Wildlife (video game company)

Wildlife, is a video game developer and publisher headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil and offices in Buenos Aires, Irvine, Dublin, Palo Alto and Redwood City. The company was founded in 2011 as Top Free Games, Wildlife comprises several teams with different areas of expertise, develops and published over 60 games in different genres for mobile, including Sniper 3D, Tennish Clash, Zooba and Suspects.

2011—2012: Origins as Top Free Games (TFG co)
Wildlife was born in 2011 under the name Top Free Games in São Paulo, Brazil. Its first successful-game was Racing Penguin, the game had reached 100.000 downloads per day at the time, and was the second most downloaded game in the world for a period of time. In 2012, the company released Bike Race, a single-player, racing and stunt driving game, which received the Game of the Year Award by Apple.

2014—2018: Fun Games For Free
Starting in 2014, Top Free Games formed a new team under the name Fun Games For Free, to refocus the company's developing and publishing resources of new game genres and improved engines such as Sniper 3D, a single-player and multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) game, which was the 8th most downloaded game in 2018. In 2016, two new multiplayer games were released titled as Castle Crush, which is a strategy card game to destroy the enemies castle through casting cards in a three-lane battlefield similar to 'Heroic — Magic Duel' of Nordeus and War Machines, which is a free-for-all (FFA) warzone-themed military tank multiplayer game. In 2017, Fun Games For Free released a tower-defense multiplayer game titled War Heroes (formerly Boom Force ), with in-game characters that resemble real world humans such as Flavium Babel (William Cabell).

2019—2020: Investments, Partnerships, Zooba, Tennish Clash
In 2019, Top Free Games and Fun Games For Free rebranded to today's Wildlife, following with the release of a battle-royale-multiplayer-online-battle-arena titled as Zooba and a tennis-themed multiplayer titled as Tennish Clash. In December 2019, Wildlife raised 60 million US-Dollar Series A round of funding led by Benchmark, which values the company at 1.3 billion US-Dollar. In June 2020, Wildlife announced a partnership with Gucci to release fashion clothes designed by Gucci for their Tennish Clash characters. In August 2020, Wildlife raised 120 million US-Dollar Series B round of funding led by Vulcan Capital with participation from existing investor Human Capital, which values the company at 3 billion US-Dollar.

2021—present: Suspects, Never Forget Games
In early 2021, Wildlife released a Werewolf and Among Us inspired multiplayer titled Suspects. In February 2021, Wildlife publicized a new team formation located in Redwood City, California. The Studio Director of the new team, Never Forget Games, is Michael Duke (former Senior Producer for 'The Sims 4'), the Studio Creative Director is Ray Mazza leading roles over a decade on 'The Sims' series of EA. He also served as Lead Systems Designer for Vainglory at Super Evil Megacorp. Most recently, Mazza independently developed the highly successful puzzle game, Merge Dragons!, which was acquired by Zynga in 2018 and the Studio Technical Director is Peter Ingebretson, Former Lead Gameplay Engineer of both The Sims 3 and The Sims 4.