This megathread serves to showcase a list of Canadian game developers. This list will grow over time, and will be better organized as time goes on. Major game titles will be highlighted next to the studio names:

Independent Canadian Game Developers:

Edmonton:

Halifax:

Hamilton:

Kitchener:

London:

Montreal:

Ottawa:

Quebec City:

Regina:

St. Catharines:

Saskatoon:

Toronto:

Vancouver:

Victoria:

Waterloo:

Multiple Locations in Canada:

Somewhere in Canada:

Individual Canadian Game Developers:

Game Studios based in both Canada and the U.S.:

  • Other Ocean - Partially based in Emeryville, California

Canadian Game Developers Owned by American Companies:

Canadian Game Developers Owned by Other Foreign Companies:

Game Developers with Offices in Canada:

Inactive Canadian Game Developers:

Defunct Canadian Game Developers:

  • Alpha Dog Games - Shuttered 2024, Subsidiary of Zenimax Media and Xbox Game Studios
  • Pseudo Interactive - Shuttered 2008, revived briefly in 2021
  • Stirling Games - site down, site for only developed game down, socials inactive since 2021
  • Tiny Titan Studios - Website down, socials inactive since 2021, assuming defunct
  • Binzy_Boi@lemmy.caOPM
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’ll have to give this one some thought. While the LinkedIn does say that, the Ludeon Studios website says the company is based in New York, so it’s hard to distinguish if I should add it and how to categorize it if I do.

    • GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 day ago

      I took the initiative and actually emailed their support email address and asked them how much of the company is based in Canada. Hopefully I hear from them soon!

      I hope it is not a situation where the studio just happened to be founded/owned by a Canadian. A Canadian owning a company does not make it a Canadian company – by that logic, twitter/x is a Canadian company.

      I think this community should decide what exactly constitutes a “Canadian Game” or Studio.

    • GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 day ago

      Fair – it is a bit of a grey area in that regard. I’ve been playing Rimworld for about 5 years now, and can attest that a large majority of the Game’s creative direction is from Tynan himself. The wikipedia article for Rimworld elaborates on the development history of Rimworld a bit more, and seem to imply it was at least originally created in Canada, back when it was just Tynan and a few other devs.

      Could be worth directly asking the studio how Canadian they are or consider themselves to be. They are rather active with the community with a active community engagement person on the subreddit.