Songbringer was developed by Nathanael Weiss under the moniker of his one-man video game studio Wizard Fu Games.
Nintendo's
The Legend of Zelda series was a large influence for Weiss who aimed to create a
procedurally generated Zelda game with
Songbringer. The game was
crowdfunded through
Kickstarter in 2015. The game was released for
Linux,
MacOS,
Windows, and
Xbox One on 1 September 2017, and
PlayStation 4 on 5 September. ==Reception==