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Top 25 Indie game developers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 645 indie game developers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 14,490 professional contacts across them, including 3,327 with verified work emails and 949 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers indie game developers 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 7, 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 indie game developers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Partial evidence | 834 contacts → | |||
“Cloud Imperium Games is a new kind of independent studio dedicated to delivering experiences outside the established publisher system, founded by Chris Roberts, creator of the…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Partial evidence | 379 contacts → | |||
“Making the most fun games for the world's players.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Partial evidence | 283 contacts → | |||
“TT Games is in the business of delighting children and grown-ups alike, with our fun and playful takes on world-famous IPs, as part of the LEGO videogame series.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Partial evidence | 247 contacts → | |||
“Hangar 13 is an internal 2K development studio that creates influential video game experiences across all major platforms.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Partial evidence | 230 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2011 by colleagues who had a passion for one thing… making great games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 217 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2008, we are a BAFTA-winning game studio, developing innovative storytelling games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Strong evidence | 181 contacts → | |||
“Dambuster Studios is based in Nottingham (United Kingdom) and is a game developer with a successful heritage going back over 20 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Strong evidence | 176 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 1990, Team17 is an award-winning leading international games label and developer headquartered in the UK.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 142 contacts → | |||
“A PlayStation Studio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Partial evidence | 140 contacts → | |||
“This is a developer-first studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 133 contacts → | |||
“Ninja Theory Ltd.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Partial evidence | 113 contacts → | |||
“Studio Gobo is renowned for working on acclaimed and award winning games and with the very best publishers and game creators.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Strong evidence | 111 contacts → | |||
“Criterion Games is an award-winning studio and Battlefield Studios developer at Electronic Arts.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Strong evidence | 110 contacts → | |||
“We’re Facepunch, an independent game developer in Birmingham, UK.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Strong evidence | 100 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2022, Expression is a fully remote game developer for console and PC.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Partial evidence | 99 contacts → | |||
“Auroch Digital is a game development studio founded in 2010 and based in Bristol, UK.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 88 contacts → | |||
“Media Molecule is a video game development studio based in Guildford in the UK, and a proud member of the PlayStation Studios.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 81 contacts → | |||
“Glowmade is a vibrant team with big hearts and bigger ideas.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Strong evidence | 80 contacts → | |||
“Feral is a leading publisher and developer of games for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Meta Quest and Nintendo We're a publishing company set up in 1996 with a mission to…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Strong evidence | 75 contacts → | |||
“Driven by a passion for creating unique and innovative video game experiences, Coatsink was founded in 2011 and has developed titles for all current-gen consoles, major VR…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 75 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Partial evidence | 73 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2012 by Simon Iwaniszak, Red Kite Games is now part of the Sumo Digital family of studios.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Partial evidence | 67 contacts → | |||
“We're Fuse Games, a passionate, collaborative game studio working on our first title.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 57 contacts → | |||
“Back in 2017 game makers Bruce Slater and Freddie Babord were ready to do something new.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Strong evidence | 51 contacts → | |||
“Indy games developer founded by Rocksteady founders Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill.” Source: company website · 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 developers. 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 developers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of indie game developers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name indie game developers. 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 developers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
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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 developers, 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 “indie game developers”. 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 developers), 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 developers, 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, 3,327 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 7, 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 developers by metro
- Indie game developers in London178
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 developers, 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 developers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 645 indie game developers 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?
Cloud Imperium Games, headquartered in Manchester, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most indie game developers?
London leads with 178 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (22) and Brighton (21).
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 3,327 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 645 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 7, 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.