Game Development Outsourcing Statistics
Every figure on this page is recomputed from the live directory of 438 listed outsourcing studios each time the site is built — nothing is hand-typed or estimated unless labelled as an estimate. Free to cite with attribution; the underlying aggregates are downloadable below.
438
listed studios
54
countries
10
regions
9%
studio-claimed
Where the industry lives
As of August 2026, the gamedevoutsourcing.com directory lists 438 game development outsourcing studios across 54 countries; the largest regional clusters are Western Europe (90 studios), North America (77) and Eastern Europe (74). #studios-by-region
The three countries with the most listed game outsourcing studios are United States (60), United Kingdom (35) and India (27); 62 of 438 listings have no usable country recorded and are excluded from geographic breakdowns. #studios-by-country
What studios sell
3D art is the most commonly offered game outsourcing service (242 of 438 listed studios, 55%), while QA testing (59), audio (54) and localization (35) are offered by far fewer studios — a supply imbalance that shapes lead times in those disciplines. #services-mix
Engine coverage
Unity (285 studios, 65% of listings) and Unreal Engine (265, 61%) dominate engine support among game outsourcing studios; 115 studios list experience with a custom or proprietary engine. #engine-split
Platform coverage
PC is the most covered platform among listed studios (314 of 438), ahead of Android (242) and iOS (238); VR (59) and AR (30) remain niche specialisations. #platform-split
How big the studios are
Of the 343 listed studios with a recorded team size, 152 (44%) employ 51–200 people — the industry's most common size — while 122 (36%) are small studios of 50 or fewer. #team-sizes-split
Claimed vs unclaimed listings
This is an honest measure of how young directory adoption is on the supply side, and it is why nothing here should be read as studio-submitted data — see the methodology.
AI search vs Google
In July 2026, ChatGPT referred more visitors to gamedevoutsourcing.com than Google organic search did — 376 sessions against 257 — making an AI assistant, not a search engine, the site's largest referrer of outsourcing buyers (source: our first-party analytics, July 2026). #ai-referrals
One site is not the industry, but this is a directional data point on how B2B buyers in game development now discover suppliers.
What outsourcing costs
The directory holds no reliable per-studio rate data, so this page does not publish any. The site's editorial market estimates run roughly $25–40/hour for entry-level 2D art up to $120–250/hour for senior programming, varying by region and seniority — see the full cost guide for the per-discipline breakdown, or estimate a specific project with the cost calculator.
Open data
The aggregate distributions behind this page — counts by country, region, service, engine, platform, and team size — are published as machine-readable files, regenerated on every site build. They contain aggregates only, never per-company rows. Licensed CC BY 4.0: use them freely, with a link back to this page as attribution.
How to cite this page
Any figure here may be quoted with attribution. A suggested citation line:
Game Dev Outsourcing, “Game Development Outsourcing Statistics”, August 2026. https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics
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Methodology and limits
- Counts cover directory-visible listings only: active, listed outsourcing companies that are not deleted. Soft-deleted and pending rows are excluded everywhere on this page.
- Country is recorded as free text and is merged across known spellings (“UK”, “England” and “United Kingdom” count as one country). 62 listings have no usable country and are excluded from geographic breakdowns, so region bars sum to 376, not 438.
- Services, engines, and platforms are self-reported by studios or researched by this directory; a studio can carry several tags, so those bars overlap and do not sum to 438.
- “Claimed” means the studio controls its listing (a recorded claim or an attached user account). It is not a quality signal.
- No rate data comes from the directory; every cost figure on this site is an editorial market estimate and labelled as such.
- For a deeper cut of an earlier snapshot, see the 2026 directory analysis.
Explore the studios behind the numbers
Browse the full directory of 438 game development outsourcing studios, filterable by service, region, engine, and art style.