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Their games were published on portals such as Big Fish Games, which was focused on casual PC downloadable games at the time. Then we started Playrix in 2004.”Īt first, they specialized in casual downloadable games.
We did that for three years, working from home,” Igor Bukhman said. “At the time, that was a nice figure for us, and so we were very excited about this. They created their first game, called Discovera, which made $70 in its first month. The early daysĪbout 15 years ago, during high school, brothers Igor and Dmitri Bukhman started selling shareware programs on the internet in their hometown, Vologda, Russia. “We pay a lot of attention to the details to get players to keep coming back,” said Igor Bukhman, cofounder of the company, in an interview with GamesBeat. Rather, they’re often based on other hits. The titles aren’t always completely original. “The key is updating and making our games better and better each time.” “Quality prevails in everything we do,” said Dmitri Bukhman, in an interview. But that’s not the only thing that helps them stand out. Low development costs in Russia have helped the company be more competitive and profitable, the founders said. The company has more than 450 employees in Volgoda, Russia, and 70 other cities.
The company launched Gardenscapes: New Acres in late August, and that helped propel the company to one of the top 20 mobile game publishers by revenue. Playrix’s apps grossed at least twice as much as the next local competitor, Murka, in the second quarter of 2016.
Those hits have helped it become one of Russia’s fast-growing companies. Rather than make fancy high-end games, Playrix specializes in casual titles such as match-3 games and town simulations. Playrix is a rare company because it has produced three international hits (Township, Fishdom, and Gardenscapes), and it has also been successful self-publishing its games in China and Japan - a rarity for non-Asian game companies. 2 game publisher in Europe in mid-September, according to market researcher App Annie. And one of the fastest-growing companies is Playrix, which quietly became the No. In the $36 billion mobile gaming market, Russian developers and publishers are on the rise. Dmitri (left) and Igor Bukhman, cofounders of Playrix.