why Värmland?
Welcome to The Great Journey and Karlstad, a Scandinavian Game Hub
In our community you will find like minded game entrepreneurs, students and game devs that will bring you great business opportunities. Inclusion and entrepreneurship are essential in our community and we want to be a safe environment for everyone. Besides all of that you can have a great lifestyle with the mix of beautiful lakes, quiet woods and high ski slopes.
The game dev scene in Värmland is growing fast with start up studios as well as established companies. Say hello to work-life balance, say hello to Värmland!
accelerator
soft landing
Game and Business Development
including legal support
We help you settle in
workspace
For your team
empower people and companies to unleash their full potential
Europe’s largest games company with its headquarters in Karlstad, Embracer is an entrepreneur driven group with the passion for games and entrepreneurship. They engage more than 10 000 people in 40 countries.
Some of the operative groups and studios owned by Embracer are PLAION, THQ Nordic, Amplifier Game Invest, Coffee Stain Studios and Eidos.
the games archive
The passion for games is materialised in Embracer´s Games Archive witch is arguably one of the largest collection of physical games in the world with over 80.000 games, consoles and accessories placed in Karlstad.
Are you curios about Värmland and everything it has to offer? Take a look at Visit Värmland for the perfect guide of what this beautiful landscape has to offer with everything from big city life, beautiful nature and high skii slopes in the north - Welcome home!
