Developer The Chinese Room is no longer shackled to its parent company, Sumo Digital. The studio was already likely to be sold off anyway thanks to its focus on original games.
In a press release and confirmed by IGN, TCR, which developed a slurry of games including Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and the award-winning Still Wakes the Deep. Interestingly, this marks both the game’s developer and publisher going indie, with Secret Mode splitting from Sumo back in March.
The push to split from the parent stems largely from higher-up decisions to shelve new IPs in favor of solely focusing on partner games. Alongside this reveal, it’s unveiled that it’s working on two new IPs, but it’s also working on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, which Paradox Interactive signed on to publish.
Just recently, The Chinese Room launched Still Wakes the Deep’s DLC, Siren’s Rest, which continues after the original game’s story as a saturation diver seeking answers to what happened.
