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How to choose benefits and grants for game developers in Russia? 🤔
If your studio has been releasing games for several years and has steady revenue, then support measures may seem like something from the world of startups, grants and accelerators. But for an existing business, tax breaks often provide the greatest effect.
How to choose benefits and grants for game developers? 🤔
If your studio has been releasing games for several years and has steady revenue, then support measures may seem like something from the world of startups, grants and accelerators. But for an existing business, tax breaks often provide the greatest effect: with large turnover and a large team, we can talk about very noticeable savings.
There is just no universal solution here. Does a particular benefit fit your revenue structure? Is it possible to combine it with the status of a Skolkovo participant? Does the region of registration matter? As soon as you start to figure it out, selecting appropriate measures turns into a separate quest.
There are indeed a lot of support mechanisms, but choosing the right ones and understanding all the requirements on your own is not easy. Moreover, conditions are changing: some benefits available a year ago may be limited in 2026, and individual regimes cannot be applied simultaneously.
You can clearly see the scale of this system in new study, which we prepared together with colleagues from APRIORI, Iran and EDB. It contains almost all existing measures to support the gaming industry - from tax breaks and grants to acceleration, export and infrastructure programs.
If you want to understand what measures are suitable for your project or company, write in the comments or write to me private. Let's look at your situation and try to help you choose the appropriate route: from tax benefits and Skolkovo participant status to grants and other support tools 📈