Northern Forge Studios
An award-winning indie mobile gaming studio based in Canada's capital. We build immersive, community-driven RPG experiences.
Founded in 2021 following the success of Orna: The GPS RPG, Northern Forge Studios has found its place in mobile games with an honest, community-driven approach to live ops.
We're here to prove that you don't need to compromise the art + ethics of this medium to be successful. Listen to your customers, make a good product, and monetize fairly. They will support you.
We are a strong, mighty, nimble, experimental, modest, and ambitious team in Ottawa, Ontario.
Our mission is to evoke nostalgic emotions in gaming while embracing modern technology, listening to our community, and monetizing fairly.
Deep progression, monthly adventures, and thousands of ways to build a hero. Choose how you want to explore.
Turn the world around you into a classic turn-based RPG. Explore real places, discover dungeons, battle bosses, build your origin town, and meet Travelers from around the globe.
The depth of Orna, without the GPS. Cross a vast handcrafted pixel-art continent, uncover the story of a fallen land, master turn-based combat, and build the hero you want to become.
Made independently.
Recognized nationally.
The values in our handbook are not wall art. They are the questions we use to plan features, run live games, and decide what belongs in our worlds.
We are players, participants, and friends, not distant moderators. We should be able to discuss our choices constructively and stand behind them with the people who play our games.
We take risks, measure the result, and learn from wins and mistakes equally. Code is malleable, so a decision can change when the evidence says it should.
We keep the goal clear, build the smallest useful experience, release it, and listen. Rewards should feel understandable, meaningful, and worth the player's time.
Passionate feedback deserves empathy and perspective. We look beyond the emotion, understand what is driving it, and act where the impact is real.
No dark patterns. No paywall around the adventure. When a game-altering item can be bought, it can also be earned through play. If you can buy it, you can farm it.
Players have shaped entire features, inspired reworks, tested our assumptions, and helped new Travelers find their footing. Our job is to keep that conversation open and turn good feedback into better adventures.
We aren't just community builders. We are community members.