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Compulsion Games

Canadian video game developer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Compulsion Games Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Montreal. Established in 2009 by ex-Arkane Studios developer Guillaume Provost, the studio developed the 2013 puzzle-platform game Contrast, the 2018 survival horror game We Happy Few and the 2025 action-adventure game South of Midnight.

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“Compulsion Games” enters the record as canadian video game developer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Compulsion, Games and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Compulsion Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.