8sec

aid: 8sec
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/8sec.png
name: 8sec
description: 8SEC was a hybrid-casual and hyper-casual mobile game studio based in Lyon, France, founded in 2015 and later
  opening a second office in Paris. Over a ten-year run it published more than 90 free-to-play mobile games for iOS and Android
  — Jump Race!, Turbo Taxi, Trivia.io, Untie! and Human Puzzle among them — collectively driving roughly 50 million downloads,
  and positioned itself as a full-stack studio spanning game design, development and publishing. UK publisher Kwalee invested
  EUR 1.5 million in January 2024 and took over publishing duties across the entire 8SEC catalogue. THE STUDIO IS NOW CLOSED
  — the shutdown was reported in October 2025, with all seven staff, including cofounders Louis Croquet and Louis Giraud,
  seeking new roles. The company's own site at 8sec.games is no longer deployed — the domain resolves to OVHcloud shared hosting
  serving a "Site not installed" 404 behind a certificate that does not cover the hostname — and the Teamtailor careers page
  returns 404. 8SEC was surfaced into the API Evangelist network as a 500 Global portfolio lead; it never published a public
  developer API, SDK, machine-readable specification or documentation surface, and it no longer exists to publish one.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/8sec/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
tags:
- Company
- Games
- Mobile Games
- Game Studio
- Hyper-Casual
- Hybrid-Casual
- Free-to-Play
- Gaming
- France
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://8sec.games
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/8sec
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/8sec_games
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/8sec-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-17'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
  note: Careers pointer (https://8sec.teamtailor.com/) removed — it returns HTTP 404 now the studio has closed. The /.well-known/
    + contract-discovery probe is recorded at well-known/8sec-well-known.yml with NO WellKnown or SecurityTxt pointer, because
    every path 404d.
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: 8SEC closed in October 2025 after ten years and roughly 90 mobile games, and its own site is gone with it — 8sec.games
    now resolves to an OVHcloud "Site not installed" 404 behind a certificate issued to cluster103.hosting.ovh.net, so a verifying
    client cannot even complete the TLS handshake; only a leftover Netlify deploy of the marketing site still serves 8SEC
    content, and it answers every path with the same HTML homepage.
  evidence:
  - url: https://8sec.games/
    status: 404
  - url: https://8sec.games/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://8sec.games/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://8sec.teamtailor.com/
    status: 404
  - url: https://mobilegamer.biz/french-hybridcasual-studio-8sec-is-closing/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-17'