Neogames
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Neogames is a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 publisher situated in Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. They were after the re-creation of Target Games
Target Games
Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings.-Publications:...

 the largest RPG publisher in the country. Neogames control the fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 RPG license Eon
Eon (role-playing game)
Eon is a fantasy role-playing game set in the fictitious world of Mundana. It's developed and published by Swedish company Neogames. Eon is the Swedish word for Aeon.-History:...

, a role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 set in a fairly standard fantasy setting with elves
Elf
An elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind...

, dwarves and magic
Magic (gaming)
Some role-playing games or game systems can include a set of rules that are used to portray magic in the paranormal sense. These rules simulate the effects that magic would have within the game context, according to how the game designer intended the magic to be portrayed...

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The company founder is Carl Johan Ström. Neogames has published several fantasy novels, most of them linked to the world of Eon, by Andreas Roman
Andreas Roman
Andreas Roman is a Swedish fantasy and horror author. He started out as a fantasy writer, writing his first books set in the role-playing game world of Eon...

 and Dan Hörning
Dan Hörning
Dan Hörning is a Swedish historical fantasy author. His publishing house is Neogames, and up to now he has published four novels: Svärdsspel i Hadarlon , Stormens vandrare , Nemea and Lasermannen...

. In 2006 the Neogames company was bought by Kim Vässmar and the headquarter moved to Gotland
Gotland
Gotland is a county, province, municipality and diocese of Sweden; it is Sweden's largest island and the largest island in the Baltic Sea. At 3,140 square kilometers in area, the region makes up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area...

. Kim Vässmar is the current CEO.

In their product line is also the cyberpunk
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk, and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983...

 role-playing game Neotech.
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