24 studiosDirectoryChecked 2026-08-20Türkiye incentive programme

Mobile game studios in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has 24 mobile studios in this directory, 17 of them in London, led by Jagex with about 740 staff and Tripledot with 600. British studios have better development support than almost anywhere in Europe, through a 34% games credit and a 20% R&D credit, and no support at all for the money they spend finding players.

By Marat SemenovCo-founder, CyberScope Solutions

24Studios tracked17 of them in London

34%Video Games Expenditure Crediton up to 80% of core costs

25%Corporate tax19% on profits under £50,000

£0Support for marketing spendnone of the four routes cover 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 24 studios in the United Kingdom?

24 in total. 17 of them are in London, which have their own directories, and the 7 listed underneath are everywhere else in the United Kingdom.

City	Studios	People
London	17	1,616

Studio	City	Founded	People
Jagex: The Runescape CompanyJagex Limited is a leading British video game developer and publisher based in Cambridge, UK.	Milton	2001	740
HutchA mobile gaming developer and publisher based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in racing games for…		2011	220
First Touch Games Ltd.An award-winning independent games development studio based in Oxford, UK.	Oxford	2011	45
Invincibles StudioAn independent games development studio based in Preston, North West England, founded in 2004.	Preston	2004	41
Red Riding Hood Games		n/a	16
Ndemic CreationsAn independent game studio based in Bristol, UK, founded in 2012 by James Vaughan.	Bristol	2011	8
NEW STAR GAMES LIMITEDA Computer Games company located in 1 MEADOW GATE, MAIN STREET PADBURY, BUCKINGHAM, United…	Milton Keynes	n/a	6

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 the United Kingdom?

What keeps them there

The Video Games Expenditure Credit, which pays 34% on up to 80% of core development costs and is claimed through the tax return rather than by competitive application.
A deep hiring market in English, and a legal system that publishers and investors already understand.
London's concentration of publishers and platform offices, which still shapes where deals get done.
A grant layer on top, through Innovate UK and the UK Games Fund, for teams willing to write applications.

Corporate income tax	25%, or 19% on profits under £50,000source checked 2026-08-20
Video Games Expenditure Credit	34% of qualifying expenditure, on up to 80% of core costssource checked 2026-08-20

Britain is the best-supported place in this directory for building a game and one of the worst for launching one. Every route, the games credit, the R&D credit, Innovate UK and the UK Games Fund, pays for work done on the product. None reaches user acquisition, app store commissions or hosting at scale.

For a studio whose main cost is the team, that trade is fine. For a studio whose main cost is buying players, which is most of the mobile industry, the support arrives on the smaller half of the budget.

Share of a marketing bill paid back

the United Kingdomnothing
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

Which UK support is worth applying for?

The tax credits, because they are not competitive. If the spend qualifies and the paperwork holds, the money arrives. Grants are worth trying only if the project is genuinely novel.

Do British studios have to leave to claim in Türkiye?

No. The UK company stays. A Turkish company runs the activity being claimed for, and nobody has to relocate.

Is London the only cluster?

It dominates, with 17 of the 24 here, but there are studios in Brighton, Guildford, Dundee and Manchester, and costs outside London are noticeably lower.

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://www.gov.uk/corporation-tax-rates checked 2026-08-20
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claiming-video-games-expenditure-credits-for-corporation-tax 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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