Company Daedalic Entertainment stops developing its own games. The focus will be on recently much more successful publishing activities. This is reported by the German magazine Games Wirtschaft.
Daedalic Entertainment is best known for its point and click adventure games, let’s name them all. Long way home, whispering world or series Dump. In recent years, and with attempts to move away from the established genre, the studio has gone from bad to worse. Real time strategy failed year of rain since 2020 and most recently came under heavy criticism Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
25 out of 90 employees were fired. “We value every member of our team and it is important to us that the transition goes as smoothly as possible. Therefore, we will support our former employees in the search for new opportunities, ”the company commented on the layoffs.
Daedalic was also supposed to be working on another game from the Lord of the Rings world, but it will no longer be available, the Embracer licensee was also informed about this. Gollum, on the other hand, still has to wait for his patches. As a publisher, Daedalic has an extensive portfolio. It is signed, for example, under the headings Shadow Tactics, glitchpunk or inculinates. A new part of the Deponia series called Surviving junkyard will not be affected by the changes, as it is developed by a third party AtomicTorch studio.
Source :Indian TV
