Piranha Bytes

Profile updated Jun 2026

Piranha Bytes is the developer behind Gothic 1, with 2 titles on Steam and 24,717 total reviews. Piranha Bytes games listed on indielist include Gothic 1 and ELEX II, with Action as the dominant genre for this Action developer.

Piranha Bytes is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by Piranha Bytes, together holding 17,906 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Gothic 1, which holds 17,906 Steam reviews (2001). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including THQ Nordic. indielist tracks releases from Piranha Bytes starting in 2001. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind Piranha Bytes can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, Piranha Bytes has shipped with 1 publisher (THQ Nordic), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around Piranha Bytes can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.