Red Rover Interactive
Red Rover Interactive is a new game studio developing social survival sandbox games, founded in 2023 with $20M Series A funding in April 2024. The Oslo and Newcastle-based startup has 56 employees.
The growth story
Red Rover Interactive grew from 2 to 56 employees between 2022 and 2026, raising $20M along the way, most recently a Series A in April 2024.
About
Red Rover builds multiplayer survival games focused on social interaction and emergent gameplay. Their first title appears to target the growing sandbox survival genre, though details remain unannounced.
The company raised $20M in Series A funding just one year after founding, suggesting strong investor confidence in their concept. With 56 staff already, they're scaling quickly for a pre-launch studio.
Founders and leadership
Engineering makes up the largest department with 16 staff. The company operates with a median tenure of just 2 years, typical for a new studio building its core team.
The Red Rover Interactive org chart
Fred Richardson (CEO and co-founder) leads 22 mapped leaders with 2 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Arts and Design 18 (-18% YoY), Engineering 15 (0% YoY), Business Development 4 (0% YoY), Marketing 4 (0% YoY), Media and Communication 3 (+50% YoY), Quality Assurance 3 (0% YoY).
Talent flow
The team draws heavily from Funcom (12 hires) and Lockwood Publishing (7), with other recruits from Ubisoft and Sumo Digital. Alumni have moved to Wizards of the Coast and Jagex, though outflow remains minimal given the company's youth.
Most common previous employers of Red Rover Interactive staff: Funcom (12), Lockwood Publishing (7), Ubisoft (4), Sumo Digital (4), Ubisoft Reflections (3), Bohemia Interactive (2). Former Red Rover Interactive employees most often moved to Wizards of the Coast (1), Jagex: The RuneScape Company (1), CodeDev Group- The Unreal Guys | The Performance Guys (1), - (1), Binary Spiders (1).
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 28% direct, 53% search, 12% social, 1% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Red Rover Interactive: Game Development (31), Video Games (24), C++ (21), Game Design (16), Game Programming (15), Adobe Photoshop (15), Unity (15), C# (14).
Where the team actually sits
Red Rover Interactive people are concentrated in England, United Kingdom (20), Oslo, Norway (9), Norway (4), Lombardy, Italy (2).
Search footprint
Red Rover Interactive attracts about 64 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $0K a month if bought through ads. It gained 9 ranking keywords and lost 6 in the last period.
Frequently asked
Red Rover Interactive has 56 employees as of September 2026.
Red Rover Interactive has raised $20M in total, most recently a Series A round in April 2024.
Red Rover Interactive was founded in 2023 by Joe Stevens, Fred Richardson, Daniel Rätzer.
Fred Richardson (CEO and co-founder) sits at the top of Red Rover Interactive's reporting structure, with 2 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Red Rover Interactive staff are Funcom (12 people), Lockwood Publishing (7 people), Ubisoft (4 people).
Former Red Rover Interactive employees most often move to Wizards of the Coast (1), Jagex: The RuneScape Company (1), CodeDev Group- The Unreal Guys | The Performance Guys (1).
Red Rover Interactive attracts about 64 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $0K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Red Rover Interactive staff are Game Development, Video Games, C++, Game Design, Game Programming.
Red Rover Interactive staff are concentrated in England, United Kingdom (20), Oslo, Norway (9), Norway (4).
Red Rover Interactive has about 18 people in Arts and Design, down 18% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Red Rover Interactive has about 15 people in Engineering, up 0% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 45 current and 12 former Red Rover Interactive profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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