Toca Boca was founded July 18, 2010 by Emil Ovemar and Björn Jeffery, both of whom worked for the Bonnier Group.

[3] In 2016, Bonnier sold Toca Boca to the Canadian toy and entertainment company Spin Master for SEK 263 million.

Players are invited to play the free version or to customise the app with whatever options they find the most interesting.

It focused on four close friends with mismatched personalities, Rita, Zeke, Nari, and Leon (the main characters in the Toca Life app series), on a quest to vanquish boredom in their neighborhood of OK Street (based on one of the towns found in Toca Boca World).

[13][14] The game is poised as a significant departure from previous entries in the Toca Life series, utilising a 3D world with multiplayer functionality.

[17] While most aspects between the two are the same, Toca Boca distinguishes digital toys as more "open-ended" with fewer rules.