Mythical Games

Mythical Games is a Los Angeles–area games studio and platform company that builds mobile games in which players own and can resell their in-game items. Its published titles include FIFA Rivals, an arcade-style mobile football game; Pudgy Party, an arcade party game built on the Pudgy Penguins characters; and Blankos, a collectible-character game moving to mobile. The company describes a "games-first" approach in which blockchain technology is used to enhance the play experience rather than define it.

Alongside its own games, Mythical sells the Mythical Platform, a product for developers and publishers that adds a secondary economy — player-to-player trading of items — to their games. Integration is primarily through REST APIs, with SDKs available on request, and the platform ships with a marketplace that studios can surface directly inside the game client. Item ownership is recorded on Mythos Chain, Mythical's own blockchain, and the MYTH token is used for transactions across the Marketplace and the wider Mythos ecosystem.

The company also operates consumer marketplace assets acquired externally, including the CS:GO skin marketplace DMarket. As of 2026 its own site cites more than 200 employees, over 6 million engaged players and five global offices; earlier company statements put total registered accounts across its properties at more than 20 million.

Founding story

Mythical Games was founded in 2018 by John Linden, chief creative officer Jamie Jackson and business development lead Rudy Koch. Its leadership came out of the traditional games industry, with the team having worked on franchises including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero, Marvel Strike Force, Skylanders and Minecraft: Story Mode, and set out to build games around player-owned economies.

Business model

Mythical operates as both a game publisher and an infrastructure provider. It develops and publishes its own mobile titles (FIFA Rivals, Pudgy Party, Blankos) in which players own and can resell in-game items, and it licenses the Mythical Platform to outside developers and publishers who want to add secondary economies to their own games. Transactions in the games and across the wider Mythos ecosystem run through Mythical's Marketplace and are underpinned by the MYTH token. The company has also expanded through acquisition, buying the CS:GO skin marketplace DMarket and Polystream Limited.

Revenue is generated from sales and trading of in-game digital items through the Mythical Marketplace and its acquired marketplaces, and from selling platform infrastructure (APIs, SDKs and marketplace functionality) to third-party developers and publishers. In mid-2023 the company reported more than $1 million of gross sales and said it expected to reach profitability within 12 months.

Traction

Company figures as of 2026 cite more than 200 employees, over 6 million engaged players and five global offices. In June 2023 Mythical reported more than 20 million registered accounts across its properties, 2.5 million users added through DMarket, more than $1 million of gross sales, and 1 million downloads of NFL Rivals within roughly two months of its April 2023 launch; the CEO then projected over 10 million player accounts across the portfolio by the end of 2023.

Latest developments

As of early 2026 the company's published updates cover a Pulse Market migration, content updates for Pudgy Party, and adidas season collections and in-game items tied to FIFA Rivals. Blankos is described as coming to mobile. Prior to that, Mythical acquired DMarket and announced in June 2023 that it had raised the first $37 million of a Series C1 round, expecting a further $20-30 million later that year and targeting profitability within 12 months.