What we have been up to.
Launches, partnerships and the occasional look behind the studio door. Fifteen years of it, and counting.
Outplay's Roblox Community Surpasses 700,000 Players
More than 700,000 players have joined Outplay's Roblox community, capping a year that has seen the launches of Steal the Mall and Sheep Tycoon.
Outplay Launches Sheep Tycoon on Roblox
Outplay has launched Sheep Tycoon on Roblox, a cosy farming experience where players gather wool, collect rare sheep and build their own island.
Outplay Shortlisted for Company Culture Champion
We're pleased to share that Outplay has been shortlisted in the Company Culture Champion category at the Mobile Games Awards 2026.
The Incentive Program demo is live on Steam
Outplay has released a free Steam demo of The Incentive Program, its first original PC title: a match-3 roguelite set in a surreal corporate nightmare.
Monopoly Match Launches Across North America
Monopoly Match, Outplay's match-3 puzzle game made with VGW on Hasbro's Monopoly brand, has launched across North America with city building.
Outplay Supports Next Generation of Games Entrepreneurs Through SGDA Accelerator
Outplay's Head of HR, Emma Turner, has run a workshop on HR, recruitment and culture for the Scottish Games Developers Association's Games Accelerator.
Outplay Launches Steal the Mall on Roblox
Outplay has launched Steal the Mall on Roblox, a competitive multiplayer experience where players race to grab the best loot in a mall and escape.
Outplay launches Hellfighters on mobile
Outplay has released Hellfighters on iOS and Google Play, a fast-paced survivor shooter where players battle alien swarms across five arenas.
Outplay Game Jam 2026
Teams from across Outplay have spent two days building original game concepts and prototypes on the theme of Ritual at the studio's 2026 Game Jam.
Outplay partners with Into Games
Outplay has partnered with Into Games to open up games careers to people from low-income backgrounds, through workshops, talks and school mentoring.
Smash Quest Launches on CrazyGames
Smash Quest has launched on CrazyGames: a physics-based roguelike battler where players slingshot heroes across the battlefield to crush minions.
Outplay Entertainment Joins Safe in Our World
Outplay has joined forces with mental health charity Safe in Our World, to help end mental health stigma in games and support its own team.
Subway Surfers Blast Launches Worldwide
Subway Surfers Blast, developed by Outplay and published by SYBO, has launched worldwide as an all-new puzzle adventure in the Subway Surfers world.
Outplay Celebrates International Women's Day 2023
For International Women's Day 2023, Outplay is sharing six weeks of interviews with women across the studio and marking its Women in Games ambassadorship.
International Women’s Day Blog - Diel Barnes
For International Women's Day, senior engineer Diel Barnes talks about moving from iOS app development into games, and day-to-day work at Outplay.
International Women’s Day Blog - Gill Gray
For International Women's Day, CFO Gill Gray talks about moving from corporate finance into games, and a role at Outplay that reaches beyond finance.
International Women’s Day Blog - Kirsty Adair
For International Women's Day, software engineer Kirsty Adair describes turning an Outplay internship into a permanent role building match game systems.
International Women’s Day Blog - Lise Dale
For International Women's Day, Player Support Manager Lise Dale traces a career from fashion management, through beauty and tech, to Outplay.
International Women's Day Blog - Abbey Tonkinson
For International Women's Day, QA engineer Abbey Tonkinson talks about a lifelong love of games and what day-to-day QA work involves at Outplay.
International Women's Day Blog - Kat Michalak-Czechowska
For International Women's Day, senior game designer Kat Michalak-Czechowska talks about leaving a financial corporation to make games.
Castle Creeps Battle Launches Worldwide
Castle Creeps Battle, the third instalment in the Creeps franchise, has launched with real-time PvP battles mixing tower defence, brawlers and card games.
Gordon Ramsay Sets Challenge To Win An All-expenses Paid Trip To Las Vegas
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast players who beat 10 levels can enter to win an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas and a meal at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast Sets Challenge To Win A Kitchen Makeover
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast players who beat 10 levels can enter a competition to win a real-life kitchen makeover worth up to $10,000.
Outplay Entertainment Appoints Stefan Lampinen As New Board Member
Outplay has appointed Stefan Lampinen to its board, bringing more than 25 years of games industry experience, including roles at EA, Nokia and Microsoft.
Spooky Season Arrives In Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast has unveiled a Halloween update with new recipes, kitchen decorations and themed events, including a spooky Baking Bingo.
Outplay Entertainment & Gordon Ramsay Announce The Return Of The Las Vegas Giveaway
Outplay and Gordon Ramsay have brought back the Las Vegas giveaway, giving Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast players who beat 10 levels another chance to win.
Introducing Words Together - A Facebook Instant Game
Words Together, the second Facebook Instant Games title in Outplay's Together series, pits friends against each other in rapid word-building rounds.
Outplay Entertainment Announces Words Together, A Facebook Instant Game
Outplay has announced Words Together, a Facebook Instant Game where players set a score on a word-building board and challenge friends to beat it.
Introducing Solitaire Together - A Facebook Instant Game
Outplay returns to Facebook Instant Games with Solitaire Together: quick rounds of classic Klondike solitaire with a competitive twist.
Outplay Entertainment Announces Facebook Instant Game
Outplay has returned to Facebook Instant Gaming with Solitaire Together, a take on the classic card game where friends compete over three rounds.
Build Your Dream Kitchen In The Latest Update To Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast
The Kitchen Makeover update gives Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast players a run-down kitchen to restore, with 13 kitchen sets to unlock.
Hercule Poirot Comes To Mystery Match Village
Outplay has partnered with Agatha Christie Ltd to bring Death on the Nile to Mystery Match Village, with players assisting Hercule Poirot.
Join Poirot In Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile, Coming To Mobile For The First Time
Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile is coming to mobile for the first time, as a Season Pass in Mystery Match Village made with Agatha Christie Ltd.
Outplay Entertainment Sponsors Pocket Gamer Launchpad
Outplay is sponsoring the fourth Pocket Gamer LaunchPad, with live streams on Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast and Mystery Match Village.
The Life Of A Senior Producer
Senior producer Purva Garg talks about joining Outplay to learn match-3 development, the studio's culture and day-to-day life as a producer.
Madison Alexander - Designer At Outplay
Designer Madison Alexander talks about moving from QA into design at Outplay, and working between artists and programmers.
Episodic Thriller Mystery Match Village Launches Worldwide
Mystery Match Village has launched worldwide on Android and iOS: a match-3 and hidden object follow-up to Mystery Match, starring detective Emma Fairfax.
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast Adds New Social Features
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast has added Teams and Chat, so players can join a team, share lives and unlock exclusive Gordon Ramsay recipes together.
Game Design At Outplay
Senior designer Graeme Kennedy talks about planning features, running live ops and working on Angry Birds POP! in Outplay's classic games team.
Let's Talk Outplay And 2d UI Art!
Senior 2D UI artist Ajay Naran talks about joining Outplay as a remote worker, the studio's sense of community and the craft of UI art.
Work Experience With Michael Hutchison
QA intern Michael Hutchison, a game design student at Abertay University, shares what finding bugs at Outplay taught him about making games.
Crafty Candy Blast
Crafty Candy Blast follows apprentice witches Candice and Trixie, and Cookie the cat, through hundreds of sweet-filled tap-to-match levels.
Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast Launches Worldwide
Gordon Ramsay's Chef Blast has launched worldwide in six languages, with 260 levels, Gordon Ramsay's commentary and exclusive recipes to cook at home.
Code Coven Mentoring
Outplay is sponsoring Code Coven's 11-week Summer Internship Program for underrepresented developers, funding a place and providing industry mentors.
Louise Jackson - From QA To Associate Producer
Louise Jackson describes moving through QA at Outplay to Senior QA Engineer, and then into production as an Associate Producer.
Introduction To The Unity Entity Component System Workshop
Senior engineer Rene Langgartner has run an Outplay workshop on Unity's Data-Oriented Technology Stack and how it could change development workflows.
Sat-r-day Conference
Gabriel Oana from Outplay's analytics department has attended the satRday conference in Amsterdam, on new developments in the R programming language.
Adam Chester Interview
Adam Chester, promoted to Senior QA Engineer, talks about joining Outplay from Abertay University and why QA matters in free-to-play games.
QA Workshop
Outplay's QA team has run a feature mind-mapping workshop, planning how to test new features and checking whether they under- or over-test.
Game Design With Eight Pixels Square
Adam Smart, a designer on Sniper Strike: Special Ops at Eight Pixels Square, talks about his work and how to break into the games industry.
Castle Creeps Battle Strategy Guide
Ten tips for Castle Creeps Battle, from building a deck with spells to making the most of each hero's ability, like Mason's Guillotine.
Outplay Entertainment Release Castle Creeps Battle!
Outplay has released Castle Creeps Battle, the third instalment in the Creeps franchise, blending tower defence, brawlers and card games in real-time PvP.
The Castle Creeps Battle Forums Are Open!
The Castle Creeps Battle forums are open to players worldwide, a place to share strategies, form Clans and suggest features for future updates.
Player Support Has Evolved!
Player Support Manager Stephen King looks back on how Outplay's support team grew out of QA, and why it changed its name from Customer Support.
Work Experience With Ciaran
School pupil Ciaran has spent two days of work experience at Outplay, meeting the marketing, community and player support teams.
Millie's Visit To Outplay
Ten-year-old Millie has joined Outplay for bring your kid to work day, meeting teams across the studio and reporting on the roles she discovered.
Blasting Off Into The Data Universe
Senior data architect Dan Fisher explains the Data Universe, the platform built to put accurate, consistent game data in front of Outplay's teams.
Matthew Davies - Character Design Workshop
Artist Matthew Davies has run character design workshops at Outplay on shape language: how simple shapes can give a character its personality.
How To Get An Internship In The Games Industry
Game designer Chris Winn, Outplay's first game design intern, shares advice on landing an internship and a first role in the games industry.
The Instant Games Development Process
Senior producer Wolf explains how Outplay makes Facebook Instant Games, from company-wide brainstorms to fast prototypes and playtests.
International HR Management Workshop With Alison Clark
Alison Clark has run a workshop for Abertay University MSc students on learning and development strategy, using the Outplay Academy as a case study.
Outplay Proudly Hosts Our First Girls In Digital Dundee Event!
Outplay has hosted its first Girls in Digital Dundee event for International Women's Day, where girls aged 15 to 18 met women from across the studio.
Supply And Demand: The Continued Need For Digital Specialist Skills
Outplay has invited third-year ethical hacking students from Abertay University to carry out a network security assessment as part of their course.
Behind The Scenes With The Crafty Candy Team
Producer Malcolm Collins goes behind the scenes on Crafty Candy, where the team plans, builds, tests and releases new content every two weeks.
Learning The Ropes Of Games Development
Outplay has welcomed 16-year-old Aidan into the studio to learn how games are made, with time in QA and code ahead of his trip to EGX Rezzed.
Outplay Entertainment Unleashes 'limitless Fun' Through Brand Refresh
Outplay has unveiled a new brand built around the idea of limitless fun, with a new logo and identity created with design agency JDO.
Outplay Entertainment Unleashes 'limitless Fun' Positioning Through Brand Refresh
Outplay has unveiled a rebrand around the idea of limitless fun, created with design agency JDO, after ranking 13th in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.
Peril On Pawtooga
In Booty Quest, Piper and her crew land at the old pirate stronghold of Pawtooga to stop the Pirate Queen, with 20 new levels and 20 more each week.
Castle Creeps TD Scoops Best Strategy Game At TIGA Awards 2017
Castle Creeps TD has been named Best Strategy Game at the TIGA Awards 2017, after two million downloads in its first five days and six million since.
The Importance Of Continuous Learning In Customer Support
Outplay's Customer Support team, just over a year old, explains how continual learning helps it solve players' problems quickly and accurately.
Marble Cake & Frosting!
Candice's Crafty Candy adventure continues through Marble Cake Mesa and Frosting Fjord, with 40 new levels taking the total to 2,150.
The Adventure Continues!
In Mystery Match, the detectives meet Charles in snowy Banff and learn more about the Illuminati plot behind the death of Emma's parents.
Candy Canes & Marzipan
Candice celebrates the holidays in Crafty Candy's Candy Cane Lane, Marzipan Forest and Soda Pagodas, with 30 new levels taking the total to 2,110.
Dev Diary #6 With Solal Le Gall
Product manager Solal Le Gall explains a role new to Outplay: helping development teams focus and prioritise, from ASO to events planning.
Villainy In Las Vegas
In Mystery Match, the detectives break into the Las Vegas offices of ITCo, a front company for the Illuminati, in an update that adds 20 new levels.
Icing & Marshmallows!
Candice explores Crafty Candy's Winter Icing Palace and Mallow Snowman Valley, in an update with 20 new levels and 20 more each week.
The Sunny Shores Of Saharia
In Booty Quest, Piper and the crew reach Saharia, an ancient city frozen in time, with 20 new levels, 20 more each week and a weekly ship-racing cup.
Pumpkin Spice & Cornucopias
In Crafty Candy, Candice follows the scent of pumpkin pie to Pumpkin Spice Bakery and Cornucopia Crescent, with 20 new levels and 20 more each week.
Castle Creeps TD Scoops Best Strategy Game At TIGA Awards 2017
Castle Creeps TD has been named Best Strategy Game at the TIGA Awards 2017, after two million downloads in its first five days and six million since.
Booty Quest Launches Worldwide!
Booty Quest has launched worldwide in 12 languages: a match-3 adventure where pirate Piper and her crew sail the seven seas in search of treasure.
Celebrating 3 Years Of Mystery Match
To mark three years of Mystery Match, players can unlock up to three days of unlimited lives by hitting like targets in a Facebook challenge.
Booty Quest Launches Worldwide
Booty Quest has launched worldwide in 12 languages: a match-3 adventure where pirate Piper and her crew sail the seven seas in search of treasure.
Celebrating Three Glorious Years Of Alien Creeps TD!
Alien Creeps TD is celebrating its third anniversary and 20 million downloads with a new event, a birthday sale and new heroes Avalanche and Gravitas.
Super September
Bubble Genius is having a Super September: Penny climbs Cliffside Climb, Gizmo finds a hidden cave, and 20 new levels arrive at Hilltop High.
Outplay Named In The Tech Track 100!
Outplay has been named in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100, ranking 13th among UK technology companies with the fastest-growing sales.
Amazing August In Bubble Genius!
Penny heads to Sandcastle Shores in Bubble Genius, then dives down to Seabed Shipwreck to explore bright corals and an ancient pirate ship.
Big Things Are Happening!
Bubble Genius has added the new Rainbow Bubble Boost and an all-new Aim Line, to help players shoot for the stars and pop their way to the top.
Outplay Entertainment's Latest Tower Defence Title, Castle Creeps TD, Has Now Surpassed Five Million
Castle Creeps TD has passed five million downloads less than seven months after launch, having reached number one in strategy in over 60 countries.
Alien Creeps TD Surpasses 20 Million Downloads Worldwide!
Alien Creeps TD has passed 20 million downloads worldwide, its audience growing steadily since the tower defence game first launched in October 2014.
Alien Creeps TD Surpasses 20 Million Downloads Worldwide
Alien Creeps TD has passed 20 million downloads worldwide, its audience growing steadily since the tower defence game first launched in October 2014.
Meet The Heroes
Meet the Stonelord, ruler of Dwarfhold, joining the fight in Castle Creeps TD: a heavily armoured support hero with a powerful Healing Blast.
Take On The Mender And Win Epic Rewards!
A new Alien Creeps TD event pits Commanders against the Mender, a monster that heals nearby Creeps, across four exclusive levels.
Enter The Gauntlet!
The Gauntlet event in Castle Creeps TD challenges players to battle hordes of Creeps for leaderboard points, with an exclusive Champion Skin to win.
Castle Creeps TD Reaches 2 Million Downloads In Its First 5 Days
Castle Creeps TD has passed two million downloads in its first five days and become the number one strategy game in over 60 countries.
Castle Creeps TD Launches Worldwide
Castle Creeps TD has launched worldwide for free, a fantasy tower defence game with an evolving story by Pathfinder author James L. Sutter.
Outplay Entertainment Acquires Eight Pixels Square
Outplay has acquired Eight Pixels Square, a Derby-based free-to-play studio known for mid-core titles, expanding its mid-core and VR capabilities.
1,000 Levels & More This Festive Season!
Crafty Candy has passed 1,000 levels, and a festive update brings Candice 40 new levels, taking the total to 1,030, plus a new doughnut game feature.