A proud atlas of games made in Europe.

The library, so far

Studios on my map.

1. 

   Brno, Czech Republic

   Founded 2003

   Amanita Design

   Czech independent studio with an instantly recognisable hand-drawn style. Makers of Machinarium, the Samorost series, Botanicula, Chuchel, Creaks, and the stop-motion adventure Phonopolis. One of the most imaginative and out-there studios we have.

   • Phonopolis (2026)
   • CHUCHEL (2018)
2. 

   Stockholm, Sweden

   Founded 2018

   Embark Studios

   Embark Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm and founded in 2018. The company is most known for developing The Finals and ARC Raiders.

   • Arc Raiders (2025)
3. 

   Stockholm, Sweden

   Founded 2014

   Hazelight Studios

   Josef Fares's Stockholm studio, built entirely around split-screen co-op storytelling. Every game — A Way Out, It Takes Two, Split Fiction — requires two players by design, and in my opinion, they're getting better with every game.

   • It Takes Two (2021)
   • Split Fiction (2025)
4. 

   Berlin, Germany

   Founded 2014

   Megagon Industries

   Berlin studio behind the Lonely Mountains series — measured, meditative downhill riding games.

   • Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (2025)
5. 

   Barcelona, Spain

   Poti Poti Studio

   Small Barcelona-based studio, developers of the cozy seating-logic puzzle game Is This Seat Taken?, which I have gone on to recommend to plenty of people.

   • Is This Seat Taken? (2025)
6. 

   Montpellier, France

   Founded 2020

   Sandfall Interactive

   Young Montpellier studio whose debut, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, arrived in 2025 as one of the most acclaimed European RPGs of the decade — a Belle Époque-inspired turn-based JRPG made by a team of around thirty. My game of the year, just as almost everyone else's.

   • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025)
7. 

   Prague, Czech Republic

   Founded 2011

   Warhorse Studios

   Prague studio focused on historically grounded RPGs. Best known for Kingdom Come: Deliverance and its 2025 sequel, both set in early 15th-century Bohemia.

   • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (2025)
8. 

   Utrecht, Netherlands

   Founded 2012

   Abbey Games

   Utrecht studio focused on systemic, replayable strategy games — Reus, Renowned Explorers, and Godhood.

   • Reus 2 (2024)
9. 

   Stockholm, Sweden

   Founded 2008

   Arrowhead Game Studios

   Independent Swedish studio with a house style built around chaotic, high-friction co-op. Creators of Magicka, the original Helldivers, and the runaway 2024 hit Helldivers 2.

   • Helldivers 2 (2024)
10. 

    Barnsley, United Kingdom

    Founded 2019

    Coal Supper

    Yorkshire two-person studio (James Carbutt and Will Todd) whose debut, Thank Goodness You're Here!, is a slapstick comedy set in a fictionalised Barnsley. Some scenes of that game, you'll never forget.

    • Thank Goodness You're Here! (2024)
11. 

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Founded 1995

    GSC Game World

    The Kyiv studio behind S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a series that invented its own genre of anomalous, unforgiving open worlds. Finishing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 while their city was under attack is one of the most remarkable production stories in our industry.

    • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024)

12. Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Founded 2004

    Keen Games

    A Frankfurt studio that spent years on work-for-hire before Enshrouded turned them into a survival-craft success story with a voxel world you can genuinely dig through.

    • Enshrouded (2024)
13. 

    Vienna, Austria

    Founded 2010

    Moon Studios

    Fully distributed independent studio with roots in Vienna. Creators of the Ori series and the action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked.

    • Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2020)
    • No Rest for the Wicked (2024)
14. 

    London, United Kingdom

    Founded 2020

    Surgent Studios

    London studio founded by actor Abubakar Salim, whose debut Tales of Kenzera: ZAU wove Bantu mythology into a metroidvania.

    • Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (2024)
15. 

    Paris, France

    Founded 2008

    Don't Nod

    Paris studio known for narrative games with a distinct authorial voice — Life is Strange, Vampyr, Tell Me Why, and the meditative climbing game Jusant.

    • Life is Strange (2015)
    • Jusant (2023)
16. 

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Founded 1999

    Frogwares

    The Ukrainian studio that made Sherlock Holmes its home turf, building detective games where deduction is an actual mechanic. They have kept shipping through the war, which deserves saying out loud.

    • Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023)
17. 

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    Founded 1998

    IO Interactive

    Copenhagen-based independent studio, custodians of the Hitman franchise and the third-party James Bond game 007. Love playing Hitman like a travel game.

    • Hitman: World of Assassination (2023)
18. 

    Ghent, Belgium

    Founded 1996

    Larian Studios

    Belgian independent studio founded in Ghent by Swen Vincke. Best known for the Divinity: Original Sin series and Baldur's Gate 3 — long-form CRPGs that I have adored since day 1.

    • Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)
    • Divinity: Original Sin 2 (2017)
19. 

    Limassol, Cyprus

    Founded 2017

    Mundfish

    Cyprus-headquartered studio, developers of the alt-history Soviet retrofuturist shooter Atomic Heart. A game that looked too good to be true in the trailer, and turned out exactly as good as it looked.

    • Atomic Heart (2023)
20. 

    Espoo, Finland

    Founded 1995

    Remedy Entertainment

    Finnish studio near Helsinki with a signature line in cinematic, narrative-forward action — Max Payne, Alan Wake, Control, and Alan Wake 2. Control is one of the best at what it's trying to be - and has one of the best levels of all time.

    • Alan Wake 2 (2023)
    • Control (2019)
21. 

    Lyon, France

    Rundisc

    Small French studio behind Chants of Sennaar — a language-learning puzzle game inspired by the Tower of Babel.

    • Chants of Sennaar (2023)
22. 

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    Founded 2015

    Triband

    Copenhagen studio behind the WHAT THE ... series — What the Golf?, What the Bat?, What the Car? — physical-comedy sports games.

    • What the Car? (2023)
23. 

    Riga, Latvia

    Founded 2020

    Color Gray Games

    Latvian independent studio, best known for the Poirot-by-way-of-deduction mystery The Case of the Golden Idol. Absolutely joy of a franchise that I'd recommend to every puzzle game fan.

    • The Case of the Golden Idol (2022)
24. 

    Horsham, United Kingdom

    Founded 1987

    Creative Assembly

    British studio in West Sussex, part of Sega. The long-running steward of the Total War series and the studio behind Alien: Isolation.

    • Total War: Warhammer III (2022)
    • Alien: Isolation (2014)
    • Total War: Rome (2004)
25. 

    Bradford, United Kingdom

    Founded 2020

    poncle

    One-person UK studio (Luca Galante) that turned Vampire Survivors from a hobby project into a genre.

    • Vampire Survivors (2022)

26. Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2014

    rose-engine

    The two-person German team of Yuri Stern and Barbara Wittmann, and the makers of Signalis — a survival horror that reads like an art-house film and respects your patience more than your reflexes.

    • Signalis (2022)
27. 

    Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2020

    Toukana Interactive

    Small Berlin studio behind Dorfromantik — the quiet tile-laying game that grew from a student project at HTW Berlin into a BAFTA- and German Computer Game Award-winning hit. Also lovely people.

    • Dorfromantik (2022)
28. 

    Milan, Italy

    Founded 1998

    Ubisoft Milan

    Ubisoft's Italian studio, best known for co-developing the Mario + Rabbids crossover series with Nintendo — a rare example of a European studio leading a first-party Nintendo IP - and one of my all-time favourite games on Nintendo Switch.

    • Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (2022)
29. 

    Turin, Italy

    Founded 2016

    Broken Arms Games

    Independent studio from Turin. Their winemaking management game Hundred Days is partly based on co-founder Yves Hohler's own experience running a family vineyard, and a pure, cozy pleasure, with surprisingly deep simulation mechanics.

    • Hundred Days — Winemaking Simulator (2021)
30. 

    Helsinki, Finland

    Founded 1995

    Housemarque

    One of Finland's oldest studios and the keeper of the arcade flame — Super Stardust, Resogun, Nex Machina, and finally Returnal, which turned bullet-hell precision into a PlayStation prestige release. Part of PlayStation Studios since 2021.

    • Returnal (2021)
31. 

    Madrid, Spain

    Founded 2002

    MercurySteam

    Madrid studio that earned the rare trust of being handed other people's icons — Castlevania first, then Samus Aran. Metroid Dread is proof that a European team can carry a Nintendo pillar franchise.

    • Metroid Dread (2021)
    • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010)
32. 

    Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

    Founded 2010

    Playground Games

    Built in Britain's Midlands games cluster and now part of Xbox Game Studios. The Forza Horizon series is their signature: open-world driving that feels like a festival rather than a simulator.

    • Forza Horizon 5 (2021)
33. 

    Dublin, Ireland

    Founded 2014

    Dreamfeel

    Small Dublin studio led by Llaura McGee, makers of the narrative comic-book game If Found…

    • If Found… (2020)

34. Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2017

    ION LANDS

    German indie studio whose voxel cyberpunk city in Cloudpunk proved that atmosphere and conversation can carry a game further than combat ever would.

    • Cloudpunk (2020)
35. 

    Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2018

    Paintbucket Games

    Berlin studio focused on serious games about totalitarianism — Through the Darkest of Times and Beholder 3.

    • Through the Darkest of Times (2020)
36. 

    London, United Kingdom

    Founded 2004

    ustwo games

    London studio inside ustwo, best known for the Monument Valley series and a run of thoughtful mobile-first games about care, wildlife, and everyday repair.

    • Monument Valley (2014)
    • Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (2020)
    • Assemble with Care (2019)
37. 

    Sliema, Malta

    Founded 2006

    4A Games

    Founded in Kyiv and headquartered in Malta since 2014, with the Ukrainian team still central to development. The Metro series is their life's work: claustrophobic, literary, and unusually principled about atmosphere over spectacle.

    • Metro Exodus (2019)
38. 

    Bordeaux, France

    Founded 2002

    Asobo Studio

    Bordeaux studio behind the A Plague Tale series and Microsoft Flight Simulator — technically ambitious work in equal parts intimate and vast.

    • A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019)
39. 

    Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2017

    GrizzlyGames

    Berlin trio behind the minimalist island-building puzzler Islanders.

    • Islanders (2019)
40. 

    Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2016

    Ludopium

    Berlin studio behind the rhythm-puzzle platformer Vectronom.

    • Vectronom (2019)
41. 

    Hamburg, Germany

    Founded 2013

    Mooneye Studios

    Hamburg studio behind Lost Ember — an exploration adventure told through the eyes of animals.

    • Lost Ember (2019)
42. 

    Tallinn, Estonia

    Founded 2016

    ZA/UM

    Studio and cultural collective with Estonian roots, developers of the isometric RPG Disco Elysium.

    • Disco Elysium (2019)
43. 

    Warsaw, Poland

    Founded 2010

    11 bit studios

    Warsaw-based independent studio and publisher known for games with a strong ethical or political spine — This War of Mine, the Frostpunk series, and The Alters.

    • Frostpunk (2018)
    • This War of Mine (2014)
44. 

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Founded 2018

    Beat Games

    Prague studio behind Beat Saber, the rhythm game that arguably did more than any other title to sell consumer VR. Also just plain fun.

    • Beat Saber (2018)
45. 

    Valencia, Spain

    Founded 2016

    Digital Sun

    Valencia studio behind Moonlighter and Cataclismo — pixel-art games with a strong systems core.

    • Moonlighter (2018)
46. 

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Founded 1994

    Frontier Developments

    Cambridge studio led by David Braben (Elite) — the Planet and Jurassic World management sims, plus Elite Dangerous. Dinosaurs haven't looked that great in a long time.

    • Jurassic World Evolution (2018)
47. 

    Oslo, Norway

    Founded 1993

    Funcom

    A Norwegian veteran with an unusually adventurous back catalogue: The Longest Journey, Anarchy Online, The Secret World, Conan Exiles, and now Dune.

    • Conan Exiles (2018)
48. 

    Barcelona, Spain

    Founded 2016

    Nomada Studio

    Barcelona studio whose watercolour-styled platformer GRIS became a modern reference point for painterly indie art direction. And it also casually broke my heart.

    • GRIS (2018)
49. 

    Paris, France

    Founded 1997

    Quantic Dream

    Parisian studio that has spent nearly three decades arguing that games can be branching drama. Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human all live or die on their motion capture and their choices.

    • Detroit: Become Human (2018)
50. 

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Founded 2014

    The Bearded Ladies

    Stockholm studio, developers of the tactics-and-stealth hybrid Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden.

    • Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (2018)
51. 

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    Villa Gorilla

    Small Gothenburg studio, developers of the pinball-metroidvania Yoku's Island Express.

    • Yoku's Island Express (2018)
52. 

    London, United Kingdom

    Founded 2012

    Bithell Games

    Mike Bithell's London studio — Thomas Was Alone, Volume, the Subsurface Circular / Quarantine Circular short-form narrative pair.

    • Subsurface Circular (2017)
53. 

    Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Founded 2000

    Guerrilla Games

    Amsterdam studio and part of PlayStation Studios, best known for the Killzone series and the Horizon open-world action RPGs — a technical showcase that pushed the PlayStation 4 to its limits.

    • Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)
54. 

    Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2013

    Jumpsuit Entertainment

    Berlin studio behind the puzzle game She Remembered Caterpillars — a colour-blending logic puzzler wrapped in melancholy watercolour.

    • She Remembered Caterpillars (2017)
55. 

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Founded 2013

    Klonk Games

    Karlsruhe studio behind the couch co-op platformer Shift Happens.

    • Shift Happens (2017)
56. 

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Founded 2000

    Ninja Theory

    Cambridge studio inside Xbox Game Studios, known for narrative-forward action — Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, DmC, the Hellblade series.

    • Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017)
    • Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010)
57. 

    Warsaw, Poland

    Founded 2014

    Reikon Games

    Warsaw studio founded by veterans of CD Projekt Red, People Can Fly, and Techland — best known for the cyberpunk top-down shooter RUINER.

    • RUINER (2017)
58. 

    Madrid, Spain

    Founded 2009

    Tequila Works

    Madrid studio behind Deadlight, RiME, and, co-produced with UK's Cavalier Game Studios, the party-loop mystery The Sexy Brutale.

    • The Sexy Brutale (2017)
59. 

    Umeå, Sweden

    Founded 2003

    Coldwood Interactive

    Small northern-Swedish studio, developers of the yarn-puzzle platformer Unravel and its sequel.

    • Unravel (2016)
60. 

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Founded 1992

    EA DICE

    Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment — the Stockholm studio behind the Battlefield series and the original Mirror's Edge. Part of Electronic Arts since 2006 and one of the anchor studios of the Swedish games scene.

    • Battlefield 1 (2016)
    • Mirror's Edge (2008)
61. 

    Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

    Founded 2014

    Ghost Town Games

    Two-person UK studio, creators of the couch co-op kitchen chaos series Overcooked.

    • Overcooked (2016)
62. 

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    Founded 2008

    Hello Games

    Small Guildford studio behind Joe Danger and No Man's Sky — a case study in long-form post-launch commitment and community support.

    • No Man's Sky (2016)

63. Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2013

    Maschinen-Mensch

    A small Berlin studio with a fondness for pulp expeditions and systemic storytelling. Curious Expedition and its sequel are roguelike travelogues that are as funny as they are cruel.

    • Curious Expedition (2016)
64. 

    Munich, Germany

    Founded 2008

    Mimimi Games

    Munich studio (closed 2023) that revived real-time tactics with Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, and Shadow Gambit.

    • Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016)
65. 

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Founded 1995

    Paradox Development Studio

    In-house grand-strategy studio of Paradox Interactive — Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, Stellaris. Classic games where the tutorial lasts 20 hours and you love it.

    • Europa Universalis III (2007)
    • Stellaris (2016)
66. 

    Łódź, Poland

    Founded 2013

    SUPERHOT Team

    Polish independent team behind SUPERHOT — the FPS where time only moves when you do.

    • SUPERHOT (2016)
67. 

    Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Founded 2013

    WeirdBeard

    Amsterdam studio, developers of the tetris-meets-Jenga party game Tricky Towers.

    • Tricky Towers (2016)
68. 

    Tampere, Finland

    Founded 2009

    Colossal Order

    Tampere studio dedicated to serious city-builders — the Cities in Motion series and, since 2015, the Cities: Skylines franchise. My favourite city builder of all time.

    • Cities: Skylines (2015)
69. 

    Hamburg, Germany

    Founded 2007

    Daedalic Entertainment

    Hamburg studio and publisher with a long line of point-and-click adventures, including Deponia and The Dark Eye: Blackguards.

    • Blackguards 2 (2015)
70. 

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Founded 2007

    Fatshark

    Stockholm studio behind Warhammer: Vermintide, Vermintide 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide — a specialist in cooperative, weight-forward melee.

    • Warhammer: End Times — Vermintide (2015)
71. 

    Kassel, Germany

    Founded 2015

    Gentlymad Studios

    Kassel-based studio behind the melancholy gravity puzzler In Between and other small, deliberately handcrafted games.

    • In Between (2015)
72. 

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Founded 2001

    Introversion Software

    British indie studio, developers of Uplink, DEFCON, and the long-running management sim Prison Architect.

    • Prison Architect (2015)
73. 

    Paris, France

    Founded 2011

    Amplitude Studios

    Paris studio (part of Sega) devoted to strategy — the Endless series and Humankind.

    • Endless Legend (2014)
74. 

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Founded 1988

    Rockstar North

    The Edinburgh studio at the core of Rockstar Games, descended from DMA Design. Lead studio on the Grand Theft Auto series since GTA III.

    • Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
75. 

    Lyon, France

    Founded 1999

    Arkane Lyon

    Lyon branch of Arkane, lead studio on Dishonored and Deathloop — European home of the immersive sim. Dishonored is the undisputed master of level design.

    • Dishonored (2012)
76. 

    Düsseldorf, Germany

    Founded 1988

    Blue Byte

    German studio (now Ubisoft Blue Byte) with roots in Mülheim, custodians of The Settlers and the Anno series.

    • Anno 2070 (2011)
77. 

    Sofia, Bulgaria

    Founded 1997

    Haemimont Games

    Sofia studio, custodians of Tropico from 2009 onward and creators of Surviving Mars.

    • Tropico 4 (2011)
78. 

    London, United Kingdom

    Founded 2004

    Rocksteady Studios

    London studio that redefined the licensed superhero game with the Batman: Arkham series, starting with Arkham Asylum in 2009. In my opinion one of the best action franchises of all time.

    • Batman: Arkham City (2011)
79. 

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    Founded 2006

    Playdead

    Copenhagen studio whose two puzzle-platformers, Limbo and Inside, defined a generation of moody, silhouette-driven indie games.

    • Limbo (2010)
80. 

    Wakefield, United Kingdom

    Founded 1990

    Team17

    West Yorkshire studio and publisher, custodians of the Worms series and publisher of many notable indies (Overcooked, The Escapists, Yoku's Island Express).

    • Worms Reloaded (2010)
81. 

    Bremen, Germany

    Founded 2000

    King Art Games

    Bremen studio behind The Book of Unwritten Tales and Iron Harvest.

    • The Book of Unwritten Tales (2009)
82. 

    Essen, Germany

    Founded 1997

    Piranha Bytes

    Ruhr-area studio behind the Gothic and Risen series — famous German open-world RPGs.

    • Risen (2009)
83. 

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    Founded 1996

    Criterion Games

    Guildford studio inside EA, creators of the Burnout series and modern Need for Speed entries.

    • Burnout Paradise (2008)
84. 

    Berlin, Germany

    Founded 2000

    Radon Labs

    Defunct Berlin studio (2000–2010), remembered for The Dark Eye: Drakensang, one of the last major German-made classic party RPGs. One of the studios that supported my love for RPGs.

    • The Dark Eye: Drakensang (2008)
85. 

    Montreuil, France

    Founded 1986

    Ubisoft

    French multinational publisher and developer with its headquarters and lead studio in Montreuil, near Paris. Home of Assassin's Creed, Rayman, and many more iconic franchises of today.

    • Assassin's Creed (2007)
86. 

    Gütersloh, Germany

    Founded 1991

    Ascaron Entertainment

    German studio (defunct 2009) behind the Patrician series and the action-RPG Sacred, one of my most beloved German games.

    • Sacred (2004)
87. 

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Founded 1999

    Crytek

    The German studio that made PC players buy new graphics cards. Far Cry announced them, Crysis made them a benchmark, and CryEngine turned their tech into an industry export. Today they also run Hunt: Showdown.

    • Far Cry (2004)
88. 

    London, United Kingdom

    Founded 2002

    SIE London Studio

    PlayStation Studios team in London, best known for SingStar and the EyeToy titles that defined a generation of PS2/PS3 party gaming.

    • SingStar (2004)
89. 

    Ingelheim, Germany

    Founded 1997

    Phenomic Game Development

    German studio (closed 2013) behind the SpellForce series — a distinctive RTS/RPG hybrid, yet another one of my favourite German games.

    • SpellForce: The Order of Dawn (2003)
90. 

    Mülheim, Germany

    Founded 2000

    Funatics

    German studio in Mülheim an der Ruhr, developers of ParaWorld and the fairy-tale action-RPG Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal. The one game I mention when people ask for hidden (lost) gems.

    • Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal (2002)
91. 

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    Founded 1987

    Bullfrog Productions

    Legendary Guildford studio founded by Peter Molyneux — Populous, Theme Hospital, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper. Closed in 2001.

    • Dungeon Keeper (1997)
92. 

    Southam, United Kingdom

    Founded 1986

    Codemasters

    Long-running British studio (now part of EA) with a racing pedigree from Micro Machines through the modern F1 series.

    • Micro Machines (1991)
93. 

    Kehl, Germany

    Founded 1994

    Spellbound Entertainment

    German studio (defunct) associated with the Desperados series and a Great Giana Sisters remake, Giana Sisters DS. Giana Sisters was one of the first games that entranced me as a child.

    • The Great Giana Sisters (1987)
94. 

    Warsaw, Poland

    Founded 2002

    CD PROJEKT RED

    Warsaw-based studio and part of the CD PROJEKT group, developers of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077. Disclosure: this is my current employer.