The company was established in August 2016 and is led by studio director Daniel Smith.

It absorbed Dhruva Interactive, India's oldest game developer, in May 2019.

Prior to the creation of Rockstar India, Rockstar Games had collaborated with Technicolor India, the Bengaluru-based studio of Technicolor SA, on games like Red Dead Redemption (2010), L.A. Noire (2011), and Max Payne 3 (2012).

[5] The studio was part of the development team on Red Dead Redemption 2, which was released in October 2018.

Dhruva Interactive's 300-person team was to be integrated with Rockstar India, which had grown to approximately 500 employees;[5] many continued working on existing client projects after the transition,[7] which was advised by Dhruva Interactive's founder and chief executive officer Rajesh Rao.