1990
1991
1992	Acquisition of Penta Info with rebranding to Devotion Business Simulations
1993	Release of Urbe 2000
	Release of Phoneix Engine 1.0
1994	Release of Locomotion
	Closing of Devotion Business Simulations
1995
1996
1997
1998	Release of Wurld 1602
	Release of Phoneix Engine 2.0
1999	Release of Urbe 3000
	Release of Coaster
2000	Release of Life
2001
2002	Release of Coaster 2
	Release of Wurld 1503
2003	Release of Atomic Launcher
	Release of Urbe 4
2004	Release of Phoneix Engine 3.0
	Release of Life 2
	Release of Locomotion 2
2005
2006	Release of Wurld 1701
2007
2008	Release of Coaster 3
2009	Release of Life 3
	Release of Wurld 1404
2010
2011	Release of Wurld 2070
2012
2013	Release of Urbe 5
	Release of Industries
2014	Release of Phoneix Engine 4.0
	Release of Life 4
2015	Release of Wurld 2250
2016	Release of Coaster 4
2017
2018
2019	Release of Industries 2
	Release of Wurld 1800
	Release of Locomotion 3
2020
2021
2022	Release of Phoneix Engine 5.0
	Release of Industries 3

Independent studio (1987-1997)

TBA

The partnership with Blume Interactive Entertainment

TBA

The golden age of simulation(2003-2009)

TBA

Modern Times (2009-Present)

TBA

Phoneix Engine

TBA

Atomic Launcher

TBA

List of Games Developed

Top Selling Franchises

Franchise	First release	Sales (m)
Urbe
Life	2013	14.9
Coaster	2005	11.6
Locomotion	1996	6.2

Urbe series

A city built on Urbe 4. Urbe 4 remains the best chapter in the Urbe series and with a very active modding community.

Name	Released
Urbe	1989
Urbe 2000	1989
Urbe 3000	1999
Urbe 4	2003
Urbe 5	2013

Life series

Life 4 is the latest installment in the Life series in which new mechanics and improved graphics have been introduced

Name	Released
Life	2000
Life 2	2004
Life 3	2009
Life 4	2014
Life 5	TBA

Wurld series

Wurld 1800 is set during the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. Wurld is considered an alternative from Urbe but with the aspects of production chains and naval and air battles

Name	Released
Wurld 1602	1998
Wurld 1503	2002
Wurld 1701	2006
Wurld 1404	2009
Wurld 2070	2011
Wurld 2205	2015
Wurld 1800	2019

Industries series

Industries 3 is the latest game in the Industries series. The Industries series was created for the purpose of representing real production chains on the production of products

Name	Released
Industries	2013
Industries 2	2019
Industries 3	2022

Coaster series

Coaster 2 is considered the best installment in the series with a still active community. In the Coaster series, the main purpose is to build and operate an amusement park

Name	Released
Coaster	1999
Coaster 2	2002
Coaster 3	2008
Coaster 4	2016

Locomotion series

Locomotion 3 with extensive use of mods. In the locomotion series the player impresses a tycoon in the transportation industry

Name	Released
Locomotion	1994
Locomotion 2	2004
Locomotion 3	2019

Other games developed by Devotion

TBA