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Top 25 Indie game developers based in Seattle, United States
RevenueBase identified 80 indie game developers headquartered in Seattle, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,551 professional contacts across them, including 157 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers indie game developers headquartered in Seattle, United States, 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.
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The 25 largest indie game developers based in Seattle, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong evidence | 68 contacts → | |||
“System Era is a development studio led by veteran game developers headquartered in Seattle, Washington, established in 2014.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Partial evidence | 65 contacts → | |||
“Hardsuit Labs was founded in 2015 with the same goal as every other game development studio that has ever existed – to make great games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 18 contacts → | |||
“Discovery.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Strong evidence | 15 contacts → | |||
“A small team of dedicated developers creating a truly unique player experience and shaping the next generation of games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Partial evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“No Goblin makes unique and borderline absurdist video games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Strong evidence | 8 contacts → | |||
“Shoreline Games in an indie game publisher focused on systems-based, narrative driven games from small teams all around the world.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 8 contacts → | |||
“Branch Technologies was founded in 2020 under the visionary leadership of Dayton Mills.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Strong evidence | 7 contacts → | |||
“Pillow Castle is a group of like-minded game developers focused on making surprising surreal experiences.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Partial evidence | 7 contacts → | |||
“Drifter® is a game development studio based in Seattle.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Strong evidence | 6 contacts → | |||
“A minority led, fully distributed indie game studio that creates accessible games with depth about underrepresented cultures and themes.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Partial evidence | 6 contacts → | |||
“A Mexican-Lead video game studio based in Seattle, WA.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Partial evidence | 6 contacts → | |||
“Galvanic is a small independent game studio in Seattle that specializes in combat-driven multiplayer games (though we've built a lot of other weird and fun stuff too).” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Partial evidence | 6 contacts → | |||
“Prettysmart has worked on and released over 30 apps, games, and game jam projects since the end of 2012.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Partial evidence | 5 contacts → | |||
“Level Headed Games is passionate about making immersive experiences that allow players to express themselves and have fun with their friends.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 5 contacts → | |||
“The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild is a company based out of United States.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Partial evidence | 4 contacts → | |||
“Picklefeet Games is an independent game studio located in Seattle, Washington We're committed to delivering unique and memorable game experiences for desktop and mobile devices.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 3 contacts → | |||
“Jar of Sparks is a new first party game development studio as a part of NetEase games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Strong evidence | 3 contacts → | |||
“Indie Game Developer Focused on Engaging Digital and Tabletop Experiences” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Partial evidence | 2 contacts → | |||
“SugarMilk Games is a small game studio headquartered in Seattle, WA founded in 2022.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 2 contacts → | |||
“An Autonomous Collective of Dedicated Experimentalists As Tinkers we distill inspired digital experiences from the rich history of our shared passion.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Partial evidence | 2 contacts → | |||
“We make games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Partial evidence | 2 contacts → | |||
“Sundew Studios is an independent video game company.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Strong evidence | 1 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2014, Inductor Software is an indie game development studio based in Seattle, Washington.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Indirect evidence | 1 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Partial evidence | 1 contacts → | |||
“Founded in Seattle, Washington with the goal of developing smart, creative games that challenge players’ minds.” 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 Seattle, United States at a glance
As of Sep 7, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Seattle, over 80 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 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 Seattle, United States 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 Seattle 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, 157 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
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Indie game developers by metro in the United States
- Indie game developers in Los Angeles101
- Indie game developers in Seattle80
- Indie game developers in New York62
- Indie game developers in Austin53
- Indie game developers in San Francisco47
- Indie game developers in Chicago33
- Indie game developers in Orlando31
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 Seattle, United States?
RevenueBase identified 80 indie game developers headquartered in Seattle, United States 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?
System ERA Softworks, headquartered in Seattle, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most indie game developers?
Los Angeles leads with 101 headquartered companies, followed by Seattle (80) and New York (62).
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 157 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 80 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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