Richard East

Profile updated Oct 2026

Richard East is the developer behind Frontline Zed, with 1 title on Steam and 289 total reviews. Action is the dominant genre in the Richard East games catalog on indielist, where Frontline Zed is listed as the developer’s best-known title.

Richard East is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by Richard East, together holding 289 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Frontline Zed, which holds 289 Steam reviews (2019). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including Volcanic Games. indielist tracks releases from Richard East starting in 2019. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind Richard East can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, Richard East has shipped with 1 publisher (Volcanic Games), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around Richard East can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.