The top gaming companies in Israel in 2026 are Moon Active (Coin Master), Playtika (Slotomania, Bingo Blitz), Plarium (Raid: Shadow Legends), CrazyLabs (casual mobile games) and Appcharge (direct-to-consumer payments for games). Israel is a mobile gaming powerhouse rather than a console one. Seven, below.
Israel is one of the world's leading centers of mobile gaming, home to some of the highest-grossing free-to-play games on the app stores. Its strength is the business of games (monetization, live operations, user acquisition and data) as much as the games themselves, which is why a new wave of gaming infrastructure startups has followed the big studios. 2026 has been a year of restructuring for the giants, with layoffs at Playtika and Moon Active, while gaming tech startups raised fresh money. These are the seven to know as of October 2026.
The maker of Coin Master and Israel's largest gaming company by revenue.
Moon Active built Coin Master into one of the highest-grossing mobile games in the world and has added titles such as Travel Town and Piggy Kingdom, partly through acquisitions.
Annual revenue has been reported at around $2 billion. It cut about 5% of its workforce in January 2026 while reorganizing operations.
One of the world's largest mobile game companies, built in Herzliya.
Playtika runs a portfolio of long-running free-to-play games, including Slotomania, Bingo Blitz, Solitaire Grand Harvest and June's Journey, operated as live services for years.
It is listed on Nasdaq. It cut about 15% of its staff in January 2026 as part of a restructuring.
The studio behind Raid: Shadow Legends.
Plarium makes mid-core strategy and role-playing games, led by Raid: Shadow Legends, one of the most heavily marketed mobile games of the past decade.
Sweden's MTG completed its $620 million acquisition of Plarium in 2025, making it part of one of Europe's larger gaming groups.
Has published some of the most-downloaded casual mobile games.
CrazyLabs, which grew out of children's app maker TabTale, publishes casual games for independent studios and helps them with testing, user acquisition and monetization.
It was acquired by Sweden's Embracer Group in 2021.
Lets game developers sell to players directly, outside app-store fees.
Appcharge gives mobile game companies web stores and payment systems so players can buy in-game items directly, a market that opened up after US court rulings loosened Apple's and Google's control over payments.
It has raised $89 million, including a $58 million Series B, and is on Forbes Israel's and CTech's 2026 lists of promising startups.
Uses AI agents to run user acquisition for mobile games end to end.
Sett builds AI agents that generate ad creatives and manage user acquisition campaigns for game publishers, one of the biggest costs in mobile gaming.
It raised a $30 million Series B in March 2026, bringing total funding to about $57 million.
Lets developers and creators build apps and mods that run alongside PC games.
Overwolf provides a platform for in-game apps, such as stat trackers and overlays, and for mods, used by millions of PC gamers, and helps the creators behind them earn revenue.
It owns CurseForge, one of the largest mod repositories.
Moon Active, the maker of Coin Master, is the largest by revenue, with annual revenue reported at around $2 billion and a valuation of about $5 billion. Playtika, listed on Nasdaq, is the other giant, and Plarium is a major studio now owned by Sweden's MTG.
Mobile free-to-play games are won on data, analytics and monetization, areas where Israel's tech workforce is strong. Ad-tech and marketing companies like ironSource grew up alongside the studios, creating a deep pool of people who know how to acquire and retain players.
A few independent studios do, but the industry is overwhelmingly mobile. Some Israeli companies, such as Overwolf, build tools around PC gaming rather than the games themselves.
Gaming tech startups like Appcharge and Sett have been growing, while the large studios have trimmed staff in 2026. Game design, live ops, user acquisition and data roles are the most common openings.
Tel Aviv and Herzliya. Several of the big studios also run development teams in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.