The reboot of Alone within the Darkish offered worse than anticipated, Embracer Group says.
As a part of its earnings report for its monetary yr ending March 2024, Embracer famous that whereas a few of its releases offered in step with expectations, Items Interactive‘s survival horror reboot didn’t.
It additionally famous that Outcast: A New Starting, a sequel to 1999 motion recreation Outcast, carried out equally poorly.
The corporate mentioned its This fall outcomes have been “impacted by a softer than anticipated efficiency for the 2 titles Alone within the Darkish and Outcast: A New Starting, developed and printed by THQ Nordic“.
Later within the report, it specified: “Alone within the Darkish and Outcast: A New Starting each noticed a constructive reception from customers, however a blended reception from critics and in the end carried out under administration expectations.”
Nevertheless, it additionally identified that each Star Wars: Battlefront Traditional Assortment and South Park: Snow Day “delivered inside expectations”, regardless of each seeing a blended reception from gamers and critics.
In the meantime, Tomb Raider I-III Remasted “was positively obtained and carried out above administration expectations,” Embracer mentioned.
Alone within the Darkish was launched in March and at the moment has a Metacritic rating between 63 and 66, relying on the platform.
VGC’s Alone within the Darkish evaluate criticised the sport for its design selections, saying it was “let down by annoying and repetitive puzzles, poor fight and frequent glitches”.
“There’s recreation in there someplace however it’s important to put up with quite a lot of frustration to search out it,” we wrote.
