DevGAMM Lisbon 2025 highlights: 1,187 scheduled meetings, 75+ speakers and 80+ games

From November 3-7, 2025, the game industry once again gathered for DevGAMM Portugal 2025, our third edition and the biggest European show to date. For the first time, the event had two parts: the Madeira Games Summit and DevGAMM Lisbon 2025.

The Madeira Games Summit highlights are on a separate page.

Together, both events drew 1,122 attendees from 53 countries. Portugal accounted for 44% of attendees, and the UK, Poland and Spain rounded out the top represented countries.

Key takeaways

DevGAMM Portugal 2025 drew 1,122 attendees from 53 countries across the Madeira Games Summit and DevGAMM Lisbon 2025 together.
DevGAMM Lisbon 2025 had over 75 speakers, 1,187 scheduled meetings on MeetToMatch and over 80 games in the Game Showcase.
The DevGAMM Awards received 610 entries, and 61 nominees came out of two months of judging by 150+ experts.

40+ talks, workshops and Table Talks

DevGAMM Lisbon 2025 had over 75 speakers across three parallel halls: Scorewarrior, tinyBuild and Easybrain. Sessions included:

Speaker	Company	Session
Chris Charla	Xbox	Maximizing Your Global Success with Xbox
Raphaël Joffres	Sandfall Interactive	Music Design in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Petr Pekař	Warhorse Studios	How to Create Unskippable Cutscenes
Gabriela Siemienkowicz	11 bit studios	Smart Marketing Tactics for Studios
Paola Velasquez	Sony Interactive Entertainment	Decision Making in Game Development from a Dialogue Perspective
Yegor Ostapenko	GSC Game World	Navigating the World of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

Speakers also came from Unity Technologies, Miniclip, Giants Software Entertainment, Scopely, Sybo Games, Riot Games, Ubisoft and more.

The Workshop room was packed throughout the conference. Experts from Unity Technologies, Vivrato, Febucci, 8bit, Arcella Sound, Fortis Games and Flying Wild Hog led hands-on sessions on production, tech, audio and more.

For the first time, our roundtable discussions (aka Table Talks) were open to all attendees. Each session brought together 12 participants for private conversations on topics such as AI, LiveOps, pre-production, the Portuguese game industry and more. Experts from Electronic Arts, GSC Game World, AppMagic, APVP, Kando Factory and others led the Table Talks.

Networking with MeetToMatch

The MeetToMatch platform logged 1,187 scheduled meetings. The Expo Zone had booths from tinyBuild, eGamesLab, Infatica, Unicorn Factory, APVP and GameDev Lisbon.

The Career Hub, powered by 8Bit, Skillsearch, InGame Job and Values Value, connected job seekers with employers and gave access to dozens of gamedev vacancies. This year it also offered career consultations for job seekers, and the area was fully booked from early morning until late evening.

Game Showcase and developer activities

DevGAMM Lisbon 2025 featured the largest Game Showcase in our history, spanning two areas, with over 80 games presented across both days.

The Game Showcase was sponsored by tinyBuild, with support from AMD as the technological partner.

Engage! with Publishers & Investors once again connected developers with publishers and investors. Participants included Epic Games Store, Critical Reflex, tinyBuild, ESDigital Games, Grindstone, Kando Factory, Playcus Publishing, Appodeal, FDG Entertainment and more.

The Public Pitch, sponsored by Xsolla, was popular enough to run two sessions. Each had its own jury, which gave feedback and selected the winners:

Juror	Company
Eddy Celestine	Xsolla
Kyle Billings	Epic Games
Lars Håhus	Llama Lane
Alex Nichiporchik	tinyBuild
Jessica Mitchell	indie.io
Callum Underwood	IndieBI & Uwu Biz

Rami Ismail hosted the show. The jury was tough, yet we have our winners:

Game	Studio	Presented by
The Long Night	Birdisland	Hans von Knut Skovfoged
Midgardr	Holy Radish	Carolina Ronchi

DevGAMM Awards

In April 2025, we opened submissions for the DevGAMM Awards, celebrating AA and indie games with a $100,000 prize pool sponsored by Scorewarrior, plus an additional $35,000 in extra categories sponsored by Epic Games Store, Aptoide, Astra Logical and tinyBuild.

The competition received 610 entries. After two months of judging by 150+ experts, we narrowed them down to 61 nominees. The winners were revealed at DevGAMM in Lisbon, in a show with nominees, competition judges and special guests as announcers.

The main winner of the night was Keep Driving by the Swedish studio YCJY Games. Other winners include:

Category	Game	Studio
Community Vote	Misery	Platypus Entertainment x Ytopia
Developers Choice	Glasshouse	Flat28 Collective
Best Innovation	Stretchmancer	Triangle Wave
Best Game From Portugal	Hell Maiden	AstralShift
Best Mobile Game	What the Clash?	Triband
Most Anticipated Game	Breathedge 2	RedRuins Softworks
Excellence in Narrative	despelote	Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena
Excellence in Audio	Rockbeasts	Lichthund
Excellence in Visual Art	Tukoni: Forest Keepers	Dream Operator
Excellence in Game Design	Drop Duchy	Sleepy Mill Studio

For a full list of winners, visit the Awards website.

Steam supported the Awards with the DevGAMM Awards Celebration event, which featured all nominated games, top jury-voted titles and several projects from the Lisbon Showcase. The event appeared on the Portuguese main page of Steam and collected over 7 million unique impressions and more than 230,000 unique views worldwide.

Special events

Sponsored by Scorewarrior, the Main Party gave attendees a chance to unwind after a busy day and meet new people or reconnect with old friends in a relaxed, casual setting.

The party also had a karaoke session, which now seems to be a DevGAMM signature activity. It was inspired by our friend Adrien Bacchi and sponsored by ChibiPhoenix.

The VIP & Speaker Reception has become a tradition as the first networking event in Lisbon. It brought VIP ticket holders and speakers together for a relaxed evening before two busy days.