Given the "Buy Canadian" push amid this asinine U.S. trade war, I rounded up a bunch of games that are both made *and* owned by Canadians. 🇨🇦 🎮 From @thelongdark.bsky.social and @deadbydaylight.com to @gord.games’ Moving Houses & @visaigames.bsky.social’ Venba, there are so many great options! - ThreadSky

bradshankar.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Given the "Buy Canadian" push amid this asinine U.S. trade war, I rounded up a bunch of games that are both made *and* owned by Canadians. 🇨🇦 🎮

From @thelongdark.bsky.social and @deadbydaylight.com to @gord.games’ Moving Houses & @visaigames.bsky.social’
Venba, there are so many great options!

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nono5785.bsky.social•25 days ago

You are missing one of the latest huge indy success: Foundation from Polymorph Games, based in Quebec. A million seller already!

@foundationgame.bsky.social

wildlyunruly.bsky.social•22 days ago

Is there a Canadian dating app that supports international love?? As a Washingtonian asking for my son. American women are so weird and petty.

litazia.bsky.social•22 days ago

Balatro is made by someone in Saskatchewan??

bradshankar.bsky.social•25 days ago

To be clear, I totally sympathize with the fact that getting funding is HARD, especially for small indies, and there’s no judgment here. You do what you can!
So, I also included a bunch of those, like Vancouver-based @sunsetvisitor.studio’s 1000xResist (published by Australia’s Fellow Traveller).

bradshankar.bsky.social•25 days ago

I also shouted out some American-owned Canadian developers/games because ultimately, they're still doing great work irrespective of their parent companies/publishers and still deserve to be recognized!

zerodoesstuff.bsky.social•25 days ago

Warframe (Digital Extremes)

bradshankar.bsky.social•25 days ago

It’s in there

cyberblast.org•25 days ago

@thelastplague.com

davemaru.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is great stuff!

tom.voros.ca•25 days ago

Hey, this is really cool! Would you consider including my game, Pinball Spire? 😄

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2601940/Pinball_Spire/

andychalk.bsky.social•22 days ago

Older but still wonderful (and very Canadian):

jamielarson.bsky.social•25 days ago

These are some of my favourite articles you do! I’ll usually check on GOG if they released there and buy if they aren’t too expensive or on sale. I love supporting Canadian devs/games!

bradshankar.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thanks so much! 🙏

activenick.bsky.social•22 days ago

I greatly recommend The Long Dark & Venba!

tmaspen.bsky.social•22 days ago

I think I can use this

guillaumenwr.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thanks for doing all this work!
Some more games to put on people’s radars: Rogue Legacy 1 and 2 (Toronto’s Cellar Door Games), Kona and Kona: Brume (Parabole, Québec City).

gheeyom.bsky.social•22 days ago

I would love to see Outward in that list :-) Our studio is Canadian and our only external shareholder is Execution Labs, a montreal-based private investor.

gord.games•25 days ago

What a nice list! Thank you for doing this.

morbidromantic.bsky.social•22 days ago

I learned so much about some games my friends and I love! I had no idea so many indie hits were from Canada! Makes me really proud of our games industry here!

brownmoney.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thank you so much for doing this Brad and the shoutout to Venba!

bradshankar.bsky.social•22 days ago

My pleasure!
Thanks to you and your fellow devs for making such wonderful art for us! 🙏

shadowstarkanada.bsky.social•25 days ago

Glad you included HB Studios on this, they're a great team!

axelegend.bsky.social•23 days ago

Holy flark that's a lot more than I thought... And I already own a fair amount of them!

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