Sweden Game Companies earned €5.8B in 2021
2021 was a year of scaling for the Swedish game industry.
It’s 4 times more than the Sweden industry generated in 2017 (€1.4B). The number of €5.8B revenue includes revenue of subsidiaries of Sweden companies outside of the country.
If we’re speaking about the Sweden-based companies, they earned €2.7B in 2021, which is 22% more than last year.
785 companies were in Sweden in 2021. It’s 78% more than in 2017. Most companies are either solo-developer studios (49%) or small studios with up to 10 people (40%).
7,944 people are working in Sweden in the gaming industry (+17% YoY), and 11,158 people are working in subsidiaries of Sweden companies.
21 gaming companies from Sweden are on the local stock exchange. They earned €3.6B in 2021.
The largest Sweden studios are Ubisoft Entertainment Sweden (837 employees), EA DICE (730 employees), and King (648 employees).