Best Gaming Companies in Romania
The 47 best Gaming companies in Romania in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Amber.
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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 Romania
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber Games development studio and service provider | $20M | 46 mo ago | Series B | Mihai Pohontu Co-CEO | 2013 | PleskApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+24 | 1 launch |
| 2 | GameMine Subscription-based mobile game publisher and distributor | $20M | 110 mo ago | Series A | Daniel Starr Founder | 2017 | SuluPHPSymfony+13 | — |
| 3 | Gold Fever Online platform for NFT role play games | $4M | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | Emilian Ciocanea Founder & CEO | 2020 | SentryReactAmazon Web Services+7 | — |
| 4 | WAM Provider of play-to-earn gaming platform | $3M | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2018 | Node.jsElement UITailwind CSS+12 | — |
| 5 | MixRift Game development studio | $2M | 24 mo ago | Seed | David Pripas Co-Founder | 2024 | — | — |
| 6 | Firebyte Mobile game developer focusing on casual games | $1M | 65 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | Critique Gaming Video game development studio | $135K | 33 mo ago | Seed | Dora Marian Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | GapGames Developer of mobile games that feature virtual reality based on computer vision | — | 122 mo ago | Seed | Alin Popescu Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 10 Gaming companies in Romania
#1
Seed · Bucharest, Bucharest · founded 2024$1.6Mraised▾
Game development studio. It has developed games such as Fractured and Hell Horde. It develops games for mobile, PC and console.
- Aug 2024Seed$1.6M
- May 2024Seed—
#2
Series B · Bucharest, Bucharest · founded 2013 · 15 employees$20Mraised▾
Games development studio and service provider. The company develops role-playing, strategy, and multiplayer games which include Rumble heroes, Cinderella free fall, and Link twin. The games are available for iOS, Android, and PC platforms. Also, it offers various services such as co-development, custom engineering, design, quality engineering, and more. Partners include Disney, Gumi, and EPIC Games.
- Oct 2022Series B$20M
#3
Seed · Bucharest, Bucharest · founded 2015 · 11 employees$135.1Kraised▾
Critique Gaming is a video game development studio. The company specializes in developing core games such as RPG, FPS, MMO & SCi-Fi, etc. One of the games developed by the company includes "Interrogation". Available on the Steam platform.
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$158.2K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$70.8K
- Jun 2019Seed$135.1K
#4
Funding Raised · Bucharest, Bucharest · founded 2020$4.3Mraised▾
Online platform for NFT role-play games. It provides role-playing games that are integrated into the blockchain network and provides an NFT marketplace to trade in-game assets. Its features include free-to-play and earn survival RPG NFT games.
- Nov 2021ICO$4.3M
#5
Funding Raised · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2018 · 20 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of play-to-earn gaming platform
- Dec 2021ICO$2.7M
#6
Series A · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2017 · 23 employees$20Mraised▾
GameMine is a mobile game publisher. The company develops, licenses and acquires mobile games. It provides its games to consumers through a subscription-based ad-free model. The company claims to distribute the games in multiple countries through its partnerships with various mobile carriers and app stores.
#7
Late Stage · Cluj napoca, Cluj County · founded 2018 · 16 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Mobile game developer focusing on casual games. The games developed by the company include 'Knitting Master' - a hyper-casual game, 'Cooking Story' - a cooking simulator, 'Monster Smash' - an action game, and more. The games are available for iOS devices. It monetizes through in-app purchases and paid games.
- Feb 2021Post IPO$1.2M
#8
Seed · Bucharest, Bucharest—raised▾
Developer of mobile games that feature virtual reality based on computer vision
#9
Acquired · Bucharest, Bucharest · founded 2013 · 16 employees—raised▾
Green Horse Games is a mobile game development company based out of Romania. It specializes in developing games based on sports genre. One of the games developed by the company is LigaUltras - Uniting soccer fans. It develops games for platforms such as Android, iOS and Facebook. It generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Mar 2015Series A—
#10
Deadpooled · Craiova, Dolj County · founded 2013—raised▾
Develoeper of a mobile game discovery platform designed to connect video game players. The company's platform helps to discover games and match the right people with the right games, enabling customers to enjoy and have fun with their friends in online gaming.
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 Romania
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 16 Romania-affiliated papers.
- Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București8
- Technical University of Cluj-Napoca2
- Ministry of Education2
- Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest1
- National Research Council1
- Rendering (computer graphics)3
- Humanoid robot1
- Exploit1
- Conversation1
- Vocabulary1
- Rendering (computer graphics)6
- Game engine5
- Computer graphics (images)4
- Real-time rendering4
- Global illumination2
Where gaming tech is researched across Romania
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.
Common questions
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