Frostbite
Frostbite is the engine DICE built for Battlefield: Bad Company in 2008. Electronic Arts, which owns DICE, then moved shooters, racing games, role-playing games and sports series onto it.
History
Medal of Honor (2010) was the first game outside Battlefield to use the engine. Frostbite 2 arrived with Battlefield 3 in October 2011, and Need for Speed: The Run took it to racing a month later. Frostbite 3 launched with Battlefield 4 in October 2013, and BioWare’s Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) brought it to action role-playing games. Battlefield 2042 (2021) shipped on a version EA calls simply Frostbite.
By December 2023 Electronic Arts had dropped its policy of building every game it publishes on Frostbite.
Games made with Frostbite
17 games, oldest first. Each game links to the article that names its engine.
| Game | Year | Developer | Engine version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield: Bad Company | 2008 | DICE | Frostbite 1.0 |
| Battlefield 3 | 2011 | DICE | Frostbite 2 |
| Need for Speed: The Run | 2011 | EA Black Box | Frostbite 2 |
| Battlefield 4 | 2013 | DICE | Frostbite 3 |
| Need for Speed Rivals | 2013 | Ghost Games, Criterion Games | Frostbite 3 |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition | 2014 | BioWare | Frostbite 3 |
| Battlefield 1 | 2016 | DICE | Frostbite 3 |
| Mirror’s Edge Catalyst | 2016 | DICE | Frostbite 3 |
| Madden NFL 18 | 2017 | EA Tiburon | Frostbite 3 |
| Mass Effect: Andromeda | 2017 | BioWare | Frostbite 3 |
| Star Wars Battlefront II | 2017 | DICE | Frostbite 3 |
| Anthem | 2019 | BioWare | Frostbite 3 |
| Battlefield 2042 | 2021 | DICE | Frostbite |
| Dead Space | 2023 | Motive Studio | Frostbite |
| EA Sports FC 24 | 2023 | EA Vancouver, EA Romania | Frostbite 3 |
| Battlefield 6 | 2025 | Battlefield Studios | Frostbite |
| Skate | 2025 | Full Circle | Frostbite |
At a glance
- Developer
- DICE (Electronic Arts)
- First game
- Battlefield: Bad Company (2008)
- Versions
- Frostbite 1, 2 and 3; Frostbite (2021)
- Licence
- In-house, EA studios
- Status
- Active
Sources
Checked .
- Frostbite (game engine) — Wikipedia
- Frostbite Engine - The most adopted platform for game development — Electronic Arts
Image credits
- Frostbite logo — Electronic Arts. Trademark of Electronic Arts. Placed on a white square and converted to WebP