PlayFirst

PlayFirst, Inc. is a San Francisco-based publisher of casual games founded in 2004 by industry veterans. PlayFirst’s biggest commercial success to date has been its award-winning Diner Dash series, which has seen over 550 million downloads, and is the gold standard of time management games. The popularity of Diner Dash series prompted many spin-off series like Wedding Dash, Cooking Dash, and more. The company’s game portfolio also includes the retro-style strategy-based Chocolatier series, and the popular adventure/hidden object-mixing Dream Chronicles series.

From 2005 to mid-2011, PlayFirst have released 72 casual games for PC and Mac, counting extra 7 Collector's Editions and Strategy Guides, thus they have 79 games in total in their game categories.

History

2005–2010: Early days, breakthrough, and maintaining the success of Dash series

PlayFirst’s biggest commercial success to date has been one of its earliest released games, Diner Dash series, which was released for the first time on PC/Mac platforms in 2005. Diner Dash was initially developed by Gamelab, a New York-based casual game developer, and after foreseeing its huge potential, PlayFirst decided to buy the rights to own the game. The huge success and popularity of Diner Dash alone from the casual game critics and gamers alike prompted PlayFirst to continue releasing four sequels for a couple of the following years: Restaurant Rescue (2006), Flo on the Go (2006), Hometown Hero (2007), and the fifth BOOM! in 2010.