May 19, 2026
Gamecity Hamburg Prototype Funding 2026: Five Prototypes Funded
In the latest round of funding 2026, Gamecity Hamburg supports five promising games with up to 80,000 euros each as a non-repayable grant.
We can now announce the five promising games that are funded with the Prototype Funding in the latest funding round 2026.
The awarding committee selected the projects with the greatest market potential from the many applications.
The Funded Projects 2026
- Manor Cartographer by Pipapo Games - 80,000 €
- Odem by Odd Zeroes – 80,000 €
- Welken by Studio Gutheil – 60,000 €
- Ungradable: Twisted Card Grading by Chasmic Drop Studio - 48,000 €
- The Wrong Horse by Bird Outside Studio – 40,000 €
Manor Cartographer by Pipapo Games
Manor Cartographer is a cozy horror puzzle adventure in which players must escape from a haunted manor. Using a map they create of their surroundings, players navigate through various rooms in the dark, solve puzzles to find new paths, and face eerie monsters.
Odem by Odd Zeros
Odem is a roguelike deck-builder featuring real-time combat on an occult game board. In this action card game, players use cards to summon characters from fantastical realms and battle sinister shadows in real time. Over the course of the rounds, they build a powerful deck and face off against mystical creatures.
Welken by Studio Gutheil
In this narrative survival horror game with a PSX retro aesthetic, players attempt to survive a fateful night in a remote German village in the 1990s. Hunted by relentless enemies, players search farms, fields, and forests for items and helpful villagers to aid their escape.
Ungradable: Twisted Card Grading by Chasmic Drop Studio
Ungradable is a horror simulation game in which players take on a new job as card graders. They inspect various trading cards for quality and anomalies, and seal them if anything seems off, to protect themselves from the cards’ dark powers. Anyone who makes a mistake or is inattentive will be haunted by the evil forces within the cards.
The Wrong Horse by Bird Outside Studio
In this murder mystery adventure, players attempt to solve the mysterious death of a jockey. They explore the colorful world of the racetrack with its many characters, interrogate suspects, decipher puzzles, and solve the challenges in their case files until the truth comes to light.
Pipapo Games, Chasmic Drop Studio, and Bird Outside Studio are successful alumni of our Games Lift Incubator and Pipapo Games will also release their game, “Map Map – A Game About Maps,” which received Prototype Funding, on May 28.
All detailed information on the teams and games can be found at:
The application phase for the next funding round will start in autumn 2026. Find all info here: Funding.
