PLAYISM

Profile updated May 2026

PLAYISM has published 13 titles, including Mad Father and Ib, with a combined 35,557 Steam reviews. They primarily publish Action games.

PLAYISM is an indie game publisher. indielist tracks 13 titles on its label, together holding 35,689 Steam reviews. Its biggest title by Steam reviews is Mad Father, with 6,538 reviews (2016). It has published games from 12 studios, including sen, kouri, Petit Depotto, Gibier Games and Bombservice and 7 more. That averages about 2,745 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 PLAYISM 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.

PLAYISM's catalog on indielist spans 13 titles holding 35,689 Steam reviews in total, an average of about 2,700 per release, and its most-reviewed entries are Mad Father, Ib, GNOSIA, DEEEER Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game. 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.

PLAYISM has published work from 12 studios (sen, kouri, Petit Depotto, Gibier Games and Bombservice and 7 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 PLAYISM 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.

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