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Radical Forge

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Founded
2017
Employees
51-200
Offices
2

About Radical Forge

Radical Forge is an independent British game development studio and co-development partner working across AAA and indie projects. The studio develops and publishes original games while providing external teams with end-to-end support spanning design, programming, UI, technical art, asset pipelines, console adaptation and performance optimisation.

Its technical roots include Unity tool programming, and its current capabilities extend to systems and tools engineering for Unity and Unreal Engine, physics-driven gameplay, narrative puzzlers, sandbox games, and multiplatform development. Radical Forge also creates bespoke workflow tools and engine plugins, including Blockout Tools for Unity.

The studio’s original work includes the 2020 isometric murder-mystery puzzle game Bright Paw, the physics-based island farming sandbox Southfield, and the Amazon Luna party game Bowling Mayhem. Alongside its own IP, Radical Forge has contributed co-development, technical art, engineering, porting and development support to games including Gang Beasts, Sea of Thieves, Rust: Console Edition, Golf With Your Friends, Golf With Your Friends 2, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, Jurassic World Aftermath, Minecraft Dungeons and Sublevel Zero.

Development partnership

Radical Forge supports projects throughout production, from initial game design and implementation through technical art, asset workflows, profiling, bug fixing and platform-specific optimisation. Its work covers PC, console and cloud-gaming platforms, including Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Amazon Luna.

The studio combines proprietary development with collaborative production partnerships. Southfield was developed with support from Take-Two Interactive’s Private Division Development Fund, while its work with Team17 Digital includes development partnership on Golf With Your Friends 2.

More about Radical Forge

Leadership and studio culture

  • Bruce Slater is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director; Frederic “Freddie” Babord is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer. Alison Lacy is Chief Operating Officer.
  • The founders established the studio after studying computer games at Teesside University. The company describes its culture as people-first, centred on kindness, creative autonomy and punk culture.

Milestones and investment

  • Radical Forge introduced a visual rebrand in late 2023 featuring its skateboarding raccoon mascot, Flip.
  • In November 2024, the studio secured £2.6 million in equity investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II through Mercia Equity Finance. The funding was intended to accelerate Southfield, expand proprietary development and create additional engineering and art roles.

Notable credits

12 credits
  • Bright Paw
  • Southfield
  • Bowling Mayhem
  • Gang Beasts
  • Sea of Thieves
  • Rust: Console Edition
  • Golf With Your Friends
  • Golf With Your Friends 2
  • Zombie Army 4: Dead War
  • Jurassic World Aftermath
  • Minecraft Dungeons
  • Sublevel Zero

Offices

Where Radical Forge is based

2 locations

  • Middlesbrough office

    Headquarters
    Boho One, Bridge Street West, Middlesbrough, TS2 1AE, EnglandMiddlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

    Primary studio and operational development headquarters in the Middlesbrough Boho Enterprise Zone.

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  • Manchester office

    ABC Buildings, Quay Street, Manchester, M3 4AE, EnglandManchester, England, United Kingdom

    Corporate base and registered office since April 2026; listed as a recruitment hub for hybrid and remote regional personnel.

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