One More Game

One More Game is a Seattle-based, fully remote game development studio building online multiplayer games. It was founded by Patrick Wyatt and Jamie Winsor, who previously worked together at ArenaNet, En Masse Entertainment and Undead Labs. Wyatt was a vice president of research and development at Blizzard Entertainment in the 1990s, later co-founded ArenaNet, and spent three years as a CTO/principal engineer at Amazon before starting the company; Winsor had two stints at Undead Labs and worked as a principal software development engineer at Chef. Staff have contributed to titles including Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Guild Wars and Magic: Arena.

The studio's first announced title, Spellcraft, is a free-to-play game the company describes as a real-time tactics game in which players collect and command heroes from colliding worlds, emphasizing both strategic thinking and quick decision-making. It entered testing in late 2020 and was publicly announced in April 2022 alongside a $22 million Series A. A second title, SWAPMEAT, was announced in June 2024: a four-player cooperative third-person shooter in which players raid alien worlds and take ("swap") abilities from defeated enemies to augment their hero, running on Windows, Macintosh and Steam Deck and listed on Steam.

The company articulates a development philosophy it calls Alpha-Driven Development, built around rapid iteration, rolling milestones, and inviting small groups of players into the game early in development to shape design decisions with real player feedback.

Founding story

Patrick Wyatt, a game developer since eighth grade and a veteran of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft and Guild Wars, started the company with Jamie Stormbreaker, described in his blog post as a long-time collaborator and their first venture together as co-founders (press coverage names the co-founders as Wyatt and Jamie Winsor). The name refers to the phrase said late at night when players insist on playing just one more game. After roughly a year of undisclosed development, the founders were approached by Andrew Chen and Jonathan Lai of Andreessen Horowitz, who invested despite the company not actively fundraising at the time.

Business model

One More Game develops and operates online multiplayer games as an independent studio, funded to date by venture and individual investors. Its announced titles have been described as free-to-play (Spellcraft) and as a PC/Mac/Steam Deck title distributed via Steam (SWAPMEAT).

Spellcraft was described as free-to-play; SWAPMEAT is offered through Steam. Sources do not further detail monetization.

Traction

One More Game had around 20 employees as of April 2022 and had raised more than $5 million before its $22 million Series A. Its first title, Spellcraft, was in player testing from late 2020 and ran a private Alpha Preview Event in 2022; its second title, SWAPMEAT, was announced in June 2024 and listed on Steam.

Latest developments

In June 2024 the studio posted a SWAPMEAT announcement and general update, saying it had begun work on its second game about a year prior. SWAPMEAT is a four-player co-op third-person shooter available on Steam for Windows, Macintosh and Steam Deck.