London’s 101 Fastest Growing Video Games Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 101 Video Games companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Video Games Companies & Startups (London)

Space Ape

Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.

110 Industries

110 Industries is a video game production company with a focus on AAA titles for gaming consoles and cloud gaming services.

Electric Gamebox

Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room

Stakester

Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.

Bossa Studios

Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.

Kepler Interactive

The first global game publisher co-owned and run by developers!

Mediatonic Games

Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.

Macademia

Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.

OTHERWORLD

The brick-and-mortar metaverse. An island paradise in the cloud reached through a growing network of multi-sensory immersion pods.

Rainmaker Games

Rainmaker Games is now offering a new and interesting way to invest in a portfolio of GameFi NFTs that can be used to earn blockchain games.

Snatch

Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.

Green Man Gaming

Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.

Supersolid

Supersolid is a mobile games studio based in London, UK.

MIRA Rehab

Digital Health Company that is Gamifying Physiotherapy and Transforming Rehabilitation.

Fusebox Games

Live the stories you love with Fusebox Games.

Trailmix

Trailmix is a mobile game studio company that combines storytelling with free-to-play mobile gaming.

LVP

London Venture Partners is a seed fund that focuses on the game ecosystem.

Reality Games London

Mobile games based on real world Big Data as a content.

Fnatic

Leading esports performance.

Gfinity

Gfinity is a UK based esports & gaming digital media company focused on communities, technology & strategic partnerships.

Pocket Burger Games

Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.

Pixion Games

Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

PlayCanvas

PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted, collaborative platform for building video games.

Entain

Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.

Bidstack

Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.

Netspeak Games

Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games.

SwiftSkill

SwiftSkill is an esports analytics, strategy, and efficient team collaboration platform that helps you become a monster gamer.

Playwind Games

Playwind Games is a mobile game studio based in the UK with a tight-knitted team that have years of experience working together.

GAME

Game.co.uk is a games retailer with many deals on video games, consoles, accessories, and the latest preorder games.

PlayWorks

PlayWorks is pioneering post-app-store mobile games across social networks and messaging apps.

Ginx TV

Ginx TV, founded in 2008, is a UK-based international media company dedicated to the creation of videogaming TV channels around the world.

Inspired Entertainment

Inspired is a global games technology company, supplying Virtual Sports, Mobile Gaming and Server Based Gaming systems.

Captive Media

Captive Media manufactures an interactive entertainment and digital signage system for installation in washrooms.

Fundamentally Games

Fundamentally Games is helps developers and organisations transform their games into services, from concept to live ops.

Gaijin Entertainment

Gaijin Entertainment is a fast growing game development company established in 2002. Gaijin’s team specializes in creation of games for

Level Up Media

Level Up Media is a technology company that creates online destination for gaming and eSports fans to watch on demand video.

Brightlobe

Brightlobe builds games to improve preschoolers’ long-term educational outcomes.

Zattikka

Zattikka is an online social video game developer and publisher for PC web browsers, social networks and mobile devices.

Falcon Interactive

Global game development company, specialized in delivery of high-end gaming content. Makers of the Arizona Derby #1 Game on Steam Greenlight

Oryx Entertainment

Augmented, Virtual Reality for Web and Mobile

Drest

Drest is an interactive luxury styling game.

Gameway

Gameway is the mobile gaming experience of the future.

SKARA The Blade Remins

SKARA is the next generation of eSports with versus fighting mechanics and RPG elements.

The Secret Police Ltd.

The Secret Police Ltd. is a video game studio that is currently developing their first game.

Vumicentral

A single app for all your entertainment needs.

Loot Masters Studio Ltd.

Mobile Games Design & Development Studio

AntStream Arcade

The de facto retro games platform. With 1000 games ready to play, you can enjoy old console, arcade and computer classics on most devices

Venatus

Venatus is a global advertising technology platform, focused on gaming and entertainment.

itcher

itcher, an entertainment discovery application, providing community powered recommendations around movies, tv shows, books, music, and games

QuizTix Limited

QuizTix is a knowledge entertainment company. In May 2014 it launched QuizTix, a fun and original series of social quiz games.

Odd Owls

Odd Owls is a game development company focusing mainly on mobile apps.

Drum Roll

Drum Roll is an online platform that creates educational games for its users.

Rocksteady Studios

Rocksteady Studios is a multi-award winning videogame developer based in London, England. Located in a spacious, purpose built converted.

Starlizard

Starlizard, they provide their clients with the most accurate predictions of football matches in the world.

PlayStack

PlayStack is a company that helps developers in end-to-end funding, publishing expertise, and technology to develop the next big game.

Preliminal

Preliminal Games Ltd is an independent video game development studio based in Shoreditch, London.

Splendy

Splendy is a video game developer company.

Ibidex

Ibidex games connect all your friends together using their smartphones on one screen

CeX

CeX is a seller of video games, computers, digital electronics, TVs and monitors.

UMA

UMA is a developer of a game-based learning platform to create engaging and memorable learning experiences for pre-teens and teens.

Sportech

Sportech plc is one of the gaming companies, providing a variety of gaming opportunities.

Curve Digital

Indie developer & publisher of fine video games.

LoveShark

LoveShark is London-based Augmented Reality studio.

Tonic Games Group

Tonic Games Group is a developer of video games that offer immersive entertainment alternatives.

Freefly VR

Freefly is a virtual reality headset powered by your smartphone.

Acureus

Game Development Studio

Momentum Games

Creative viral effective projects with our dreams

Six to Start

Six to Start is an independent game developer specializing in story-like games and game-like stories.

Anton

Anton is an media production firm.

Yakuto

Yakuto is a mobile games developer that has created various games for Android, iOS and iPhone users.

VideoGamer.com

VideoGamer.com is a website focused on video game news, reviews, previews, and videos.

Viker

Viker is a mobile studio that designs, develops and publishes mobile and computer games for OS and Android systems.

BRAVOCOMPANY

Creators of coffeebreak eSports – Competitive real-time multiplayer and audience entertainment for the mobile generation.

GumBug

GumBug is a game development studio.

Supernova Capital

Supernova Capital main focus is fighting the “significant amount of stress and pressure.

Chucklefish Limited

Computer games developer and publisher

GamersRdy

GamersRdy is a platform that helps players get better at the video games they love through courses, coaching, and community.

EDITEC

EDITEC is a gaming and entertainment company contributing to economic wealth.

Nerd.

nerd makes mobile games

Hutch Games

Hutch Games creates racing, cars video games, digital game development and mobile games development.

Roll7

Roll7 make games that are Simple to Play.

Stride Gaming

Stride Gaming is an online gaming operator focused in the bingo-led market. Stride operates in regulated markets only.

Included Games

Mobile Game Developer

BEABACKER

Beabacker is a crowdfunding platform for content creators.

IVA

Marketplace

Gambody

Gambody is an online marketplace that aims to unite two popular and prosperous niches, gaming and 3D printing

Purple Smash

Purple Mash is an edutainment company that allows children to learn through games and other creative tasks in their software.

Five-BN

Five-BN is a video game development studio that develops adventure games based on the hidden object.

Emote Games

Emote Games develops next generation online games across social networks, offering digital entertainment to its users.

U4GM

U4gm.com offers PoE Currency, NBA 2K21 MT, Madden 21 Coins, Fallout 76 Items/Weapons, NHL 21 Coins, etc.

Inlingo

Inlingo is a gamedev outsourcing studio offering localization, FQA, art, voiceover, narrative design services.

U7BUY

U7BUY provides in-game virtual goods, in-game currency and related services manually to avoid a negative impact on gameplay.

Playcast Media

Playcast Media offers video games on a games-on-demand system for cable and IPTV operators.

Everguild

Everguild is an independent game studio operating from UK and Spain, with a particular focus on polished mobile CCGs.

Bindy Street

Bindy Street is an indie games studio and a creator platform enabling easily create adventure and start reaching to an audience.

Sunovatech

Sunovatech is into the field of Virtual Reality solutions, Software Development, Mobile Applications, Game Asset Development .

8floor ltd

8Floor LTD is a video games publisher and developer company.

Four Thirty Three

Four Thirty Three is a company which develops games apps for iPhone & iPad

Payload Studios

Payload Studios is a game studio that offers the development of combat and flagship games.

Monkey Apps

Monkey Apps | An ambitious hyper-casual video games developer/publisher

Square Enix

Square Enix develops, publishes, and distributes gaming entertainment, one of the influential providers of digital entertainment content.