Bloober Team recovered the cost of producing The Medium less than a week after its release.
As reported in Money.pl (thanks, Gamespot), the horror studio has sold enough copies of the slow-burning horror to cover all development and marketing costs, even though it’s an exclusive Xbox Series X console and is available for free for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.
The lack of combat and parachutes of the horror game has polarized critics and fans, but it is nonetheless the studio’s biggest and most ambitious project to date.
“Yes, Marianne’s world is one of duality – good and evil; heaven and hell; life and death – but there are few negatives to weigh the high ambition of Bloober Team,” I write in Eurogamer’s Medium review.
‘Although it replaces a scary atmosphere with text scares – something I would not please all fans of, The Medium is the most successful, accessible offering to date in the studio, and a sign that Bloober is still improving, mature and innovative . “
Aoife and Zoe it, uh, slightly different views of mine, but …