Kazakhstani game development studio Grand Games, founded in Ust-Kamenogorsk by entrepreneur Roman Lineytsev (featured in Forbes Kazakhstan’s ’30 Under 30′), closed a $750,000 venture funding round from Astana Hub Ventures. The investment valued the mobile gaming studio at an impressive $75 million.
The Mobile Roleplay Phenomenon with 60M+ Players
The studio’s flagship online multiplayer game, Grand Mobile, operates in the open-world mobile roleplay (RP) genre, where users navigate real-life simulations, engage in careers, purchase properties, interact socially, and manage community economies directly on mobile devices:
- 60+ Million Total Downloads across Android and iOS app stores;
- Over 5 Million Monthly Active Users (MAU) with an exceptional average session duration exceeding 70 minutes per day;
- Deep social integration featuring real-time multiplayer servers, a live player-driven marketplace economy, and localized voice chat.
Global Expansion into MENA, Latin America, and Asia
The capital injection from Astana Hub Ventures is earmarked to scale engineering teams, upgrade physics engine rendering, and accelerate international expansion. Grand Games is actively localizing game servers and in-game assets for players across the Arabian Gulf (MENA), Latin America (Brazil and Mexico), and Southeast Asia.
