50 Video game companies of Canada

airG Incorporated (airG) is a Canadian software company.

Alientrap Games Inc. is an independent video game developer led by Lee Vermeulen and Jesse McGibney. It has released the games Nexuiz, Capsized, Apotheon, and Cryptark.

ZeniMax Halifax Ltd., doing business as Alpha Dog Games, is a video game developer based in Nova Scotia, Canada. The company was acquired by ZeniMax Media in October 2019.

Artifice Studio is a Canadian video game development company based just south of Montreal in Longueuil, Quebec. It was founded in 2010 and currently consists of eight employees in the greater Montreal area and other locations. Several of the team members are former developers from Electronic Arts Montreal, which developed the Army of Two series and was later closed in 2013.

BattleGoat Studios is a Canadian software developer founded in 2000. They were formed to develop the PC Game title Supreme Ruler 2010, which is a new updated version of a game concept originally developed by George Geczy in 1982, a text-based strategy video game called Supreme Ruler released for the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer.

Beenox Inc. is a Canadian video game developer established in 2000 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The studio became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision on May 25, 2005.

Behaviour Interactive Inc. is a Canadian video game development studio specializing in the production of 2D and 3D action/adventure games for home video game consoles, handheld game consoles and PCs.

Big Blue Bubble, Inc. is a Canadian developer, and publisher of mobile video games headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, with an office in San Francisco, California. The company is best known for the My Singing Monsters mobile game franchise. It was acquired by Swedish company Enad Global 7 on August 27, 2020.

Capybara Games is an independent game studio based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The studio was founded in 2003 from a collection of Toronto IGDA members. The company is most known for developing 2011's Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP and 2014's Super Time Force.

The Coalition is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Vancouver. The Coalition is best known for developing games in the Gears of War series after the franchise's acquisition by Xbox Game Studios from Epic Games.

Code Mystics is a video game developer specializing in both the emulation and remastering of older video games for modern systems, and porting of indie titles.

Compulsion Games Inc. is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Montreal. Established in 2009 by ex-Arkane Studios developer Guillaume Provost, the studio developed the 2013 puzzle platformer Contrast and the 2018 survival horror game We Happy Few.

Digital Extremes is a Canadian video game developer founded in 1993 by James Schmalz. They are best known for creating Warframe, a free-to-play cooperative online action game, and co-creating Epic Games' Unreal series of games. Digital Extremes is headquartered in London, Ontario. In 2014, 61% of the company was sold to Chinese holding company Multi Dynamic, now Leyou, for $73 million. President Michael Schmalz and two partners retained 39% of Digital Extremes, and will continue to manage it. On May 22, 2016 Leyou exercised a call option and now owns 97% of Digital Extremes for a total consideration of $138.2 million US.

Club Penguin was a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), involving a virtual world that contained a range of online games and activities. It was created by New Horizon Interactive. Players used cartoon penguin-avatars and played in a winter-set virtual world. After beta-testing, Club Penguin was made available to the general public on October 24, 2005, and expanded into a large online community, such that by late 2007, it was claimed Club Penguin had over 30 million user accounts. In July 2013, Club Penguin had over 200 million registered user accounts.

Drinkbox Studios Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Toronto. The company was founded in April 2008 by Chris Harvey, Ryan MacLean and Graham Smith, three programmers previously employed by Pseudo Interactive, which closed earlier that year. Drinkbox is best known for the Guacamelee! series of games.

EA Montreal is a Canadian video game development studio owned and operated by Electronic Arts. The studio is based in Montreal, Quebec. It was inaugurated by EA on March 17, 2004.

EA Vancouver is a Canadian video game developer located in Burnaby, British Columbia. The development studio opened as Distinctive Software in January 1983, and is also Electronic Arts's largest and oldest studio. EA Vancouver employs approximately 1,300 people, and houses the world's largest video game test operation.

Eidos-Montréal is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal. The studio is owned by Square Enix Europe, a subsidiary of Square Enix.

Frima Studio is a Canadian digital entertainment studio. Headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec and founded in 2003, the company develops video games across a variety of platforms. Frima also produces animation for television and film.

Gogii Games

Gogii Games is a Canadian video game developer and publisher headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

HB Studios Multimedia Limited is a Canadian video game developer based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It is best known for its rugby and cricket games.

Hyper Hippo Entertainment is a Canadian online video game and software development company. It was co-founded by Club Penguin founder Lance Priebe and Pascale Audette, a former employee of Disney Online Studios Canada. Their current most popular games include AdVenture Capitalist and Wild Warfare, among many others.

Kerberos Productions Inc. is a video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company was formed in 2003 by former employees of Rockstar Vancouver.

Kitfox Games is an indie game development studio based in Montreal, Canada. It was co-founded by Tanya X. Short, Jongwoo Kim, Xin Ran Liu, and Mike Ditchburn in 2013.

Klei Entertainment Inc. is a video game development company located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Klei was formed in July 2005 by Jamie Cheng. They are best known for Eets series, Shank series, Mark of the Ninja, Don't Starve, Invisible, Inc. and Oxygen Not Included. As of January 2021, Klei is a subsidiary of Chinese holding conglomerate Tencent.

Ludia is a video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that creates and distributes cross-platform digital games with mass consumer appeal. Ludia produces original and branded properties based on game shows, television series, movies, books and board games. In addition to developing games for Facebook, iOS, Android and Amazon, Ludia has created games for Nintendo DS, PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, with Kinect, and Wii in the past.

Next Level Games, Inc. is a Canadian video game developer owned by Nintendo based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in August 2002, Next Level Games specializes in creating console video games. Their first project was NHL Hitz Pro, which was published by Midway Games in 2003. The company is best known for its work with Nintendo, the Mario Strikers games and Punch-Out!! for the Wii, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Metroid Prime: Federation Force for the Nintendo 3DS, and Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch.

Other Ocean Interactive is a Canadian-American video game developer based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Emeryville, California. Originally founded in 2006 in Charlottetown, as a studio for Foundation 9 Entertainment, the studio was spun off as Other Ocean Interactive in May 2007. Since then, it has made eight games itself and has been involved in the development of 40 other games.

Phoenix Labs is a Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company was founded in April 2014 by former Riot Games developers Jesse Houston, Sean Bender, and Robin Mayne. The studio's first project, Dauntless, launched in open beta on Microsoft Windows in May 2018 and has been released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 21st 2019 and released on Nintendo Switch on December 10th 2019.

Piranha Games Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company was founded by Russ Bullock, President and Executive Producer, and Bryan Ekman, VP and Creative Director. Piranha Games is one of the oldest game developers in the Vancouver area and is currently housed in the International Village Mall in the Chinatown area. On 25 November 2020, Piranha Games entered into an agreement to be acquired by Enad Global 7.

Rockstar Games Toronto ULC is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Oakville, Ontario. The company was established as Imagexcel in the early 1980s. The company developed several games under that name, including Quarantine, published by GameTek in 1994. The publisher, through its Alternative Reality Technologies subsidiary, bought Imagexcel's assets in March 1995. GameTek then sold Alternative Reality Technologies to Take-Two Interactive in July 1997, where it became part of Take-Two's Rockstar Games label in 1999 as Rockstar Canada. In August 2002, the company was renamed Rockstar Toronto to avoid confusion with the newly acquired Rockstar Vancouver. As Rockstar Toronto, the studio has worked on several ports of Rockstar Games releases, as well as the 2005 game The Warriors, based on the 1979 film of the same name, and Max Payne 3 in 2011. Following the release of Max Payne 3, Rockstar Vancouver was merged into Rockstar Toronto, with the resulting company moving into new, bigger offices.

Sarbakan is a Canadian video game studio based in Quebec City, Quebec. Ten years after its foundation in 1998 by Guy Boucher, Sarbakan had delivered over 600 games, mostly web-based, and started shifting its focus from flash game development to console digital download gaming.

Silicon Sisters is a video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio creates games aimed at a female audience and is the first Canadian video game studio owned and run solely by women.

Silverback Productions is a Canadian video game developer founded in 2007 and headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI) is an independent video game development studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is known for developing medieval MMO tower defense game Age of Empires: Castle Siege, which is published by Microsoft Studios.

Snowman is an indie video game developer and publisher best known for Alto's Adventure (2015). The three-person, Toronto-based team previously worked on productivity apps before starting work on the game in 2012. In the snowboarding endless runner game, the player taps the touchscreen to make the on-screen character jump and perform tricks through procedurally generated landscapes. It released to universal acclaim on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. Reviewers praised its art style and aesthetics but criticized its gameplay as unoriginal.

Square Enix Montreal is a Montreal-based studio under video game developer Square Enix best known for creating the Go series of turn-based puzzle games for smartphones and tablets based on former Eidos Interactive intellectual properties. Founded in November 2011 as a traditional studio with plans to create a new Hitman series game for consoles and employ several hundred people, its mandate changed in 2013 when it became its parent company's choice studio to produce mobile games, beginning with the Hitman franchise. The company developed prototypes for two mobile Hitman games, which became the board game-inspired puzzle game Hitman Go (2014) and the shooter Hitman: Sniper (2015). The commercial success of the latter and the critical success of the former led to two additional titles in the Go series: Lara Croft Go (2015), based on the Tomb Raider series, and Deus Ex Go (2016), based on the Deus Ex series. The studio legally belongs to Square Enix Europe and is operated separately from Eidos-Montréal studio, another Montreal-based studio owned by Square Enix Europe.

Strategy First Inc. is a Canadian video game publisher based in Montreal. Founded in 1988 by Don McFatridge, Steve Wall and Dave Hill, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and was subsequently acquired by Silverstar Holdings in 2005. Initially specializing in developing strategy video games, it since switched to primarily publishing, releasing games like the Disciples series, the Jagged Alliance series, O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, and the Space Empires series.

Superbrothers is a video game, illustration, and design studio based in Quebec, Canada, most known for their work with Capybara Games and Jim Guthrie on the 2011 iOS release Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. Superbrothers contributed artwork and concepts to Sound Shapes (2012) by Queasy Games, a videogame for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation 4.

Torn Banner Studios Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Toronto.

Tribute Games is an independent video game development studio located in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 2011 by former Ubisoft employees Jonathan Lavigne, Jean-Francois Major and Justin Cyr who, amongst other games, have worked on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and TMNT.

Ubisoft Divertissements Inc., doing business as Ubisoft Montreal, is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Montreal.

Ubisoft Quebec is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Quebec City. The studio was established in June 2005 and is best known for its work in the Assassin's Creed franchise.

Ubisoft Toronto Inc. is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Toronto. The studio was established under Jade Raymond in September 2010. Games developed by Ubisoft Toronto include Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Far Cry 5, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Far Cry 6, and Watch Dogs Legion.

Uken Games is an independent game studio based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company was founded in 2009 by Chris Ye and Mark Lampert to build cross platform social and mobile games for iOS and Android. In 2011, the company was the recipient of the Digi Award for Canada’s Most Promising New Digital Company. Uken was in the top 10 of Deloitte's Fast 50 and #13 in their Fast 500 for 2014, after being one of Deloitte's "Companies-to-Watch" in 2013. Uken was certified as a Great Place to Work and was recognized as one of Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers in 2017. Uken partnered with Sony to develop Jeopardy! World Tour which was released in May 2017. Subsequently in March 2018, Uken also developed and released a second trivia title Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? which became the top trivia game on mobile.

Valhalla Game Studios International Ltd. is a video game development, entertainment, and holding company.

Vast Studios is a casual video game developer founded in 2008 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are the developer of 3Tones, a match 3 game nominated for RealNetworks' Great Game Awards as well as the Nightfall Mysteries series. They also recently announced a partnership with National Geographic to make a game based around the Salem Witch Trials.

WB Games Montréal Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is best known for developing Batman: Arkham Origins.

XGen Studios, Inc is an independent video game development studio based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Xona Games is an independent Canadian video game developer founded in 2008 and headquartered in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.