Five years ago, Sumo Group was relentlessly expanding into a UK publishing powerhouse. After years of successful work-for-hire and co-development work on titles from Dead Island to Sackboy: A Big Adventure, the company steadily acquired other studios, including co-dev specialists Red Kite, Lab42, and PixelAnt and indie teams The Chinese Room and Auroch Digital. A push into developing its own IP began with 2017’s Snake Pass, born from an internal game jam, and in 2021 it launched Canadian dev Timbre Games and in-house publishing label Secret Mode.
