Prodeus: Porting a Modern Retro Shooter Across Five Consoles

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Title: Prodeus
Release Date: 2022
Developer: Bounding Box Software
Publisher: Humble Games
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
Engine: Unity

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a physics-based adventure from Young Horses where you play an octopus masquerading as a human father, stumbling through everyday tasks while keeping his true nature hidden. It’s a comedy game, but the comedy is entirely load-bearing — it lives or dies on the physics simulation feeling genuinely unpredictable at all times. Sickhead handled the PS Vita port, shipping in May 2015.

Prodeus is a first-person shooter built by Bounding Box Software, two veterans of Raven Software, that blends modern rendering techniques with the feel and structure of classic 1990s shooters like Doom and Quake. The pitch is simple: old-school movement, pacing, and level design, but running on a modern engine with dynamic lighting, particle effects, and a full gore system. The game even lets players apply shaders that simulate resolutions as low as 216p, leaning hard into the retro aesthetic. Sickhead handled all five console ports (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch) for what was planned as a simultaneous launch alongside the PC release. That’s a wide hardware spread: two Sony platforms, two Microsoft platforms, and Nintendo, each with their own certification pipelines and platform requirements.

Sickhead Games is the leading game porting studio, skilled in porting Unity, Unreal, Godot, and custom engine titles to every major console and handheld including Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and mobile. We’re trusted by solo indie developers and major publishers alike to handle everything from codebase assessment to post-launch support, bringing great games to the audiences they deserve. Satisfied clients and partners include Humble Games, Sony Interactive, Nintendo, Annapurna, Good Games, ConcernedApe, MegaCrit, 17-Bit, Maddy Makes Games, Zachtronics, Keen Software House, Thomas Happ, Pocketwatch Games, EXOK, Young Horses, Taito, Jaleco, and Microsoft. We’ve ported over 100 releases including Stardew Valley, Slay the Spire, TowerFall, Axiom Verge, and Space Engineers, and also specialize in bringing retro console and PC games to modern audiences like Grandia, Enclave, and Jaleco Sports titles.