Greek Game Studios: Who Makes Games in Greece Today
A guide to Greek game studios, from the makers of Chicken Invaders to Traptics, Pixel Reign and Dragonis Games, plus the funding behind the scene.
Greece makes more games than most players realise. This is our guide to Greek game studios: who they are, what they have released and where to start if you want to play their work.
It is a small scene, but it is bigger than many people assume. The Game Developers Meetup in Larissa listed 33 games in October 2026, and two months earlier nine Greek games went to gamescom in Cologne as part of a national delegation. Most of the teams below are small, several have been working on one game for years, and a few have already found international publishers.
A note on what counts. We have included studios based in Greece and teams that exhibited under the Greek flag at gamescom. Where the picture is more complicated, we say so. This is also not a complete directory, so if your studio is missing, tell us.
The veterans
InterAction studios
The best known game ever to come out of Greece may well involve space chickens. Konstantinos Prouskas released the first Chicken Invaders on 24 July 1999, and the series is one of the longest running ever made in the country. The formula is close to Space Invaders with far more poultry and a very silly sense of humour. The latest entry, Chicken Invaders Universe, turned it into a free-to-play massively multiplayer game when it reached Steam in December 2022, which makes it the cheapest possible introduction to Greek game development.
Where to get it: Steam
Brain Seal
Here is the first of those complicated cases. Brain Seal Ltd is a tiny international team, and its press material is datelined London, yet it showed Dark Quest 4 on the Games from Greece stand at gamescom 2025, so we are counting it. The Dark Quest series is a long-running set of turn-based dungeon crawlers inspired by the board game HeroQuest, and the fourth game, released in November 2025, has a hand-drawn isometric look and dice-based rules.
Where to get it: Steam
The ones that came before
Greek game development goes back further than most people realise. A 2024 study in the journal Acta Ludologica traces it from 1982 to 2002, names Spin Software as the first Greek digital game company and notes that many of those early developers eventually stopped making games.
The most ambitious name from the years after that is Aventurine, founded in Athens in 2003. Its fantasy MMO Darkfall built a following among players who wanted brutal open-world combat. The original servers closed in November 2012 to make way for Darkfall Unholy Wars, which launched in April 2013 and went offline in May 2016, with the announcement pointing to conditions in Greece at the time. Building an MMO from Athens was a remarkable thing to attempt, and it is still a useful reminder of how hard large projects are to sustain here.
Greek studios with games you can play now
Traptics
Founded in Athens in 2012, Traptics first made Homeseek, a post-apocalyptic strategy game released in 2023, and followed it with Xenopurge, probably the most interesting idea on this list. You run a squad fighting aliens, but you only ever see the battle through the screens of a remote command centre, and your soldiers act on the orders and behaviour you gave them. Published by the French label Firesquid, it went through Early Access before its 1.0 release on 20 November 2025.
Where to get them: Xenopurge, Homeseek
Pixel Reign
Pixel Reign started small, with the punishing 2D platformer Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries in 2018. Its big step up is Moros Protocol, a first-person roguelite shooter set on a pixel-painted battleship overrun by monsters. It came out on Steam in September 2025 through Super Rare Originals, a good example of a Greek team finding an international partner without leaving home.
Where to get them: Moros Protocol, Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries
Dragonis Games
Ares Dragonis has become the scene’s specialist in cosmic dread. The Shore arrived in 2021, and Necrophosis followed in April 2025, a first-person horror adventure inspired by the nightmarish paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński. That is the game in the picture at the top of this page, and one look explains why it stands out. A story chapter, Necrophosis: Subconsciousness, came out in May 2026.
Where to get them: The Shore, Necrophosis, Necrophosis: Subconsciousness
Iphigames
Iphigames works on both sides of the table. As a developer it made Abtos Covert, a 2023 horror game about guarding a remote military outpost on Mount Abtos, a place the locals have plenty of stories about. As a publisher it is behind the upcoming Haunted Bloodlines from Horrified Triangles, and it also handled the PS5 edition of Necrophosis.
Where to get them: Abtos Covert, Haunted Bloodlines
Funigami
Cook or Be Cooked has the best premise here. You belong to a family of witches who stay young by cooking teenagers, and then your parents bring home a charming girl as the next meal. This walk-and-talk adventure came out in October 2025.
Where to get it: Steam
Lost Token
Theropods is a wordless prehistoric point-and-click adventure with a science fiction twist, released in August 2026 through Dionous Games.
Where to get it: Steam
SOTO Game Studio
Luminas: Parasite Reign is a survivor roguelite where you control up to three heroes at once, released in July 2026.
Where to get it: Steam
Greek studios to watch
These teams have games on the way. We checked each Steam page while writing this, but dates move, so treat the store page as the final word. For more upcoming titles, see our list of Greek indie games to wishlist.
Terahard: RuneSmith
A comic RPG about a grudge-holding dwarf who engraves runes and wants his money back from a summoner.
Where to get it: Steam
eNVy softworks: Next Soul, Please!
A satirical paperwork game in which you check the documents of the dead and send them up or down.
Where to get it: Steam
Dusty Box: Cult of Blood
Dark fantasy survival horror set in a village taken over by an ancient blood cult.
Where to get it: Steam
Behind the Hump: Forgotten Eras
A hand-crafted Metroidvania from a studio in Larissa, following Ivan and the Grey Wolf through Slavic and Balkan folklore.
Where to get it: Steam
Dimension Omega: Astra: Fading Stars
A challenging, hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania about corruption spreading across the universe.
Where to get it: Steam
beyondthosehills: Placeground
A calm sandbox where you design rooms and watch small lives unfold in them, with no goals and no pressure.
Where to get it: Steam
NoBudgetStudios: Mechanis Obscura
An escape-room thriller with FMV cutscenes and mechanical puzzles.
Where to get it: Steam
Eteros Studios: Dunestake
A single-player auto battler in which you bet your own units for gold.
Where to get it: Steam
Twins Creative Studio: The Purple Peacock
A 2D point-and-click hunt for a rare and elusive stamp.
Where to get it: Steam
Not every Greek games company makes games, either. Arcweave builds a web-based, no-code tool for planning branching stories, and it shared the Greek stand at gamescom 2025 and gave a talk in Larissa.
What holds the Greek games scene together
Three organisations come up again and again. The Game Developers Association of Greece, known as GDA Greece, has been working since 2020 to develop and promote Greek video games. Its projects include a mentorship scheme and a census of the industry, and it runs the We Love Greek Games curator page on Steam, which is the handiest way for players to follow new releases. IGDA Greece co-organises the Larissa meetup, now the biggest date in the calendar.
The third is EKKOMED, the state’s film and audiovisual agency, which matters most for money. Its cash rebate for digital games offers back 40% of eligible costs spent in Greece, up to €1,000,000 per game. Its page says applicants must have marketed a commercial game in the previous two years, which rules out first-time teams. EKKOMED also organised the first official Greek delegation to gamescom in 2025, returned in 2026 and took a national delegation to Paris Game Biz this year.
Funding remains the main limit. Talented Greek developers often end up working for studios abroad, and the closing panel in Larissa was largely about how to change that. A game that sells well here is not only a nice story. It is what allows a team to make its next one in Greece.
Where to start with Greek games
Go by what you already enjoy. If you want something free, try Chicken Invaders Universe. If you like tactics and the idea of commanding a squad from behind a bank of screens, try Xenopurge. Horror fans should look at Necrophosis, shooter fans at Moros Protocol, and anyone who grew up on board games at Dark Quest 4.
Then keep going. Our Greek Games hub collects all of our coverage of the scene in one place, and we will add to this guide as new studios and releases appear. If you run a Greek studio and want to be on our radar, email us at contact@critandcutscene.com.
