Balor Games exists because a catalogue of well-regarded independent games nearly ended up without anyone to look after it. Good Games Group was established in 2024 by Alan Patmore and Mark Nash, who had previously led Humble Games, and in March 2026 the group acquired Ziff Davis' publishing business - the back catalogue released under the Humble Games label - along with the complete Firestoke Games catalogue and the publishing rights to Fights in Tight Spaces. Those acquisitions were folded into a new label, Balor Games, which launched as custodian of more than sixty independent titles. The company operates as Good Games Group, Inc. and trades under the Balor Games name, and its stated purpose is long-term stewardship: keeping games patched, supported and on sale rather than treating a back catalogue as a spent asset.
The label's portfolio reads as a survey of the last decade of independent gaming, including Slay the Spire, A Hat in Time, SIGNALIS, Forager, Coral Island, Monaco and Wizard of Legend, and Balor has continued to publish A Hat in Time alongside its original developer, Gears for Breakfast. Alongside the inherited catalogue the label signs new work, with Threads of Time, Billie Bust Up, Town of Zoz, Sponge Break, Wild Blue Skies and SCP: 5K among the titles it is bringing to market, and it runs an open submissions process for developers seeking a publisher. For players the practical value of a label like this is continuity - games that would otherwise have been orphaned by a corporate restructuring stay available, stay updated, and stay the responsibility of people who chose to buy them rather than shelve them.
