Feral Interactive

British video game publisher

David Stephen
Ian Bullock
Edwin Smith
Andrew Wood

Number of employees

50–100^[1]Websitewww.feralinteractive.com

Feral Interactive Limited is a British video games developer and publisher for macOS, Linux, iOS,^[2] Android, Nintendo Switch^[3] and Microsoft Windows platforms. It was founded in 1996 to bring games to Mac and specialises in porting games to different platforms.^[4]^[5]

Feral have partnered with publishers like Square Enix Europe, 2K Games, Sega Europe, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Codemasters to port and publish their games for platforms that the publishers themselves are not supporting.^[6] It has offered its games on digital download services like Direct2Drive since 2011.^[6]

History

From 1996 to 2013, Feral Interactive published games exclusively for macOS. In June 2014, Feral released its first game for Linux, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.^[7]^[8] In November 2016, Feral released its first game for iOS, Rome: Total War for iPad,^[9] following in November 2017 with its first iOS release simultaneously for both iPhone and iPad, GRID Autosport.^[10] Feral's first Android release, Rome: Total War, came in December 2018.^[11] Feral Interactive released its first Nintendo Switch title, GRID Autosport, in September 2019.^[12] Feral developed the remaster of Rome: Total War in collaboration with Creative Assembly, released in April 2021, which is its first game for Windows.^[13]

Awards

In 2006, the Mac version of The Movies won a BAFTA award for the best game in the Simulation category.^[14] In 2012, the Mac version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution won a 2012 Apple Design Award as part of the Mac Developer Showcase.^[15]^[16]

Games


Year	Title	Platform	Original publisher	Ref.
1995	Racing Days R	MacOS	Kitt Peak	^[17]
1997	Battle-Girl	MacOS
1999	Championship Manager 3 Championship Manager: Season 99/00	MacOS
2000	Championship Manager: Season 00/01 Theme Park World	MacOS
2001	Championship Manager: Season 01/02 Oni Sheep Tropico	MacOS
2002	Black & White Platinum Pack Black & White: Creature Isle Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche vs. KA-52 Hokum F1 Championship Season 2000 Max Payne Zoombinis Island Odyssey	MacOS
2003	Championship Manager 4 Championship Manager: Season 03/04 Ghost Master Total Immersion Racing Warrior Kings Worms Blast Worms 3D	MacOS
2004	Chessmaster 9000 Ford Racing 2 Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc Republic: The Revolution XIII	MacOS
2005	Bionicle Commandos 2: Men of Courage Commandos 3: Destination Berlin	MacOS
2006	Imperial Glory The Movies: Superstar Edition	MacOS
2007	Colin McRae Rally Mac Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy	MacOS
2008	Battlestations: Midway Fable: The Lost Chapters Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures TOCA Race Driver 3 Sid Meier's Pirates! The Movies: Stunts and Effects Tomb Raider: Anniversary	MacOS
2009	BioShock Black & White 2 Lego Batman: The Videogame	MacOS
2010	Battlestations: Pacific Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition Brothers in Arms: Double Time Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Mini Ninjas Rome: Total War - Gold Edition	MacOS
2011	Batman: Arkham Asylum Colin McRae: Dirt 2 Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Mafia II: Director's Cut Puzzler World	MacOS
2012	Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Ultimate Edition Empire: Total War - Gold Edition F1 2012 Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 Sid Meier's Railroads! Tomb Raider: Underworld Tropico 3: Gold Edition	MacOS
2013	Lego The Lord of the Rings Napoleon: Total War - Gold Edition Race Driver: Grid Rayman Origins Sega Superstars Tennis Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Tropico 4: Gold Edition XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition	MacOS
2014	Empire: Total War Collection XCOM: Enemy Unknown - The Complete Edition	MacOS, Linux
2014	Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Colin McRae Rally Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut F1 2013 Grid 2 Reloaded Edition Hitman: Absolution — Elite Edition Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Lego Marvel Super Heroes Lego The Hobbit Rome: Total War - Alexander The Lego Movie Videogame Tomb Raider Total War: Shogun 2 Collection Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai Collection Tropico 4: Gold Edition - State of Emergency	MacOS
2015	Alien: Isolation Company of Heroes 2 Grid Autosport Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor	MacOS, Linux
2015	Dirt 3 Complete Edition Lego Jurassic World Thief	MacOS
2016	Life Is Strange Mad Max Medieval II: Total War Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution XCOM 2	MacOS, Linux
	Lego Marvel's Avengers Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition	MacOS
	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided F1 2015 Tomb Raider Total War: Warhammer	Linux
	Rome: Total War	iPadOS
2017	Dirt Rally F1 2017 Hitman Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III XCOM 2: War of the Chosen	MacOS, Linux
	BioShock Remastered Deus Ex: Mankind Divided F1 2016 Total War: Warhammer	MacOS
	Total War: Shogun 2 Collection Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai Collection	Linux
	Grid Autosport	iOS
	Rome: Total War: Alexander Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion	iPadOS
2018	Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Rise of the Tomb Raider Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia Total War: Warhammer II	MacOS, Linux
	Rome: Total War	iOS, Android
	Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 Lego The Incredibles	MacOS
	Tropico	iPadOS
2019	Dirt 4 Life Is Strange 2 Shadow of the Tomb Raider Total War: Three Kingdoms	MacOS, Linux
	Grid Autosport	Android, Nintendo Switch
	Rome: Total War: Alexander Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion Tropico	iOS, Android
	Lego DC Super-Villains The Lego Movie 2 Videogame	MacOS
	Alien: Isolation	Nintendo Switch
2020	Company of Heroes	iOS, Android
	BioShock 2	MacOS
	XCOM 2 Collection	iOS
2021	Total War: Rome REMASTERED	MacOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows
	Alien: Isolation	iOS, Android
	XCOM 2 Collection	Android
2022	Medieval II: Total War	iOS, Android
2023	Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris	Nintendo Switch
2023	Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal	iOS, Android
2024	Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal	Nintendo Switch
TBA	Screen Studio Who Wants to Be a Millionaire	MacOS

References

^ "job posting for C/C++ Cross Platform Game Programmer". Feral Interactive. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021. Feral is currently a team of around a hundred people
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^ Stern, Z. (12 January 2007). "Feral Interactive product update (Macworld Expo)". Engadget.
^ "About Feral Interactive". Feral Interactive. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b Schramm, M. (14 January 2011). "Feral Interactive offers digital downloads on multiple online stores". Engadget.
^ Dawe, Liam (19 June 2014). "XCOM: Enemy Unknown Released For Linux". GamingOnLinux.
^ "XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Linux is Fully Operational". Feral Interactive. 19 June 2014.
^ "Conquer and rule the ancient world from your iPad with ROME: Total War". Feral Interactive. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
^ "Console-quality racing comes to iOS with GRID Autosport". Feral Interactive. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
^ "The full glory of ROME: Total War — now on Android". Feral Interactive. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
^ "Race anytime, anywhere: GRID™ Autosport launched for Nintendo Switch". Feral Interactive. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
^ Tapsell, Chris (25 March 2021). "In a series-first, the classic Rome: Total War is getting an extensive remaster". Eurogamer.
^ Kruse, Cord (16 October 2006). "The Movies Awarded a BAFTA". insidemacgames.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2006.
^ Lowensohn, Josh (11 June 2012). "Apple announces 2012 Design Award winners". CNET.
^ "Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Ultimate Edition Receives an Apple Design Award". Feral Interactive.
^ "Feral Interactive on Twitter". Twitter. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 2022-06-20.