Sweden’s small game studios punching above their weight

‘Valheim’ is one of the video games from Swedish studio Iron Gate. — AFP

Minecraft, Valheim, and Raft, just to name a few: Small or even one-man teams from Sweden have produced more video game hits than one would expect from a small country.

“It's the cold weather – you sit inside, you game, you don't really have anything to do outside,” Philip Westre, who co-founded the small game developer Landfall, mused when asked to explain the success of Sweden's gaming industry.