Kythera AI

At Kythera AI, our mission is to empower studios to create unique and compelling experiences. Developed by industry-leading experts, Kythera 2.0 is purpose-built for AAA game development, reflecting years of collaboration with studios to understand and address developers' challenges. With comprehensive documentation and best-in-class support, your team can quickly implement, customize, and optimize your NPC AI to maximize creative potential.

We’ve developed a unified design philosophy that increases compatibility and simplifies use - so your game design is never restricted by your tools. Whether you’re looking to scale open-world mechanics, optimize multiplayer bot AI, or reduce costs, Kythera 2.0 provides the tools and support you need to bring your game to life.

Maximize Return with Future-Proof Tools

Kythera 2.0 offers a sophisticated set of out-of-the-box features all wrapped within a unified design philosophy - giving your team the flexibility to easily extend, customize, and build upon its core systems. Now, your studio can take advantage of powerful pre-built features without being confined by them. With the freedom to shape the Kythera AI toolset to fit your evolving vision, you can be sure your investment stays relevant for future development.

Accessible and
Cost-Effective

Kythera 2.0 delivers the expertise of an entire AI department without the overhead. With a one-time licensing fee, it offers significant cost savings over your development cycle compared to hiring in-house AI specialists.

Designed for creative and collaborative development, Kythera 2.0 is suited to any game design and accessible to all skill levels. Every feature is built to work harmoniously within the unified ecosystem—enabling your team to create incredible AI-powered gameplay faster and more cost-effectively.

We're rolling out a decade's worth of feature development under the new modular architecture. In this first release, we've focused development on the features used and requested most by clients. This means you might find some of the more unique features, like Flight and Surface Navigation, aren't yet available in Kythera 2.0. But that shouldn't stop you from getting started!

Evaluators and licensees will get priority access to ALL features as and when they become available. Each feature will be completely compatible and instantly fit into your pipeline with no disruptions to your workflow. So you can start developing with Kythera 2.0 right away!

You can view a high level timeline and delve into what to expect at each milestone by checking the Kythera 2.0 roadmap.

The AI allowed us to create more interesting encounters in complex environments.

We would not have been able to make such an effective and robust co-op game without Kythera AI.

Andriy Chevichalov

Executive Producer and Co-Founder | FragLab

Early on in the game you may feel the AI in Aquanox isn’t very smart, but do not underestimate it! As you progress and improve your ship and skills, so does the AI.

It’s been liberating to work with a tested, high-quality middleware. We’ve been impressed by the design and debugging tools too, and look forward to iterating and expanding on our AI capabilities.

Norbert Varga

CEO | Digital Arrow

The transition to Kythera AI was seamless. They migrated our existing behaviors, minimizing disruption to our development team.

The excellent runtime performance means we can also have many more NPCs active. The result is we can fully populate our world and create a far richer experience for our players.

Terry Evans

CEO | Entrada Interactive

Great AI is crucial for us, and as a studio without dedicated AI engineers, Kythera AI is the perfect solution.

Their toolset easily integrates with our existing work in Unreal and lets us provide comprehensive, intelligent AI that we can maintain and continually improve.

John Sonedecker

Founder and Creative Director | BlackFoot

I can't stress enough just how much Kythera AI has helped us on the journey.

By solving problems which would otherwise have taken infeasible amounts of developer resource, Kythera AI has opened up new creative possibilities.

Daniel Dolui

CEO | Wolcen Studios

Immersive experiences in video games rely upon realistic behaviors of opponents.

Kythera AI provides excellent ability in creating the experience that gamers will expect with the next generation of online games.

Denis Dyack

CEO | Apocalypse Studios

Aquanox: Deep Descent

A reboot of the classic Aquanox series, this first-person vehicle-based shooter set in the aftermath of climate catastrophe. Players control a variety of customizable ships, engaging in fierce battles in a unique environment of underwater caverns and trenches. Powering submarines and sea life, Kythera AI provides intelligent navigation and adaptive combat in dynamic 3D geography.

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

An open-world horror-fantasy RPG inspired by classics like Diablo and Marvel Heroes. Wolcen melds much-loved hack-and-slash gameplay with state-of-the-art graphics, and underpins it all with truly modern AI. Using tools developed in close co-operation with studio creatives, Kythera AI powers fluid hordes of enemies, co-ordinated army formations, and generative dungeon levels.

Ground Branch

BlackFoot Studios set out to bring back the golden age of team-based tactical shooters, demanding AI that challenges and immerses players while allowing developers to realise their creative vision. The Ground Branch team chose Kythera AI mid-development, with the game already in early access, due to Kythera AI's seamless interoperability with Unreal Engine’s native tools for a smooth integration with their existing work.

Deadhaus Sonata

Created by industry veteran and genre master Denis Dyack, the Lovecraftian fantasy ARPG Deadhaus Sonata is a spiritual successor to Denis’s previous acclaimed works Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Deadhaus’s team used Kythera AI tools for group tactics, procedural generation, and dynamic navmesh.

Miscreated

Crowned CryEngine’s Indie Game of the Year, Miscreated takes players to a stark, post-nuclear setting populated by horrifying monsters – relying on AI to produce first-rate environments and enemies alike. Kythera AI allowed Entrada to achieve their ambitious goals for navigation and combat in a huge, 64 km² landscape, and then to expand on those goals, enhancing gameplay with ground-breaking coordinated AI for wild animals.

Star Citizen

Backed by the biggest video game crowdfunder of all time, Star Citizen is the hotly anticipated space sim from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, promising classic space-trader gameplay combined with Hollywood-caliber visuals. The Kythera AI team worked closely with Cloud Imperium in the project’s early years, powering their spaceflight navigation until they were ready to take their AI tools development in-house.

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Intelligent Gameplay, Simplified

A unified design philosophy for powerful game AI

At the Core

The pillars of unified AI design

Extensibility

Productivity

Scalability

Usability

One Tool, One Framework,
Endless Possibilities

Maximize Return with Future-Proof Tools

Accessible and
Cost-Effective

Limitless Design Possibilities

Continuous Updates with Unlimited Access to New Features

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