Who Made Aniimo? Pawprint Studio, Kingsglory & FunPlus

The short answer

Developer: Pawprint Studio (Steam lists it as both developer and publisher). Publisher history: Kingsglory published Aniimo through the reveal and first tests; a notice on pawprintstudio.com states that from April 15, 2026 Aniimo is operated by Pawprint Studio and Kingsglory ceased operating the service on that date. Backer: FunPlus. A GamesBeat interview with FunPlus’s Chris Petrovic (September 2026) says the company “greenlit an ambitious open world creature collectible game called Aniimo with development partner Pawprint Studio” back in 2022, and a FunPlus Facebook post from January 2026 announced the developer preview jointly with Kingsglory and Pawprint Studio.

Where the company is

• The copyright line on aniimo.com and wiki.aniimo.com reads “©2025 Pawprint Interactive Entertainment Pte. Ltd.” — a Singapore private limited company. A Steam forum thread from May 2, 2026 quotes a Singapore registration, UEN 202536484D, registered August 19, 2025.
• Gematsu’s company directory lists Pawprint Studio as headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
• Baidu Baike describes the studio as focused on the “massively multiplayer online open-world creature-catching RPG Aniimo”.

Read together: a Singapore-registered publishing entity for the global service and a development team associated with Hangzhou. Search queries linking Aniimo to Tencent are common, but no official source we found names Tencent as owner, publisher or investor; FunPlus is the backer on record.

Timeline of ownership and operation

What the team says about itself

The September 3, 2026 dev letter opens: “we’re the development team behind Aniimo, Pawprint Studio,” and describes the creators as players first who “grew up on creature-collecting games”. The official news posts are signed by “Polaris Institute Operations” or “The Aniimo Team”.

Questions players ask

Is Aniimo made by Tencent? No official source says so. The documented backer is FunPlus; the developer and operator is Pawprint Studio.

What country is Aniimo from? The rights holder is registered in Singapore; the studio is listed in Hangzhou, China.

Who published Aniimo? Kingsglory until April 15, 2026, Pawprint Studio since.

Related: the official timeline and the does-it-use-AI page, which covers the July 2026 advertising statement.