Dream Games is a Turkish mobile gaming studio best known for Royal Match and the recently launched Royal Kingdom. Royal Match has generated over $3 billion in lifetime revenue and nearly 300 million downloads. Royal Kingdom launched in November 2024 and earned $5.5M in net in‑app purchase revenue in its first month—about three times Royal Match's initial month. The company's core product focus is expanding the Royal Universe, centered on flagship IP including King Robert, King Richard & The Dark King. With backing from new investors, Dream Games plans to continue expanding the Royal universe and develop new titles. Founded in 2019, the studio has rapidly scaled commercially and is pursuing further global expansion. Dream Games is an Istanbul-based developer best known for the hit mobile game Royal Match. Royal Match is currently one of the highest-grossing mobile games on the market. The company plans to continue investing in and developing Royal Match while also working on its next launch, expected later this year. Dream Games has signaled it may prioritize extending successful franchises and spacing out new releases rather than producing titles rapidly. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Soner Aydemir, who has compared the studio's approach to Pixar's low-frequency, high-quality release cadence. The firm’s strong monetization and audience growth underlie investor interest. Dream Games is an Istanbul-based mobile games developer focused on its puzzle title Royal Match. Royal Match launched globally in March and quickly became a top casual puzzle title, praised for retention and polish. The game reportedly has about 6 million monthly active users and generates roughly $20 million per month in revenue from in-app purchases, according to AppAnnie and a source close to the company. Dream emphasizes a no-ads, in-app-purchases monetization strategy and says it has a high LTV that enables sustainable scaling. The team spent years refining Royal Match with extensive testing and draws on experience from Peak Games. The company is hiring to support growth and plans heavy user-acquisition campaigns, with Asia (Japan, South Korea and China) a stated focus and the possibility of another game next year. Dream Games is an Istanbul-based mobile games studio that launched its first title, Royal Match, a match-3 puzzle game, with a GA release on iOS and Android after limited tests in the U.K. and Canada. During the limited test Royal Match saw roughly one million downloads and about 200,000 daily average users. The company was founded in 2019 by former Peak Games employees and says it aims to build an entertainment company that starts with casual puzzle games and will expand into other genres. Dream Games emphasizes combining engineering, art and data science with high-quality user acquisition and marketing to create durable, high-quality titles. Financially, the company has raised a $50 million Series A—the largest Series A in Turkey to date—and previously raised a $7.5 million seed in 2019. Dream Games did not disclose its valuation for the round. Dream Games is a Turkish mobile gaming studio founded by former Peak Games employees that is developing high-quality casual puzzle games but has not yet launched a product. The founding team is led by CEO Soner Aydemir and includes former Peak engineering, product and art leads. The studio plans to focus on a single flagship title that can be iterated over the long term, emphasizing "evolution over innovation" and "execution over ideas." It targets players over the age of 25 in the U.S., Canada and Europe, and estimates a roughly 65% female, 35% male audience. The company will use the seed funding to grow headcount, targeting 20 employees in year one. The founders point to Turkey's growing mobile games ecosystem and past regional exits as supporting context for their strategy.

Total raised

$468M

Funding rounds

6

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Jan 2022