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Top 25 Narrative game designers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 658 narrative game designers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,856 professional contacts across them, including 2,250 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers narrative game designers headquartered in the 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 20, 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 narrative game designers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 798 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 40 years, Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games that constantly push the boundaries of interactive storytelling, gameplay, and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 466 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our studio is composed of a group of diverse, ambitious, highly collaborative creatives who empower one another, while working as a team to deliver high quality narrative-driven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “thatgamecompany designs and develops artistically crafted, broadly accessible video games that push the boundaries of interactive entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1996, Firaxis Games is a world renowned game development studio with an unwavering mission to "build games that stand the test of time".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Schell Games is the largest full-service entertainment and education game development company in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ARVORE is an award-winning studio that creates and develops profound interactive narrative experiences using the latest immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Velan Studios is a new development studio made up of a diverse team of game industry veterans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the gaming arm of Bad Robot Productions (Lost, Cloverfield, Westworld, Star Wars), Bad Robot Games is passionate about telling stories and building worlds that can only be…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the award winning, independent studio behind Vainglory, Catalyst Black, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, and Blood Line: A Rebel Moon Game, all powered by our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Double Fine Productions is an award-winning, independent game development studio founded in by games industry veteran Tim Schafer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Deck Nine is an independent game developer dedicated to forging stories and gameplay into transformative experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Survios is an award-winning console, VR, and PC game development studio located in Marina del Rey, CA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Driven by People.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Squanch Games our aim is to make and collaborate on funny, imaginative, story-driven game experiences of all sizes across all platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pixelberry Studios, is the mobile games studio behind, Choices: Stories You Play, a Top 25 app on iOS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ghost Story Games is a self-publishing game development studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “System Era is a development studio led by veteran game developers headquartered in Seattle, Washington, established in 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A fully remote studio focused on making games that use player action to tell emotional stories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a dojo of digital mercenaries, creeping silently in the shadows to slay epic video game projects!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Telltale Games helped pioneer episodic narrative games.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Night School Studio is known for player-driven narratives that combine wonder, danger, and humor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cyan creates worlds not yet imagined.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creators of Hades, Pyre, Transistor, and Bastion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amy Hennig (co-creator of the Uncharted series) and Julian Beak, both 30-year veterans in the game industry, have built a new studio with Skydance Media (the studio behind…” 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: narrative game designers. 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 narrative game designers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of narrative game designers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name narrative game designers. 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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Narrative game designers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 658 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 narrative game designers, 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 States whose own description of what they do matches “narrative game designers”. 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 narrative game designers), 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 narrative game designers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 2,250 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.
Narrative game designers by metro
- Narrative game designers in Los Angeles58
- Narrative game designers in Seattle40
- Narrative game designers in New York27
- Narrative game designers in Austin26
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 narrative game designers, 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 narrative game designers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 658 narrative game designers headquartered in the 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?
Naughty DOG, headquartered in Santa Monica, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most narrative game designers?
Los Angeles leads with 58 headquartered companies, followed by Seattle (40) and New York (27).
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 2,250 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 658 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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About this data
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.
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