Big Potato Games
Big Potato Games is a British board game publisher based in London, England. Founded in 2014 by Dean Tempest, Ben Drummond and Tristan Hyatt-Williams, the company publishes party and family board games including The Chameleon and Herd Mentality.[1][2] The Sunday Times reported in 2025 that Big Potato Games had developed more than 60 games, including Tilt 'N' Shout and Chicken vs Hotdog, which were sold in 44 countries and translated into 20 languages.[3]
History
Before founding Big Potato Games, Tempest, Drummond and Hyatt-Williams developed the trivia game Linkee. The Evening Standard reported that they later appeared on Dragons' Den and declined an investment offer from Duncan Bannatyne.[1]
Big Potato Games was incorporated on 30 June 2014.[2] By 2018, the Evening Standard reported that the company had published more than 20 titles.[1]
ICv2 reported that Big Potato Games entered the United States market in 2016 through a three-year exclusive arrangement with Target.[4]
In 2019, WIRED reported that Big Potato Games had begun trialling a four-day working week and that the company had expanded to 20 people, while CNBC reported in 2022 that the company had written the four-day week into employees' contracts in 2020.[5][6]
In 2025, BoardGameWire reported that Mobeus Equity Partners acquired a minority stake in the company in a £16.2 million deal.[7]
Published games and reception
Among the company's published games, The Chameleon won the UK Games Expo award for Best Party Game in 2017, Herd Mentality was included in The Guardian's list of board games to play at Christmas in 2023, and Chicken vs Hotdog won the WITTY Prize at the UK Toy Inventors' Dinner in 2023.[8][9][10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hodgson, Joanna (26 November 2018). "Entrepreneurs: Big Potato Games trio who rolled the dice after rejecting the Dragons". Evening Standard.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "BIG POTATO LIMITED overview". Companies House. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
- ↑ Prevett, Hannah (16 August 2025). "Our board games are a big hit. Now private equity wants to play too". The Sunday Times.
- ↑ "Spin Master Selling Big Potato Games and 'Marvel Zombies' to Hobby Trade". ICv2. 9 June 2022.
- ↑ Sheffield, Hazel (16 September 2019). "Why four-day working weeks may not be the utopia they seem". WIRED.
- ↑ McKeever, Vicky (20 June 2022). "Four-day week? These firms say they've nailed the new working model". CNBC.
- ↑ Didymus-True, Mike (18 August 2025). "Investment firm pays £16.2m for stake in The Chameleon, Herd Mentality publisher Big Potato Games". BoardGameWire.
- ↑ "UKGE Awards". UK Games Expo. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
- ↑ Stuart, Keith (18 December 2023). "12 best board games to play this Christmas". The Guardian.
- ↑ Langsworthy, Billy (6 February 2023). "Big Potato and Dominic Yard scoop Inventors' Dinner WITTY Prize for Chicken vs Hotdog". Mojo Nation.
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