Video games in Turkey

Video games in Turkey is a massive industry with many branches of it and also covers pastime in Turkey that includes the production, sale, import/export, and playing of video games.
Market statistics
In 2021, the market statistics in total reached 1.2B$, around 600M$ coming from mobile games. Turkey’s market statistics were $464 million in 2015, while in 2016 it was $755 million and most of the revenue in 2016 was $332.5 million in mobile games, the rest was obtained from the computer and console genre. Turkey grew 7.2% compared with the previous year, in online game revenue during 2016, Turkey ranked 16th in the world in both the mobile PC and console area. Today in general & with all genres, Turkey stands at 18th globally. The global rank within all genres has not seen a change.
Many big Turkish developer companies exist, such as Peak in the mobile games genre, Tale Worlds in the PC genre for many years. (e.g Mount & Blade.)
Professional gaming
Turkey has a presence in the professional e-sports market, especially in League of Legends and other games created by Riot Games.
E-Sport team found that the market for more than ten professionals from more than four thousand in Turkey are also licensed e-athletes. Beşiktaş and traditional sports clubs also stepped in, and other sports clubs, especially Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, joined the e-Sports market.
The Türkiye Digital Games Federation was established in 2011 and later superseded by the e-Sports Federation of Turkey on April 24, 2018.
Rating System
In Turkey, the most widely used video game content rating system PEGI (Pan European Gaming Information), does not have a legal basis that supports it officially but it was semi-officially introduced to the country in 2014-2015 and is used in both foreign and Turkish published video games all around the country, and in almost all cases, though Turkey is not officially represented in the PEGI council. Other labels can be seen as well such as the German USK specially on second-hand items.
In 2006, the Intellectual Property Registration and Registration Department made arrangements about a regulation "Computer Games", a new regulation for using & regarding marking content ratings system that was and has been implemented for film, television and video games in the Turkish market that are sold. -Although the criteria used for marking are still officially and legally somewhat uncertain, but for video games is dominated by PEGI, this method is mostly applied to products sold physically, there is no control mechanism for video games acquired through digital distribution etc.
With the Regulation on Internet Bulk Use Providers, which came into force in 2009, made the play of video games (or the screening of films) that include drug or stimulant habit, suicidal orientation, sexual abuse, obscenity, prostitution, violence, gambling etc. like-elements prohibited at public workplaces, though not applying to certain private workplaces.
Although the PEGI rating system is still not official and not legally supported, based on the government regulations and laws, games can be banned by the Ministry of the Interior. So far no games have been banned, even if banned, did not have an effect at all and their bans were either forgotten, or lifted (unbanned). Though certain games were investigated as to whether they should be banned, or reported, there were no outcomes in those cases and the games were left untouched and playable.
Games that cause adverse effects can be banned entirely if reported and investigated, but again none have been banned so far either. Games can still be unavailable to be played due to the choice of the publishers specifically not making them available or playable in the Turkey region, but they are all still available physically and still playable if accessed physically. (Except online web-based game sites)
See video-game bans (Turkey) for more information.
Video Game Development
Game developers from Turkey
Berzah Games (Also co-devs)
Bluespy Studio
Gorilla Softworks
Hyperlab
Lamagama Entertainment
Laps Games
Motion Blur
Nowhere Studios
Pinq Games
Redivided Studios
Remoob Games
Sobee Studios (Additional page)
Stormling Studios (Ex-Zoetrope Interactive)
TaleWorlds Entertainment
Team Machiavelli
Team Untested
Turquoise Revival Games
Wendigo Games
Misc Games
AEON Game Studio (Unknown portfolio)
Dirty LEDS (Unknown portfolio)
Flamingo Game Studio (Mobile, AR/VR games)
Funverse Games (Online games)
gamegine (Unknown portfolio)
Gyroscoping Games (Serious games)
Hypernova Technology & Gaming (Unknown portfolio)
Inventuna Games (Blockchain)
Kumkat Games (Online games)
Makemake Studio (Mobile, blockchain games)
OTTO Games (Mobile, serious, AR/VR games)
Rokogame Studios (Blockchain services)
Semruk Games (Edutainment, serious games)
Simurgify TECH (Games, websites, mobile apps)
Mobile games
Ace Games
Aden Games
Bermuda Games
Bigger Games
Boost Games
Brew Games
BugFix Games
Clap Games (Simulations)
Cratoonz
Creasaur Entertainment Co.
Cube Games
Cypher Games
Dream Games
Duuby Games
Easy Clap Games
Eggs Games
Fabrika Games (Funded by French publisher Voodoo)
FH Studio
Fiber Games
Fomo Games
Forge Games
Frosy Game Studios (Supported by Israeli publisher CrazyLabs)
Frozen Monkey Games
Fugo Games
Funmoth Games
Gamegos
Gametator
Garawell Games
Giant Avocado Games
Gleam Games
Global Champions (HQ in San Francisco)
Gulliver's Games
Gybe Games
HEY Games
Hifive Games
Hoody Studios
Hyperlab
Kontra Games
Lerp Games
Libra Softworks
Longhorn Games
Lost Panda Games
Lotus Games
Lumos Games
MagicLab Game Technologies
Mavis Games
Midpoly Games
MobGe
Moon Star Games
Morii Games
Nano Games
Noho Games
NOKO GAMES
Optimus Game Studio
Oxyun
Pango Games
Passion Punch Studio
Peak Games
phoca.io
Playabit (Owned by Brazilian company Wildlife Studios.)
Playtrick
Quok Games
Revel Games
Ricci Game
Roar Games Studio
Rooster Games
Rootcraft Game Technologies
Sarge Games
Screaming Parrots
Scroll Next
SNG Studios
Spyke Games (Same as Spike Games)
Stak Games
Statue Games
SuperMesh Games
Tenet Games
Teos Game Studio
tiplay studio
Umay Games & Studios
Uniqcorn Games
Vacuum Games
Whoops Games
Zerosum Games
Zinky Games
Co-Development Services
ForceNCode (Games, apps, websites)
Kyoso Interactive (Online games)
Oyun Teknolojileri ve Yazılım (Games, interactive apps, apps, websites)
Defunct video game developers
Dark Zone Game Studio (Founded 2016. Defunct 2022.)
Future Dreams (Est. 1990?)
Locus Design (Est. 1990-1993)
Ollric Games (Inactive 2021-2022. Mobile games.)
Video game publishers of Turkey
Digi Game Startup Studio (Support startups)
Game Factory (Support startups)
Next in Game
Pera Games (Support startups & teams)
Youcan Games (Support startups & teams)
Publisher & developer firms
Alictus (Mobile games)
AIx2 Games
Apphic Games (Primarily mobile games)
Babil Studios (Mobile games. Not the same as the Jordan company 'Babil Games'.)
Backpack Games (Mobile games)
Blackburne Games
Clock Wizard Games
Core Engage Yazılım A.Ş.
Cultic Games
Cyperk Software
DBK Games (aka. 'Burak Dabak')
GameDeus
Happy Game Company (Mobile games)
Inspector Studios (Primarily mobile games)
LIGHTWORKER GAMES
LootCopter Game Studio (Mobile games)
MildMania (Mobile/online games)
Ruby Game Studio (Mobile games)
The Pack Studios
Udo Games (Mobile games)
Online games portal/distribution
EPIN Ödeme ve İletişim Teknolojileri A.Ş. (Distribution)
Kabasakal Online
Klasgame.Com
MGM Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş
Oyunfor
Vatangame.com (Distribution)
YeşilyurtGame (Distribution)
References
Video gaming in Turkey
Science and technology in Turkey
Culture of Turkey