Unofficial field indexUpdated for v0.4.0.115 — checked 17 Sep 2026
Guide / Who makes Active Matter
Who makes Active Matter
The short answer
Active Matter is developed by Matter Team and published by Gaijin Network Ltd on PC. It runs on the Dagor Engine, the publisher's own engine. The game's official site is activematter.game.
Where each name is printed
| Role | Name | Printed by |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Matter Team | The Steam listing and the publisher's own game page |
| Developer, console listings | Team Matter | The Xbox and PlayStation storefront listings |
| Publisher, PC | Gaijin Network Ltd | The Steam listing and the publisher's site footer |
| Publisher, console listings | Gaijin Distribution Kft | The Xbox and PlayStation storefront listings |
| Engine | Dagor Engine | The game's official FAQ |
| Official site | activematter.game | The publisher's game page and the Steam listing |
Swipe the table sideways to read every column
The developer's name appears three ways across official surfaces — Matter Team, Team Matter, and Matter.Team where the game's own page footer styles it as a linked wordmark. They are the same studio; this site uses Matter Team throughout and treats the other forms as the same entity rather than as separate credits.
The publisher, and what it is
Gaijin Network Ltd operates the Gaijin Store, which is where the PC version's editions are sold outside Steam, and the store requires a login to buy. The corporate site at gaijinent.com is © 2010—2026 Gaijin Entertainment, and the store and game footers read © 2026 Gaijin Games Kft. The Gaijin Store's own navigation places Active Matter in a list alongside the publisher's other storefront categories — War Thunder, War Thunder Mobile, Enlisted, Star Wrath, Modern Warships and Crossout — which is the publisher's own statement of its catalogue rather than a claim made here about any of those games. On the console storefronts the publisher field reads Gaijin Distribution Kft, the distribution arm.
What no page states
No founding date, studio history, headcount or studio location for Matter Team appears on any page checked for this batch. That is a gap in the record rather than a secret, and this page says so instead of filling it: a plausible-sounding studio biography assembled from memory would be the single easiest way to make this page wrong. What can be said about the studio is what it has shipped, which is the list further down.
Official channels
- activematter.game, the game's own site, with News, Game, FAQ and Partnership sections. The FAQ is the source of the long-lived rules quoted across this site, including the crossplay pools, the restriction on shared progress, Steam Deck and Linux support, and the language list.
- The official X account, @amgame_official, which opened in January 2024 and carried the launch announcements, the build notes and a Harmonization Cycles question-and-answer post. It is the account this site cites for launch-day statements.
- An official Discord, linked from the game's own pages and the Steam listing.
- An official YouTube channel, which carries the trailers and the developer's own preview content.
- The Steam news hub, which carries the update posts in a dated archive.
The developer also runs a community-management function rather than leaving the channels to announcements alone: a launch-period video introduces one of the lead community managers by name and walks through the game's premise and modes. That is worth recording because it is the channel through which the studio talks about design intent, and it is a different voice from the store page.
What the studio has shipped in the last year
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 9 September 2025 | Early Version, PC only, sold through the Gaijin Store |
| 1 April 2026 | Gigastructure update, adding large locations and new threats |
| June 2026 | Xbox Series demo window, closing 30 June |
| 4 September 2026 | 250 Shades of Liberty update, adding a ruined American metropolis, new weapons and more weapon customisation |
| 14 September 2026 | Build 0.4.0.93, reducing fusion, replication-restoration and armour-repair costs |
| 15 September 2026 | Full release on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S |
| 17 September 2026 | Build 0.4.0.115, covering performance, animations, bugs, interface and sound |
Swipe the table sideways to read every column
The publisher's own game page is the source of the 2025 and 2026 update headlines; the build numbers and their contents come from the developer's posts on the official account and the Steam news hub. The pattern the list shows is a studio that shipped a PC early version, kept adding location-scale updates to it, and then took the same build to three platforms at once rather than holding content for a console launch.
Who owns what
*Active Matter*, its logos, artwork, screenshots and in-game data belong to Matter Team, Gaijin Network Ltd or their licensors, and nothing on this site grants a licence to any of them. The site's own text, tables and diagrams are this site's. Facts — a release date, a price, an engine name — are not owned by anyone. The full statement is on the terms page.
This site is not official
Active Matter Guide is independent and unofficial. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Matter Team, Gaijin Network Ltd or Gaijin Entertainment, and it is not operated by them. Anyone claiming to speak for the developer through this site is not doing so through us. The about page describes how this site checks a claim and what it refuses to publish, and the contact page explains why no public inbox exists at launch.