Overkills the walking dead

[Nevakonaza]

Anyone know what happened to this game? I've only just come across a trailer for it and from what i can see it was actually released, then it was pulled from steam, Microsoft store also states its not available ATM, What happened?

Anyone actually own a copy or was able to play?

 

[Angilion]

Anyone know what happened to this game? I've only just come across a trailer for it and from what i can see it was actually released, then it was pulled from steam, Microsoft store also states its not available ATM, What happened?

Anyone actually own a copy or was able to play?

Apparently the owner of The Walking Dead IP disliked the game so much they cancelled the game developer's license to use that IP, which made the game unlicensed use of IP and nobody was allowed to sell it after that point.

The game development company was allegedly somewhat dodgy.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-01-28-the-fall-of-swedish-game-wonder-starbreeze

It's alleged that there were some dubious goings-on behind the scenes at the developers, with some creative accounting at the beginning and a lot of the profits from successful games thrown away on bad ideas that were badly implemented and on buying an expensive game engine that wasn't even close to actually working then blindly committing to using it anyway because of runaway sunk cost fallacy. After 18 months of that they binned the whole thing and started again, using new game development tools that nobody on the team was familiar with. With less than a year until the release date. Rather less than ideal.

"If you go to any studio now, there is always a good hope at least 50 per cent of the people know the engine they're working on, so they can coach the rest," said one person who was at the coal face. "But in this case, it felt like just 10 per cent of the people understood the engine. 90 per cent of people were just relying on that 10 per cent, or checking online. So we were using tutorials to try and make a game. That was bad."

Apparently, working conditions became so bad that employees were using their healthcare plans for psychiatrist appointments.

Then the game made in too little time by too few people and incompetent management wasn't very good and didn't sell very well...which was when people found out that the company had borrowed money on the assumption that the game would sell well and now had to repay debts with money it didn't have. Then the police turned up and seized records as part of an investigation into financial crimes. Which isn't a good look.