Daedalic Ceases Internal Game Development After Gollum Disaster

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  • Daedalic Ceases Internal Game Development After Gollum Disaster

    Roughly 25 employees have been laid off as a result.
    A screenshot from the terrible video game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

    Daedalic Entertainment has shut down its internal game development at the Hamburg-based studio and has laid off 25 employees. Daedalic will now focus purely on publishing third-party titles for the foreseeable future. As it stands, Daedalic currently has eight titles it will publish over the next fiscal year.

    Daedalic Entertainment was best known for developing a variety of point-and-click adventure titles before developing and releasing The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Another Lord of the Rings game the studio was working on has also been canceled.

    Daedalic says, via German website Games Wirtschaft, that they will "support our former employees in finding new opportunities within our network." Prior to 25 employees being laid off, the development team consisted of roughly 90 employees.

    A month ago, Daedalic issued an apology for the state of the Gollum game. At that time, they said they would continue to work on patches for Gollum. Their most recent comments reaffirm those earlier remarks about continuing to work on additional patches for the Gollum game.

    If you feel like punishing yourself, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is currently on sale for 30% off as part of the Steam Summer Sale.
    Tags: daedalic entertainment, the lord of the rings: gollum
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      • K-16
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        K-16 commented
        07-01-2023, 05:27 PM
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        I'm sad. The people laid off were probably also the people behind the success of the Deponia series. Gollum was a bad idea from the start, and good developers got punished for this. And to hear them be a publisher going forward means we won't see anything similar to Deponia (yes I know the series ended) from them.

        ...I didn't care much for Edna & Harvey though.
        • azalea
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          azalea commented
          07-03-2023, 10:08 AM
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          Daedalic's 2nd LotR game: "You've kiiillllled meeeeee!"
          CDi Zelda: "Good."
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