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Frictional Games

SwedenFounded 2006
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About Frictional Games

Frictional Games AB is an independent Swedish video game developer based in Helsingborg, founded on 1 January 2007 by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson. The company specializes in the development of survival horror video games, and is best known for its titles like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Penumbra and Soma. Developers of Frictional Games keep updated their personal blog, called "In The Games Of Madness", where they talk about life in Frictional, developers bio and how a videogame is build up, analyzing the particularly gameplay settings of the most famous game.

Catalog

Developed

4
Ontos
2027

A sci-fi mystery set on the repurposed moon hotel Samsara. Uncover cryptic experiments, face unsettling encounters, and piece together a mind-bending narrative. The deeper you go, the more the truth unravels as you confront the ultimate question: What is reality?

PuzzleSci-FiMystery & Thriller
Soma
2015

SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves. Delve through locked terminals and secret documents to uncover the truth behind the chaos. Seek out the last remaining inhabitants and take part in the events that will ultimately shape the fate of the station. But be careful, danger lurks in every corner: corrupted humans, twisted creatures, insane robots, and even an inscrutable omnipresent A.I. You will need to figure out how to deal with each one of them. Just remember there’s no fighting back, either you outsmart your enemies or you get ready to run.

PuzzleSci-FiMystery & Thriller
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
2010

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The game was critically well received.

PuzzleSurvivalHorror
Penumbra: Black Plague
2008

Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.

PuzzleSci-FiSurvival

Published

2

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