18 studiosDirectoryChecked 2026-08-20Türkiye incentive programme

Mobile game studios in France, and what Paris costs

France has 18 mobile studios in this directory and 11 of them are in Paris, led by Homa with about 830 staff. French studios get one of the strongest research credits in Europe at 30% of qualifying spend, and they are paying a temporarily higher corporate rate: an exceptional contribution lifted the effective rate from 25.8% to 36.1% for the first financial year ending on or after 31 December 2025.

By Tom HuseynzadeCo-founder, CyberScope Solutions

18Studios tracked11 of them in Paris

30%Research tax crediton qualifying R&D up to 100 million euro

36.1%Effective corporate ratetemporarily, from 25.8%

0%Support for marketing spendneither credit reaches it

Türkiye refunds half of what a software company or game studio spends on advertising, app store commissions and hosting when it sells to customers abroad, and up to 70% when those customers are in one of twenty target markets. It is paid in cash, against invoices you have already settled. Try it with your own numbers.

What you spend a year on ads and platform fees $

Paid back in Türkiye $350,000 a year, in cash, at the 50% to 70% rate

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01Where are the 18 studios in France?

18 in total. 11 of them are in Paris, which have their own directories, and the 7 listed underneath are everywhere else in France.

City	Studios	People
Paris	11	1,437

Studio	City	Founded	People
MWMAn AI-powered platform that enables the creation, operation, and scaling of native mobile applications for both…	Boulogne-Billancourt	2012	97
Plug In DigitalAn international video game distributor and publisher based in Montpellier, France.	Montpellier	2012	76
Million VictoriesA mobile game development studio based in France, founded in 2017 by Benoit Ducrest and Celine…	Lyon	2017	65
BeemoovAn independent video game development and publishing studio based in Nantes, France, founded in 2006.	Nantes	2006	33
GOTO GamesA puzzle game publisher based in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Hauts-de-France, France.	Villeneuve-d'Ascq	1982	30
PlayrionAn independent game studio founded in Paris in 2010.	Montrouge	2010	30
Studio PangoStudio Pango, a French innovative company producing interactive games for children from 3 to 7 years old.	Craponne	2012	8

Headcounts are third-party estimates and companies count staff differently. Apollo company data, exported 20 August 2026 checked 2026-08-20

02Why do studios base themselves in France?

What keeps them there

The research tax credit, which pays 30% of qualifying R&D expenses up to 100 million euro and is one of the most generous schemes in Europe.
A hyper-casual and casual publishing cluster in Paris that produced Homa, Madbox, TapNation and Voodoo, with the operator talent that comes with it.
Engineering schools that supply strong graduates cheaply relative to London or Berlin.
A dedicated video game tax credit for production costs, on top of the research credit.

Research tax credit	30% of qualifying R&D expenses up to 100 million euro, and 5% above thatsource checked 2026-08-20
Corporate income tax	An exceptional contribution raised the effective rate from 25.8% to 36.1% for the first financial year ending on or after 31 December 2025This is a temporary surcharge rather than a permanent change to the headline rate.source checked 2026-08-20

Paris is the capital of hyper-casual publishing, and hyper-casual is the model that lives or dies on media buying. A French publisher can spend more on installs in a quarter than on salaries in a year.

The research credit is excellent and reaches none of that. It pays for engineering, which is the smaller number for this kind of company, while the media buying is funded entirely out of profit that has just been taxed at an unusually high rate.

Share of a marketing bill paid back

Francenothing
Türkiye, standard rate50%
Türkiye, target-country rate70%

What Türkiye would pay back on your spending

Türkiye runs a government programme that refunds part of what a software company or game studio spends on reaching customers abroad. It covers advertising, app store and platform commissions, and hosting. The refund is paid in cash against invoices the company has already settled, so it does not depend on the company making a profit. The standard rate is 50%, and it rises to 70% when the customers being targeted are in one of the twenty countries on the Turkish Ministry of Trade's target list.

Put your own yearly figures in below. The rates and the annual caps come from the same file as our full calculator, and the total updates as you type.

Ads and player acquisition $ App store and platform commissions $ Hosting and servers $ Most of my customers are in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan or another of the twenty target-list countries, so the rate is 70% instead of 50%.

Back in cash, every year $0

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03Questions we get asked

Does the video game tax credit cover marketing?

No. Like the research credit, it is aimed at production. Promotion and user acquisition sit outside both.

Is the 36.1% rate permanent?

It is described as an exceptional contribution applying to the first financial year ending on or after 31 December 2025, so it is a surcharge rather than a new headline rate. Check where your own year end falls.

Why is so much hyper-casual French?

Voodoo proved the model from Paris and the people who built it went on to found or staff most of the others. It is the same cluster effect that put seventeen studios in Limassol.

Why a consultancy keeps a studio directory

CyberScope Solutions is an Istanbul consultancy that manages Türkiye's IT export incentive claims for software companies and game studios. We track where studios are because the question we are asked most often is who else has done this, and a list is a better answer than an assurance.

Every figure is sourced. Each number links to the page it came from and carries the date we last checked it.
We do the filing. Claims run through DYS, the ministry's own system, and we handle the evidence pack, the deadlines and the follow-up questions.
You find out early if it is not for you. The first call is thirty minutes and we will say plainly if your spend pattern does not suit the programme.

Turn that number into money

Send us the rough shape of your spend. You get back what it is worth, what setting it up involves, and how fast the first claim can go in. Companies already operating here treat this as routine, and the six month window means the clock is running on invoices you have already paid.

A reply from a person within one working day
No mailing list, no drip sequence
Thirty minutes, and you keep the numbers either way

04Where these numbers come from

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/france/corporate/tax-credits-and-incentives checked 2026-08-20
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/corporate-income-tax-rates-europe/ checked 2026-08-20
Apollo company data, exported 20 August 2026 checked 2026-08-20

About this page

This is general information about public funding and tax rules. It is not tax, legal or financial advice, and nothing here is an offer or a guarantee of any outcome. The figures come from the sources listed above and were correct on the dates shown beside them.

Rules change often and every company's position is different, so take advice from a qualified professional in the relevant country before acting on anything here. Support under any programme depends on eligibility and on approval by the authority that runs it. CyberScope Solutions accepts no liability for decisions taken on the basis of this page. The named author writes for the company in a professional capacity and carries no personal liability for its contents.

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