| Frozenbyte, Inc. | |
| Native Name: | Frozenbyte Oy |
| Native Name Lang: | fi |
| Type: | Limited company |
| Location: | Helsinki, Finland |
| Num Employees: | ~60 |
| Num Employees Year: | 2024 |
| Industry: | Video games |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Frozenbyte, Inc. (natively Frozenbyte ) is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki.[2], it had approximately 130 employees. Frozenbyte's first commercial game was Shadowgrounds for Microsoft Windows. Both Shadowgrounds and its follow-up were released for Linux in 2009, ported by IGIOS and published by Linux Game Publishing. They and all their later games use an engine that has been known internally as Storm3D, originally by Finnish programmer Sebastian Aaltonen.[3] [4] [5]
Frozenbyte's next commercial game, Trine was released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows in 2009, and has since been ported to Linux, OS X, the PlayStation Network, and Nintendo eShop. The game spawned four sequels, Trine 2 which was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in December 2011, Linux in March 2012, and Wii U eShop in November 2012, and which was released via Steam Early access in August 2015.[6] A fourth installment, was released in October 2019. The fifth installment was released in 2023.
A Humble Indie Bundle sale started on 12 April 2011, and featured five games from Frozenbyte, including Trine, Shadowgrounds, and Shadowgrounds: Survivor, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It also contained an executable version along with source code for an unfinished game, Jack Claw, and a pre-order for their upcoming game, .[7] As of August 2021, Splot has still to be published, and buyer's libraries on Humble Bundle say "There are no full release builds planned of Splot for Windows, Mac, and Linux".
On 4 December 2015, the company announced Shadwen, a stealth game where time moves only when the player moves.[8]
On 28 May 2019, the company announced a new upcoming game Starbase, a sci-fi MMO that was allegedly in development in secret for five years prior.[9]