About Frictional games

About company

Frictional Games is a game development company that develops its own technology to power its games. Its game engine goes under the name HPL and uses industry standard technologies such as OpenGL, OpenAL, and Newton Game Dynamics. The company’s portfolio of games includes Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague, Penumbra: Requiem, and SOMA. Frictional Games was founded in 2007 and is based in Helsingborg, Sweden.