Gaming in Turkey: Turkish Gaming Market reached $1.2B in 2021
The Turkish gaming market is growing 3x times faster than the gaming market on average.
Growth to 2020 was 26%. The market hasn’t shown similar growth rates since 2017.
Mobile Market is responsible for $620M (+27% YoY). Turkish people spent $300M (+23.3% YoY) in PC games; $280M in console titles.
Turkish gaming companies received $266M of investment in 2021. During the last 5 years, if we exclude Zynga & Peak Games deals, the overall investment sum was about $600M. The number of deals in 2021 was 54, and nearly half of them are connected to the hypercasual market.
78% of the adult population in Turkey is playing mobile games. 52% of them are male. 46% of mobile gamers in Turkey are playing 10 or more hours per week.