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As of 4 November 2026, 3,494 games development & publishing companies are based in France; 9 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 3,494
- Hiring now
- 9 · 4 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Game studios · 1,059
- Top city
- Paris · 160
- Parent market
- Media & content · 171,114
Games development & publishing in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Game studios | 1,059 | 30% |
| Private game servers | 881 | 25% |
| Tabletop game publishers | 787 | 23% |
| Mobile casual game studios | 441 | 13% |
| Game portals | 423 | 12% |
| Other games development & publishing | 416 | 12% |
| Video game media | 351 | 10% |
| Game development service studios | 111 | 3% |
| Other user content aggregator platforms | 21 | 1% |
| Anime manga fandom media | 18 | 1% |
| Novelist author sites | 15 | 0% |
| Developer technical blogs | 13 | 0% |
| Reference & manual sites | 11 | 0% |
| Book publishers | 9 | 0% |
| Youtube channels | 9 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 3,316 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 74 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 78 · 1 |
| 51-200 employees | 17 · 5 |
| 201-500 employees | 6 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 1 · 1 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 160 | 5% |
| Roubaix | 145 | 4% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 58 | 2% |
| Lyon | 19 | 1% |
| San Francisco | 17 | 0% |
| Bordeaux | 16 | 0% |
| Paris 15 | 13 | 0% |
| Strasbourg | 12 | 0% |
| Toulouse | 11 | 0% |
| Nantes | 9 | 0% |
| Paris 09 | 9 | 0% |
| Paris 12 | 9 | 0% |
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The stack of games development & publishing in France
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Other segments of media & content in France
Media & content in France, the whole market →
News & content portals · 97,004 →
User content aggregator platforms · 21,163 →
Travel blogs guides · 15,613 →
Visual art galleries & prints · 12,203 →
Writers & independent publishing · 9,695 →
Books publishing & retail · 7,470 →
Food recipe blogs · 7,273 →
Music & radio · 6,488 →
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3,494 games development & publishing companies are based in France; 9 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/france/games_development_and_publishing)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Games development & publishing in France: questions
How many games development & publishing companies are there in France?
3,494 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Media & content → Games development & publishing → leaf niches such as game studios, private game servers, tabletop game publishers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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