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Focus Entertainment, a publishing company, has issued financial reports for the 2022 financial year. And it said that its revenue surpassed its previous high of 194.1 million euros, which is 36.2 percent higher than in fiscal year 2021.

Four successful in-house projects were released during the financial year: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and Evil West (together with Flying Wild Hog). Mundfish's action game Atomic Heart, which was developed by the group in the last quarter of the financial year, also exceeded the group's expectations.

SnowRunner was released in April 2020, and Insurgency: Sandstorm was released in December 2018. This was all due to continued improvements in content.

Focus Entertainment purchased Railsimulator, a studio that originated from Train Simulator Classic and Train Sim World. The amount of the transaction has not been released, but the studio will continue to work within the new company.

Focus' sixth acquisition since June 2020 has included the publishing companies Deck13, Streum On Studio, Dotemu, Twelve Tenths, and Games Studio.

Focus Entertainment hopes to do even more in fiscal year 2023/24. Aliens: Dark Descent will be released in June, and Atlas Fallen will be released on August 10, 2023, along with other major titles such as Banishers: Ghost of New Eden, developed in collaboration with Don't Nodi Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine 2.

Atomic Heart Exceeds Expectations, Revenues Increased by 36% at Focus Entertainment

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[feynoob]

Focus plus game pass are good friends.

MS should partner with them a lot.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Good for them! I still need to finish Atomic Heart.

Spoiler

At the end, you get a choice to fight or end the game, and I chose to end it because my dinner was ready and never went back.

 

[SALMORE]

i was there day one ... the game was awesome

 

[Salz01]

The game was good overall. Could have used a bit better pacing, and ditch that over world free from map. They could fix all that with Atomic Heart 2. Need me some more robo chicks….

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Focus makes or publishes quality AA titles. Love their games.

 

[Drizzlehell]

It's definitely one of the games released this year.

 

[LostDonkey]

I still need to try this.

 

[CatLady]

Atomic heart was a great, unique game, loved it and it's great to hear it did well.

 

[fred420170]

It was a great game. The part I didn't like was being outside mainly because you can't explore it at all. You are attacked by tons of enemies within 10 seconds of trying to look around.

 

[Senua]

Played for a few hours, I really liked the intro and atmosphere but between the incredibly annoying protagonist and repetitive combat/enemies... I got bored

 

[CherryFalls]

Awesome to hear, hopefully a sequel is in the works.

 

[suspicious mind]

Another gamepass succes story.
Make a good game , put it on gamepass which will generate a lot of positive buzz and let the non gp subscribers pay full price. Profit.
For the usual suspects that are too stupid too understand.
This is what spencer meant with gp increeases sales.

 

[hlm666]

Plague Tale, Atomic Heart and Evil West also released on all platforms in a pretty good state. It would appear having a multiplatform release and having a bad version on any of the platforms could have an overall detrimental effect. Sill waiting for the Atomic Heart RT update Mundfish chop chop

 

[The Tourmaline Gorilla]

Focus Ent. has a very deep and long relationship with MS, along with Asobo (who also has a good relationship with MS). thrus far, they seem to be releasing banger after banger. If they were ever interested in selling, I'm certain MS would be the first to make an offer, and I won't doubt that they'd be willing to outbid any others who try to purchase them.

 

[alucard0712_rus]

So much good games by this publisher, wow!

 

[k_trout]

surprisingly great

 

[Elder Legend]

Awesome to hear, hopefully a sequel is in the works.

I believe it is or at least planned too if I am not mistaken officially by the devs.

Edit - Yes it is planned. https://www.xfire.com/atomic-heart-developer-has-plans-for-a-sequel/#:~:text=Given that Atomic Heart took,DLC for the first game.

DLC also coming for the first game.

 

[adamsapple]

Fantastic.

Didn't even need to chart in NPD/Circana to be a success for the publisher.

 

[fermcr]

Played Atomic Heart on Gamepass and didn't like it. Nice graphics but wasn't having fun. After a few hours I simply gave up.
Thank God I didn't purchase the game (likely would have returned it before the 2 hour mark).

 

[Hayabusabruh]

Cause of them doll's bodies. lol

 

[KyoZz]

Where is the fuckin RTX. Radio silence since release when the game was massively marketed by Nvidia with it.

 

[Denton]

Hope the expansions will be good, the OG game is great.

 

[CatLady]

Focus Ent. has a very deep and long relationship with MS, along with Asobo (who also has a good relationship with MS). thrus far, they seem to be releasing banger after banger. If they were ever interested in selling, I'm certain MS would be the first to make an offer, and I won't doubt that they'd be willing to outbid any others who try to purchase them.

I wish. Focus plus Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal for probably less than one 10th the price of A/B/K would have been a much better buy for me. I wouldn't need anything outside of Xbox first Party. At least most of the time Focus games come to Game Pass Day 1 anyway.

 

[geary]

But it was on Gamepass…How the f… exceeded expections…This has to be fake.

 

[The Tourmaline Gorilla]

I wish. Focus plus Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal for probably less than one 10th the price of A/B/K would have been a much better buy for me. I wouldn't need anything outside of Xbox first Party. At least most of the time Focus games come to Game Pass Day 1 anyway.

That's definitely not a bad line-up. For me, my dream team would be Remedy, Take Two Interactive, Nether Realms, Focus Ent/Asobo and the Mortal Kombat franchise, Crystal Dynamics and IO Interactive. The reasoning; MS has, for the most part, a lack of great 3rd person games, which is what I prefer; with Remedy and Rockstar, we get some great 3rd person experiences. With IO, Crystal Dynamics and Asobo/Focus we get some damn good 3rd person experiences as well, and MS would now have a great stealth IP under their helm.MS owns the Quantum Break IP, and Remedy having access to it again is perfect. Same goes for Max Payne, Rockstar and Remedy being all under the same roof. Also, the Northlight engine that Remedy uses is phenomenal. And as far as fighting games go, Nether Realms really excel at what they do, and the thought of Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct under the same umbrella would be a dream come true.