The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is without doubt one of the most high-profile misses within the gaming business in 2023, because the extensively panned motion recreation has garnered a mean rating of 37. This made it fairly shocking when information got here out that that crew was growing one more recreation with that license. Nonetheless, that’s now not the case because it’s been canceled.
Daedalic Leisure is stepping away from recreation improvement
In response to GamesWirtschaft (and the interpretation from Twitter person Knoebelbroet), Daedalic Leisure is closing its improvement studio in Hamburg, Germany and specializing in publishing as a substitute. Daedalic principally publishes video games anyway, as evidenced by its Steam web page that’s filled with video games it has solely printed. Round 25 of its staff are being laid off, too.
And as a part of this restructuring, work on its subsequent The Lord of the Rings recreation has stopped. This venture wasn’t formally introduced, however a recreation with the codename It’s Magic was discovered on the Federal Ministry for Financial Affairs and Local weather Motion of Germany web site. The web page famous that Daedalic obtained over €2 million — virtually $2.2 million — and that interval of the funding would run from June 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. There wasn’t a lot concerning the recreation itself, apart from it will be “filled with legendary creatures and spells” and have the attitude of a personality that has “by no means been advised earlier than.” It was additionally aimed toward “avid followers of the fantasy story and 3D action-adventure genres.”
That is simply one other a part of the Lord of the Rings: Gollum saga, which has been filled with negativity. It was initially introduced in March 2019 and slated to return out in 2021 earlier than being rapidly pushed to 2022 simply after the brand new 12 months started. Nacon settled on a launch date again in Could 2022 earlier than saying a delay shortly after in July noting that it needed to push the sport “by just a few months.” It was additionally closely criticized for its visuals upon its full reveal. Many then took subject with the Sindarin voiceover DLC that was locked to the particular version.
And, after all, the problems didn’t cease upon launch, as important reception was overwhelmingly detrimental. Daedalic even apologized for the sport’s high quality and promised that patches have been incoming.
