Tokyo Horror Studio

Tokyo Horror Studio was a Japanese development studio that started in 2000 by Yabe Yuifum and Mae Yukiyo that focuses on horror games, mainly survival horror and horror JRPGs. It was bought out by RaGE Media Group in 2012 and was shut down in 2015.

Background
Yabe Yuifum and Mae Yukiyo were employees of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo that worked on Silent Hill. The two decided to leave to make their own games as they had presented various ideas to Konami but did not get a greenlight. The two then decide to leave Konami to launch their own studio. With the backing of a few banks, they decided to approac Enix to potentially publish a game. The two reached an agreement and work started on the game immediately.

In 2001, the first game, Hell City, launched globally in October of 2001 to a decent fanfare and decent enough commercial reception. Enix then decided to see if they could acquire the studio, of which Yuifum and Yukiyo declined.