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The developer of the excellent strategy RPG Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, Mimimi Productions will no longer continue to make games, it's been confirmed by the developers themselves.
In an emotional message on their official website, Mimimi Productions heads said that they can no longer afford to make video games due to the rising costs of development and not generating enough revenue.
Additionally, the studio stated that while making games is an amazing experience, it is also extremely taxing as the studio always strives for high-quality releases. Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, will be the studio's final game and will continue to receive post-launch patches and content for the foreseeable future.
Mimimi's statement
"Making these games was amazing and extremely taxing at the same time. Reaching the level of quality Mimimi strives for is hard and requires focus and dedication. We also have to acknowledge that our future production costs are growing faster than the potential revenues of our genre.
The increased financial pressure and level of risk became unsustainable. Additionally, whenever our games got close to release and were finally fun to play, a new fight for funding of the following projects started, making this a continuous cycle.
We never expected this would be how Mimimi ends. But if even one of us were to break down, fail or burn out, the situation would escalate quickly. Ultimately, managing production on this scale, in combination with an extremely competitive market, proved to be too taxing for us."
Obviously, this will be tough news for all fans of Mimimi's games, especially after such a critical success of Shadow Gambit. Mimimi Games is one of the few developers that really excelled in the stealth tactics RPG genre, so they will be leaving a large space in the industry for other developers to try and fill.
Mimimi Games released The Last Tinker: City of Colors as their first major game back in 2014. Since then, the studio also successfully released two Shadow Tactics games, Desperados 3 and the already mentioned Shadow Gambit.
We reviewed Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew before launch and loved pretty much everything the game had to offer, notably its sublime voice acting, stunning visuals and deep tactics systems.
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