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Circle Games

Games & Interactive
Open roles
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Founded
2024
Employees
11-50
Offices
2

About Circle Games

Circle Games is an independent mobile-game developer and publisher focused on casual and match-3D puzzle experiences for iOS and Android. Founded in October 2024 by four colleagues with experience across Turkish mobile-game companies, the studio develops its own first-party titles rather than offering work-for-hire services.

The company approaches casual puzzle design through its product ethos, “details are the product.” Its work combines polished 2D and 3D art, responsive physics, progression pacing, dynamic difficulty balancing, late-game retention systems, and live operations. Circle Games also applies data analytics, in-game economy design, monetization, performance marketing, and playable-ad strategy to support games throughout their lifecycle.

Games

Circle Games’ debut title, Sort Express!, is a 3D object-sorting and matching puzzle game with dynamic progression, boosters, and live operations. The game progressed from a minimum viable product to a global iOS and Android release within ten weeks.

In 2026, the studio expanded its catalog with Jelly Escape! - Color Puzzle, a casual color-matching puzzle game. Together, these releases reflect the company’s focus on accessible puzzle gameplay with deeper progression and retention design.

Development capabilities

  • Mobile casual and match-3D puzzle-game development
  • Product design, game economy, analytics, and live operations
  • High-fidelity 2D and 3D mobile art and asset production
  • Unity development and Spine animation pipelines
  • Dynamic difficulty, progression, and retention mechanics
  • Performance marketing and playable-ad creative strategy

Circle Games operates as an active, venture-backed private studio with no parent company. Its team combines game development, engineering, art, product, growth, and marketing expertise to build and operate globally distributed mobile puzzle games.

More about Circle Games

Leadership and funding

  • Göktürk Balıkçı is CEO and co-founder; Mustafa Özdemir is CPO and co-founder. Mehmet Zahit Ay leads growth and marketing as a co-founder, while Arda Özarslan is a co-founder and game lead.
  • Circle Games completed a $7.25 million seed round in July 2025 led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun, Play Ventures, e2vc, and APY Ventures.
  • On September 24, 2026, the company announced a $25 million Series A led by Tencent, with participation from BITKRAFT Ventures, APY Ventures, e2vc, and a16z Speedrun. The report states that this brought total equity capital raised to $32.25 million.

Notable credits

2 credits
  • Sort Express!
  • Jelly Escape! - Color Puzzle

Offices

Where Circle Games is based

2 locations
  • Kocaeli office

    Headquarters
    Barış Mahallesi, Koşu Yolu Caddesi, No: 26/48, Gebze, Kocaeli, TürkiyeKocaeli, Türkiye

    Registered corporate headquarters and legal R&D office.

  • Circle Games Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi İstanbul Şubesi

    Levent Mah. Eylül Sok. No:4, Beşiktaş, İstanbul, 34330 TürkiyeIstanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye

    Opened 2025

    Development studio and registered Istanbul operating branch, established August 25, 2025.

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