rokaplay
Independent German video game publisher and licensing house. Legal entity: rokaplay GmbH. Founded in 2008 in Gernsheim, Germany by Robert Kaiser (per official rokaplay.com about-us: founded 'with exactly 7000 EUR seed money, part saving, part loan from grandpa'; Kaiser remains the company's hands-on 'Masterchief'). Current positioning: 'We make Cozy & Family Friendly Games!' with a curated catalog including Sugardew Island, Solarpunk and Super Dungeon Maker (a 2D pixel-art dungeon editor). Member of game — the German Games Industry Association (per 2019, 2024 and 2025 game.de membership listings; appears in the 2025 Annual Report of the German Games Industry membership directory). Originally focused on licensing and publishing casual games for the German-speaking and broader European retail markets; has expanded into PC/console cozy indie publishing alongside its core casual catalog (Steam publisher page: 'Handpicked games with character'). Operates a curated indie sub-label rokaplay Bou·tique (rule 17 unified Moby ref) for boutique releases. 2 unified Moby refs (rule 17, same operating publisher across naming variants): rokaplay GmbH (main entity) — 25 Published by + 16 Developed by + 5 Licensed by credits — and rokaplay Bou·tique (boutique sub-label) — 2 Published by credits. Combined: Published 27 + Developed 16 + Licensed 5. Independent — no parent corporation. Websites: rokapublish.de (legacy publishing brand) and rokaplay.com (current brand).
- Type: Publisher and Developer · Buyer
- Headquarters: Germany
- Activity taxonomy (by shipped credits): Publishing, Development, Audio design and production services, Localisation services, Game development and engineering, Porting services
- Credited games in the group: 18
Partners proven by shipped credits
- Soundsnap — Audio design and production services, 4 shared credits, 2015–2019
- Audiojungle — Audio design and production services, 3 shared credits, 2017–2019
- MP Digital — Publishing, 3 shared credits, 2015–2017
- bumblebee. — Development, 2 shared credits, 2016–2017
- Lemonbomb Entertainment GmbH — Development, 2 shared credits, 2019–2023
- Merge Games Ltd. — Publishing, 2 shared credits, 2019–2023
- Words of Magic — Localisation services, 2 shared credits, 2018–2019
- Tiny Roar — Development, 1 shared credits, 2026–2026
- Cyberwave — Development, 1 shared credits, 2026–2026
- WhisperGames — Publishing, 1 shared credits, 2019–2019
- Korion Interactive — Game development and engineering, 1 shared credits, 2015–2015
- Secret Item Games — Porting services, 1 shared credits, 2015–2015
- Just For Games SAS — Publishing, 1 shared credits, 2022–2022
- Nementic Games — Development, Publishing, 1 shared credits, 2024–2024
- Behaviour Rotterdam — Game development and engineering, 1 shared credits, 2015–2015
Source: Games Atlas (gamesatlas.app), based on MobyGames credits and Games Atlas analysis. Games Atlas does not estimate revenue or report the performance of individual games. Profile: https://gamesatlas.app/companies/rokaplay