Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted
Daedalic Entertainment Ending Internal Development, Work on New Lord of the Rings Game Halted
Daedalic Entertainment, the developer behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum announced that it was shutting down its internal game development division, shifting focus to publishing, marketing and sales.
Not a surprising outcome considering how this game went down
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That's a shame. They've been around for a good while now and produced a good run of point and click style adventure games. They took the wrong path with Gollum though.
The point and click games by Daedalic (
My Time at Portia, Memoria, Chains of Satinav) wer pretty great, yeah. What went wrong? :(They've had a rough run over the years with their previous majority holder running into financial issues and them getting sold to Nacon (Bigben Interactive) in 2022. I'm guessing there was a push internally to go big, and Gollum was the efforts of that. Also Nacon don't have a stellar record for doing well by developers, see: Frogwares and the Sherlock Holmes debacle.
Daedalic didn't make Portia, was Pathea. I was surprised for a minute there. Loved that game and I knew Sandrock was in active EA for a while now. So, whew.
Oh, I thought it was made by them, thanks for the correction.
Oh I definitely had to look it up lol
Apparently I was thinking about Deponia :D