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Top 25 Indie game development companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 5,483 indie game development companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 60,620 professional contacts across them, including 17,744 with verified work emails and 9,264 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers indie game development companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026. Country and city lists for indie game development companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest indie game development companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,549 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rockstar Games is the global developer and publisher behind some of the world’s most groundbreaking, commercially successful, and critically acclaimed entertainment properties…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,385 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment and are driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “est.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 798 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 40 years, Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games that constantly push the boundaries of interactive storytelling, gameplay, and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 581 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an independent video game development studio with a global team.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CI Games is an independent, global video games developer and publisher, with studios in Warsaw, Barcelona, Bucharest, UK, and the US.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 528 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Techland is a long-established gaming industry success story.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 496 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2010, Ubisoft Toronto looks for people excited about the future of games in one of the most diverse cities in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 473 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2007, Eidos‑Montréal is game developer and publisher best known for breathing new life into established intellectual properties, whether owned, licensed, or developed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 466 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our studio is composed of a group of diverse, ambitious, highly collaborative creatives who empower one another, while working as a team to deliver high quality narrative-driven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 443 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Starbreeze is an independent developer, publisher, and distributor of PC and console games targeting the global market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NEOWIZ is a game developer and publisher defined by gripping narratives and uncompromising quality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 409 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Remedy is an independent game developer founded in 1995 and primarily based in Espoo, Finland with an office in Stockholm, Sweden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Room 8 Group is an end-to-end strategic partner in external game development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 379 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Making the most fun games for the world's players.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 370 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As one of Europe's leading game development studios, Guerrilla has continually pushed the boundaries of technical and artistic excellence since its inception in 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an independent video game developer and publisher based in Paris and Montreal, creating powerful and immersive narrative experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Embark Studios we believe that progress starts with curiosity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 358 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arc Games is a leading publisher of online multiplayer, AA, and indie games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “id – defined by Freud as the primal section of the human psyche; id Software, located in Richardson, Texas, was founded in 1991.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Indonesia's most prominent game studio that was founded in 2009 with a simple mission: to bring people together through meaningful play.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Climax Studios, A Keywords Studio, we specialise in co-development, delivering cutting edge solutions for some of the world's biggest and most innovative video game titles…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 280 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WE’RE A COLLECTIVE A collective of talented game developers and skillful publishers reaching millions of hardcore gamers all driven by the creation of meaningful entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 255 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an independent video game developer who has worked on some of your favorite titles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: indie game development companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names indie game development companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of indie game development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name indie game development companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Indie game development companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 7, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among indie game development companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 29 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Türkiye, Brazil, India, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and 19 more. Country and city lists for indie game development companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “indie game development companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names indie game development companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among indie game development companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 17,744 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 7, 2026 and September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Indie game development companies by location
47 lists · largest firstEvery Indie game development companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Indie game development companies based in the United States1,407
- Indie game development companies based in the United Kingdom580
- Indie game development companies based in Canada416
- Indie game development companies based in Türkiye311
- Indie game development companies based in Brazil274
- Indie game development companies based in India274
- Indie game development companies based in Spain271
- Indie game development companies based in France267
- Indie game development companies based in Germany236
- Indie game development companies based in Poland174
- Indie game development companies based in Sweden168
- Indie game development companies based in Australia167
- Indie game development companies based in the Netherlands124
- Indie game development companies based in Italy104
- Indie game development companies based in Indonesia94
- Indie game development companies based in Finland88
- Indie game development companies based in Argentina72
- Indie game development companies based in Denmark53
- Indie game development companies based in Portugal49
- Indie game development companies based in Belgium47
- Indie game development companies based in Romania42
- Indie game development companies based in Japan39
- Indie game development companies based in New Zealand37
- Indie game development companies based in Saudi Arabia37
- Indie game development companies based in Cyprus36
- Indie game development companies based in Serbia32
- Indie game development companies based in Croatia29
- Indie game development companies based in Norway29
- Indie game development companies based in Malaysia26
Cities
- Indie game development companies based in London, United Kingdom154
- Indie game development companies based in Istanbul, Türkiye125
- Indie game development companies based in Montreal, Canada98
- Indie game development companies based in Los Angeles, United States92
- Indie game development companies based in Toronto, Canada78
- Indie game development companies based in Seattle, United States74
- Indie game development companies based in Paris, France70
- Indie game development companies based in Vancouver, Canada65
- Indie game development companies based in Barcelona, Spain64
- Indie game development companies based in Berlin, Germany61
- Indie game development companies based in Stockholm, Sweden57
- Indie game development companies based in Austin, United States54
- Indie game development companies based in Melbourne, Australia51
- Indie game development companies based in New York, United States51
- Indie game development companies based in San Francisco, United States42
- Indie game development companies based in Warszawa, Poland40
- Indie game development companies based in Warsaw, Poland35
- Indie game development companies based in Helsinki, Finland25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names indie game development companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many indie game development companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 5,483 indie game development companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Rockstar Games, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most indie game development companies?
The United States leads with 1,407 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (580) and Canada (416). Every indie game development companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most indie game development companies?
London leads with 159 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (125) and Montreal (91).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 17,744 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,483 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 7, 2026 and September 14, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.