There is a long story of this list. I published it on Facebook in 2015 and on Medium in 2018. Since publication original post on Medium viewed about 45k times by developers around the world. So I understood it becomes useful information for independent developers and found some time to prepare a new one.
Lot of things happened since 2018. Some publishers closed, lot of new ones appeared. I reviewed my previous list and added category "Closed" in the end. I use a link to steam publisher page as the main one because I believe it's the main first source you should use to check publisher's portfolio. Through the steam publisher's page you can access another links to website, twitter, contact forms etc. The list is sorted by A-Z without any priorities.
Lot of things happened since 2018. Some publishers closed, lot of new ones appeared. I reviewed my previous list and added category "Closed" in the end. I use a link to steam publisher page as the main one because I believe it's the main first source you should use to check publisher's portfolio. Through the steam publisher's page you can access another links to website, twitter, contact forms etc. The list is sorted by A-Z without any priorities.
Last updated: April 24th 2024
To make this list useful and keep short I keep in mind a criteria: publisher needs to have at least 1 release in previous year.
- 101XP - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/101xp
- 11bit Studios - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/11bitstudios
- 2P Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/2pgames
- 505 Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/505Games
- Alawar - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/alawar
- Akupara Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/akuparagames
- Annapurna Interactive - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/annapurnainteractive
- Anshar Publishing - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/AnsharPublishing
- Armor Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/armorgamesstudios
- Apogee Entertainment - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/apogee
- astragon Entertainment - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/astragon
- Coffee Stain - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/coffeestain
- Chucklefish - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/chucklefish
- Creative Forge Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/cfg
- Critical Reflex - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/CRITICAL_REFLEX
- Crytivo - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Crytivo
- Curve Digital - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/curvedigital
- Daedalic Entertainment - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/daedalic
- DANGEN Entertainment - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/dangen
- Dear Villagers - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Dear-Villagers
- Devolver Digital - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/DevolverDigital
- Destructive Creations - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/DestructiveCreations
- Dotemu - https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/Dotemu
- ESDigital Games (ex Buka Entartainment) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/esdigital_games
- Feardemic - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/feardemic
- Fellow Traveller (ex Surprise Attack) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/fellowtraveller
- Freedom Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/freedomgames
- FreeMind.games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/freemind
- Finji - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/finji
- Fireshine Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/FireshineGames
- Forklift Interactive - https://www.forklift.gg
- Fulqrum Publishing (ex 1С Publishing) -https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/FulqrumPublishing
- Future Friends Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/futurefriendsgames
- Gamera Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/gameragame
- GAMING FACTORY - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/gamingfactory
- Goblinz Publishing - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/goblinz_publishing
- Ghost Ship Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/GhostShipGames
- GrabTheGames Publishing - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/GrabTheGames
- Handy Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HandyGames
- Hawthorn Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/hawthorngames
- Headup Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Headup
- HeroCraft - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HeroCraft_PC
- Humble Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HumbleGames
- HypeTrain Digital - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HypeTrainDigital
- Hooded Horse - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HoodedHorse
- Iceberg Interactive - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/iceberg
- IndieArk - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/IndieArk
- Kepler Interactive - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/kepler/
- Klabater - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/klabater
- Kwalee Ltd. - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Kwalee
- Lightning Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Lightning
- Marvelous Europe - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/MarvelousEurope
- Maximum Entertainment - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/maximumentertainment
- Merge Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/MergeGames
- Meridian4 - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/M4
- Microids - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/microids
- MicroProse - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/microprose
- Modus Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/modus
- Nacon - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Nacon
- Neon Doctrine - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/nd
- Nicalis Inc. - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Nicalis
- No More Robots - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/nomorerobots
- Panic - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/panic
- Paradox Interactive - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/paradoxinteractive
- PID Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/PIDGames
- PlayWay S.A. - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/playway
- PlaySide Publishing - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/playsidepublishing
- Playstack - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Playstack
- PQube Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/PQube
- Ravenage - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ravenage
- Ravenscourt - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/ravenscourt/
- Raw Fury - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/rawfury
- Serenity Forge - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/serenityforge
- Slitherine - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Slitherine
- Skystone Games - https://www.skystone.games
- Snail Games USA - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/SnailGamesUSA
- Spiral Up Games - https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44708939-Spiral-Up-Games/ + https://www.spiralupgames.com
- Shiro Unlimited - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/shiro-unlimited
- Square Enix - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/squareenix
- SOEDESCO - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/soedesco
- Stardock - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/stardock/
- Stray Fawn Studio - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/strayfawn
- Team17 - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Team17
- tinyBuild - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/tinybuild
- The Arcade Crew - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/TheArcadeCrew
- Thermite Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ThermiteGames
- Those Awesome Guys - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/thoseawesomeguys
- Thunderful Publishing - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/thunderfulpublishing
- Toge Productions - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/togeproductions
- Toplitz Productions - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Toplitz
- Twin Sails Interactive - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/twinsailsinteractive
- Untold Tales - https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/untoldtales
- Wired Productions - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/WIRED
- Whitethorn Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/whitethorngames
- Yogscast Games - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/yogscastgames
Closed or excluded from the list:
- Adult Swim Games (closed) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/AdultSwimGames
- BadLand (closed)
- Crescent Moon (not seems like actively publishing PC games, focused on mobiles mostly) - http://crescentmoongames.com/
- Digital Tribe (no releases since 2020) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/digitaltribe
- Double Fine (bought by Microsoft, not publishing Steam 3rd party games) - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/doublefine
- Fat Dog Games
- FDG Entertainment (don't have upcoming PC games, seems inactive) - fdg-entertainment.com
- Kiss Ltd. (closed publishing) - kiss-ltd.co.uk
- New Blood Interactive (seems not taking pitches and outside publishing currently) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/NewBlood
- Midnight City (seems closed) - https://www.digitalspy.com/videogames/a614052/majesco-entertainment-downsizing-whats-happening-to-midnight-city/
- Mode 7 Games (seems inactive since 2018) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/mode7
- Positech Games (seems like developer publishes sometimes hobby games but mostly focused on own ones) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/positech
- ReverbTripleXP (seems like PR Agency had publishing but stopped doing it) - reverbinc.com
- Ripstone (no steam releases, focused on own chess games) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ripstone
- RisingStarGames (no steam releases since 2018) - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/RisingStarGames
- Versus Evil (closed in 2023) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/VersusEvil
- Wadjet Eye Games (only one release in 2022 and it was last one) - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/WadjetEyeGames