Game Development Outsourcing Statistics
Every figure on this page is recomputed from the live directory of 512 listed outsourcing studios every hour — nothing is hand-typed or estimated unless labelled as an estimate. Free to cite with attribution; the underlying aggregates are downloadable below.
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Where the industry lives
As of 29 September 2026, the gamedevoutsourcing.com directory lists 512 game development outsourcing studios across 57 countries; the largest regional clusters are Eastern Europe (108 studios), Western Europe (99) and North America (91). #studios-by-region
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<img src="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/charts/studios-by-region"
alt="Listed outsourcing studios by region. Regional distribution of the 475 listed studios with a recorded country."
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Chart: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#studios-by-region">listed outsourcing studios by region</a>,
from Game Dev Outsourcing’s game development outsourcing statistics.
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</figure>The three countries with the most listed game outsourcing studios are United States (74), United Kingdom (42) and India (31); 37 of 512 listings have no usable country recorded and are excluded from geographic breakdowns. #studios-by-country
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<img src="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/charts/studios-by-country"
alt="Top 10 countries by listed studios. The ten countries with the most listed studios, led by United States."
width="668" height="344"
style="width:100%;height:auto;border:0" />
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Chart: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#studios-by-country">top 10 countries by listed studios</a>,
from Game Dev Outsourcing’s game development outsourcing statistics.
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</figure>What studios sell
3D art is the most commonly offered game outsourcing service (291 of 512 listed studios, 57%), while QA testing (83), audio (61) and localization (36) are offered by far fewer studios — a supply imbalance that shapes lead times in those disciplines. #services-mix
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alt="Listed studios by service offered (top 10). Service mix across 512 listed studios; studios usually offer several services."
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style="width:100%;height:auto;border:0" />
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Chart: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#services-mix">listed studios by service offered (top 10)</a>,
from Game Dev Outsourcing’s game development outsourcing statistics.
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</figure>Engine coverage
Unity (314 studios, 61% of listings) and Unreal Engine (301, 59%) dominate engine support among game outsourcing studios; 114 studios list experience with a custom or proprietary engine. #engine-split
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<img src="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/charts/studios-by-engine"
alt="Listed studios by supported engine. Unity (314) and Unreal Engine (301) lead engine support."
width="668" height="240"
style="width:100%;height:auto;border:0" />
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Chart: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#engine-split">listed studios by supported engine</a>,
from Game Dev Outsourcing’s game development outsourcing statistics.
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</figure>Platform coverage
PC is the most covered platform among listed studios (343 of 512), ahead of Android (264) and iOS (259); VR (91) and AR (49) remain niche specialisations. #platform-split
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<img src="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/charts/studios-by-platform"
alt="Listed studios by platform. Platform coverage across 512 listed studios."
width="668" height="318"
style="width:100%;height:auto;border:0" />
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Chart: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#platform-split">listed studios by platform</a>,
from Game Dev Outsourcing’s game development outsourcing statistics.
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</figure>How big the studios are
Of the 408 listed studios with a recorded team size, 154 (38%) employ 51–200 people — the industry's most common size — while 180 (44%) are small studios of 50 or fewer. #team-sizes-split
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<img src="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/charts/studios-by-team-size"
alt="Listed studios by team size. Team-size distribution; 104 listings have no size recorded."
width="668" height="266"
style="width:100%;height:auto;border:0" />
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Chart: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#team-sizes-split">listed studios by team size</a>,
from Game Dev Outsourcing’s game development outsourcing statistics.
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</figure>The directory in numbers
Every row below is a link into the live directory, filtered to match — not a static snapshot. Recomputed every hour.
Studios by country
| Country | Studios |
|---|---|
| United States | 74 |
| United Kingdom | 42 |
| India | 31 |
| Ukraine | 29 |
| Poland | 22 |
| Japan | 18 |
| Canada | 17 |
| France | 13 |
| Vietnam | 13 |
| Malaysia | 12 |
| Brazil | 10 |
| Germany | 10 |
| Philippines | 10 |
| Spain | 10 |
| China | 9 |
…and 42 more countries with at least one listed studio.
Service mix
| Service | Studios |
|---|---|
| 3D Art | 291 |
| Programming | 259 |
| 2D Art | 205 |
| Game Design | 192 |
| Full Production | 175 |
| Animation | 151 |
| Co-Development | 85 |
| QA Testing | 83 |
| UI/UX | 66 |
| Marketing | 62 |
| Audio | 61 |
| Porting | 54 |
| Localization | 36 |
| Narrative | 23 |
Team-size bands
| Team size | Studios |
|---|---|
| 1-10 employees | 50 |
| 11-50 employees | 130 |
| 51-200 employees | 154 |
| 201-500 employees | 45 |
| 501-1000 employees | 15 |
| 1000+ employees | 14 |
| Not recorded | 104 |
Engine coverage
| Engine | Studios |
|---|---|
| Unity | 314 |
| Unreal Engine | 301 |
| Custom engine | 114 |
| Other engines | 47 |
| Godot | 30 |
| GameMaker | 9 |
| Cocos2D | 7 |
| CRY_ENGINE | 7 |
Suggested citation
Game Dev Outsourcing, “The Directory in Numbers”, https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#directory-in-numbers — updated September 2026.
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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics#directory-in-numbers">the directory in numbers, by country, service, team size and engine</a>, Game Dev Outsourcing.</p>The link is an ordinary one — no rel value, no required wording. Change the anchor text, the placement or the styling however suits your piece.
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 publishes no per-studio rate data, so none of the figures in this section are measurements taken here. What the site does publish is a rate benchmark — hourly figures other organisations have published, transcribed with each one's source, sample size and date, and flagged where the source is not game-specific. Separately, the site's own editorial market estimates run roughly $25–40/hour for entry-level 2D art up to $120–250/hour for senior programming; those are judgement, not measurement, and the two should not be quoted interchangeably. See the full cost guide for the per-discipline breakdown, or estimate a specific project with the cost calculator.
Rate bands: collecting — 2 of 10 studios have answered.
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
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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). 37 listings have no usable country and are excluded from geographic breakdowns, so region bars sum to 475, not 512.
- 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 512.
- “Claimed” means the studio controls its listing (a recorded claim or an attached user account). It is not a quality signal.
- Most cost figures on this site are either editorial market estimates, labelled as such, or third-party figures transcribed with their source on the rate benchmark; neither is a measurement of the studios listed here. The one exception is the self-reported rate bands above: a studio's own profile answer, published only as an aggregate count once at least 10 studios have answered, and never shown against any individual listing.
- For a deeper cut of an earlier snapshot, see the 2026 directory analysis.
- For which of these studios ChatGPT actually recommends when buyers ask, see which game outsourcing studios ChatGPT recommends.
Explore the studios behind the numbers
Browse the full directory of 512 game development outsourcing studios, filterable by service, region, engine, and art style.