A London mobile games studio that makes free-to-play racing games including F1 Clash and Top Drives, known for its four-day week.
Hutch is a mobile games developer and publisher that makes free-to-play racing games. Its best-known titles are F1 Clash and Top Drives, and its newer game Matchcreek Motors, which launched worldwide in March 2025, mixes restoring and customising cars with match-3 puzzles. Hutch says its games have had more than 300 million downloads.
The company describes itself as dedicated to making the best racing games for mobile. It has said it began when a cancelled project at a large corporate studio led to a new approach, and that it is built on frustration with the old way of working. There is no separate mission statement on the pages we read, but work and life balance is described as at the heart of everything it does.
Hutch Games Ltd is based in London. Its website says it has offices in London, Dundee and Nova Scotia, and a studio profile gives it more than 160 employees. The studio is listed on the website of MTG, the Swedish games group, as one of its studios, and Hutch has appeared on the Tech Track 100 list.
Wellbeing is a clear part of the company's story. In summer 2022 Hutch took part in a four-day work week trial with other UK companies and has since moved its studio to a four-day week, according to the MTG profile. Hutch says it has won Best Places to Work awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Those are the company's own claims, so ask people who work there what a normal week really feels like. The site also describes a Hutch creator programme.
A racing game studio needs designers who balance cars and race events, artists and animators, programmers, data and analytics specialists who understand how people play, live operations and community staff, and marketing. If you want to prepare, playing mobile racing games closely and noticing how events, rewards and car upgrades are structured will teach you how this kind of game is designed. Because the studio runs a four-day week, it is worth asking in any conversation how projects are planned so that people can finish their work in that time. Data and analytics are a big part of free-to-play games, so skills in spreadsheets, statistics and clear presentation of results are useful alongside creative skills. Hutch also says it was started to do things differently from large corporate studios, so it is worth asking how that shows up in day-to-day decisions.
Website: www.hutch.io
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