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Plarium Global Ltd. () is a video game developer and publisher headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. It is a subsidiary of the Sweden-based digital entertainment company Modern Times Group. Plarium creates , and in various genres including MMO game, role-playing, Action game, strategy, and Casual game. Its games are available on iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows through the Microsoft Store, Steam, Aptoide, and on PC/Mac via the game launcher Plarium Play.
The company had more than 1,300 employees in August 2022 and established studios in Herzliya (Israel) in 2009, where the headquarters are situated, Warsaw (Poland), Barcelona (Spain), Helsinki (Finland), and in the Ukrainian cities Kharkiv, Lviv, Kyiv. In addition, Plarium acquired San Francisco-based Rumble Games in 2017, which was closed in July 2022 and Helsinki-based studio Futureplay in 2021.
There are more than 25 games in the Plarium portfolio. Plarium's most popular game is the dark fantasy RPG , which has more than 100 million downloads. Other Plarium titles include Mech Arena, Merge Gardens (via Futureplay acquisition), , the Stormfall franchise ( , Stormfall: Rise of Balur, Stormfall: Saga of Survival) and Lost Island: Blast Adventure.
Plarium has worked with celebrities, content creators, and notable Esports professionals in a promotional capacity, including Megan Fox, Ronda Rousey, Neymar, Richard Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev of the Natus Vincere, and actor Jeff Goldblum.
Plarium has also worked with several IP collaborations across its games, including bringing He-Man, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Xenomorph and the Predator to RAID: Shadow Legends.
Plarium previously employed BAFTA award winner Jesper Kyd, known for his work on video games such as Assassin's Creed and Borderlands, to compose the music for its games.
In 2011, Plarium began developing massively multiplayer online strategy games, and in February of that year the company released Total Domination which reached 20 million users.
In November 2012, Plarium released , which was one of the fastest growing social games on Facebook.
On November 10, 2015, Plarium licensed characters of Alien vs. Predator from 20th Century Fox to add them to its Soldiers Inc. game.
On August 10, 2017, Aristocrat Leisure announced its acquisition of Plarium for a $500 million upfront payment plus an earn-out arrangement to shareholders.
Plarium released on mobile in March 2019. The game was released on PC and Mac in 2020.
The Plarium Play desktop launcher was released on PC and Mac in April 2019. It is a free launcher that serves as a distribution platform for Plarium games.
On 12 August 2021, Plarium released the PvP team Shooter game Mech Arena on iOS and Android devices. Plarium and the players of Mech Arena made a combined donation of US$100,000 to the charitable foundation AbleGamers in February 2022. On August 3, 2022, the game was released on PC and Mac via Plarium Play.
On 10 March 2022, "as a response to the ongoing suffering of its employees and the people of Ukraine", Plarium Global Ltd. made the decision to remove all of its games from the app stores and ceased accepting Plarium Play and Plarium.com payments in Russia and Belarus until further notice.
On February 12, 2025, Modern Times Group announced it acquired Plarium from Aristocrat Leisure for US$620 million.
In December 2025, Plarium won a Silver Clio Entertainment Award for The “RAID: Alice’s Adventure (Queenslayer)” trailer released as part of RAID: Shadow Legends "Alice’s Adventure" special event.
In 2013, Facebook named Soldiers Inc. as one of the best new social games of the year.
In 2014, Plarium was named one of Europe's most promising startups by Wired UK journalist Madhumita Venkataramanan.
In 2014, Facebook's Director of Platform Partnerships, Julien Codorniou mentioned Plarium as one of the top global gaming companies on the Facebook platform.
VentureBeat mentioned Plarium in March 2014 as one of the standalone gaming companies prioritizing social games on the Facebook platform.
Plarium's Raid: Shadow Legends was nominated for the 2019 Google Play Users' Choice Awards in the "Games" category. The game was also nominated for the "Game of the Year" and "Best Audio/Visual Accomplishment" categories at the 2020 Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards. It was featured as "Game of the Day" on the App Store and won the best "App Video" award at the 2020 App Growth Awards.
Plarium's game Mech Arena was the App Store's "Game of the Day" on October 15, 2021.
In July 2022, Raid: Shadow Legends crossed US$1 billion in lifetime revenue, becoming "one of the world's most lucrative RPGs."
In December 2024, it was shared that Mech Arena has been downloaded over 80 million times during an interview with the game's director Vadym Syvolap.
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