13 studiosDirectoryChecked 2026-08-20Türkiye incentive programme

Mobile game studios in India: the largest teams on this list

India has 13 mobile studios in this directory and they are large: a median headcount of 110, higher than any other country here. PlaySimple Games employs about 490 people and Gameberry Labs about 360. Bengaluru and Mumbai hold most of them.

By Marat SemenovCo-founder, CyberScope Solutions

13Studios trackedBengaluru 4, Mumbai 4

110Median headcountthe highest of any country here

22%Headline corporate taxwith a lower concessional rate available

0Games-specific national schemesupport runs through startup policy

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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01Which game studios are based in India?

Sorted by size, largest first. Tap the Founded or People columns to sort.

Studio	City	Founded	People
PlaySimple GamesA global mobile entertainment company based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2014.	Bengaluru	2014	490
Gameberry LabsAt Gameberry Labs, we are building the next-gen social games that aim at bringing people closer.	Bengaluru	2017	360
JetSynthesysA digital entertainment and technology company based in Pune, Maharashtra, India.	Pune	2014	300
Octro Inc.A leading mobile gaming studio based in Noida, India, founded in 2006 by Saurabh Aggarwal.	Noida	2006	260
Moonfrog LabsA mobile game development studio based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2013.	Bengaluru	2013	160
Ruby Seven Studios, Inc.A global leader in social casino gaming, focusing on the development of free-to-play casino…	Ernakulam	2012	120
Gametion Technologies Pvt. Ltd.A prominent mobile game development and publishing studio based in Navi Mumbai,…	Mumbai	2008	110
Zapak Digital Entertainment LimitedIndia's largest gaming company, focusing on the entire digital gaming value…	Mumbai	2006	110
Garden City GamesA gaming studio located in Bengaluru, India.	Bengaluru	n/a	85
Hitwicket (Metasports Interactive)A mobile esports company based in India, dedicated to creating immersive cricket experiences for fans…	Hyderabad	2015	82
Nazara Technologies LimitedIndia's only publicly listed gaming company, established in 1999 and headquartered in…	Mumbai	2000	74
Kiddopia®An award-winning educational app designed for children aged 2 to 7 years.	Mumbai	2012	72
Spacetime Studios LLPWe are a Delhi based film and animation studio producing television commercials, promos and corporate films.	New Delhi	2015	5

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 India?

What keeps them there

Engineering scale. India can staff a team of two hundred in a way almost nowhere else on this list can.
A domestic market large enough to test in, which is unusual outside the United States and China.
Cost per engineer well below Europe, which is what first brought outsourced work and then original development.
A large real-money and casual gaming sector that trained a generation of operators.

Corporate income tax	22% headline for domestic companies, with a lower concessional rate for qualifying new manufacturing companiessource checked 2026-08-20

Indian studios are staffed at a scale that changes what is possible. A team of three hundred building and operating several titles at once is normal here and rare anywhere else in this directory.

What that scale does not change is the cost of buying players. Indian studios buying installs in the United States or Europe pay the same prices as everyone else, and no Indian scheme reimburses any of it.

Share of a marketing bill paid back

Indianothing
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

Why are Indian studios so large?

Engineering is available at a scale and cost that supports big teams, and several of these companies operate multiple live titles simultaneously.

Is the domestic market the main revenue?

For some, yes, but the larger companies here earn substantially from players abroad, which is the pattern the Turkish programme is built around.

Can an Indian company use the Turkish programme?

Through a Turkish company that holds the contracts and pays the invoices, yes. The Indian entity carries on as it is.

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/india/corporate/taxes-on-corporate-income 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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