The studio created in 2011 a dedicated subsidiary, Waterlily Games. With Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet (2008), Frogwares began to develop casual games. The studio specialized in the Sherlock Holmes adventure games series. When it was created, the studio was made up of a team of six people which then expanded to reach eighty employees in 2018. The name 'Frogwares' comes from the derogatory term 'froggies' to designate people of French origin. History įrogwares was founded in 2000 in Ukraine and Ireland by French expatriates. The studio released its first open world investigation video game, The Sinking City, inspired by the works of H. The studio and its subsidiaries develop adventure games for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch as well as PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and mobile.įrogwares created the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, which sold around seven million copies worldwide. Frogwares is a Ukrainian video game development studio headquartered in Kyiv with subsidiary offices in Dublin, Ireland.

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