Best PC & Console Gaming Companies in Australia
The 88 best PC & Console Gaming companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Immutable.
Australia's PC & Console Gaming sector has a funding story worth paying attention to: 88 companies tracked, $1.0B in total disclosed capital, and one unicorn already on the board. Immutable leads the pack at $857M raised, which is a number that does most of the talking on its own. Illuvium sits second at $60M, then a cluster around the $20M mark — Splash, Virtually Human, ZED, Avocado DAO. Investors backing this cohort include Animoca Brands, BITKRAFT Ventures, and Delphi Ventures, a lineup that signals blockchain-native gaming is the gravitational center here. The global PC and console market sits at roughly $60.3B in 2025, with next-gen console features and AI infrastructure driving demand even as the forecast contracts toward $47.0B by 2030 at a 7.2% CAGR — so the growth conversation is really about quality of engagement, not raw expansion.
What's moving right now? Hot hardware themes — gaming laptops, GPU-equipped notebooks, gaming mice — are pulling search and spend while overall coverage stays flat, which means you're looking at a concentrated opportunity rather than a broad tide. Median install growth across 23 gaming apps is running at about +11% YoY, a quiet signal that mobile adjacency matters even for console-first studios. Consolidation is accelerating globally too: Tencent's latest acquisition of another slice of the Black Myth: Wukong studio and Krafton's involvement with Subnautica 2 both show how fast IP ownership is reshuffling at the top. Australian studios operating in this environment need strong cap tables. The companies ranked below are sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum — use that to read the room.
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Ranked: Best PC & Console Gaming companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immutable 🦄 Blockchain-based infrastructure for NFT games and applications 84Growth top 19%Tech top 21%Market top 25%Moat top 26% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 19% Techtop 21% Markettop 25% Moattop 26% Fundingtop 33% Globaltop 37% Fin. healthtop 40% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 21% Growth: Revenue +164% YoY Tech: 66 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 84/100 | $857M | 51 mo ago | Series C | Alex Connolly Co-Founder & CTO | 2018 | PrismicNode.jsEnvoy+27 | — |
| 2 | Illuvium NFT focused role playing game developer 55Tech top 22%Funding top 34%Talent top 38%Growth top 45% All 8 signals ▾Techtop 22% Fundingtop 34% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Productbottom 48% Marketbottom 42% Customersbottom 41% Globalbottom 38% Tech: 44 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services Funding: Raised $60.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 5 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $60M | 26 mo ago | Series A | Kieran Warwick Co-Founder | 2020 | ContentfulNode.jsChakra UI+24 | — |
| 3 | Splash Developer of PC and console-based musical gameplay | $20M | 55 mo ago | Series A | Stephen Phillips CEO | 2017 | WebflowMicrosoft Advertisingcore-js+17 | — |
| 4 | Virtually Human Provider of blockchain and web development services | $20M | 59 mo ago | Series A | Geoff Wellman CTO & Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | ZED Provider of a digital horse racing game | $20M | 59 mo ago | Series A | Geoff Wellman Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 6 | Avocado DAO NFT-based trading platform for digital games | $18M | 53 mo ago | Series A | Sir Gregory Co-Founder | 2021 | SentryTypeScriptGraphQL+30 | — |
| 7 | SIDUS HEROES Provider of blockchain and NFT-based role-playing game | $11M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Andrey Sudarikov Co-Founder | 2021 | GitBookNode.jsReact+8 | — |
| 8 | Halfbrick Mobile Games developer specializing in Casual Games | $3M | 174 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2001 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+13 | — |
| 9 | Behaviol AI-based platform for building sporting entertainment on the metaverse | $2M | 45 mo ago | Seed | Kumar Sangakkara Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 10 | Marvelous NFTs Provider of blockchain-based interactive trading and battling game | $2M | 53 mo ago | Funding Raised | Damian Rolvink Co-CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 11 | CyBall Developer of an NFT-based blockchain game for PC | $2M | 54 mo ago | Acquired | Ezekiel Le Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 12 | Gamify Casino gamification platform | $240K | 168 mo ago | Seed | Tony Walden Co-Founder & MD | 2010 | JavaBootstrapAmazon ALB+13 | — |
Top 12 PC & Console Gaming companies in Australia
#1
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2020 · 101 employees$60Mraised▾
NFT focused role playing game developer. It is a blockchain based platform. The company offers an open-world rpg game where users travel across a vast and varied landscape to hunt and capture deity-like creatures called Illuvials.
- Mar 2024Series A$12M
- Jun 2023Series A$10M
- Mar 2021ICO$5.5M
- Mar 2021Seed$5M
#2
Series C · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 326 employees$857.4Mraised▾
Blockchain-based infrastructure for NFT games and applications. It specializes in developing core games such as cards, MMO, FPS, and more. It also provides an open-source platform for developers to create immutable assets such as cards, skins, weapons, and more. It provides a peer-to-peer marketplace for players where they can buy, sell and gift in-game items.
- Mar 2022Series C$200M
- Nov 2021ICO$45M
- Sep 2021Series B$60M
- Sep 2019Series A$15M
#3
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2021 · 16 employees$18Mraised▾
NFT-based trading platform for digital games. It offers a platform to build a community of gamers through P2E blockchain gaming. It allows users to buy and sell digital games. It also offers staking solutions for users.
- Dec 2021ICO$27.2M
- Nov 2021Series A$18M
#4
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017 · 103 employees$20.1Mraised▾
Developer of PC and console-based musical gameplay. It offers AI-based instruments with virtual performance venues which allow players to compose music and sing lyrics to any melody. It is available on the web, play store, and ioS.
- Nov 2021Series A$20M
- May 2017Seed$120K
#5
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 78 employees$20Mraised▾
Provider of blockchain and web development services
- Jul 2021Series A$20M
#6
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018$20Mraised▾
Provider of a digital horse racing game. It offers a marketplace for users to purchase racing horses. It also provides details and results related to upcoming racing events. Players can race, breed, own, earn, and win on blockchain technology.
- Jul 2021Series A$20M
#7
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2021 · 102 employees$10.8Mraised▾
Provider of blockchain and NFT-based role-playing game. The game Sidus - Heroes collection is a next-generation browser gaming metaverse with unique characters that have different levels of rarity and play-to-earn mode.
- Dec 2021ICO$10.8M
- Nov 2021Seed—
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2021 · 34 employees$2.5Mraised▾
AI-based platform for building sporting entertainment on the metaverse. The company builds a virtual sporting world on the metaverse.
- Sep 2022Seed$2.5M
#9
Funding Raised · Australia · founded 2020$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of blockchain-based interactive trading and battling game. It is an interactive game Dapp giving users the power to build and customise unique super hero characters.
- Jan 2022ICO$2.1M
#10
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021 · 12 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Developer of an NFT-based blockchain game for PC
- Dec 2021Seed$1.8M
#11
Funding Raised · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2001 · 104 employees$3Mraised▾
Halfbrick Studios is a Mobile Games developer specializing in Casual Games. They gained popularity with their Fruit Ninja (2010, Arcade game) series of games. They started with developing games for Consoles and Handhelds and since 2010 started focusing on Mobile Games. Other popular series released by them is Jetpack Joyride (2011, side-scrolling endless runner).
- Dec 2011Grant (prize money)$3M
#12
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2010 · 8 employees$240Kraised▾
Gamify is a gamification platform designed for the casino gaming industry. It works with its partners and marketing agencies to produce games for their clients. It has developed HTML5 Game Engine. It was the finalist in "Microsoft Innovation Award 2017".
- Jun 2012Seed$240K
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