IndustryJul 2026 1 · 8 min read
Cost of Building a Mobile Game in Pune: A Realistic Breakdown
Here’s an in-depth look at cost of building a mobile game in pune: a realistic breakdown, based on what we’ve actually seen hiring, outsourcing to, and working with teams across India’s game dev cities.
What actually drives the number
Building a mobile game in Pune costs less to scope by genre and complexity than by team size alone — a polished hyper-casual title and a mid-core multiplayer game can have wildly different budgets even with similar headcount.
A realistic range
For a simple, well-scoped casual mobile title built with a small Pune-based team, budget in the range of a few months of a small cross-functional team's time — engineer, artist, and part-time producer — rather than a single lump 'app cost' figure, which tends to hide more than it reveals.
Where budgets usually go wrong
The projects that blow past budget almost always underestimated content production (levels, art variations, live-ops assets) relative to the core build — not the core engineering work itself.
Written by
Puja Das
Enixo Studio · Design team
Designs interfaces and onboarding flows at Enixo, with a focus on making complex game systems feel simple.
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2 comments
JinxTheRogue 2 days ago
This is exactly the kind of breakdown I needed — saved for the next sprint planning.
PixelPilot 1 day ago
Curious how this holds up on lower-end mobile hardware?
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