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How Playdead hires

Truth index
D 46/100
Ghost roles
90%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Playdead scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 90% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Playdead is a Danish video game studio that created Limbo and Inside. Its team of more than 100 creative professionals is hiring environment artists, VFX artists, technical gameplay designers, a technical director and AI programmers. The studio is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

News

News Gameranx 1 year ago
Playdead's Games Limbo & Inside Are Getting Delisted From GOG A Month After Its Founders Enter A Lawsuit
A month after Playdead launched a lawsuit against one of its founding developers, it's game Inside & Limbo are getting delisted from GOG.
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News GameRant 4 years ago
It Looks Like Playdead's Next Game Will Be Using Unreal Engine 5
A job listing for Inside developer Playdead indicates that the adventure game developer is making its next game on Unreal Engine 5.
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News ComicBook.com 5 years ago
Inside and Limbo Developer Playdead Reveals New Details on Next Game
Playdead, the studio behind critically-acclaimed titles Limbo and Inside, has been toiling away on its next project for a few years at this point. For the most part, though, the developer has been extremely secretive about what this new game might end up
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News PCGamesN 8 years ago
Inside developer Playdead
Inside developer says Playdead
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News PCGamesN 8 years ago
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News VG247 8 years ago
Inside dev Playdead teams up with sex doll maker for expensive collector's edition and no one knows what's actually inside
Playdead, the developer of critical hits Limbo, and Inside, is taming up with iam8bit and sex doll maker RealDoll for a…
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News Polygon.com 8 years ago
Inside developer Playdead teams up with sex doll maker for $375 collector's edition
Playdead, iam8bit and RealDoll are making ... something
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News ComicBook.com 9 years ago
Playdead's 'Inside' Game Heading to Nintendo Switch
The award-winning game from PlayDead, Inside, is officially making its way over to the Nintendo Switch as well as iOS devices! The news about the Nintendo port is exciting; Inside was a twisted tale that provoked meaningful thought throughout the game's n
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Playdead over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
66/100
Languages
C++
C#
Frameworks & libraries
Unreal Engine
Unity
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
10
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Early Careers
100% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Copenhagen
Copenhagen Denmark
HQ
10 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games, AI/ML, Leadership
seen since Apr 2026 job postings

Jobs

In office • Full-Time • Copenhagen
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Copenhagen
C++
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C++
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≈ $124k – $277k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Copenhagen
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Adobe Photoshop
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In office • Full-Time • Copenhagen
Unity
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