Founded in late 2007, the studio is best known for their ports of AAA video games from other platforms to the Nintendo Switch console.

[2] Panic Button was founded by Craig Galley, D. Michael Traub, Russell Byrd, and Aaron Smischney.

[1] Wishing to return to game development, the four founders left the studio and established Panic Button in Austin, Texas, at the end of 2007.

[4] Porting games became their main source of revenue for the next few years, although they also released their own properties such as Astro Duel Deluxe in 2017.

[4] Their Switch ports of Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus followed with similar positive responses the next year and turned Panic Button into a studio in demand.