1、Annual Report of the German Games Industry Content 3PublishergameThe German Games Industry Association Friedrichstrae 165 10117 BerlinDesignBureau Ole Gehling www.olegehling.deEditorial401 Video game players in Germany602 German video games market1203 The games industry in Germany24.1Companies and e

2、mployment figures.2Games funding.3The ten demands of the German games industry04 gamescom and devcom4605 German Computer Game Awards5406 Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body(USK)5607 Foundation for Digital Games Culture6008 esports player foundation6209 About game The German Games Industry As

3、sociation6610 Development of the German games market since 1995784 EditorialEditorial 5Dear readers,The past year was particularly challenging for games companies.Many companies around the world had to cut jobs,and in some cases game development studios shut down entirely.There are a number of reaso

4、ns behind this.While many games markets largely maintained their high level of growth after the Covid-19 pandemic,the trajectory in other countries dipped slightly.At the same time,the investment climate has worsened significantly,due in part to the war in Ukraine,months of high inflation and the re

5、sulting high interest rates.The rash of postponements in the years of the pandemic contributed to more top-class games being released in 2023 than ever before in a twelve-month period.This abundance on the market meant that many games even some with top ratings fell short of the sales success that t

6、he studios had hoped for.All of these factors have left their mark on German games compa-nies.A look at our game industry barometer shows just how difficult the companies consider the situation to be.According to this survey,only 12 per cent of them expect the German games industry to devel-op posit