Lucid Games Limited
Registered name: LUCID GAMES LIMITED
Part of Lucid Entertainment Group Ltd groupLucid Games Limited made £20.9m revenue and £40.2k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Lucid Games Limited’s revenue grew 4% to £20.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £40.2k profit and 252 employees. The company is classified under “ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development” and is based in Liverpool; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Liverpool, North West
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lucid Entertainment Group Ltd.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £13.5m | £13.1m | £13.2m | £20.2m | £20.9m |
| Cost of sales | £3.5m | £1.5m | £870k | £1.2m | £613k |
| Gross profit | £10m | £11.6m | £12.4m | £18.9m | £20.3m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £371k | −£1.1m | £1.3m | −£200k |
| Profit before tax | £1.1m | £300k | −£1.2m | £1.3m | −£262k |
| Profit after tax | £1.4m | £300k | −£1.2m | £1.5m | £40.2k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.4m | £300k | −£1.2m | £1.5m | £40.2k |
| Staff costs | £6.6m | £8.4m | £11.4m | £15.2m | £17.9m |
| Employees (average) | 149 | 161 | 175 | 228 | 252 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 10.5% | 2.3% | −9.1% | 7.7% | 0.2% |
| Gross margin | 74.2% | 88.9% | 93.4% | 94% | 97.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £90.7k | £81.1k | £75.6k | £88.4k | £82.9k |
| Profit per employee | £9.5k | £1.9k | −£6.9k | £6.8k | £160 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.5% | — | — | ▲3.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼78.9% | — | — | ▼97.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲8.1% | — | — | ▲10.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £272k | £79.9k | £36.3k | £50.2k | £78.1k |
| Net assets | £4.4m | £4.7m | £3.5m | £5.1m | £5.1m |
| Fixed assets | £1.7m | £1.9m | £1.8m | £1.8m | £5.1m |
| Current assets | £6.3m | £6.4m | £5.6m | £6m | £6.6m |
| Debtors | £6.1m | £6.3m | £5.6m | £6m | £6.5m |
| Deferred income | £169k | £135k | £12.3k | £60.3k | £59.4k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 97.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £82.9k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £160
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 24.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 0.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 31.2%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲0%
- Now £5.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲56%
- Now £78.1k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 252
- Deferred income
- ▼1%
- Now £59.4k
- Fixed assets
- ▲181%
- Now £5.1m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Lucid Entertainment Group Ltdultimate parent75–100%
- Lucid Games Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (11)
- App Games LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Apps LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Co Dev LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Digital LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Ex LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Play LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Publishing LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Tech LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lucid Tools LtdFigures not disclosed
- Lucidnet LtdFigures not disclosed
- Prickle Bang LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £40.2k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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