A studio gutted by Embracer have come back to life and are working on a new RPG

The expedition sends word

One of the galore crippled studios smashed to pieces by Embracer Group has travel backmost to life. Campfire Cabal, which was seemingly unopen down successful 2023 arsenic portion of their genitor corporation's scorched world "restructuring" policy, person crawled retired of the sedate to denote they're inactive astir and, successful fact, "never stopped working". They've been making a caller crippled successful the Expeditions bid of humanities RPGs, and person been fixed "the greenish airy to standard backmost up and modulation into afloat production."

"We are yet acceptable to uncover that Campfire Cabal was ne'er unopen down," accidental the workplace successful a station connected their website. What happened, they say, is that the THQ-owned workplace were ordered to adjacent by Embracer 2 years ago. But immoderate statement was reached to support the institution going with a reduced headcount, and they alternatively chopped an chartless fig of employees from payroll.

"Though we did person to accidental goodbye to galore of our colleagues, the workplace survived and a compact squad continued the task we had started successful 2022. At the extremity of March of 2025, we received the greenish airy to standard backmost up and modulation into afloat production."

That task is simply a caller crippled successful the Expeditions bid of RPGs, which includes the classical centurion stomping of Expeditions: Rome, the top-down shield-battering of Expeditions: Viking, and gunpowdery land-grabbing of Expeditions: Conquistador. The workplace aren't saying overmuch much astir the caller game, though. Only that it'll beryllium "set successful a caller play of our past and successful a caller portion of the satellite for the series". Expeditions: Mongol, anyone? Expeditions: Pirate? Expeditions: Islamic Golden Age? I conjecture we'll find out.

Expeditions: Rome had immoderate repetitive quirks but was a "seriously bully - and lovingly elaborate - romp done centurion times," said Nate successful our review. And Expeditions: Conquistador was called "very fine" by Adam, who wrote successful his reappraisal that immoderate parts were a chore, but "the absorption connected stories and characters means that determination is astir ever astatine slightest 1 absorbing crippled connected the boil".

You should know, however, that Campfire Cabal aren't the archetypal workplace who made the older Expeditions games. That would beryllium Logic Artists, who were subsumed and digested by blockchain bullshit peddlars Dynasty Studios. But the Cabal person since go custodians of the bid nether rights-holders THQ. As with galore originative studios, it's a spot of a Ship of Theseus situation, somewhat analyzable by a circular of layoffs and this consequent reappearance. We'll person to hold and spot however the adjacent introduction carries the torch.

Even if you aren't that funny successful the RPGs, the "revival" of a seemingly shuttered workplace is absorbing successful a wider sense. It could beryllium seen arsenic a hopeful sprout of greenish emerging from a blackened world laid bare by years of seemingly endless layoffs. Or it could simply beryllium the re-emergence of a scarred and injured assemblage from a bloody-watered moat, a workplace bravely limping connected successful spite of the brutal overlord that threw them successful there, alongside a clump of different bodies.