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Devolver Digital

US Founded 2009 Tier 1 ($1M+ advances)
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This profile is public because indielist links Devolver Digital to 94 published, evidence-backed indie games. That portfolio evidence does not classify the publisher itself as independent and is not an official statement from the publisher.

Devolver Digital is a game publisher with an evidence-backed indie game portfolio on indielist based in US, founded in 2009. indielist tracks 94 titles on its label, together holding 1,184,814 Steam reviews. Its biggest title by Steam reviews is Inscryption, with 135,789 reviews (2021). It has published games from 57 studios, including Daniel Mullins Games, Massive Monster, Dennaton Games, Nomada Studio and Dodge Roll and 52 more. That averages about 12,604 Steam reviews per title across the label. For a developer deciding whether to pitch, the first thing to weigh is portfolio fit: which genres and what scale of project Devolver Digital has actually shipped and supported to launch, all of which indielist lays out on this page alongside its studio relationships and signing history. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so studios can judge fit before pitching and investors can trace the label's signing activity across genres and years, the kind of publisher to studio to game connections that are slow to reconstruct from storefront pages alone.

Devolver Digital's catalog on indielist spans 94 titles holding 1,184,814 Steam reviews in total, an average of about 13,000 per release, and its most-reviewed entries are Inscryption, Cult of the Lamb, Hotline Miami, GRIS. For a developer weighing a pitch, that published track record is the clearest signal of what the label can actually take to market: which genres it has shipped, the review volume its releases tend to reach, and whether that scale is a realistic fit for the project on offer. Pitching a cozy puzzle game to a label whose catalog is all hardcore shooters is a fast rejection, and the portfolio makes that mismatch obvious before any email is sent. indielist shows the white-box sales estimate behind each of those titles too, so the publisher's commercial output can be judged on visible figures rather than on reputation or a press-release headline alone.

Devolver Digital has published work from 57 studios (Daniel Mullins Games, Massive Monster, Dennaton Games, Nomada Studio and Dodge Roll and 52 more), and indielist records each pairing as an edge in its publisher-to-studio-to-game graph. An investor can use that to trace which developers a label has backed and how its roster has grown release by release, while a developer can check whether the publisher already works with teams of a similar size or genre before sending a pitch, which is a strong hint about whether a cold approach is worth the effort. Each linked studio page in turn lists that studio's full portfolio and its other publisher relationships, so the network around Devolver Digital can be explored outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list, and the same graph powers the "similar publishers" suggestions that help a developer build a realistic shortlist instead of pitching one name at a time.

Tier

tier_1

Country

US

Founded

2009

Evidence-backed indie games

94

Relationships

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Frequently works with

Devolver Digital has published games from Daniel Mullins Games, Massive Monster, Dennaton Games, Nomada Studio, Dodge Roll, Askiisoft, Free Lives, Phobia Game Studio, Four Quarters, Croteam, Kenny Sun and Friends, DeadToast Entertainment, Acid Nerve, Deconstructeam, Brigada Games, Sloclap, Sabotage, Reikon Games, Arnaud De Bock, Moppin, Nerial, No Code, doinksoft, Le Cartel Studio, Pigeons at Play, WolfEye Studios, Gabe Cuzzillo, Vlambeer, Galvanic Games, Cryptic Sea, by Sam Eng, René Rother, Terri Vellmann, Team Lazerbeam, JW, onebitbeyond, Pixel Titans, Roll7, Tendershoot, Vile Monarch, Fourattic, Croteam VR, DANG!, Sos Sosowski, Plethora Project, Ahr Ech, Terri, Ronimo Games, Skeleton Crew Studio, Mommy's Best Games, more8bit, Coffee Powered Machine, Crackshell, Moon Kid, Be-Rad Entertainment, Gungrounds (Macanga Games j.d.o.o.) and Binx Games.

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Frequently asked questions

How many games has Devolver Digital published?
indielist tracks 94 titles published by Devolver Digital, led by Inscryption.
Which studios has Devolver Digital worked with?
Devolver Digital has published games from Daniel Mullins Games, Massive Monster, Dennaton Games, Nomada Studio and Dodge Roll and 52 more.
Where is Devolver Digital based?
Devolver Digital is based in US and was founded in 2009.
What is Devolver Digital's biggest game?
By Steam review count, Inscryption is the biggest, with 135,789 reviews.

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