Red Thread Games

Red Thread Games
IndustryVideo games
FoundedSeptember 2012 (2012-09)
FounderRagnar Tørnquist
HeadquartersOslo, Norway
Key people
  • Martin Bruusgaard
  • Rakel Johnsen
  • Quintin Pan
  • Audun Tørnquist
Products
Number of employees
15 (2025) 
Websiteredthreadgames.com

Red Thread Games is a Norwegian video game developer based in Oslo. Their first release was Dreamfall Chapters, the episodic sequel to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, released in five episodes between 2014 and 2016.

The team consists of several veterans from the Norwegian game industry, primarily former employees of Funcom. The team has previously worked on The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, Age of Conan, The Secret World and other titles.

History

Red Thread Games (RTG) was founded in September 2012 by Ragnar Tørnquist, creator of The Longest Journey and Dreamfall sagas, and The Secret World and Anarchy Online universes.[1]

On 8 February 2013, a Kickstarter campaign was launched for Dreamfall Chapters, a sequel to Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, which closed at USD$1,538,425, almost doubling their goal of $850,000,[2] and later receiving further funding from the Norwegian Film Institute.[3] On 30 October, RTG announced that they had begun working on a new game titled Draugen, a first-person survival horror set in the 1920s Norway.[4] The game was later released on 30 May 2019 to average reviews from critics on the review aggregation site Metacritic.[5]

Since 2016, the company has been working on Svalbard, a self-described "polar-punk role-playing game" taking place on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard for which the game is named.[6]

In 2023, the company began working on the untitled Project M, an action-adventure role-playing game.[7]

On 20 August 2024, the company released Dustborn, a story-driven action-adventure game. Dustborn received average reviews from critics on Metacritic.[8]

In 2025, the company announced Hello Sunshine, a survival role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world.[9]

Games

References

  1. ^ Sinclair, Brendan (1 November 2012). "Ragnar Tørnquist founds Red Thread Games". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey".
  3. ^ Lorentzen, Jon Cato (19 May 2014). "Rekordstøtte til norsk spill". Aftenposten. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  4. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (30 October 2013). "Dreamfall dev announces first-person survival horror Draugen". Eurogamer. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Draugen Reviews - Metacritic". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  6. ^ Rodem, Audun. "Post-apokalyptisk Svalbard, roguelike i Bygde-Norge og et fiske-actionrollespill – disse norske spillene får 11 millioner i støtte". Gamer.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 May 2025.
  7. ^ "Prosjekt M - NFI".
  8. ^ "Dustborn Reviews - Metacritic". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  9. ^ a b Romano, Sal (13 March 2025). "Red Thread Games announces mystery survival RPG Hello Sunshine for PC". Gematsu. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  10. ^ "Draugen official website". Red Thread Games. Archived from the original on 22 June 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  11. ^ Romano, Sal (21 March 2024). "Dustborn launches August 20". Gematsu. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  12. ^ "Svalbard Game".
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