Frozenbyte, Inc. (natively Frozenbyte Oy) is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki.[2] As of October 2025, it had approximately 80 employees.
The Trine series has been Frozenbyte's flagship franchise and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of 2022, with releases across PC and multiple console platforms.[3]
History
Frozenbyte was founded in Helsinki in 2001 by Lauri Hyvärinen and Juha Hiekkamäki, originally operating as a small collective of hobbyist developers with little prior industry experience.[4][5]
Frozenbyte's first commercial game, launched in 2005, was Shadowgrounds for Microsoft Windows. Both Shadowgrounds and its follow-up Shadowgrounds: Survivor were released for