Best Gaming Companies in Hamburg, Germany
The 53 best Gaming companies in Hamburg, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: adjoe.
Our analysis of 180 Gaming companies
$26.0b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Gaming companies in Hamburg
| # | Company | Employees | App-install YoY | Disclosed funding | Last round | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | InnoGames Web & mobile games developer | 394 394 → 412 (+5%) | +14% | — | 117 mo ago | — | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | 1 expansion |
| 2 | Goodgame Studios Video Game developer focusing on mobile and browser games | 259 | +13% | — | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — |
| 3 | iLogos Independent game production company | 206 | — | — | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — |
| 4 | Bigpoint Video game developer and publisher of core games | 152 | — | $207K | 147 mo ago | Mary Gatzka-Enck Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — |
| 5 | Deep Silver FISHLABS Mobile Games developer focusing on Sci-Fi based Mid-Core games | 130 | — | — | 225 mo ago | — | — | — |
| 6 | Gamigo Provider of free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing games and browser games | 116 | — | — | — | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+23 | — |
| 7 | INTENIUM German game publisher and gaming portal operator | 116 | — | — | — | Alexander Goldybin CEO | — | — |
| 8 | adjoe Adtech network providing mobile advertising and mobile app monetization solutions | 68 | — | $103M | 49 mo ago | Jonas Thiemann Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | 2 job openings · 1 expansion |
| 9 | Daedalic Entertainment German video game developer and publisher | 60 | — | $164K | 124 mo ago | Carsten Fichtelmann Founder & Co-CEO | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365PHP+10 | — |
| 10 | Sunday Mobile game developer and publisher | 52 | +28% | — | — | Christoph Sachsenhausen Managing Director | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 11 | Photon Engine Networking engine and multiplayer platform for development of multiplayer games | 50 | — | $55M | 59 mo ago | Christof Wegmann Founder & CTO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 12 | Bytro Video game developer & publisher studio | 49 | +20% | — | — | Christopher Lorken Co-Founder & Managing Director | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+11 | — |
| 13 | Sviper Mobile game studio based in Hamburg | 40 | — | $4M | 88 mo ago | — | — | — |
| 14 | Next Idea Gmbh Video game publisher focusing on core games | 29 | — | $50K | 28 mo ago | Remco Westermann Managing Director | — | — |
| 15 | Unicorns of Love Esports player organization | 21 21 → 13 (-38%) | — | — | 76 mo ago | Jos Mallant Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — |
| 16 | Iconicfuture Licensing and in-game advertising solution provider | 17 | — | $6M | 161 mo ago | — | — | — |
| 17 | MateCrate Online competitive gaming platform beginners | 17 | — | $2M | 85 mo ago | Sebastian Kuch Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Polychain Monsters Provider of virtual character-based NFT game | 17 | — | $740K | 63 mo ago | Leif Leiser Co-Founder and CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Gaming companies in Hamburg
#1
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2014$9.3Mraised▾
Rockfish Games is a German video game developer for PC and console devices. The company has developed "Everspace", which is a 3D space combat game for PC and console. The game also has VR support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The game is available on the Steam. It generates revenue through the paid games.
- Apr 2026Grant (prize money)$9.3M
#2
Series D · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2018 · 68 employees$103.1Mraised▾
adjoe is a leading adtech ad network, based in Hamburg, Germany. It helps to gain high-quality users with rewarded engagement formats and premium targeting. App publishers can increase revenue, retention with creative engagement loops. It offers premium advertising and monetization platform for publishers and advertisers to engage audiences. The adjoe SDK connects app publishers and developers that provide highly engaging rewarded formats. With rewarded engagement and premium targeting, it helps advertisers reach their most valuable users. adjoe’s ad technologies allow publishers to level up their monetization strategies and create a meaningful engagement loop for users and grow revenue.
- 2022Series D$103.1M
#3
Series B · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2003 · 50 employees$54.6Mraised▾
Photon Engine, developed by German developer Exit Games, is a networking engine and multiplayer platform for the development of multiplayer games. The company provides solutions for real-time multiplayer, asynchronous multiplayer, in-game chat, and voice chat feature integration. Supports multiple game engines such as Unity, Unreal, Marmalade, and more.
- Aug 2021Series B$50M
- Mar 2007Series A$4.6M
#4
Acquired · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2016 · 40 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Sviper is a mobile game studio based in Hamburg and founded in 2016. Develops skill-based high player engagement games with deep progression systems.
- Feb 2019Series A$2.8M
- Nov 2016Seed—
#5
Deadpooled · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2011 · 17 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Iconicfuture is a licensing and in-game advertising solution provider for the game and app developers. It provides user engagement and monetization solutions for games and apps by delivering the branded content to developers and making licensing fast, simple and cost-effective. Branded content includes virtual items, downloadable content packs, and fully branded applications.
- Jan 2013Series B$3.3M
#6
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2017 · 17 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Online competitive gaming platform beginners. The portal provides tournaments for gamers. Players can join the team of other members and organize a gaming community.
- Jun 2019Seed$1.6M
- Dec 2017Seed—
- 2017Seed$147.5K
#7
Seed · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2021 · 17 employees$740Kraised▾
Provider of virtual character-based NFT game. Polychain Monsters is a digital collectible game, to explore and trade monsters that are backed by a truly unique NFT. The game is available for Android platforms.
- Mar 2021ICO$90K
- Mar 2021Seed$740K
#8
Acquired · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2000 · 29 employees$50Kraised▾
Video game publisher focusing on core games. The company publishes games from genres like MMORPGs, RPGs, and MMOGs. The games published by the company include Desert Operations, Wargame 1942, and more.
- Mar 2024Seed$50K
#9
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2018$340Kraised▾
Provider of turn-based strategy NFT game for PC and mobile platforms. Forest Knight, is a turn-based strategy game, based in the fantasy RPG world where players can explore different lands, fight numerous fantasy creatures and find unique knights. The game is available for PC and mobile platforms.
- Sep 2021ICO$340K
#10
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2010 · 9 employees$265.7Kraised▾
Developer of digital games for various platforms and online distribution. The company creates and distributes games across different platforms. It focuses on developing games for online distribution.
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$49K
- Oct 2016Grant (prize money)$49K
- Mar 2015Grant (prize money)$167.7K
#11
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2014$163.8Kraised▾
Independent game development company for adventure games. The company has developed multiple award-winning privacy invasion thriller series games including "Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You" and "Orwell: Ignorance is Strength" for PC devices. The games are available on Steam. Monetizes through paid games.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$163.8K
#12
Acquired · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2002 · 152 employees$206.7Kraised▾
Video game developer and publisher of core games. Has developed multiple games including Battlestar Galactica Online which is a browser-based freemium massively multiplayer online game based on the television series Battlestar Galactica. Also developed multiple games Drakensang Online and DarkOrbit for the PC devices. It offers its games through the freemium model.
- Mar 2014Grant (prize money)$206.7K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Gaming Technology is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Gaming Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 278 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics26
- Saarland University16
- University of Stuttgart16
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg15
- Technical University of Munich14
- 3D rendering1→7
- Game engine5→10
- Radiance1→5
- Human–computer interaction4→6
- Virtual reality1→9
- Game engine5→10
- Human–computer interaction2→5
- Graphics pipeline1→4
- Rendering (computer graphics)10
- Virtual reality5
- Real-time rendering5
- Computer graphics (images)4
- Tiled rendering3
Where gaming tech is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing gaming tech patents in Germany
Germany gaming tech patent filing is accelerating — 5 filings from 3 assignees (2023–2025), led by Siemens, Hertel Reinhard; annual filings 2→3.
- Siemens5
- Hertel Reinhard1
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.