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Exits of high recreation builders like Peak Video games, Gram Video games and Rollic triggered a wave of recent studios and investments in Türkiye, resulting in the institution of a number of recent studios.
Talking at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025, Bilkent CyberPark Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and Know-how Switch Knowledgeable Irmak Tamgac mentioned the historical past of Türkiye’s video games trade over the previous a long time.
She offered a timeline that reveals the sector’s progress within the nation as much as Peak Video games’ $1.8 billion sale to Zynga in 2020 and Dream Video games’ unicorn standing in 2021.

Tamgac stated after Peak’s record-breaking exit, 108 former staff established 82 startups, 37 of which targeted on gaming. This contains Royal Match studio Dream Video games.
General, in 2025 Türkiye was stated to have 858 gaming startups. Different key figures embody:
- 13,000+ video games supplied by Turkish publishers on GOogle Play
- 22 exits within the final 5 years
- Two video games clusters
- Two unicorns (Dream Video games and Peak Video games)
- 12 gaming incubators and 22 gaming accelerators
Over the past 12 months, high gaming offers in Türkiye embody:
- Spyke Video games – $50m
- Grand Video games – $30m
- Agave Video games – $18m
- Good Job Video games – $17m
- Cypher Video games – $10m
All-time high video games firm exits:
- Peak Video games – $1.8bn
- Gram Video games – $250m
- Masomo $200m
- Rollic – $180m
- Alictus – $100m
Prime acquirers:
- Zynga – 7
- Miniclip – 1
- Rovio – 1
- SciPlay – 1