GDEV Inc., an international gaming and entertainment company, announced that it has increased its total ownership in its portfolio studio, Royal Ark, to 57%, through the exercise of a previously negotiated conversion option.
This move marks a deepening of the strategic partnership initiated in 2022, further reinforcing GDEV’s approach to empowering creative studios without compromising their autonomy.
The GDEV and Royal Ark teams made a joint decision to create a new product and turn that vision into reality through Royal Ark‘s execution. This partnership culminated in the launch of Idle Zombie Miner, which was soft-launched in early 2024 and, within just eighteen months, accumulated over 17 million installs and reached the TOP-1 position among games of its genre (Clicker/Idle), according to AppMagic. Preliminary unaudited results indicate that Zombie Miner generated approximately US $23 million in revenue in the first half of 2025.
Zombie Miner represents an innovative reimagining of idle gaming, where players become true CEOs of their own gold-mining empires, leading an endearing army of zombie workers with personality and charm.
“I’m incredibly proud of my team and grateful to our partners – together, we made the success of Zombie Miner possible.
I’d like to give special thanks to Royal Ark’s Game Director Andrey Garbuzov and Lead Producer Evgeny Serpokrylov, as well as to Andrey Fadeev, CEO of GDEV, and Anton Reinhold, CEO of Nexters.
And of course, a heartfelt thank you to our players – everything we do at Royal Ark is for you, and we’ll keep working hard to deliver even more.”
Royal Ark’s CEO Leonid Sirotin
Idle Zombie Miner is free-to-play and available to play now on Android and iOS.
