Game Over: Poor Quality of Gollum Game Forces Studio to Shut Down
It looked awful, and its release confirmed everyone’s fears: Gollum was the worst game of the decade. What we did not expect is that…
From the very first day we saw the game, we knew it was going to be bad. And not just bad, but extremely bad. The folks at Daedalic acquired the rights to Gollum to develop a video game, and the result was terrible.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was always a somewhat peculiar project, from the choice of protagonist to the fact that the developer had no previous experience in creating a game of this kind. Daedalic Entertainment, based in Hamburg, made a name for itself with graphic adventures like Deponia.
The day after the release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, we learned that Daedalic already had plans to make another game based on Tolkien’s beloved fantasy books.
The news came directly from the German government, which had provided part of the funding and publicly shared the information. This caused panic among all of us who love Tolkien’s legacy.
Daedelic Entertainment (LOTR: Gollum) is exiting game development and will now focus on game publishing.
The studio has laid off a portion of its staff and canceled its other Lord of the Rings project.
However, the extremely low sales of the game have had a devastating effect on Daedalic Entertainment. The studio announced the closure of its development division, including the team responsible for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. This implies that the new project will never see the light of day.
Daedalic Entertainment will now focus on game publishing in the future. The company was acquired by Nacon last year for around $60 million.
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Author: Chema Carvajal Sarabia
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