He worked on games such as Jeanne d'Arc and Voyage au centre de la Terre published for Chip.

In 1989 Éric Chahi quit Chip to join Delphine Software International to work on the graphics for Future Wars, a game designed by Paul Cuisset.

After leaving Delphine, Chahi founded Amazing Studio and became one of several designers that were working on Heart of Darkness, a side-scrolling game.

[6] In November 2014, he made a 3D Interactive Lava Simulator for the Volcano Museum La Cité du Volcan on Réunion Island near Madagascar.

Chahi started Pixel Reef, along with Sahy and two others after the museum project was finished to work on this game, and as of 2019, the team now numbers 16.