By AAA standards those numbers don't sound good, but hopefully they kept the budget in check and these are good enough figures for a Dark Souls-esque niche (and I guess they would be far more cagey with numbers if it was that big a flop).
Survival horror with almost no combat (and what's there is almost entirely optional), a punishing save system (if still relatively forgiving by old-school genre standards), easy death, backtracking to forge a connection with the location it takes place in, very little handholding outside of map markers and (comparatively) massive periods of quiet time with very little happening unless you pretty much intentionally fuck up. I don't know what miracle got a game like this any sort of budget nowadays, but it's kind of beautiful that it managed to exist.
