Poland is a major video game market and home to one of the largest video game industries in the world. In 2022, Poland became the world’s fourth largest exporter of video games[1] and Polish publicly-traded gaming companies were worth over €12 billion.[2] The game studios in the country employ around 10,000 people and release almost 500 new games annually.[3]
CD Projekt, developer of The Witcher franchise, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – one of the best-selling video games of all time, as well as Cyberpunk 2077, is based in Poland.[4] A significant portion of the Polish population plays video games,[5] and Poland is the home to a developing esports market. In 2019, owing to the industry's growing importance in the country, the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) dedicated an index to it, the WIG Games Index, as part of the exchange’s strategy to attract technology companies. By the end of 2020, the number of gaming companies listed on the WSE had risen to 54, the most in the world, surpassing the previous leader, the Tokyo Stock Exchange.[6]