The CD Project Red Games from Poland (Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077) should be well known.
Anno and Wreckfest are German. As well as one of my favourite games, Suzerain.
From Austria: Ori and the Blind Forest / Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios)
From Sweden: Valheim (Irongate Studios) Satisfactory (Coffee Stain Studios) Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead - published by Sony) And of course Paradox Grand Strategy Games
From Finland: Cities:Skylines 1 & 2
From Italy: Assetto Corsa (Kunos Simulazioni)
From Belgium: Baldurs Gate 3 & Divinity (Larian Studios)
From Denmark: Hitman games (IO)
IO is also making a new Bond game and there’s a gameplay video on YouTube
EA DICE(creators of Battlefield) is based in Sweden. EA Gothenburg(aka Ghost Games), creators of the Need for Speed games are also based in Sweden. Funcom, creators of Dune Awakening are swedish.
Avalanche Studios, creators of Just Cause games, are based in Sweden. Mojang, creators of Minecraft are swedish too. Frictional Games, creators of Amnesia and Soma are swedish. Fatshark, creators of Warhammer 40k Darktide are swedish.
It is important to note that nowadays, games are developed by devs all over the world, especially AAA games. But there are a lot of game devs based in Sweden.
Dunno how up to date on gaming news you are in general, but there’s a game released this year called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 made by a relatively small French studio. It’s been extremely well received and is most likely winning Game of the Year as alluded to by the devs of Baldurs Gate 3, the previous year’s winner.
The story and dialogue is exceptionally well written, graphics and artistic style is stunning, and it’s got probably the best soundtrack to a game I’ve ever heard.
It somehow melds the best of French culture with JRPG mechanics and improves upon it with like much better storytelling.
President Macron even acknowledged what an achievement it was for a French company.
It’s the best gaming experience I’ve had in years and you should really play it if you haven’t already. That is all.
I’ve almost beat the game and I still have no fucking clue what it’s about but I love the fight mechanics and I have them all looking as stupid as possible like mimes with electroshock hair.
Seriously the fight mechanics are damn good.
It’s a lot like Super Mario RPG with the timed attacks and defense but with lots of extra layers in how each character plays. It’s pretty great!
STALKER and STALKER 2 are made by a Ukrainian studio.
STALKER 2 had a difficult development finish due to the war breaking out, half the studio had to evacuate to Romania, the other half stayed and took care of the servers before the data could be migrated. A lot of the devs got drafted (one was actually joining stand-ups from his trench on the frontline, whenever he could).
The release was shaky, but a friend tells me that right now the game is excellent. And they’re still patching and improving it!
Adding on to this: Metro 2033 is also made by a Ukrainian Studio and published by Austrian publisher Deep Silver.
Disco Elysium is Estonian (though, IIRC, owned by corporate predators who forced its creators out of their own universe)
If you like factory building games you might like Satisfactory (swedish).
Don’t forget the Kingdom Come series.
A lot of good games are EU based thankfully:
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Factorio (old but goody): Czech Republic
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Police simulator: Patrol Officer. Strange game with mediocre quality and plays in a US setting,but is made in Germany.
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The witcher series is polish
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Arma series is Czech
Btw, iirc The Witcher is from CD Projekt, the same ones that made Cyberpunk77, and they also
are partnered withmade GOG.CDPR is not partnered with GOG, they made GOG before making any games in 1994 and still own it
shapez and shapez 2 from Germany
Factorio might have come out in 2013 (alpha), but 1.0 came out in 2020, and they recently had a major expansion called Space Age.
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Deep Rock Galactic is a great co-op or Bosco player game made in Denmark
- Valheim
- Enshrouded
- No Mans Sky
Paradox Interactive has many strategy games that span from Roman times all the way to the present. The more well-known ones include Hearts of Iron IV (HOI4), Europa Universalis IV (EU4)—with the next installment in development—and Victoria 3 (Vic3), among others.
Since you’re asking for interesting I will skip some obvious ones that you likely already know.
Deliver Us the Moon & Deliver us Mars, puzzle games made in The Netherlands. You might also recognize one of the voices if you’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3.
Last Train Home, tactical strategy game made by a Czech (afaik) studio.
Stray, puzzle game where you play as a cat made by a French studio.
If I think of more I will add them later :)
Cross Code is a pixel action RPG made by a German studio that was pretty well-received!
I love Cross code. For me it is for classic SNES action adventures what shovel knight was for platformers. It feels like the old games feel in our memory but with very modern technology and game design.
Baba Is You is Finnish (and hands down the best puzzle game ever).
Minecraft - Sweden, Cyberpunk 2077 - Poland, THE FINALS - Sweden, Ultrakill - Finland, Forza Horizon 5 - UK, Hunt: Showdown - Germany, Into The Radius 1/2 - Estonia (and I think Ukraine too?).
Minecraft is fully USA now tho
The question was “made by Europeans” not “owned by Europeans”.
But let’s assume the latter, then: Minecraft - USA Forza Horizon 5 - USA THE FINALS - Japan
The updates since being sold are American.
Not that there’s been many I guess, but at some point over 50% of the game won’t be made by Europeans.
The Anno series:
You build on islands. make an economy, provide your peoples needs Go to different regions to set up cities there where these cultures need different needs than the starting one and you manage the trade routes.
They also always tackle different things
In 2070 they tackle climat change and heavy corperatism 1404 religiouse fanatism 1701 colonialism And the new one 207 seems to be tackling Assimilation and coexistance of culture
Settlers is also european and its a little build up strategie game
Hearts of iron, crusader kings, europa universalis, stellaris, imperator rome (RIP), all strategie games set in different times by paradox interactive. They are fun…but the company behind it is a greedy money hungry shit stain. Adhorent pricing, putting vital core mechanics into DLCs. If they run out to make money on expanding, well you lose the DLC you paid for because now its integrated into the base game without compensation or ‘thanks’
