Arcanaut Studios

What Arcanaut Studios does

Arcanaut Studios is a Canadian video game development company incorporated in July 2025 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, with an additional office in Kelowna, British Columbia. The studio is a single-product developer building narrative-driven single-player action role-playing games, with its sole announced title being Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, unveiled via teaser trailer at The Game Awards 2025 and developed under a co-development and licensing arrangement with Lucasfilm Games. The studio is led by founder and CEO Casey Hudson — former Project Director on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy at BioWare — alongside CFO Chris Bain, COO Cordy Rierson, and CTO Ryan Hoyle, with senior creative, production, and technical leadership drawn from BioWare, Ubisoft, Behaviour Interactive, Wizards of the Coast, Warner Bros., and Epic Games.

The company's core technology is a proprietary game engine and supporting development tools (specific stack undisclosed), targeted at PC and major console platforms (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo) with a release window before 2030. The product is positioned around multiple narrative storylines supporting replayability, a Force-user protagonist, decision-driven light/dark branching, and character- and combat-led storytelling — design pillars that align with the founders' prior KOTOR/Mass Effect track record.

Commercially, Arcanaut operates a pre-revenue model: a one-time-purchase single-player game with no announced pricing, no live-service or post-launch monetization layer disclosed, and no distribution partners locked in at this stage. The studio is funded through a partnership with GreaterThan Group, a video-game holding company founded by Simon Zhu that backs elite creative studios (alongside BulletFarm in Los Angeles and MAGship in Tokyo) while preserving creative autonomy. Marketing to date has been event-driven — anchored by the high-profile TGA 2025 reveal, official coverage on starwars.com, and the studio's own website. End customers are global RPG and Star Wars franchise consumers; the game has no enterprise customers and no disclosed B2B revenue line.

Name

Arcanaut Studios

Legal name

Arcanaut Studios

Website

https://arcanautstudios.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Arcanaut Studios is a Canadian video game development company founded in 2025 that creates narrative-driven single-player action RPGs, currently developing Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games for PC and consoles.

Ownership category

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Product category

Video game development (narrative action RPG)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Narrative/Adventure & RPG Game Studios (MPAFAAAL)

Keywords

• Video game development
• Narrative action RPG
• Single-player game studio
• Star Wars games
• Console and PC game development

Headquarters

HQ city

Edmonton

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Video Game Sales: Standard retail/digital video game sales model for PC and console platforms. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is being developed as a narrative-driven single-player action RPG, likely to be sold as a one-time purchase title.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Arcanaut Studios develops a single premium narrative-driven single-player action role-playing game, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. The game is built for PC and console platforms and is currently in early development, targeting release before 2030. The studio sells the title under a one-time purchase model and monetizes through standard video game retail and digital distribution channels.

Product overview

Arcanaut Studios is a Canadian video game development company operating as a single-product studio. The company was founded in July 2025 by Casey Hudson and partners, and is currently developing Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a narrative-driven action RPG created in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. The studio's sole product is the Star Wars game, which is in early development for PC and consoles. The studio maintains a website for company information, careers, and product updates.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic A narrative-driven single-player action RPG set in the Star Wars universe, where players step into the role of a Force user on a journey through a galaxy on the edge of rebirth. The game features innovative storytelling, memorable characters, combat gameplay, and decision-based mechanics where every choice deepens the player's journey toward light or darkness, with multiple storylines for replayability. Targeted at RPG and Star Wars franchise fans for PC and consoles.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Lucasfilm GamescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 December 2025Primary development partnership for Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. Lucasfilm Games is collaborating with Arcanaut Studios to develop the game, providing IP access and creative guidance. Jay Ong (Head of Disney Games Group) and Douglas Reilly (VP and GM of Lucasfilm Games) have publicly endorsed the partnership.
• Disney and Lucasfilm GamescoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerLicensing Partners referenced in Terms of Use. Disney and Lucasfilm Games own all intellectual property connected to the Star Wars franchise. Arcanaut Studios operates under licensing agreement to develop Star Wars games.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• BioWare: BioWare is the most direct antecedent: Arcanaut's founders and senior team are BioWare alumni responsible for KOTOR and Mass Effect. BioWare itself is developing a KOTOR Remake, making it both a spiritual sibling and a direct competitor for the same audience.
• Naughty Dog: Naughty Dog (The Last of Us, Uncharted) is the gold standard for cinematic, character-driven single-player narrative games. Comparable in delivering premium narrative experiences and competing for the same 'prestige single-player narrative' audience.
• CD Projekt Red: CD Projekt Red (The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077) is a leading narrative RPG developer and publisher of large-scale single-player RPGs. Comparable in product category (choice-driven narrative RPG) and in targeting the same premium PC/console gamer.
• Santa Monica Studio: Santa Monica Studio (God of War series, 2018 and Ragnarök) is a comparable premium single-player narrative-action studio that set the modern benchmark for narrative-heavy action RPGs on console. Comparable in craft ambition and target demographic.

Direct peers

• Obsidian Entertainment: Obsidian (Pillars of Eternity, The Outer Worlds, Avowed) is a focused narrative-RPG studio that competes in the same single-player RPG category and shares the 'veteran-led, choice-driven RPG' DNA that Arcanaut is pitching.
• Larian Studios: Larian (Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin) is the current benchmark for narrative-driven choice-heavy RPGs with replayability. It competes for the same core gamer and for Game of the Year positioning that Arcanaut's title will target.
• inXile Entertainment: inXile (Wasteland series, Exodus) is a veteran-led narrative-RPG studio with comparable scale and positioning — smaller independent studio shipping choice-heavy RPGs against larger incumbents. Direct peer on studio-size and product-category axes.
• Aspyr Media: Aspyr is a long-standing Star Wars game developer (KOTOR remake work, Star Wars: Republic Commando port) and is developing the KOTOR Remake. Direct overlap in Star Wars IP usage and narrative-RPG development capability.
• Respawn Entertainment: Respawn has shipped Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor, making it the established Star Wars single-player action-RPG studio under the EA/Lucasfilm umbrella. It is the most directly comparable peer given shared Star Wars IP, similar gameplay genre, and similar narrative structure.

Emerging players

• GreaterThan Group sister studios: BulletFarm (Los Angeles) and MAGship (Tokyo) are the other two founding studios under the same GreaterThan Group holding company. They are direct corporate siblings sharing capital, back-office, and strategic support, though their product categories differ.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ArcanautStudio
• Facebookfacebook.com/ArcanautStudios
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arcanautstudios

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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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