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About FPI Bare Metal.

Final Print Interactive was founded with a simple belief: games deserve permanence and fair ownership - whether the copy is on a disc or DRM-free on your drive.

Our Story

The industry kept drifting toward patch-dependent, DRM-locked releases - games that stop working the day a server goes dark or a launcher stops checking in. We went the other way, on both fronts. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Final Print Interactive is a boutique publisher: complete, preservation-first physical editions on one side, and Bare Metal - a genuinely DRM-free digital storefront with a 75/25 revenue split in the developer's favor and a signed offline installer that keeps working with or without us - on the other. Same philosophy, two formats.

What We Stand For

Preservation

Every release - digital or physical - is built to outlast servers, patches, and storefronts: a real offline installer or a complete disc, not a shell waiting on day-one content or a launcher that has to phone home.

Quality

Collector-grade manufacturing for physical editions, and a real preservation/QA audit on every title either way - not a rushed pressing or a build no one actually tested.

Transparency

When licensing, manufacturing, or a build stalls a release, we say so - no vague delays, no silent cancellations.

Evergreen Availability

A release isn't a one-time drop. Digital titles don't quietly delist, and where we can keep a physical title printable, we do - instead of manufacturing artificial scarcity on either side.

Fair by Default

A 75/25 revenue split in the developer's favor on every digital sale, and DRM-free by default - no exceptions, no negotiating table.

Respect

For the developers who make these games, and for the players who'll still be playing them a decade from now.

What Makes Us Different

What the industry often ships

Incomplete
Patch-dependent
Locked behind DRM or a required launcher
Manufactured cheaply
Limited FOMO batches

What we ship instead

Complete on disc or download
DRM-free, plays with or without us
Collector-quality manufacturing
No artificial scarcity
Archival longevity focus

Our Partners & Pipeline

A preservation-grade release only happens with the right people at every stage. We work directly with:

DevelopersPlatform holdersManufacturing partnersQA specialistsPreservation organizations

Our Vision

Connect With Us

General Inquiries

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Developer Partnerships

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Press

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Suggestions

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