My Time at Portia marks Team17’s first-ever partnership with a Chinese developer

Team17 announced today that it’ll publish Pathea Games’s My Time at Portia, a colorful open-world role-playing game. This marks the publisher’s first partnership with a Chinese studio, and it follows an announcement earlier this year about the first time it signed on with a Brazilian developer. My Time at Portia is raising money on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, and it aims to be on Steam in Early Access in 2018. It will be available on PC and Mac to start, and Team17 will help bring the game to consoles later on.

Debbie Bestwick, Team17’s CEO, said that China has been on their radar for quite some time. It’s also turned into a country where their games do very well. This year, they’ve seen a big increase in revenue from China, and a lot of interest in their new release, Escapists 2. Twenty-five percent of Escapists 2 players are Chinese.