Mekan Games

Country: Kenya

Founded: 2016

Team Size: 8+

Platforms: Mobile, Web

Status: Active

Website: https://www.mekangames.com/

Overview

Founded in 2016 in Nairobi, Mekan Games is a mobile-focused game development studio specialising in free-to-play and hypercasual titles. The studio shifted fully into mobile in 2021 to optimise monetisation and scale.

Its biggest hit, The President, has surpassed 20 million downloads and became one of Africa’s most commercially successful hypercasual exports. Mekan now operates with a web-first prototyping strategy before scaling to mobile.

Games

• The President
• The Secret Service (playable on CrazyGames)
• Flag Arena: Capture, Dominate (playable on CrazyGames)
• 78+ prior mobile titles

Intelligence

Mekan Games has built one of East Africa's most commercially proven mobile game operations, producing over 80 titles and landing a genuine global chart hit in The President before pivoting toward a web-first cross-platform strategy it believes is the next scalable frontier in Africa.

The studio's core advantage is speed: a four-day prototype-to-market validation model borrowed from its publisher partners and now applied across every new project, including a multiplayer title currently in development.

Funding & Backing

• Funding status: Bootstrapped
• Publisher partnerships: Majority of top hypercasual publishers engaged across studio history
• External venture capital: None disclosed
• Capital stage: Bootstrapped, revenue-generating

Strategic Model

• Platform direction: Web-first prototyping and testing, scaling to mobile and beyond where metrics allow; cross-platform ambition in development
• Core genres: Hypercasual, casual, multiplayer (emerging)
• Monetisation approach: Ad-driven hypercasual model targeting US ad market for CPM strength; mobile money integration for African market testing; AI-assisted production for speed and visual parity
• Geographic focus: Nairobi-based with globally targeted game design and emerging African-market testing
• Positioning: East Africa's most commercially proven hypercasual studio, transitioning toward web-first cross-platform development

Active & Upcoming Projects

• The President (hypercasual, 20 million+ downloads, ongoing chart presence)
• Untitled multiplayer game (web-first, early development, promising early metrics)
• African-themed game concepts (active market testing)

Performance Signals

• The President reached number one in the US on both the Apple App Store and Google Play
• 20 million+ total downloads for The President
• 80+ mobile titles developed across studio history
• Collaborated with the majority of top hypercasual publishers globally
• Four-day prototype-to-market validation model consistently applied across new projects
• AI integration cited as a significant equaliser in visual quality and production speed
• Recognized at the Game Industry Africa Awards (GIAA)

Operational Footprint

• 8 employees
• Majority based in Nairobi; lead 3D artist based in Nigeria
• Strong external publisher partnership network for global scaling
• Sprint-based development cycle of approximately one month per prototype

Key Person

• Evans Kiragu - Founder

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