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Bossa Games
British video game developer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bossa Studios Limited (trading as Bossa Games since 2023) is a British video game developer based in London. It is known for its comedic, physics-based games Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread.
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Bossa was founded in October 2010 by Henrique Olifiers (gamer-in-chief), Roberta Lucca (marketer-in-chief), Ric Moore (technologist-in-chief), and Imre Jele (creator-in-chief).[3][4][5] The establishment was formally announced in June 2011, when it had opened its office at the Silicon Roundabout in London, England.[5] Bossa was acquired by the television production company Shine Group in 2011, with the deal announced on 16 September, without disclosing terms.[3][6] At the time, Bossa had 20 employees, and its first game, Monstermind, launched that same month for the Facebook Platform.[3][6] Monstermind won the BAFTA award in the "Online – Browser" category in February 2012.[7]
Subsequent games by Bossa were Toy Run and Merlin: The Game, the latter based on the Shine-produced TV series Merlin.[8][9] Following the commercial success of Surgeon Simulator, Bossa underwent a management buyout process in July 2015 that returned Shine's stake (transferred to Endemol Shine UK after Shine merged with Endemol in December 2014) to the studio's founders.[10][11]
The company received a US$10 million investment in a series A round in September 2017.[12] Shortly thereafter, they hired former Valve writer Chet Faliszek to lead a new Seattle-based studio for them, working on an unannounced cooperative title.[13][14]
According to CNBC, Bossa acquired between US$10 and 30 million in another investment round in 2019, with NetEase as one of the largest investors in this series, gaining a minority stake in Bossa.[15] Amid complaints against management, Bossa announced it would lay off 10 employees in November 2020.[16][17]
In August 2022 some of Bossa Studios' intellectual properties including Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread, and I Am Fish was sold to TinyBuild for a reported $3 million.[18] The company rebranded to Bossa Games in 2023. In January 2024, Bossa laid off 19 employees, or a third of its total staff.[2] In February 2025, Bossa laid off an undisclosed amount of employees and switched its focus to finishing Lost Skies.[19]
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