Embracer: ‘Alone in the Dark’ Reboot Failed to Meet Sales Expectations

It seems that this 12 months’s resurrection of the Alone within the Dark collection may have a troublesome time getting a follow-up. According to the most recent earnings report from Embracer Group, the reimagining of the 1992 Survival Horror cult basic has bought lower than anticipated.

According to the report, Alone within the Dark noticed a optimistic reception from followers with its launch in March, however in distinction obtained a “mixed reception” from critics and “ultimately performed below management expectations.” Sales figures for the sport weren’t revealed, however to place some perspective on the sport’s efficiency, in accordance with SteamDB, the at present participant depend is lower than 70 in the intervening time, in comparison with a concurrent participant depend peak of 1,628 when it launched.

This report comes a month after information that Embracer Group had laid off a number of employees at Alone within the Dark developer Pieces Interactive not lengthy after the sport’s launch. Embracer Group hadn’t commented on the layoffs then, however the newest earnings report does present some reasoning.

Embracer has been in a little bit of a restructuring mode as of late. The firm just lately bought off Borderlands developer Gearbox Interactive and Evil Dead: The Game developer Saber Interactive, in addition to cancelling a brand new Deus Ex sport at Eidos Montreal.

Despite being tough across the edges, Harrison loved Alone within the Dark. In his evaluation, Harrison identified the sport’s strengths within the writing, the characters and the world-building far outweighed the problems that he got here throughout throughout his time with the sport.

Alone within the Dark is out there on PC by way of Steam, Xbox Series, and PlayStation 5.

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