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:
- Canari Games
- Chasing Rats Games
- Clever Endeavour Games - Ultimate Chicken Horse
- Clever Plays
- Kitfox Games
- KO_OP
- Lowbirth Games
- Lucid Dreams Studio
- ManaVoid
- Norsfell
- Paper Cult Games
- Red Barrels - Outlast Franchise
- Trebuchet Studio
- Tribute Games
- Two Tiny Dice
- Unreliable Narrators
Ottawa:
- Hot Sauce Bread Studios (link leads to website of their game, Haste)
Quebec City:
Regina:
St. Catharines:
Saskatoon:
- Foolish Mortals (http website)
Toronto:
- 13AM Games
- BancyCo
- Behold Studios - founded in Brazil, based in Toronto since 2019
- Capybara Games
- Cococucumber
- Drinkbox Studios - Guacamelee Franchise
- HitGrab Game Labs
- Kitten Cup Studio
- Komi Games
- Mighty Yell
- Quill Game Studios
- Siege Camp
- Spooky Squid Games
- Torn Banner Studios
Vancouver:
- Blackbird Interactive
- Brace Yourself Games
- Daniel Mullins Games
- Extremely OK Games - Celeste
- Funselektor
- Hinterland Games
- Metanaut
- Northway Games
- Red Hook Studios - Subsidiary of Behaviour Interactive
- Redstone Interactive - links to website for their game, Beyond The Wire
- Relic Entertainment - Age of Empires, Company of Heroes
Victoria:
Waterloo:
- Odyssey Interactive - Omega Strikers
Multiple Locations in Canada:
- Behaviour Interactive - Dead By Daylight
- Bloom Digital Media (Peterborough and Toronto)
- Phantom Compass (Toronto, St. Catharines, Barrie)
- Red Meat Games (Cambridge and Halifax)
- Studio MDHR (Oakville and Regina) - Cuphead
Somewhere in Canada:
- Love Conquers All Games
- Red Nexus Games (BC)
- Studio Frequence - Site now down, may move to Defunct
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:
- BioWare - Subsidiary of Electronic Arts
- The Coalition - Division of Xbox Game Studios
- Compulsion Games - Subsidiary of Xbox Game Studios
- Haven Studios - Subsidiary of PlayStation Studios
- Invoke Studios - Subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro
- Motive Studio - Subsidiary of Electronic Arts
Canadian Game Developers Owned by Other Foreign Companies:
- Bad Brain Game Studios - Subsidiary of NetEase Games (China)
- Big Blue Bubble - Subsidiary of Enad Global 7 (Sweden)
- Digital Extremes - Subsidary of Leyou (China)
- Eidos-Montréal - Subsidiary of Embracer Group (Sweden)
- Next Level Games - Subsidiary of Nintendo (Japan)
- SkyBox Labs -Subsidiary of NetEase Games (China)
Game Developers with Offices in Canada:
- Amazon Games
- CD Projeckt
- Gearbox Software - American company
- Rockstar Games - American company, office in Toronto, former office in Vancouver
- Ubisoft
- Warner Bros. Games - American company
Inactive Canadian Game Developers:
- Rocketship Park - Inactive since 2022
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
Funnily enough I was actually utilising their news articles to make this list!
The news might be best, I am not sure if they keep their database updated. I was checking some studios websites, and they seem very dated, some do not offer HTTPS.