London’s 101 Fastest Growing Video Games Startups

August 3, 2022

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 CrunchbaseSemRush 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

FoundersJohn Earner, Simon Hade
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Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.


110 Industries

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


Electric Gamebox

FoundersDavid Spindler, Will Dean
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Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room


Stakester

FoundersAndy Charlton, Gary Foreman, Leander Hambley, Ross Nicol, Thomas Fairey
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Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.


Bossa Studios

FoundersHenrique Olifiers, Imre Jele, Roberta Lucca
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Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.


Kepler Interactive

FoundersAlexis Garavaryan, Samuel Lee
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The first global game publisher co-owned and run by developers!


Mediatonic Games

FoundersDavid Bailey, Paul Croft
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Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.


Macademia

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


OTHERWORLD

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


Rainmaker Games

FoundersWill Deane
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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

FoundersJamal Hirani, Joe Martin
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Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.


Green Man Gaming

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


Supersolid

FoundersEdward Chin, Kenneth Fejer, Michelle Chuang, Tommy Chuang
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Supersolid is a mobile games studio based in London, UK.


MIRA Rehab

FoundersAlina Călin, Andrei Cantea, Cosmin Mihaiu, Liviu-Andrei Dascălu
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Digital Health Company that is Gamifying Physiotherapy and Transforming Rehabilitation.


Fusebox Games

FoundersWil Stephens
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Live the stories you love with Fusebox Games.


Trailmix

FoundersCarolin Krenzer, Tristan Clark
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Trailmix is a mobile game studio company that combines storytelling with free-to-play mobile gaming.


LVP

FoundersDavid Gardner, David Lau-Kee, Paul Heydon
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London Venture Partners is a seed fund that focuses on the game ecosystem.


Reality Games London

FoundersMichal Lagodzic, Sebastian Lagemann, Zbigniew Woznowski
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Mobile games based on real world Big Data as a content.


Fnatic

FoundersAnne Mathews, Sam Mathews
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Leading esports performance.


Gfinity

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


Pocket Burger Games

FoundersAdam Sullivan, Jarrod Gecek, Matt Down, Mitchell Smallman
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Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.


Pixion Games

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


PlayCanvas

FoundersDave Evans, Will Eastcott
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PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted, collaborative platform for building video games.


Entain

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


Bidstack

FoundersJames Draper, Simon Mitchell, Will Stewart
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Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.


Netspeak Games

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


SwiftSkill

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


Playwind Games

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


GAME

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


PlayWorks

FoundersJonathan Boltax, Oz Avni
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PlayWorks is pioneering post-app-store mobile games across social networks and messaging apps.


Ginx TV

FoundersAlistair Gosling
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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

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


Captive Media

FoundersGordon MacSween, Mark Melford
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Captive Media manufactures an interactive entertainment and digital signage system for installation in washrooms.


Fundamentally Games

FoundersAdam Betteridge, Ella Romanos, Oscar Clark
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Fundamentally Games is helps developers and organisations transform their games into services, from concept to live ops.


Gaijin Entertainment

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


Level Up Media

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


Brightlobe

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


Zattikka

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


Falcon Interactive

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


Oryx Entertainment

FoundersParik Panchal
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Augmented, Virtual Reality for Web and Mobile


Drest

FoundersGraham Edwards, Lucy Yeomans
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Drest is an interactive luxury styling game.


Gameway

FoundersBenjamin Woolf, Samuel Koch
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Gameway is the mobile gaming experience of the future.


SKARA The Blade Remins

FoundersCesar Ortega, Pablo Rodriguez Valero
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SKARA is the next generation of eSports with versus fighting mechanics and RPG elements.


The Secret Police Ltd.

FoundersHarry Holmwood, Ric Moore
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The Secret Police Ltd. is a video game studio that is currently developing their first game.


Vumicentral

FoundersMartin Macharia, Wilfred Kinyanjui
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A single app for all your entertainment needs.


Loot Masters Studio Ltd.

FoundersUnknown
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Mobile Games Design & Development Studio


AntStream Arcade

FoundersSteve Cottam
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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

FoundersMatt Cannon, Rob Gay
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Venatus is a global advertising technology platform, focused on gaming and entertainment.


itcher

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


QuizTix Limited

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


Odd Owls

FoundersMohammad Hadi Safari, Mohammad Mehdi Safari
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Odd Owls is a game development company focusing mainly on mobile apps.


Drum Roll

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


Rocksteady Studios

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


Starlizard

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


PlayStack

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


Preliminal

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


Splendy

FoundersSimon Sparks
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Splendy is a video game developer company.


Ibidex

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


CeX

FoundersBobby Dudani, Charlie Brooker
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CeX is a seller of video games, computers, digital electronics, TVs and monitors.


UMA

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


Sportech

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


Curve Digital

FoundersJason Perkins
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Indie developer & publisher of fine video games.


LoveShark

FoundersSam Weekes, Tara Reddy
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LoveShark is London-based Augmented Reality studio.


Tonic Games Group

FoundersDavid Bailey, Paul Croft
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Tonic Games Group is a developer of video games that offer immersive entertainment alternatives.


Freefly VR

FoundersJonathan Tustain
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Freefly is a virtual reality headset powered by your smartphone.


Acureus

FoundersLiam Sorta, Marco Hoffmann
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Game Development Studio


Momentum Games

FoundersTolga Unlu
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Creative viral effective projects with our dreams


Six to Start

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


Anton

FoundersUnknown
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Anton is an media production firm.


Yakuto

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


VideoGamer.com

FoundersAdam McCann, James Orry, Tom Orry
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VideoGamer.com is a website focused on video game news, reviews, previews, and videos.


Viker

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


BRAVOCOMPANY

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


GumBug

FoundersUnknown
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GumBug is a game development studio.


Supernova Capital

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


Chucklefish Limited

FoundersFinn Brice
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Computer games developer and publisher


GamersRdy

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


EDITEC

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


Nerd.

FoundersJack Cooney
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nerd makes mobile games


Hutch Games

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


Roll7

FoundersJohn Ribbins, Simon Bennett, Thomas Hegarty
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Roll7 make games that are Simple to Play.


Stride Gaming

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


Included Games

FoundersUnknown
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Mobile Game Developer


BEABACKER

FoundersLuke Stephenson
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Beabacker is a crowdfunding platform for content creators.


IVA

FoundersAssaf Reeb, Matt Jones
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Marketplace


Gambody

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


Purple Smash

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


Five-BN

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


Emote Games

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


U4GM

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


Inlingo

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


U7BUY

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


Playcast Media

FoundersGuy de Beer, Natan Peterfreund
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Playcast Media offers video games on a games-on-demand system for cable and IPTV operators.


Everguild

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


Bindy Street

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


Sunovatech

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


8floor ltd

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


Four Thirty Three

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


Payload Studios

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


Monkey Apps

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


Square Enix

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

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