Embracer shut down the studio responsible for this wonderful game

[snake]

Thanks embracer!!!! now we probably wont see a sequel to the other games!!!! I love embracer!!!

I wish the best of luck to any devs who lurk these forums, thanks for the wonderful game, I really love it, Its a love letter to what alone in the dark was, ignore all the reviews comparing it to resident evil. You guys did wonderfully

[Marcus Butthurticus]

Looks like layoffs, unconfirmed.

[fourfourtwo79]

Looking at the sheer number of games available at any time via a click of the mouse or pad, and the daily discounts and bargain bin offers -- it's almost a miracle that so many games are still perceived as commercial successes upon launch. Except, most aren't much. Even if they're genuinelly great, e.g. Arkane's Prey. The sting that stung so badly, it for sure played an influence in various Arkane staff (including their founding father) leaving to form a new company in Wolfeye Studios.

Back when the original AITD was released, pretty much every major and minor interesting game could still be covered by traditional gaming mags and their (demo) discs monthly. Trying to do the same today would drive even the most hardcore fan of games as insane as Jeremy Hartwood.

Sure, there's occasionally dry spells with few blockbuster spectacle for the masses -- fewer and fewer studios can afford to make that spectacle, and development times of half a decade+ have become the blockbuster norm. But the number of games released? Despite all talk about the troubles the games industry would go through, so far it doesn't go down much, even in the AA/AAA space. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1411839/number-games-released-steam-developer-type/

As a consumer, I'm not going to complain, mind. If you want to see what happens on a market without competition, look at GPUs and GPU prices from 2007ish to nowadays. When I told trainees at my former employer that I'd played the likes of Skyrim in 2011 on a 70 bucks video card on medium to high details just a decade later, they'd look upon me as if grandpa was telling wartime faery stories.

[Oreola Roscuits]

They laid off (part of?) the QA team as far as I'm aware. Doesn't mean they can't get new contracts for the same people for a sequel. Also, it's not that uncommon, it's just that people talk about it more now, as if Embracer is the devil or something worse, but it's usually contracts for a specific period that can get extended until the job is finished.