Nice Plans Studio has secured $3 million in its latest funding round led by family office Pixeldog, with $600К coming from the founders.
The new capital will fund the further development of Ricochet Squad, which has already achieved its product market fit.
Previously, the team built Tacticool, a $90 million mobile-native shooter named one of 2019’s top five competitive mobile games by Google Play and installed more than 30 million times.
Ricochet Squad has outperformed Tacticool in ARPU, retention, and early monetization during soft launch. In 2024, the game doubled early retention to match top shooter benchmarks and achieved a near top-percentile player-to-payer conversion rate for the genre in 2025, with 4-5% on day one. Ricochet Squad is already hitting its stride, onboarding thousands of new players.
Ricochet Squad offers players a fresh and innovative experience, unlike anything they have seen in other shooters focused on precision aiming and solo play. It emphasizes action, tactics, and autofire, delivering an experience designed for mobile.
Behind the scenes, the game runs on a network architecture that’s unconventional for shooters. The studio runs a full game simulation on the server, which makes real-time destruction possible — a player can shatter a massive concrete monument, and every other player sees the exact same debris, in the same place, at the same moment.
Players combine abilities to create powerful team combos — one hero can drop a gravity funnel to pull enemies together, while another follows up with explosives for a full wipe. Matches are fast-paced 3v3 battles where physics, destruction, and smart coordination decide the outcome.
“Our mission is to evolve mobile multiplayer through games built on shared foundations: physics-driven combat, reimagined controls, meaningful teamplay, and systems designed for long-term engagement.”
Roman Malakhov, Co-founder and CEO of Nice Plans Studio
In its next games, the company will further expand its gameplay formula, introducing a chemistry engine (fire, ice, etc.) and vehicles.
Nice Plans Studio is now preparing a Series A raise to scale Ricochet Squad and accelerate a portfolio strategy grounded in physics-driven combat. A recent market report from DataIntelo projects the mobile shooter segment to surpass $24.3 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 12.5%, which is exactly the wave Nice Plans wants to ride.
Headquartered in Cyprus, Nice Plans Studio operates as a lean, 21-person distributed team. Founders Roman Malakhov (CEO) and Dmitry Koblyk (Game Director) have spent the past eight years shipping and scaling mobile shooters together.
