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Top 25 Indie game publishers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 428 indie game publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 4,302 professional contacts across them, including 1,650 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers indie game publishers 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 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest indie game publishers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Double Eleven is one of the top three independent games publishers and developers headquartered in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 379 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Making the most fun games for the world's players.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2008, we are a BAFTA-winning game studio, developing innovative storytelling games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1990, Team17 is an award-winning leading international games label and developer headquartered in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2022, Expression is a fully remote game developer for console and PC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Auroch Digital is a game development studio founded in 2010 and based in Bristol, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Glowmade is a vibrant team with big hearts and bigger ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Playstack is on a mission to reinvent games publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're Fuse Games, a passionate, collaborative game studio working on our first title.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We publish video games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Playtonic Games are an independent videogame developer, started by creative talent behind some of the most popular platform games of the past (including Donkey Kong Country and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bossa Games is a BAFTA-winning independent games developer and publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Curve Games is a very unique organisation, going through an extraordinary transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2008, ICO is a UK-based, self-publishing agency helping you bring your game to market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Fireshine Games, we discover hidden gems and showcase them to players across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Making games we love; with people we love; for people to love." From day 1 this has been the number one rule at Dlala, and whilst things have changed since the days in the garage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re an independent games studio that loves to make interactive entertainment which challenges the medium, with a strong focus on user experience and elegance in presentation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skyhook Games Studio is a Video Games development studio based in Liverpool, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lost In Cult is an award winning independent book publisher and design studio dedicated to celebrating video games as a culturally significant art form.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wired Productions is a leading video games publisher based in Watford, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 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 publishers. 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 publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of indie game publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name indie game publishers. 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 publishers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 428 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 publishers, 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 publishers”. 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 publishers), 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 publishers, 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, 1,650 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 20, 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 publishers by metro
- Indie game publishers in London124
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 publishers, 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 publishers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 428 indie game publishers 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?
Double Eleven, headquartered in Middlesbrough, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most indie game publishers?
London leads with 124 headquartered companies, followed by Guildford (16) and Manchester (16).
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 1,650 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 428 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 20, 2026.
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