Mobile Game Studios in Germany: Who Makes the Hits and Who Is Hiring

Most "game studios in Germany" lists are written by outsourcing agencies selling their own services. This one is built from data: we matched the German Google Play charts to the studios behind them and checked which of them have live openings. Install numbers are Google Play brackets (Android, worldwide, lifetime). Data as of September 2026.

Berlin: the biggest cluster

Berlin has the densest concentration of mobile game studios in the country, and some of the biggest hits:

• Kolibri Games: Idle Miner Tycoon (100M+), Idle Bank Tycoon (10M+). Part of Ubisoft since 2020.
• Edkon Games: Modern Ops (100M+), World War 2 (50M+), Tactical OPS (10M+).
• Deca Games: Zombie Catchers (100M+), The Walking Dead: No Man's Land (10M+).
• Wooga: June's Journey (50M+), Pearl's Peril (10M+). Owned by Playtika.
• Playflux: Colorscapes (50M+) and several 10M+ puzzle titles.
• Flaregames: Royal Revolt 2 (10M+).
• Sandbox Interactive: Albion Online (10M+), a cross-platform MMO.
• Swift Games: Heroes vs Hordes (10M+).
• GameDuell, Spiele-Palast and Softgames: card and casual games with a strong German player base.
• Gryphon Games and Awesome Prototype: sports management games.

King also distributes Candy Crush in Germany through a Berlin address.

Hamburg: browser-game roots, mobile present

• InnoGames: Forge of Empires (10M+). Majority-owned by MTG.
• Goodgame Studios: Big Farm and Empire. Part of Stillfront.
• Stillfront Supremacy: Supremacy: Call of War (5M+).
• Playa Games: Shakes & Fidget (5M+).
• Whow Games: social casino titles.

The rest of Germany

• Lotum in Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt: 4 Bilder 1 Wort (10M+) and Quiz Planet (5M+).
• Knuddels and Iteration One (Idle Nightclub Tycoon, 5M+) in Karlsruhe.
• Travian Games in Munich.
• LITE Games in Bremen, DobroGames in Duisburg and StammtischGames in Augsburg.

Who is hiring right now

Game studios hire in waves, and many of the big names have no public openings at any given moment. On this board right now:

• Stillfront Supremacy (Hamburg): around 11 roles
• Sandbox Interactive (Berlin): around 8
• Lotum (Bad Nauheim): around 12 across two entities, including senior iOS, Android and backend roles
• InnoGames (Hamburg): around 6, with published salary ranges
• Softgames (Berlin): 5, all fully remote
• Gryphon Games, Iteration One, Awesome Prototype, Knuddels, Kolibri Games and Edkon Games: a few roles each

Typical openings are game designers (systems and economy), game and data analysts, backend engineers, user acquisition managers and CRM or live-ops roles. Pure client engineering roles (Unity, C#) are rarer than you might expect. A lot of hiring is on the monetisation and live-ops side.

What to know before applying

Most German game studios work in English, and Berlin and Hamburg studios hire internationally. Salary transparency is still rare, but InnoGames publishes ranges, for example around 55,000 to 72,000 euro for an analyst role. For free-to-play studios, being able to talk about retention, LTV and event design matters as much as your craft skills.