Frozenbyte Inc. is a Finnish

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founded in 2001 and based in

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. it had approximately 130 employees. Frozenbyte's first commercial game was ''

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'' for

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. Both ''

'' and its follow-up '' Shadowgrounds: Survivor'' were released for

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in 2009, ported by IGIOS and published by

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. Frozenbyte's next commercial game, '' Trine'' was released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows in 2009, and has since been ported to Linux,

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, the

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, and Nintendo eShop. The game spawned 2 sequels, '' Trine 2'' which was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X,

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, and

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in December 2011, Linux in March 2012, and Wii U eShop in November 2012, and '' Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power'' which was released via

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in August 2015. A fourth installment, '' Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince'' was released in October 2019. 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, '' Splot''. As of August 2021, Splot has still to be published, and buyer's libraries on

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say "There are no full release builds planned of Splot for Windows, Mac, and Linux". On 4 December 2015, the company announced '' Shadwen'', a

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where time moves only when the player moves. On 28 May 2019, the company announced a new upcoming game ''

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'', a

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MMO that was allegedly in development in secret for 5 years prior.

Games developed

*''

'' — (2005) *'' Shadowgrounds: Survivor'' — (2007) *'' Trine'' — (2009) *'' Trine 2'' — (2011) *'' Splot'' — (2014) *'' Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power'' — (2015) *'' Shadwen'' — (2016) * '' Has-Been Heroes'' — (2017) * '' Nine Parchments'' — (2017) *'' Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince'' — (2019) *''

'' (2021)

References

External links

''Frozenbyte'' Official website
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