Quote: "Rolfy, by "failures" I was talking about players' reception rather than sales. "
Well, partially right.
The first game, "Robert D. Anderson & The Legacy of Cthulhu" (2007), made 160.000$ - 200.000$ revenue (for the publisher, not Homegrown), with fair calculated marketing budget and CoGs this meant a 300% ROI for them. It got one "Special Game of the Month" award by Gamestar (IDG media), was 2nd in "Horror Game of the Year" in the softpedia editors choice awards, received a "Special Atmosphere Medal" on shooterplanet and came in 8th in the Top 10 games of OGH in 2007.
Parts of the games story were included into the Cthulhu / HPL Canon.
Into the Dark has so far sold 50.000 - 80.000 copies . Can´t tell the boxed unfortunately as I never got the numbers. On Steam it has so far 36500 activated copies (with a total of ~ 42.000 keys sold including bundles). 13.000 "active" players.
It won:
- Game of the Year 2014 - Community Favorite Gamestar Magazine Germany (Steam Edition)
- Game of the Year 2013 - OGH
- Upcoming Indie of the Year: Best Adventure, IOTY Awards
- Upcoming Indie of the Year: 4th Total, IOTY Awards
- Indie of the Year: Best Adventure, IOTY Awards
- Indie of the Year: 6th Place total, IOTY Awards
- Best Horror Game 2014 - OGH (Steam Edition)
- 3rd in the Top 10 Games of 2014 - AET Newsweek print (Steam Edition)
- Editors Choice VLC business insider print (Steam Edition)
The extended worldwide average press rating including Blogs and Print-only mags is currently at 6.8 / 10, the average metacritics userscore is 7.3 / 10.
To sum it up, we can happily live with that