Embracer Group is a huge holding company that owns countless publishing brands, studios, and video game IPs. Over the last few years, its rapid expansion has been fascinating to see. To name just a few, it has splashed cash on the likes of Perfect World Entertainment, 4A Games, Flying Wild Hog, and the entirety of Gearbox Entertainment. Its biggest recent investment was Square Enix's western developers and franchises, including Tomb Raider and Deus Ex. The size of this company is pretty crazy, and as a result, it has a lot of games in the pipeline.
To be precise, it has 234 titles in the works for PC and/or consoles. Of those, 25 are considered AAA, and all of them are planned to release between now and the end of March 2026. This information comes directly from the company, which has published its latest financial report full of insight on its plans.
From this, we can also see that 49 of Embracer's games are announced as of right now, including upcoming titles like Alone in the Dark, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake, Evil West, and the just delayed Dead Island 2. So, there's still hundreds of projects under wraps.
The company has its fingers in a lot of pies, then. Obviously, the jury's out on the quality of what's to come, but among more than two hundred games, there are bound to be some hits, right? Here's hoping fans won't be left waiting too long to learn more about what's going on with TimeSplitters.
What do you make of Embracer's future plans? Are you looking forward to these hundreds of mystery games over the next four years? Embrace each other in the comments section below.
[source embracer.com, via twitter.com]
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Only 2 will launch in a acceptable state.
@IndoorEnthusiast And 1 of them will be great. Rest will be moderate or poor.
I hate to be so negative but it's a genuine question
I get that part of their ethos seems to be more towards AA and funding games that might not otherwise be made anymore but I really haven't seen much quality from them despite having 100+ studios under their banner. Yes there are a few, but seemingly not many.
And people thought Sony's 12 live service games was excessive lol.
Lol that is a lot of games
They gotta be stretching that number with every game's individual ports.
@themightyant good question! Judging by their share price, investors are starting to ask it too.
To me, their business model in the past couple of years looked like “buy all you can reach, milk IPs”.
4 console/PC games. 230 phone games.
That screams quantity over quality which is what much of the industry has become.
I recall reading their ceo stated they will make games to make money not necessarily the best games. We will see what that means on quality.
How many of those are just remakes and remasters I wonder?
Sounds like a lot of ports. Game pass and ps plus bound.
I'm just hoping their South Park game is as good as the ones released by Ubisoft.
They may not all be bangers, but I'm just glad that someone in the industry is giving AA, single player games some love. Everyone else is so focused on AAA, live service games with battlepasses that it just seems refreshing to see a company take a different path.
So . . . that means one game for every studio they now own?
That's the problem with the Embracer group. They buy studios, sure. But they don't really invest into them, so they remain AA studios.
Not all are winners but to me it's great to see. Just because they may be AA, Indies or AAA doesn't mean the AAs aren't good. Sure no Darksiders anymore but some retro games brought up, some new IPs/ideas is always great. The 200+ is a bit much as how much are actually big/small/in-between, console, PC, mobile but still Embracer may have the Microsoft purchase sort of side to them but they also make it clear they work with new and old while Microsoft buys the talent but not everyone cares what their studios make when their userbase are mostly sports, racing and shooter players. Even I only use an Xbox for racing and the odd games that were different on their consoles.
This has just confirmed what we were afraid of, super mediocre games just to use IPs for a cash grab with no attention whatsoever to quality. They are the angel of death to every franchise they touch. Goodbye Tomb Raider it was nice knowing you.
an ocean of indie garbage on the way ?
I loved both Destroy All Humans remakes (despite DAH2 being a buggy mess), looking forward to their future projects!
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