Red Thread Games
Red Thread Games is a Norwegian video game studio based in Oslo. It was founded in September 2012 by Ragnar Tørnquist and has about 15 employees (2025). The team includes industry veterans, many from Funcom, with experience on games like The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, Age of Conan, The Secret World, and Anarchy Online.
The studio’s first major release was Dreamfall Chapters, an episodic sequel to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. It came out in five parts between 2014 and 2016. Dreamfall Chapters began with pre-production grants from the Norwegian Film Institute and a successful Kickstarter in 2013 that raised about $1.54 million, roughly twice its $850,000 goal, plus additional NFI grants.
In 2013, Red Thread Games announced Draugen, a first‑person survival horror set in 1920s Norway. Draugen received several grants, including about 4 million NOK from the Norwegian Film Institute, 150,000 EUR from the EU’s Creative Europe program, and 150,000 NOK from Viken Filmsenter.
Since 2016, the company has been working on Svalbard, which in 2023 received grants from the Norwegian Film Institute along with support from Creative Europe, Viken Filmsenter, and Epic MegaGrants.
Dustborn was released in 2024. The studio also announced Hello Sunshine, a survival role‑playing game set in a post‑apocalyptic world, funded by about 10 million NOK from the Norwegian Film Institute. They are developing Project M, an untitled RPG that has received around 7.3 million NOK from the NFI.
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