The list of indie-friendly game publishers - 2018
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Hi! I made this list previously in different places (on FB in 2015 and another blog in 2016) and it was always useful for other developers and I got a lot of “thanks”. So I decided to refresh my notes regarding it and create a new one for 2018. I tried to find all actual publishers who still works and continue publishing.
I should also note that I’m focusing on the publishers for premium games on PC/consoles. Please don’t write about mobile-only ones.
The list is sorted by A-Z:
- 1С Publishing ( 1cpublishing.eu )
- 505 Games ( 505games.com )
- Adult Swim Games ( adultswim.com/games )
- Alawar ( alawar.com )
- Armor Games ( armorgamesstudios.com )
- BadLand ( badlandgames.com )
- BUKA Entertainment ( buka.ru )
- Chucklefish ( chucklefish.org )
- Coffe Stain ( coffeestainstudios.com )
- Crescent Moon ( crescentmoongames.com )
- Curve Digital ( www.curve-digital.com )
- Daedalic Entertainment ( daedalic.com )
- Devolver Digital ( devolverdigital.com )
- Digital Tribe ( digitaltribegames.com )
- Double Fine ( doublefine.com )
- Fat Dog Games ( fatdoggames.com )
- FDG Entertainment ( fdg-entertainment.com )
- Headup Games ( headupgames.com )
- Herocraft ( www.herocraft.com )
- HypeTrain Digital ( hypetraindigital.com )
- Humble Bundle ( humblebundle.com/publishing )
- Kiss Ltd. ( kiss-ltd.co.uk )
- Midnight City ( midnight-city.com )
- Merge Games ( mergegames.com )
- Meridian4 (meridian4.com)
- Nicalis Inc. ( nicalis.com )
- Nkidu Games ( nkidu.com )
- No More Robots ( nomorerobots.io )
- Paradox Interactive ( paradoxplaza.com )
- Positech (positech.co.uk )
- Raw Fury ( rawfury.com )
- ReverbTripleXP (reverbinc.com/triplexp)
- RipStone ( ripstone.com )
- Rising Star Games ( risingstargames.com )
- Square Enix Collective ( collective.square-enix.com )
- SOEDESCO ( soedesco.com )
- Surprise Attack ( www.surpriseattackgames.com )
- Team17 Digital Ltd. ( team17.com )
- tinyBuild Games ( tinybuild.com )
- Versus Evil ( versusevil.com )
- Wadjet Eye Collective ( wadjeteyegames.com )
Excluded from list:
- Bulkypix ( bulkypix.com ) — Closed :(
- Neko Entertaiment ( e-neko.com ) — Closed :(
Please, let me know if it was useful for you. Also, if I forgot any publisher (sure I did), please let me know about it and we’ll build an ultimate list together!
P.S.: Wanna support me and my work? Check out games by Mandragora on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Mandragora
