Daedalic has canned improvement on all of its upcoming video games after the large failure of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. The German firm introduced that it’s going to now focus solely on publishing. This signifies that Daedalic will decide up titles to market and publish for different studios world wide.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was launched in May with some somewhat nasty evaluations and consumer suggestions. It is now the lowest-rated recreation of the yr. Shortly after its launch, Daedalic launched a press release apologizing for the state of the sport. The improvement staff claims to be sorry for the “underwhelming expertise”.
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While the mud has considerably settled on the catastrophe, Daedalic continues to be feeling the ripples. The firm has been compelled to retrench 25 staff on account of the sport’s launch. In a press release, the corporate says the departure from a improvement studio to a publishing home has been a “troublesome turning level”.
“We worth every member of our staff and it is very important us that the transition goes as easily as attainable. Therefore, we are going to assist our former staff find new alternatives inside our community.”
Daedalic was additionally engaged on a second recreation set in The Lord of the Rings universe. That has additionally been canned. Thankfully, improvement on this different recreation solely began in 2022 so it wasn’t lengthy in improvement on the time.
Daedalic was additionally engaged on a Deponia recreation referred to as Surviving Deponia. However, that title was outsourced to an exterior firm AtomicTorch Studios. So the sport received’t be affected by the latest adjustments.
Nacon acquired Daedalic Entertainment final yr and printed The Lord of The Rings: Gollum. It is unclear how the publishing enterprise will change now that Daedalic can also be enterprise recreation publishing.
