[1] Pelit dates back to 1987, as an annual extra games-only issue of MikroBitti and C-lehti.

In 1992, the staff of the semi-annual computer game book launched Pelit as a fully-fledged magazine.

The most notable changes to the magazine format were the 1998 founding of its sister publication, the PlayStation-focused Peliasema, and the later merging of the two due to the growth of the console market and the weakening of the PC games market.

The group sold the magazine to Fokus Media Finland on 1 September 2014.

Jyrki Kasvi spent several years as a game reviewer and columnist under the pseudonym Wexteen the Wizard, before entering politics and becoming a member of the Finnish Parliament between 2003–2011.