Video games in Norway

The total value of the Norwegian games industry was US$328 million in 2018. ^[1] The Norwegian games industry managed a turnover of $42 million (NOK 330 million) in 2014. ^[2] As of 2015, there are 140 companies in the whole sector, with 565 people employed. ^[2]

In 2020, Tencent, one of the world's biggest video and online gaming companies acquired the Norwegian video game developer Funcom for $148 million. ^[3]

Video game developers from Norway

• 4 Gladiators Studio
• Agens Games (Also apps & mobile games)
• Arctic Hazard AS (Also co-dev)
• Billionworlds AS
• Funcom
• Hamar Game Collective (Founded by Sarepta Studio, Krillbite Studio, and Moondrop)
  • Krillbite Studio
  • Sarepta Studio
• High North Studios AS
• Hyper Games (Also co-devs, edutainment & porting)
• Megapop Games (Also mobile)
• Misc Games AS
• Proletary Games
• Ravn Studio AS (Former publisher)
• Red Thread Games
• Riddlebit Software (Also Riddlebit AS)
• Rock Pocket Games AS (Also co-dev: games, AR/VR. Former publisher.)
• Scape-IT AS
• Snowcastle Games
• Turbo Tape Games

Defunct video game developers from Norway

• Antagonist AS (Founded 2014. Inactive 2017? Staff moved to Audvyr Studio & Corvid Studio.)
• Artplant (Online games. Most employees from Russia then UK. Probably inactive after 2019?)
• Blink Studios (Founded 2011. Defunct 2015. Not the same as 2 other US studios.)
• Capricornus Computer Game Productions AS (Founded 1999. Defunct after 2002.)
• Corvid Studio (Design & audio. Founded 2017. Closed 2023.) ^{[4] [5]}
• Moondrop AS (Co-founder of Hamar GC. Founded 2009. Probably inactive after 2019.)
• Offence Software (Founded 1991. Inactive after 1993. Amiga game dev.)
• Pineleaf AS (Founded 2016. Defunct 2022.)
• Trollpants Game Studio (Founded 2014. Defunct 2016.)
• Twilight Zone Software (Founded 1996. Inactive after 1997.)

Video game publishers from Norway

• Snow Cannon Games (Still active on Android)

Publisher and developer firms

• Agelvik Games AS ^[6]
• Caprino Video Games AS (Aka. CVG AS. Distribution & licensing subsidiary of Capricornus AS then Caprino Studios for Flåklypa franchise.) (See NO wiki)
• Corebreak Interactive
• D-Pad Studio AS
• Dirtybit AS (Mobile games)
• Frostisen Studio AS
• Lovheim Studios
• Machineboy AS
• Perfectly Paranormal AS (Games & animations)
• Rain Games AS (See NO wiki)
• Rubarb Studio (Aka. Rubarb AS. Ex-Apt Games in 2019-2021. Co founded by former CEO of Antagonist AS & Corvid Studio.)
• Slid Studio
• Studio Gauntlet
• Surrealist AS
• Teknopilot AS (Publisher & dev. Games, transmedia, audio, VR, edutainment, films, TV.)

Defunct video game publishers from Norway

• Playfish (Founded 2007. Closed or merged into Electronic Arts in 2013. London HQ. Norwegian, Chinese & US studios. Publisher & dev.)

Popular games

• Among the Sleep
• Daniel "Dani" Sooman's games:
  • Crab Game (2021)
  • Muck (2021)
• Flåklypa franchise
• Manual Samuel
• Owlboy
• Skald: Against the Black Priory
• Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
• Teslagrad
• The Longest Journey series
  • Dreamfall Chapters
• The Secret World (Original version)

References

1. Markets, Research and (April 9, 2019). "Norway Animation, VFX & Games Industry Strategies, Trends & Opportunities Report 2019". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release).
2. Guest writer (5 June 2015). "With studio numbers up 75%, the Norwegian game scene is booming but it's not without its challenges". pocketgamer.biz.
3. "Tencent to grow gaming empire with $148M acquisition of Conan publisher Funcom in Norway". 22 January 2020.
4. "Corvid Studio's Twitter feed". Twitter . November 3, 2022. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
5. "Corvid Studio's official site". www.corvid.no. Archived from the original on May 21, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
6. "ABGames bio for Agelvik". ABGames. Retrieved July 12, 2025.