List of indie game developers

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This is a partial list of independent video game developers that are not owned by a publisher. Independent developers retain operational control over their companies, pipelines, and organizations and often may work with proprietary engines or other proprietary software. These teams may range in size from single individuals to major companies with hundreds of employees.

Independent developers may choose to work with one or more game publishers or to self-publish their titles.

This list is not complete. Only notable developers or developers with notable games are listed here, and only some of their games are listed. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of independent game development studios which either self-publish their titles, or enter into licensing or co-development agreements with publishers.

Company	Location	Notable games
Mojang	Sweden	"Minecraft"
2D Boy	San Francisco, California, USA	World of Goo
3G Studios	Reno, Nevada, USA	The Dating Game Brave Arms Zombeat The Deep Skate or Die Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009 Rock Band (w/Harmonix)
4D Rulers Software		Gore: Ultimate Soldier Secret Service 2 Patriots: A Nation Under Fire
ACE Team	Santiago, Chile	Zeno Clash
Aldorlea Games	France	Laxius Force Laxius Force 2 Laxius Force 3 3 Stars of Destiny Millennium Millennium 2 Millennium 3 Millennium 4 Asguaard Dreamscape
Alec Holowka	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	Crayon Physics Deluxe I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator Aquaria (video game)
Amanita Design	Czech Republic	Machinarium Samorost 2 Samorost
Amaranth Games		Aveyond Grimm's Hatchery Yummy Drink Factory Aveyond 2
Ambrosia Software	Rochester, New York, USA	Escape Velocity series
Artix Entertainment	Land O' Lakes, Florida, USA	Adventurequest Archknight Dragonfable Mechquest Adventurequest Worlds Hero Smash
Babaroga	Chicago, IL, USA	Spore Origins Zombies!!!
Basilisk Games	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Eschalon series
The Behemoth	San Diego, California, USA	Alien Hominid Castle Crashers BattleBlock Theater
Benjamin Rivers	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Drunken Rampage The Ascent SNOW
Big Finish Games	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	Three Cards to Midnight
Bit Blot		Aquaria
Blitz Games Studios	Warwickshire, England, UK	Powerup Forever Droplitz Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao Encleverment Experiment
Blossomsoft		Eternal Eden
Blue Fang Games	Waltham, Massachusetts, USA	Zoo Tycoon series
Bohemia Interactive Studio	Prague, Czech Republic	Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis ArmA: Armed Assault
Boomzap Entertainment	Singapore, Singapore	Awakening: The Dreamless Castle Jewels of Cleopatra
Bplus		Plättchen Twist 'n' Paint
Broken Rules	Vienna, Austria	And Yet It Moves
Capybara Games	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Critter Crunch Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
Caravel Games		Deadly Rooms of Death
Castle Thorn Software LLC	Hamilton, Montana, USA	StarQuest Online
Chedburn Networks Limited	Bristol, UK	Torn (online game)
Christopher Howard Wolf	Rocky Point, North Carolina, USA	DragonSpires Hell Rising I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator
Chronic Logic	Santa Cruz, California, USA	Bridge Builder Gish
Cing	Fukuoka, Japan	Another Code: Two Memories Hotel Dusk: Room 215 Another Code: R - A Journey into Lost Memories Little King's Story
Citérémis	Sherbrooke, Québec	Aztaka
ClockStone Software	Innsbruck, Austria	Avencast: Rise of the Mage
cly5m		Seiklus
ColdWood Interactive	Umeå, Sweden	The Fight: Lights Out
Crytek Black Sea (formerly Black Sea Studios)	Sofia, Bulgaria	Knights of Honor WorldShift
Dark Water Studios	Derry City, Northern Ireland	Dogfighter
Daniel Benmergui	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Today I Die I Wish I Were The Moon Storyteller
Dejobaan Games	Massachusetts, USA	AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity The Wonderful End of the World
Derek Smart (3000AD.com)	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA	Battlecruiser 3000AD Universal Combat
Derek Yu	Pasadena, California, USA	I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator Aquaria (video game) Spelunky Eternal Daughter
Digital Eel	Seattle, Washington, USA	Data Jammers: FastForward Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity Soup du Jour Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space Dr. Blob's Organism Digital Eel's Big Box of Blox Strange Adventures In Infinite Space Plasmaworm
Dovogame	USA	Business Tycoon Online
Edmund McMillen	Santa Cruz, California, USA	Gish Super Meat Boy Aether Spewer Cunt The Binding of Isaac
Enthrean Guardian	Indonesia	Eternal Grace
Elite Gudz	New York, NY	Techno Kitten Adventure
Ensorcelled Games	France	Sylia
Elixir Studios	United Kingdom	Republic: The Revolution Evil Genius
Erik Svedang	Sweden	Blueberry Garden
Ethereal Darkness Interactive	Northampton, Massachusetts, USA	Morning's Wrath The Lost City of Malathedra STATIC - Investigator Training
Eurocom	Derby, United Kingdom	Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy Batman Begins Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Vancouver 2010: The Official Videogame of the Winter Olympic Games GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)
Evony, LLC (was UMGE / Universal Multiplayer Game Entertainment)	Guangzhou, China	Evony: Age I
Exotypos	Russia	X Motor Racing
Facepunch Studios	Walsall, UK	Garry's Mod
Ferry Halim	Fresno, California, USA	Orisinal Games
Firefly Studios	Battersea, London, UK	Stronghold Stronghold 2 Space Colony Stronghold 3 Dungeon Hero
Flashbang Studios		Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
Freebird Games	Markham, Ontario, CAN	To the Moon
Flying Lab Software	Seattle, Washington, USA	Rails Across America Pirates of the Burning Sea
Frogwares	Kiev, Ukraine	Journey to the Center of the Earth Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Dracula: Origin
Frontier Developments	Cambridge, England, UK	Frontier: Elite II LostWinds LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
Frictional Games	Helsingborg, Sweden	Penumbra series Amnesia: The Dark Descent
GameLab		Diner Dash
Gaijin Games	Santa Cruz, California, USA	Bit.Trip Beat Bit.Trip Core Bit.Trip Void Bit.Trip Runner
GarageGames	Eugene, Oregon, USA	Marble Blast Ultra Zap!
Gogii Games	Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada	Princess Isabella: A Witch's Curse Escape the Museum
Grey Alien Games	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Fairway Solitaire
Grasshopper Manufacture	Tokyo, Japan	Flower, Sun, and Rain killer7 Contact No More Heroes
Haemimont Games	Sofia, Bulgaria	Tropico 3 Tzar: Burden of the Crown
Hanako Games	UK	Cute Knight Fatal Hearts
Hemisphere Games	USA	Osmos
Himalaya Studios	Chandler, Arizona, USA	Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine
Introversion Software	UK	Uplink Darwinia DEFCON Subversion
Insomniac Games	Burbank, California, USA	Ratchet & Clank series Resistance series Spyro series (1998–2000)
Iron Tower Studio		Age of Decadence
Irrgheist	Germany	H-Craft Championship
Jagex	Cambridge, UK	RuneScape
Jason Rohrer	Potsdam, New York, USA	Passage Gravitation Between
Jonas Kyratzes	Wiesbaden, Germany	The Museum of Broken Memories The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge
Jonatan "Cactus" Söderström	Gothenburg, Sweden	Clean Asia!
Jph Wacheski		LockOn Valence Quiescence
KatGames	Zaragoza, Spain	Mortimer and the Enchanted Castle Zulu Gems
Klei Entertainment	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Eets Shank
Kloonigames	Finland	Crayon Physics Deluxe
Laminar Research	Columbia, South Carolina, USA	X-Plane
Level-5	Fukuoka, Japan	Professor Layton series Jeanne d'Arc White Knight Chronicles Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King Ni no Kuni
Little Green Men Games		Starpoint Gemini Fruit Farm
Llamasoft	UK	Space Giraffe Gridrunner Revolution
Longbow Digital Arts	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	DX-Ball 2, Rival Ball and other action games. Tread Marks
M-Inverse	Hong Kong SAR	Project SolidLandlord 2008 Sport Life Skating Penguin
Mad Genius Software	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Gunmetal
Mangled Eye Studios	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Dark Salvation
Mass Media Inc.		Moorpark
Mojang AB	Stockholm, Sweden	Minecraft
Metanet Software	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	N, N+, Robotology and Office Yeti
mif2000	Russia	Hamlet or the last game without MMORPG features, shaders and product placement
Mind Control Software		Oasis
Moonpod		Starscape Mr. Robot
Mousechief		The Witch's Yarn Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!
New Star Games	UK	New Star Soccer Super Laser Racer New Star GP
Nifflas	Umeå, Sweden	Knytt Knytt Stories Within a Deep Forest
Niels Bauer Games	Freiburg, Germany	Smugglers 2 Smugglers 3 Empires & Dungeons TV Manager
Nival Interactive	Moscow, Russia	Blitzkrieg Silent Storm
Number None, Inc.	California, USA	Braid The Witness
The Odd Gentlemen	California, USA	The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
OmniSystems	Kent, UK	Eufloria
OTS Software	Missouri, USA	AlienXcape Boat (video game)
Parallax Studio	Nixa, Missouri, USA	Darkstar: The Interactive Movie
Pieces Interactive	Skövde, Sweden	Puzzlegeddon
PixelJAM Games		Dino Run
Playdead	Copenhagen, Denmark	Limbo
Playtechtonics, Inc	Austin, Texas, USA	Starport: Galactic Empires
Pocketwatch Games	San Diego, California, USA	Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa Venture Arctic Monaco
Positech Games	UK	Democracy Gratuitous Space Battles
Private Moon Studios	Hungary	AGON series Yoomurjak's Ring
Pronto Games		The Destiny of Zorro
Prorattafactor		The Adventures of El Ballo
Provox games		Space Force: Rogue Universe Spaceforce: Captains
Psyonix Studios		Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars ARC Squadron
Punch Entertainment		Reign of Swords EGO City Music Tycoon
Q-Games	Kyoto, Japan	Star Fox Command PixelJunk Monsters PixelJunk Eden PixelJunk Shooter
Queasy Games	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Gate 88 Everyday Shooter
Reality Labs	Stockholm, Sweden	iRagdoll iRagdoll HD
realtech VR	Montreal, Canada	No Gravity Iron Fist Boxing
Reflexive Entertainment	Lake Forest, California, USA	Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader Wik and the Fable of Souls Ricochet Lost Worlds
Relentless Software	Brighton, UK	Buzz! Blue Toad Murder Files
Renegade Kid	Austin, Texas, USA	Dementium: The Ward Moon Dementium II
Ronimo Games	Utrecht, Netherlands	de Blob Swords & Soldiers
Rovio Mobile	Espoo, Finland	Angry Birds
S2 Games	Rohnert Park, California, USA	Savage: The Battle for Newerth Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Heroes of Newerth
Saber Interactive	Millburn, New Jersey, USA	Will Rock TimeShift
Sandlot Games		Cake Mania
Santa Cruz Games	Santa Cruz, California, USA	Tomb Raider: Underworld Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash
Secret Exit	Finland	Zen Bound
Seed Studios	Porto, Portugal	Under Siege (2011 video game), Toy Shop, Aquatic Tales, Sudoku for Kids
Shattered Games	Lubbock, Texas	[[>Bear Survival</a>]]
Silver Creek Entertainment	Grants Pass, Oregon, USA	Soltrio Solitaire
Ska Studios	Marcy, New York, USA	Zombie Smashers Series Survival Crisis Z Yuki's Vacation The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
Snowstep Development	Düsseldorf, Germany	Turtle Bay
Soldak Entertainment	Dallas, Texas, USA	Depths of Peril Kivi's Underworld Din's Curse
Source Studio	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada	ProtoGalaxy
Spiderweb Software	Seattle, Washington, United States	Exile series Avernum series Geneforge series Nethergate
Storm Impact	Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA	TaskMaker MacSki Tomb of TaskMaker
Studio Pixel		Cave Story Ikachan
Subatomic Studios	Boston, Massachusetts San Francisco, California, USA	Fieldrunners
Sunstone Games	Eugene, Oregon, USA	Sun Stones
SuperVillain Studios	Santa Ana, California, USA	Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony Order Up!
Swedish Game Development	Malmö, Sweden	Alice Greenfingers Bricks of Atlantis Bricks of Egypt
Tale of Tales	Ghent, Belgium	The Endless Forest The Graveyard The Path Fatale
TaleWorlds	Ankara, Turkey	Mount&Blade Mount&Blade: Warband Mount&Blade: With Fire & Sword
Team Shanghai Alice	Japan	Touhou Project Immaterial and Missing Power
TeamTNT		Reclamation Daedalus: Alien Defense
thatgamecompany	Los Angeles, California, USA	flOw Cloud Flower
TheorySpark		President Forever 2008 + Primaries
Three Rings Design	San Francisco, California, USA	Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates Bang! Howdy Whirled
Torpex Games	Bellevue, Washington, USA	Schizoid
Tough Games Inc.	Huntington,West Virginia	Gods of Earth Online
Trendy Entertainment	Gainesville, Florida, USA	Dungeon Defenders
Tribetoy	USA	Chu's Dynasty
Twisted Pixel	Austin, Texas, USA	The Maw 'Splosion Man
Tyler Glaiel	San Diego, California	Aether Closure
Unreal Software	Koblenz, Germany	Stranded Stranded II CS2D Carnage Contest Minigolf Madness
Ville Mönkkönen	Finland	Notrium Wazzal II
Wolfire Games	Berkeley, California, USA	Black Shades Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot Overgrowth
Zachary Barth	Seattle, Washington	Infiniminer SpaceChem
Zoetrope Interactive	Istanbul, Turkey	Darkness Within Darkness Within: The Dark Lineage
Zoonami	Cambridge, England, UK	Zendoku Bonsai Barber
ZootFly	Ljubljana, Slovenia	First Battalion

See also

• Indie game
• Fangame
• Dojin soft
• Casual game