Frozenbyte, the developer officially announced that it will be partnering with Modus Games to launch Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince next year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
CEO of Frozenbyte, Lauri Hyvärinen disclosed that Trine 4 would be the best in the Trine series and he added that they had rekindled their love for the franchise, heard the fan feedback, and their hearts were set to go beyond those expectations.
The game has had little information and almost the response of fan feedback still likes to the statement of Frozenbyte and Modus Game. While Trine 3, didn’t favor too well as it received a review score of 68 and largely negative feedbacks. In an interview with GameSpot in 2015, Joel Kinnunen, VP of Frozenbyte said that they considered the future of this series, they were so surprised with the feedback, reviews as well as bad media coverage.
Trine 4 will be most likely to revert to the 2D perspective when Trine 3 with 3D perspective made Frozenbyte end up costing lots of money to fulfill its ambition. The game will return to the 2D gameplay of the two predecessors after listening to true fan feedback.
Trine was first released in July 2009 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. The game allows players to control three different characters who can battle enemies and solve puzzles. After that, the ports of the game to Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 as well as Wii U were released.
Trine 2 received many positive reviews. It’s the sequel to Trine and was released in 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 with ports to Wii U, PlayStation 4, Linux, and Nvidia Shield. In 2015, Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power was released for PC and PlayStation 4 though it received poor feedback and reviews for being too short. The sales of the Trine series has grown up to 8 million copies.