Latest Trends and Insights From the GDC 2025 State of the Game Industry Report
The 13th GDC 2025 State of the Game Industry Report includes the following findings: 11% of respondents were laid off in the past year, half of all developers are self-funding their games, and 80% of developers are focused on creating games for the PC market.
The GDC 2025 State of the Game Industry report has been released. Over 3,000 developers (25% female, 66% male, 6% non-binary) from 86 countries were surveyed on a range of topics. For this report, GDC, aka Informa Connect, worked with research partners Omdia to analyse the survey data and with the team at Game Developer. However, almost two-thirds of respondents were from North America, so the perspective may be skewed; 58% from the US, 7% from the UK, 6% from Canada, 3% from Australia, 1.6% from Poland & Brazil and 1.3% from Germany. The free report can be found here.