Square Enix

Profile updated May 2026

Square Enix has published 8 titles, including Life is Strange - Episode 1 and Life is Strange: Before the Storm, with 212,306 total Steam reviews. They primarily publish Casual games.

Square Enix is an indie game publisher. indielist tracks 8 titles on its label, together holding 157,929 Steam reviews. Its biggest title by Steam reviews is Life is Strange - Episode 1, with 122,787 reviews (2015). It has published games from 3 studios, including DONTNOD Entertainment, Deck Nine and FuturLab. That averages about 19,741 Steam reviews per title across the label. For a developer deciding whether to pitch, the first thing to weigh is portfolio fit: which genres and what scale of project Square Enix has actually shipped and supported to launch, all of which indielist lays out on this page alongside its studio relationships and signing history. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so studios can judge fit before pitching and investors can trace the label's signing activity across genres and years, the kind of publisher to studio to game connections that are slow to reconstruct from storefront pages alone.

Square Enix's catalog on indielist spans 8 titles holding 157,929 Steam reviews in total, an average of about 20,000 per release, and its most-reviewed entries are Life is Strange - Episode 1, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, PowerWash Simulator – SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack, PowerWash Simulator – Warhammer 40,000 Special Pack. For a developer weighing a pitch, that published track record is the clearest signal of what the label can actually take to market: which genres it has shipped, the review volume its releases tend to reach, and whether that scale is a realistic fit for the project on offer. Pitching a cozy puzzle game to a label whose catalog is all hardcore shooters is a fast rejection, and the portfolio makes that mismatch obvious before any email is sent. indielist shows the white-box sales estimate behind each of those titles too, so the publisher's commercial output can be judged on visible figures rather than on reputation or a press-release headline alone.

Square Enix has published work from 3 studios (DONTNOD Entertainment, Deck Nine and FuturLab), and indielist records each pairing as an edge in its publisher-to-studio-to-game graph. An investor can use that to trace which developers a label has backed and how its roster has grown release by release, while a developer can check whether the publisher already works with teams of a similar size or genre before sending a pitch, which is a strong hint about whether a cold approach is worth the effort. Each linked studio page in turn lists that studio's full portfolio and its other publisher relationships, so the network around Square Enix can be explored outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list, and the same graph powers the "similar publishers" suggestions that help a developer build a realistic shortlist instead of pitching one name at a time.

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