industry video game industry founded 2006 ; 10 years ago 2006 headquarters helsingborg sweden key people thomas grip and jens nilsson products penumbra series amnesia series soma website www.frictionalgames.com frictional games inc. is an independent video game company located in helsingborg sweden . the developer comprises a small core team and is led by thomas grip and jens nilsson . certain key roles such as music are performed by external staff like mikko tarmia . linux and mac os x ports are handled by edward rudd . 1 frictional games has specialised in the survival horror genre . 2 contents 1 games 2 list of video games 3 references 4 external links games edit all of frictional s titles employ the in house game engine hpl . the company s first commercially released video game was the survival horror game penumbra overture in 2007 . it is based on frictional games earlier game penumbra a short tech demo meant to demonstrate the capabilities of the company s engine . 3 overture was followed by its sequel penumbra black plague in 2008 4 which in turn was followed by the expansion penumbra requiem later in 2008 . 5 in 2010 frictional games released their fourth game amnesia the dark descent which introduced version 2 of the hpl engine . 6 they have acted as executive producers and publishers on an indirect sequel to the dark descent titled amnesia a machine for pigs developed by the chinese room and released in 2013 . frictional games released soma in 2015 which was powered by the hpl engine 3 . 7 8 two new video games are currently in development which frictional games stated would allow them to be more experimental because they would not have to rely upon one single title for financial gain . 9 list of video games edit year title developed published platform s engine lin mac win ps4 2007 penumbra overture yes no yes yes yes no hpl engine 1 2008 penumbra black plague yes no yes yes yes no hpl engine 1 penumbra requiem yes no yes yes yes no hpl engine 1 2010 amnesia the dark descent yes yes yes yes yes no hpl engine 2 2013 amnesia a machine for pigs no yes yes yes yes no hpl engine 2 2015 soma yes yes yes yes yes yes hpl engine 3 references edit frictional games penumbra overture for linux out now game central interview with frictional games frictional games penumbra tech demo 2006 linuxgames penumbra black plague final linuxgames penumbra requiem released for linux linux gaming news interview with frictional games amnesia grayson nathan 11 september 2012 . amnesia devs hint at next project dismiss piracy . rock paper shotgun . retrieved 17 september 2013 . soma info . somagame.com . retrieved 11 october 2013 . wood austin 24 march 2016 . soma sells 250 000 in six months frictional games now working on two new games . gamezone . retrieved 15 april 2016 . external links edit official website frictional games on blogger frictional games on twitter frictional games on facebook v t e video games developed by frictional games penumbra series overture black plague requiem amnesia series the dark descent a machine for pigs other games soma related articles hpl engine mikko tarmia this european video game corporation or company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title frictional games & oldid 742493146 categories companies established in 2006privately held companies of swedenvideo game companies of swedenvideo game development companieseuropean video game company stubshidden categories twitter username different from wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olfran aisitalianonederlandspolski suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 01 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view