While Unfold didn't describe the offers with that exact term, their particulars speak volumes. According to the dev, porting DARQ to console would be impossible without these folks and while he's happy to partner up with them, it literally took years to find one good publisher.ĭespite going for self-publishing on PC, DARQ developer apparently received many offers for publishing, although the conditions were terrible. To consoles was like, at which point Unfold revealed the partnership with Feardemic, Bloober Team's publishing branch. Refusing the Epic Games Store exclusivity dealĮven though DARQ's performance on Steam was uncertain at that time, recently announced thatĪnd answered a few questions in the associated Reddit thread. Unfold Games, who originally filled headlines after Despite the public's relative knowledge of unsavoury practices, it is still chilling to see some of the "partnership" offers indie devs go through. Publishers can offer terrible deals to developers and countless studios have perished due to not meeting monetary gain requirements of the groups who don't actually develop the game but handle the marketing side of things instead.Ĭonsidering that studios employing tens, if not hundreds, of employees are not safe from such ambitions, it is hardly a wonder that indies have to deal with horrible offers all the time.
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