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Top 25 Indie game development companies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 416 indie game development companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 4,765 professional contacts across them, including 1,873 with verified work emails and 645 with mobile numbers. Montreal is the largest hub.
This list covers indie game development companies headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest indie game development companies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Partial evidence | 496 contacts → | |||
“Established in 2010, Ubisoft Toronto looks for people excited about the future of games in one of the most diverse cities in the world.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Partial evidence | 473 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 2007, Eidos‑Montréal is game developer and publisher best known for breathing new life into established intellectual properties, whether owned, licensed, or developed…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Strong evidence | 217 contacts → | |||
“SkyBox Labs is a full-service game development studio based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 169 contacts → | |||
“Chez Invoke, notre mission est d’avoir du plaisir à créer de grands jeux.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Partial evidence | 165 contacts → | |||
“Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio - behind such games as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 111 contacts → | |||
“Since our founding in 2002, we have continually innovated in the video game industry, exploring solutions ranging from web platforms to immersive content.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 110 contacts → | |||
“Hypixel Studios is a fully independent, self-funded, entirely remote team of 60+ developers from around the world, building Hytale, a block-based adventure sandbox built to be…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Strong evidence | 106 contacts → | |||
“We are Highdive, a NetEase Games ThunderFire development studio from Montreal.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 87 contacts → | |||
“Hello!” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Partial evidence | 83 contacts → | |||
“Hinterland is a forward-looking independent game developer, publisher, and cross-platform entertainment company creating IP that engages millions of global fans in the joy of…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 65 contacts → | |||
“iLLOGIKA, fondé en 2009, est un développeur de jeux vidéo multiplateformes réunissant 65 experts basé à Montréal.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Strong evidence | 58 contacts → | |||
“Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 54 contacts → | |||
“Avec « Design Distinctions Create Desire » comme nouvelle philosophie directrice, nous travaillons d’arrache-pied à planifier et à préparer les dix prochaines années de notre…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Partial evidence | 50 contacts → | |||
“Thunder Lotus is a maker of beautifully powerful video games.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 42 contacts → | |||
“n.): late 13c.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Partial evidence | 40 contacts → | |||
“Riyo Games is an independent studio in Canada focused on crafting retro-infused RPGs that awaken your childhood imagination.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 39 contacts → | |||
“DON’T NOD Montréal is the Canadian studio of the independent publisher and developer DON’T NOD.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 38 contacts → | |||
“Shifty Eye Studios, based in Calgary, Canada, is a collaborative effort between some of the most passionate veterans in the gaming industry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Partial evidence | 37 contacts → | |||
“Flyos Games is a Montreal based game studio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Partial evidence | 34 contacts → | |||
“In the early months of 2014, two friends got together to discuss the creation of a new game studio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Strong evidence | 34 contacts → | |||
“Triple Boris is an indie video game studio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 33 contacts → | |||
“Au début de l’année 2022, nous avons formé un collectif créatif, animé par la conviction que les jeux vidéo peuvent être une force d’imagination réjouissante et positive pour des…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Partial evidence | 32 contacts → | |||
“For over 17 years we have been developing games for PC, console and mobile.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 31 contacts → | |||
“Nine Dots aims at developing games that will drive the industry forward.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Strong evidence | 31 contacts → | |||
“An independent video game development studio based in Montréal, Québec, Canada.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: indie game development companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names indie game development companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of indie game development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name indie game development companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among indie game development companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “indie game development companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names indie game development companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among indie game development companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,873 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
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What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names indie game development companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many indie game development companies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 416 indie game development companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ubisoft Toronto, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most indie game development companies?
Montreal leads with 91 headquartered companies, followed by Toronto (77) and Vancouver (58).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,873 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 416 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.
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