Squeaky Wheel Studio logo.

Squeaky Wheel Studio is an independent Philippine game developer and publisher. It is best known for developing the simulation game Academia: School Simulator.

Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc. was registered on October 28, 2015, under the SEC number CS201521646.

Squeaky Wheel Studio was founded in 2015 by Ryan Sumo, Tristan Angeles, and Marnielle Estrada, to release the strategy game Political Animals. Ryan Sumo is best known as the Filipino artist who worked on Prison Architect. In 2017, the company released its second game, Academia: School Simulator.

In 2021, Squeaky Wheel ceased active game development, and the cofounders and employees have gone their separate ways. Sumo maintains the company as a publisher and business consultant to help indie developers.^[1]

• Political Animals
• Academia: School Simulator

• Academia: School Simulator (Self-published, later acquired by Paradox Interactive in 2022)
• Ruinarch (Developed by Filipino game developer Maccima Games, PC Steam version)
• Glyphica : Typing Survival (Developed by Singaporean game developer XM Zhou)

1. The Squeaky Wheel Turns Again. May 28, 2024. Ryan Sumo. LinkedIn. Retrieved on 2024-10-05.