Anvil Game Studios

Anvil Game Studios is a game development company based in Malta with an international team of passionate individuals. We independently developed and produced our debut title ‘Holdfast: Nations At War’ and our latest WW1 total conversion DLC ‘Holdfast: Frontlines’ - A multiplayer first and third person shooter set during the great Napoleonic and WW1 eras. Massive battles with over 150 players per server take place in the game. Back during the early months of 2014, twin brothers Julian and Andrew Farrugia started working on an early concept for what would eventually become the studio’s first title - ‘Holdfast: Nations At War’. After their involvement with the ‘Napoleonic Wars’ DLC for ‘Mount & Blade: Warband’, they set their sights on getting a programmer involved to complete the core team. Malta is a relatively small island and it sometimes seems like everybody knows each other. Therefore it did not come as a surprise that a friend of the brothers quickly introduced them to programmer Andreas Grech. This led to the start of Anvil Game Studios in June 2014. Since then the team has been growing by bringing together an international team with various skill sets. The studio released ‘Holdfast: Nations At War’ through Steam Early Access on September the 21st 2017. Having spent more than two years pushing updates to deliver on the promises set out in the roadmap all the while acting on feedback put forward by its dedicated community, the team successfully released ‘Version 1.0’ in March 2020. Since then Anvil Game Studios has continued to support ‘Holdfast: Nations At War’ with additional features and content following its full release. The WW1 total conversion DLC ‘Frontlines’ will be released for free February 17th 2022 as a show of thanks to our beloved community. Frontlines is a result of over a year’s worth of development and introduces a new era into the game.