Small Giant Games

Small Giant Games is a Finnish mobile game developer and publisher founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki. It creates free-to-play games that combine accessible puzzle mechanics with role-playing progression, strategy and multiplayer social experiences. The studio operates as an autonomous subsidiary of Zynga within Take-Two Interactive's wider group.

Its best-known game, Empires & Puzzles: Match-3 RPG, launched globally in March 2017. The game combines match-3 combat with hero progression, fortress building and collaborative alliance battles. These connected systems bring puzzle play together with longer-term development and social competition, making the title central to the studio's ongoing development and live-operations work.

The studio's portfolio also includes Puzzle Combat, which applies a modern tactical setting to the match-3 RPG format. Earlier releases include Oddwings Escape, a physics-based casual flight adventure released in 2015, and Rope Racers, a multiplayer arcade racing game released in 2016. Together, these projects trace the company's development from casual mobile releases to persistent puzzle RPGs.

Development and ongoing operations

Small Giant Games brings together game design, software engineering, art, animation and interface design with the systems needed to operate mobile games over time. Its capabilities include game economy design, data analytics, performance marketing and user acquisition, alongside localization, player support and community management. Its games incorporate base-building progression, player-versus-player competition and guild or alliance features.

As of November 2026, the studio continues live operations and content updates for Empires & Puzzles and Puzzle Combat, while also prototyping unannounced projects. This combines support for established games with exploration of future releases. Its work serves the mobile entertainment market on iOS and Android.