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Top 25 Indie game development companies based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 167 indie game development companies headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 6,421 professional contacts across them, including 2,247 with verified work emails and 978 with mobile numbers. Melbourne is the largest hub.
This list covers indie game development companies headquartered in Australia, 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 development companies based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 92 contacts → | |||
“Gameloft Brisbane, part of the global Gameloft family, opened its doors in 2014 and has since delivered hits such as Zombie Anarchy, Ballistic Baseball, My Little Pony: Mane…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Partial evidence | 77 contacts → | |||
“At Wicked Workshop we help craft innovative experiences, push boundaries and create first-class games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Partial evidence | 76 contacts → | |||
“SMG makes games for mobile, PC & consoles.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Strong evidence | 23 contacts → | |||
“We are Chaos Theory Games, an award-winning, for-purpose game development studio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Strong evidence | 20 contacts → | |||
“An indie games label exploring the possibility space of what narrative games can be.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 19 contacts → | |||
“Grease Monkey Games (Formerly League Of Monkeys) is a video game studio established in 2013.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Strong evidence | 18 contacts → | |||
“Glinda Games is a full-service development studio led by industry veterans who care deeply about the craft of game making-and the impact great games can have.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Strong evidence | 14 contacts → | |||
“SweatyChair is an independent game development studio based in Sydney, Australia, focused on creating bold, chaotic, and wildly original games that push the boundaries of…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Partial evidence | 12 contacts → | |||
“Next-Gen Dreams is a premier co-development studio that boasts a team of 45+ seasoned veterans from the gaming industry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Partial evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“Summerfall Studios is an independent game developer creating emotionally-fuelled, character-driven narrative games for audiences who value rich, compelling storytelling over…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Partial evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“From 2015 to 2023, our mission was to create games that engaged, challenged and inspired everyone who played them.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Indirect evidence | 9 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Strong evidence | 9 contacts → | |||
“An Indie games company located in Brisbane, Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Partial evidence | 8 contacts → | |||
“Drop Bear Bytes is an independent videogame studio working on an original game for PC and console coming 2022.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Strong evidence | 8 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2010, Pub Games is one of Australia's newest indie game development studios.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 7 contacts → | |||
“5 Lives Studios are a dedicated group of industry veterans with many years of experience.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Partial evidence | 7 contacts → | |||
“UltraPlayers is a rapidly expanding game developer and publisher based in Melbourne, Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 6 contacts → | |||
“We are an independent studio located in Melbourne, Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Strong evidence | 5 contacts → | |||
“Founded in Melbourne, Australia, Panda Arcade is a small fun indie game development company.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Partial evidence | 5 contacts → | |||
“An independent game studio based in Sydney, Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Strong evidence | 4 contacts → | |||
“Framework Games is an independent game development studio based in Newcastle Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Strong evidence | 4 contacts → | |||
“Defiant Development are a Brisbane based game development studio filled with games industry veterans getting back to the reason they got into games in the first place.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Strong evidence | 4 contacts → | |||
“Double Cat is a tiny little indie game studio from Melbourne, Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 4 contacts → | |||
“EarthWork Games is an independent game developer based in Brisbane, Australia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Strong evidence | 3 contacts → | |||
“Ghoulish is a brand spankin' new indie game studio from Naarm/Melbourne.” 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 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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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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia 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. Companies headquartered outside Australia 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, 2,247 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.
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Indie game development companies by metro
- Indie game development companies in Melbourne51
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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 based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 167 indie game development companies headquartered in Australia 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?
Gameloft Brisbane, headquartered in Brisbane, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most indie game development companies?
Melbourne leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Brisbane (21) and Sydney (20).
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 2,247 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 167 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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