About Us

We love great games, and now we want to share them with you!

Hound Picked Games was born out of our love of discovering amazing indie games – original titles that we play and love, from passionate developers who share our values. As well as understanding what it takes to carry a game from an idea to a release date, we know what makes a great game.  It’s an exciting time for players and developers, with indie games receiving critical acclaim and huge audiences all over the world. Let Hound Picked Games be your guide to the best games that you’re about to play.

We don’t like to brag, but together we have centuries of gaming experience under our belts. We’ve transformed our knowledge as players into a publishing company with a difference. Being independent allows us to only work with developers who we believe in and co-publish games that we’d genuinely want to play ourselves. The results speak for themselves – award-winning titles with cult followings that have helped us make a name for ourselves in the gaming world. Every game we release is something that we’d be more than happy to purchase ourselves, and we hope our loyal fans feel the same way!

Many of the developers we work with are financing their projects through crowdfunding websites. We have helped our developers secure over $2.6 million in funding on Kickstarter, and we’re well versed in keeping backers up to date with their investments and helping them deliver their games, as is the case for, say, NAIRI: Tower of Shirin…

If you’re a fan of indie games, you may already have encountered some of the titles we’ve been involved with. If you haven’t met us before, here are some of our favourite recent releases.

The next step for Hound Picked Games is bringing a new wave of titles to you. You can see what we’re working on by following us on social media, and if you’re playing (and loving) our games, give us a shout out using #SoundtheHound.

PR Hound was instrumental in helping us kickstart our crowdfunding campaign for War of Rights on Kickstarter as we went into it with no crowdfunding experience what so ever. With their help we managed to get the crowdfunding ball rolling and have since been able to maintain its momentum for the past several years which has helped the development and ever-expanding vision of the project tremendously.
Mads Støjko Larsen
Mads Støjko LarsenCampire Games
Working with Dan and the PR Hound team on Battle Princess Madelyn has been a fantastic experience. These guys have been helpful and, most importantly, genuine through the entire process. From Kickstarter to now and beyond, they help maintain all of our social media feeds as well as keeping tabs on anything promotional we might need.  Always offering sound advice when it comes to our campaign updates, the team always shows off their experience in the field. They come highly recommended for your high caliber Kickstarter projects as well as the marketing and footwork that comes beyond.
Chris Obritsch
Chris ObritschCausal Bit Games
PR Hound made a huge difference for our project; 12 is Better Than 6, they worked with us before we even launched the campaign by helping us make our campaign more appealing to potential backers. PR Hound also helped us attract media coverage, arranged for YouTube Let's Players and Twitch streamers to look at the pre-alpha so that we could show why we feel very passionately about 12 is Better Than 6. The team also managed the Kickstarter campaign, which made a huge difference for an indie studio such as ours and allowed us to focus on interviews and to carry on with development. Without the Hound, we definitely wouldn’t have funded.
Ink Stain Games
Ink Stain Games
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Co-Publishing the quintessential indie games

Hound Picked Games is the evolution of PR Hound, an award-winning indie PR and Kickstarter specialist. With over 70 years of combined experience, over 300+ games worked on collectively, and more than $2.6 million raised on Kickstarter, Hound Picked Games understands indie game development and is here to help.

We specialise in co-publishing the quintessential indie game releases. We only represent games that are the best examples of their genre – games that we would ourselves be excited to buy and play.

By working as an extension of your development team, Hound Picked Games co-publishes games alongside you, the development studio. By working with us, you are able to focus solely on producing the best possible game, allowing the experts to tackle such things as:

Localisation

Highly competitive rates for French, Italian, German and Spanish (FIGS).

Storefront Management

We ensure you maximum revenue outside of Steam.

Playtesting

Leveraging the Hound Picked community, lets get testing!

Social Media Management

We are available to consult and manage your social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.) on your behalf, working to a publishing schedule to ensure high quality engagement and growth.

Community Management

Every great indie game deserves an amazing community. Using our Verified Discord, we’ll grow and maintain an active community, answering questions and dealing with every day CM duties.

Online
Profiles

We’ll make sure your game is getting as much exposure it rightly deservers by ensuring portals like Yunoia, IndieBoost, Itch.io and many more, and kept up to date with the latest developments.

Kickstarter Management

For games we take through Kickstarter we’ll be on hand to ensure backer updates are prepared and communicated every month on time. After all, your backers have put their trust in you and we want you to succeed.

Community Management

Every great indie game deserves an amazing community. Using our Verified Discord, we’ll grow and maintain an active community, answering questions and dealing with every day CM duties.

The Power
of PR

The moment you sign, you get the full promotional management experience, using the 35,000+ PR Hound mailing list to notify the press of new updates, ports to different platforms and more.

Merchandising

Partnered with Threadless, we’re able to get your game assets onto t-shirts, mugs, caps and more! And whilst you’re earning revenue from merchandise sales, Special Effect also benefit with 5% of sales.

Here at Hound Picked Games, we work with developers of all sizes, from single-member indie developers to large established studios, and we adjust our model to fit your requirements, creating a bespoke project plan.

What to learn more and have a greater in-depth chat? Head on over to our Contact page and drop us a line. 

Or you can go right ahead and submit your game to us, and we’ll get back to you with some questions when we have checked it out.