Croteam is an independent game development company located in Zagreb, Croatia.
Croteam was initially started as a "garage game development" in 1993 and slowly grew as they only had six employees and four contractors for the development of Serious Sam: The First Encounter in 2001. From there, it has been continually involved in development of video games for PC, Xbox, Xbox 360/XBLA and 3D engine technologies.