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Top 24 Game development software companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 220 game development software companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 17,215 professional contacts across them, including 2,142 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers game development software companies 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 14, 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 24 largest game development software companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hangar 13 is an internal 2K development studio that creates influential video game experiences across all major platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Keywords Studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ninja Theory Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pixel Toys is a global developer and publisher of market leading digital games and entertainment, founded by industry veterans with a proven pedigree of delivering highly-rated…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Studio Gobo is renowned for working on acclaimed and award winning games and with the very best publishers and game creators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Media Molecule is a video game development studio based in Guildford in the UK, and a proud member of the PlayStation Studios.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The home of GameMaker, the fastest and easiest-to-use cross-platform game development platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who are we?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stainless Games was formed in 1994 and is an established UK developer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Milky Tea is a UK game development studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Junkfish is an independent game development studio from Dundee, Scotland with a passion for creating unique, innovative and high quality games for a worldwide audience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Skyhook Games Studio is a Video Games development studio based in Liverpool, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “4J Studios is a video game development studio established in 2005, based in Scotland, with offices in East Linton and Dundee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Casual Brothers Ltd is a computer game developer of multiplayer casual games for the cloud, Xbla, PSN and WiiWare, the short development periods and the numerous years of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Spiral House is a UK based game developer of interactive entertainment on all leading platforms, including PC, Sony PS4 / PS3 / Vita, Xbox One / 360 and iOS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Acquired by Meta in June 2021, Unit 2 Games was formed in 2017 and based in Leamington Spa in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Distinctive has been creating world-class, award-winning games for over 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Binary Spiders is a developer of video games, located in the United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Winkel Games is a gaming startup, specialising in high-quality, exciting and engaging mobile games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Independent video game development and contracting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're Cloth Cat Games, an award winning development studio making games and interactive experiences for a variety of platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 development software 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 game development software companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of game development software companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name game development software 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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Game development software companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 14, 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 220 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 development software 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “game development software 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 game development software 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 game development software companies, 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, 2,142 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 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.
Game development software companies by metro
- Game development software companies in London70
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 development software 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 game development software companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 220 game development software companies 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?
Tropical Shipping, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most game development software companies?
London leads with 70 headquartered companies, followed by Liverpool (7) and Guildford (6).
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 2,142 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 220 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 14, 2026.
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