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Saliya Games is an independent Saudi studio whose founders completed the Saudi Game Champions Program - 2nd Edition six-month incubator at CODE HQ.
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Saliya Games LLC is an independent Saudi game studio founded in 2025 and based in Riyadh. The two-person team completed a six-month incubator in Saudi Game Champions Program - 2nd Edition at CODE HQ with grant support through NTDP's MVPLab initiative; mentors from Game BCN supported the cohort. Its first game, The Cleaner's Contract, is a top-down 2D cleaning-sim roguelite in development for PC.
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Saliya Games LLC is an independent Saudi game studio based in Riyadh. It was founded in 2025 by Mahdi Almiskin (Technical Director) and Ahmed Al-AbdulAal (Creative Director), two MIS graduates who built their first prototype during the Saudi Game Champions Program game jam in Riyadh in October 2025.
That prototype led to the team's selection into Saudi Game Champions Program - 2nd Edition, a six-month game incubator at CODE HQ in Riyadh - supported by NTDP MVPLab grant funding, with CODE HQ as the incubator host (program partner to Saudi Game Champions) and mentorship from Game BCN during the cohort. The studio's first commercial title, The Cleaner's Contract, is now in development for PC: a top-down 2D cleaning-sim roguelite about managing time, sanity, and debt as an underworld cleaner.
Saliya Games makes systems-driven indie games for players worldwide. Its visual identity, including the dhow emblem against a sunset horizon, draws from the founders' Eastern Province maritime heritage. The studio focuses on deep systems, replayability, and craft.
