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This is a recap of highlights, news, and new game releases from the Finnish games industry during summer 2025. The two oldest Finnish game studios, Housemarque and Remedy, are both celebrating their 30th anniversaries. Several new Finnish games have been released – and more are on the way. On last week the Neogames crew has been busy hosting the Nordic All Stars booth at Gamescom and working on better regulation policies, especially around labour-based immigration.
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💡 Highlights
- The Finnish studio Housemarque (and Finnish Game Industry) celebrates its 30th anniversary
- Remedy celebrate 30 years of making games with new merch, a new book, and new art
- 10tons Celebrates 2 Million Sales of DYSMANTLE With Physical Edition & Steam Sale
📣Neogames Dones & News
- Neogames Finland organized Nordic All Star booth at Gamescom
- Neogames Finland puts effort for better policies regarding to labour based immigration by;
- meeting Finnish Immigration Service
- Koopee Hiltunen attended two different panels about regarding to same topic in SuomiAreena.
- Releasing statement regarding to better talent policy despite the 3/6 months rule
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- PGC Helsinki returns with the Big Indie Zone Audience Choice Award sponsored by Jam City
- Celebrating Women in the Nordic Games Industry to be honoured at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2025. Nominations are open now!
- The Finnish Society for Game Research has awarded the 2025 Game Thesis Competition prizes to Enja Heikkilä and Santeri Salmirinne and Antti Keinänen
- Deconstruction of Fun gives harsh opinion about Finnish Games Industry
- Tuomas Pirinen collected 6million EUR from crowd funding to his table top game Trench Crusade (article in Finnish)
- Better Games Together (a collective consisting of Finnish game companies Metacore, Next Games, Rovio, Supercell, and the non-profit We in Games) continues supporting Helsinki Pride
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- The debut title from Channel 37 launches into Early Access later this year.
- Supercell:
- Fakefish:
- Nitro Games:
- Squishmallows Match (by East Side Games Group (ESGG), in collaboration with Jazwares and Zaibatsu Interactive) will launch worldwide on September 2, 2025 on the App Store and Google Play.
- Riftbusters by Phantom Gamelabs will arrive for iOS and Android on September 3rd
😍 NEW Finnish games released
- Pepperbox Studios released Vartio on Steam 12 th August
- Studio Laaya released Abrasion on Steam 31st July
- Part Time Monkey released 5 Minutes Until Self-Destruction on Steam 23rd July
- Kalma games released Killbeat on Steam 21st July
- Korpi Games released Bow Course – Archery Golf on Steam 15th July
- TaleHammer released For Evelyn II – Shards of Creation on Steam 30th June
- Cornfox & Bros released Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon on Steam, iOS, and Android 27th June
- Autogun Heroes by Nitro Games is released globally on play on Discord and on Steam
- Remedy Entertainment released FBC: Firebreak on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
- LEGO Hill Climb Adventures+ by Fingersoft released in the Apple Arcade
- Games on wishlist at Steam
💰 Funding
- The application period for CreaDemo and DigiDemo demo grants is open 20.5.–8.9.2025
- Finnish (+ Europe’s largest) Wave Ventures unveils €7M fund to invest in Gen Z founders across the Nordics and Baltics
- Supercell calls on companies to reach for potential partnerships on new website
- EIT Culture & Creativity is launching its three first calls of funding on 2025! If you’re working in games have a look.
- Business Finland: R&D funding for boosting business in the creative industries.
- Meta launches $50 million Creator Fund as it shifts focus to mobile content
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Play Ventures Job Board
- Rovio offers now opportunities for job seekers to sign up for job alerts.
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 2nd September IGDA Tampere September Demo Event
- 9th IGDA Helsinki September Meetup
- 15th September Tampere Game Hub presents Gaming Legal Summit with Lexia
- 17-19th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 6th-10th October Finnish Games Week 2025.
- 18th-19th October Kuopio Pelaa -pelikulttuuritapahtuma.
See also following calendars:
The Game Industry Events calendar (mostly relevant for Finnish Game industry)
Game Conference Guide Calendar (more international (powered by EGDF and Slovakian games association)
Game Industry Biz
This week’s roundup highlights news from the past week in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundups from Weekly roundup section.
News are gathered from various industry sources and the Play Finland group posts during the week. Post your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group to get a chance to be included in the weekly roundup!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland