CipSoft was founded in June 2001 by Guido Lübke, Stephan Payer, Ulrich Schlott and Stephan Vogler, who are still shareholders of the limited liability company today. What started as a student hobby project is now a company with 100+ employees that has been profitable since its foundation and independent from external investors.
The idea to create an online role playing game was born in the autumn of 1995. In contrast to text-based multi user dungeons, which were common in those days, Tibia was to have a graphical user interface which would give players a better idea of the world in which they live. In January 1997, Tibia went online which made it one of the first MMORPGs ever.
Since then the game has grown continuously thanks to the ongoing enthusiasm of a dedicated community. Tibia was one of the first games to use a free-to-play model and up to now has generated a turnover of more than 250 million Euros.
Since then the game has grown continuously thanks to the ongoing enthusiasm of a dedicated community. Tibia was one of the first games to use a free-to-play model and up to now has generated a turnover of more than 250 million Euros.
In 2003, CipSoft transferred the game principle of Tibia to mobile formats: TibiaME is the first online role-playing game for mobile phones, which has now been downloaded more than one million times on Google Play alone.
In 2018, CipSoft released Panzer League, the first mobile MOBA with tanks. Nominated for numerous awards even before its official release, it reached over 600,000 downloads before being discontinued in 2020. That same year, CipSoft released LiteBringer. This mix of trading simulation and idle game fully operates on the Litecoin blockchain and was nominated for the innovation award for the German Developer Award ("Deutscher Entwicklerpreis"). In 2022, CipSoft won the "Studio of the Year" award at the German Computer Games Award ("Deutscher Computerspielpreis").
In 2018, CipSoft released Panzer League, the first mobile MOBA with tanks. Nominated for numerous awards even before its official release, it reached over 600,000 downloads before being discontinued in 2020. That same year, CipSoft released LiteBringer. This mix of trading simulation and idle game fully operates on the Litecoin blockchain and was nominated for the innovation award for the German Developer Award ("Deutscher Entwicklerpreis"). In 2022, CipSoft won the "Studio of the Year" award at the German Computer Games Award ("Deutscher Computerspielpreis").
Since 2025, CipSoft's payment system has also been available to other game developers under the name MultiPayer. This allows them to benefit from CipSoft's decades of experience with payments in computer games.
In the same year, CipSoft took over the operation of the browser game The Settlers Online from Ubisoft, which was released in 2011 and won the German Computer Games Award ("Deutscher Computerspielpreis") for best browser game.
CipSoft currently has a 14-member core team working on Persist Online, an MMORPG set in a post-apocalyptic world with zombies, which will be released in early access on Steam. You can already add the game to your wishlist.
In the same year, CipSoft took over the operation of the browser game The Settlers Online from Ubisoft, which was released in 2011 and won the German Computer Games Award ("Deutscher Computerspielpreis") for best browser game.
CipSoft currently has a 14-member core team working on Persist Online, an MMORPG set in a post-apocalyptic world with zombies, which will be released in early access on Steam. You can already add the game to your wishlist.
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