Game Rental Business

Game Rental Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 7th, 2024

Parties and events are a way for attendees to indulge in fun activities. One way to enjoy the event is by playing games at the event venue. If you are passionate about event organizing and entertaining event attendees, you can turn your passion into a profitable business by launching a game rental business for events.

Game rental businesses are highly affordable to start compared to other niches and can turn to a profit much faster. Your target market can include corporate team-building events, children's parties, wedding parties, and other social events.

In this list, you'll find real-world game rental business success stories and very profitable examples of starting a game rental business that makes money.

1. Gameray ($1.02M/year)

As a project manager at a major CIS online store, Mikhail Tsyrulnikov noticed physical logistics hampering sales. Combining his e-commerce acumen and passion for gaming, he launched Gameray—a digital game distribution platform—with an MVP built in 2.5 months, driving over 3 million euros in annual turnover.

How much money it makes: $1.02M/year
How much did it cost to start: $30K
How many people on the team: 15

My Gaming Distribution Business Makes $1M/Year

Discover how an aspiring founder turned a $30,000 investment into a profitable digital game distribution platform with an annual turnover of 3 million euros, leveraging key partnerships and innovative marketing strategies to attract 50,000 monthly users.

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2. Subscrible ($1.02M/year)

Evgeny Unegovsky, leveraging his extensive background in MarTech and IT, co-founded Subscrible with Igor Diev after noticing his child's frustration with ads in mobile games, leading to their ad-free gaming catalog app that already boasts over 15,000 users.

How much money it makes: $1.02M/year
How much did it cost to start: $50K
How many people on the team: 7

I Built The First Ad-Free Mobile Gaming System

Subscrible is a game catalog app offering ad-free gaming experiences to over 15,000 users, reducing user acquisition costs for game developers by 90% and attracting former Playrix and DevGamm employees to grow partnerships, all while addressing the challenge of declining user in-app purchases in 2024.

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3. Traveling Tales DMing ($3.6K/year)

James Gallagher turned his love for tabletop games into a business during the pandemic when he saw other Dungeon Masters earning money online. By June 2022, he quit his job and launched Traveling Tales DMing, offering high-quality game mastering services and generating buzz in Nebraska's TTRPG community.

How much money it makes: $3.6K/year
How much did it cost to start: $1K
How many people on the team: 1

I Built A Side Hustle Around My Passion For Dungeons and Dragons

Traveling Tales DMing LLC is a professional game mastering company that offers high-quality table-top role-playing game experiences, which includes Dungeons and Dragons, for $10 per 3-hour game, generating a lot of buzz in Nebraska's TTRPG community by working with local game stores.

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