Lunarch Studios

Lunarch Studios is an independent Canadian game developer creating original strategy games, logic puzzles and open-world puzzle adventures. Its work combines mathematical systems design with game engineering, ranging from competitive, perfect-information strategy to exploratory 3D worlds. Alongside its own intellectual property, the studio offers co-development, work-for-hire and technical engineering services for other game developers.

The company's origins date to 2010, when Elyot Grant and fellow competitive gaming enthusiasts began developing game concepts while connected to MIT and the University of Waterloo. The founders formally established the full-time startup in 2013. That background in mathematics and competitive play shaped the studio's interest in games built around strategic depth, logical deduction and carefully balanced systems.

Original games

The studio's debut, Prismata, combines elements of real-time strategy, tabletop games and deckbuilders in a turn-based competitive format. Its perfect-information design removes randomness from play. The game entered Steam Early Access in March 2018 and subsequently became free-to-play.

Released in May 2022, Jelly Is Sticky explores grid-based puzzles through malleable jelly blocks. Lunarch later developed Islands of Insight, published by Behaviour Interactive in February 2024. This shared-world puzzle adventure brings together more than 10,000 handcrafted logic, environmental and perspective puzzles across floating islands.

In March 2026, Lunarch released The Artisan of Glimmith in collaboration with publisher 983 Interactive. Its stained-glass puzzles involve restoring windows through region division and coloration. The studio also showcased an unannounced multiplayer hide-and-seek comedy game at Courage XL that month, extending its development work into another style of multiplayer play.

Development capabilities

Lunarch supports projects from concept and prototyping through design, art, engineering and commercial release. Its partner-facing work includes gameplay engineering, environment design and open-world production, alongside multiplayer networking, backend infrastructure, optimization and development tools. The studio operates as a distributed team with its corporate base in Toronto.