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Fugo Games

Games & Interactive
Open roles
3
Founded
2010
Employees
51-200
Offices
1

About Fugo Games

Fugo Games is an independent mobile game developer and publisher focused on casual games for iOS and Android. Established in 2010, the Istanbul-based studio builds accessible word, puzzle, logic and card-game experiences for a global consumer audience.

Its catalogue is led by Words of Wonders: Crossword, a 2018 crossword game that combines vocabulary challenges, trivia and imagery of landmarks and natural landscapes. The title has surpassed 390 million cumulative downloads worldwide, according to the supplied research. Fugo has expanded the franchise with games including Words of Wonders: Search, Guru, Zen and Hexa, while also developing games in adjacent casual categories such as solitaire, hidden objects, sorting and block puzzles.

Development and publishing

Fugo operates as a full-stack mobile studio, bringing together game development, publishing, live operations, content production, level design, 2D art, data science and growth marketing. Its services span:

  • End-to-end mobile game development
  • Mobile publishing and distribution
  • Live operations, content pipelines and level design
  • User acquisition, growth and monetization

The studio supports free-to-play games through a hybrid model of in-app purchases and rewarded or programmatic advertising. Its games are designed for international distribution, with localization for a broad range of languages and audiences across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and MENA.

Portfolio highlights

Alongside the Words of Wonders series, Fugo's released titles include Word Master, Solitaire Sunday: Card Game, Sort Out, Word Live: Online Word Game, Word Fusion: Association, Word Mosaic, Seekrets: Hidden Objects, Block Fit and the earlier multiplayer word game Wordz, known in Turkey as Kelime Avı.

More about Fugo Games

Founding and operating model

  • Fugo Games was founded by Erol Nahmias and Deniz Mert Edincik, whose prior experience included mobile technology, telecom value-added services and mobile software development.
  • The studio has operated as a privately held, self-funded business without external institutional venture-capital rounds.
  • Its early multiplayer word game Wordz—known in Turkey as Kelime Avı—launched in 2011 and recorded more than seven million downloads, providing an early demonstration of the studio's localized mobile-word-game approach.

Notable credits

14 credits
  • Words of Wonders: Crossword
  • Words of Wonders: Search
  • Words of Wonders: Guru
  • Words of Wonders: Zen
  • Words of Wonders: Hexa
  • Word Master
  • Solitaire Sunday: Card Game
  • Sort Out
  • Word Live: Online Word Game
  • Word Fusion: Association
  • Word Mosaic
  • Wordz
  • Seekrets: Hidden Objects
  • Block Fit

Offices

Where Fugo Games is based

1 location
  • Corporate & Studio Headquarters

    Headquarters
    Reşitpaşa Mahallesi, Osman Barlas Caddesi No:10, Sarıyer, 34467 İstanbul, TürkiyeIstanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye
    About this office

    Corporate and studio headquarters housing central engineering, game design, 2D art, product management, data science, growth/marketing and administrative teams.

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