We liked Jusant, Don't Nod's clamber-upper masterpiece, and we also liked Banishers, their colonial ghost-busting action-adventure, but it seems that not enough people did. The company have posted a profit warning, reflecting an 11% decline in operating revenue for the first half of 2024. They've also "paused" two unannounced games in development, and altered other unannounced games to be more appealing to a "wider audience".
Beyond that, they're considering "all possible options regarding our roadmap", which sounds just a touch ominous. "Despite an excellent critical reception, Jusant and Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden unfortunately did not achieve the commercial results we had hoped for, resulting in a deterioration in our 2024 half-year results and leading us to consider all possible options regarding our roadmap," chairman and CEO Oskar Guilbert explains in a press release published yesterday. He adds that Ghost Of New Eden and Jusant "performed well below expectations".
They're expecting to make a loss for the first half of 2024 of around €1 million. To compensate for this, Don't Nod are writing down the assets of Jusant and Banishers: Ghost of New Eden (i.e.
lowering their value on company books, to match what the market says they're worth) and making some sweeping changes to their line-up of games in development. These include two unannounced in-house projects, codenamed P10 and P14, which are pencilled in for release before end of 2027. "In order to bolster sales pot.