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Top 25 Game design consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 187 game design consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,662 professional contacts across them, including 771 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers game design consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 28, 2026.
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 game design consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Multiplayer Group (MPG) is a trusted games studio specialising in co-development and full-development for global partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Keywords Studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2012 by Simon Iwaniszak, Red Kite Games is now part of the Sumo Digital family of studios.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who are we?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “End-to-end and co-development services | Your one-stop-shop for game art and engineering needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Decartel is a full-stack game development and operation company, working on in-house projects and as a partner for your company's outsourcing needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Coconut Lizard provide expert co-development and work-for-hire support to video games development companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “1minus1 is the leading Digital Studio for the Games Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atomic Theory is a global team of seasoned game development veterans, with roots extending from Activision Blizzard, PUBG, Epic, Microsoft and Unity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a team of expert consultants with over 99 years of combined experience, offering a broad array of professional services for tabletop gaming companies, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inviox Studios is a global creative partner to the video games industry and beyond, delivering high-impact external development through a fully integrated, end-to-end service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Extra Mile Studios is a veteran co-development and art outsource studio specialising in providing dedicated art & code resources to studios and publishers around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opus Artz is an outsourcing art & entertainment design agency based in London, UK with a strong creative team of highly experienced artists focused on production design We provide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SPILT MILK STUDIOS LTD is an independent games developer and game design consultancy based in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Neon Goose Studio was founded by a group of gaming industry veterans who have learned the ropes from the bottom up.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Studio 316 is a small team of developers working as game development guns for hire, outsourcing our services and experience to help bring client visions and projects to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Independent video game development and contracting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “InGame Recruitment are a specialist recruitment agency and consultancy for the video games industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In our UK home, we unite art and design specialists from every continent (except Antarctica!).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an independent game studio based in London, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are Scary Beasties, a multi BAFTA award-winning digital creative agency dedicated to the design and development of online, mobile and AR games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Drawing on 20+ years of experience in Design, Creative Direction and Production, Forerunner provides consultation for game industry leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're a Ul + UX design studio for the gaming industry, providing comprehensive end-to-end services from look development to engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Digital Shamans is a collective of video game developers, artists, who formed an outsourcing studio helping other developers make their games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: game design consulting firms. 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 game design consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of game design consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name game design consulting firms. 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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Game design consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 187 companies.
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 game design consulting firms, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “game design consulting firms”. 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 game design consulting firms), 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 game design consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 771 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 on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 game design consulting firms, 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 game design consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 187 game design consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Climax Studios, headquartered in Portsmouth, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most game design consulting firms?
London leads with 84 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (4) and Bristol (3).
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 771 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 187 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 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.
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